Pop icon, GRAMMY© Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Huey Lewis has teamed up with the London, UK/Austin, Texas-based Soundwaves Art Foundation to help raise funds for the nonprofit Stax Music Academy, an afterschool and summer music institute at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Soundwave’s Tim Wakefield has created an original

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In a move to keep Stax Records fans and enthusiasts engaged during the current COVID-19 coronavirus emergency, the Stax Museum, which remains closed until further notice, has introduced a new website that features a rare collection of Stax graphics and other items that have been digitized. Generously supported by the Grammy Museum Foundation. “DEEP CUTS:

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Timberlake Also Donates $100,00 over four years to fund scholarships for Stax Music Academy students Funding for arts education is at risk across the globe, leaving many of today’s youth without these valuable outlets for personal development and creative expression. Since 2015, Levi’s® has partnered with respected artists and local community partners around the world

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Smokey Robinson said it best. “When that Detroit sound of Motown traveled south of the Mason-Dixon, it was different.” You’ll find out just how different when you walk into the new Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis. Here you’ll find 17,000 square feet of sights and sounds you’ve heard all your life: Isaac

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