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Soulsville Foundation’s Stax Museum & Stax Music Academy Receive $150,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American Rescue Plan; one of only two Memphis organizations to receive a grant

  MEMPHIS — The Soulsville Foundation, which operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Stax Music Academy at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, is pleased to announce it has been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the

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Stax Museum Free Virtual Black History Month Tour 2022

In February 2022, the Soulsville Foundation’s Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Stax Music Academy will release original, free Black History Month virtual productions that offer two distinct but complementary celebrations of Black American music and its impact on the arc of American culture. We invite you to join us and help youth all

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Opening Reception Event at the Stax Museum for “LOVE IN THE CLUB: Chicago Nightclub Photos by Michael Abramson 1094-1976. Friday, March 11, 6-8 pm

Join us  at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music for Chicago-based author and DJ Ayana Contreras and other guests at this special opening for “Love in the Club: Black Chicago Nightclub Photos by Michael Abramson 1974-1076,” a new exhibition also featuring the words of award-winning poet Patricia Smith. Friday March 11, 6-8 pm at

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Carla Thomas Receives 2021 Tennessee Governor’s Arts Award

On the heels of Carla Thomas winning last month’s Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Inspiration Award, the iconic Stax artist has been named today as a recipient of the Tennessee Governor’s Arts Award, Tennessee’s highest honor in the arts. In a press release sent today by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Governor Bill Lee and First

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