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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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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The Stax Museum is excited to announce that on Sunday, September 6, 2020, GRAMMY Award winning artist Kirk Whalum will present a concert live streamed from the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. While the event is not open to the public because of COVID-19 precautions, viewers can tune in to watch on Kirk’s Facebook
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Join us at the Stax Museum Gift Shop for our Back-to-School Sale and 901 Day Specials Friday, August 28 – Tuesday, September 1, 2020. Whether you’re starting classes online or in person, you’ll want to dress for soulful success and deck out your home classroom/office with Stuff. From. Stax. Enjoy specials that include: Up to 40%
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In 1957, Jim Stewart founded Satellite Records, which soon afterward, with his sister Estelle Axton joining him, became STAX. The “little Memphis label that could” went on to make the world a much more magical place through the music of Rufus and Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, William Bell, Isaac Hayes, and so many more. Today,
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