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Stax icon, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award winner Booker T. Jones signs “Green Onions” artworks to support Stax Music Academy

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Stax Records icon, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award winner Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & the MGs 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

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In Loving Memory: Rance Allen

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The Stax Museum is saddened to learn of the passing of the iconic Rance Allen of the Rance Allen Group, whose thunderous voice has awed audiences for decades from concert halls to churches and the White House. Along with his brothers Thomas and Steve, as teenagers in their Monroe, Michigan hometown, they were one of

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Mable John 90th Birthday Fundraiser for the Stax Museum

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To help offset financial losses the Stax Museum of American Soul Music is experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mable John has asked that you consider making a donation in honor of her November 3. 2020 90th Birthday. We know the COVID pandemic has caused financial hardships for many people around the world, but if

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Kennedy Center hosts virtual concert “Live From Studio A at the Stax Museum” with Talibah Safiya & the Stax Music Academy Alumni Band

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On Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 3 pm CST, 4 pm ET, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will host “Live From Studio A at the Stax Museum,” a virtual concert by Memphis’ own Soul Music artist and storyteller Talibah Safiya with 926, the Stax Music Academy Alumni Band. Safiya is an

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