This exhibit runs March 11 – September 4, 2022. Chicago’s South Side nightlife in the mid 1970s was a far-out party scene that brimmed over with style and free expression to the sounds of blues, disco, funk, and soul. A photographer from New Jersey, Michael Abramson, became so infatuated with this slice of underground life
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MEMPHIS, February 1, 2022 – The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development (TDTD) and Travel South announced today the addition of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. With this new inclusion, the Stax Museum joins other landmarks for a total of 14 Tennessee stops on the trail. Other locations
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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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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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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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