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Stax Museum and Stax Music Academy featured with Justin Timberlake and Ant Clemons during prime-time Biden-Harris Inauguration TV special

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Memphis, TN – January 20, 2021 — Tonight, multi-platinum global superstar Justin Timberlake returned to his hometown of Memphis, TN, bringing along GRAMMY-nominated artist Ant Clemons for an inspiring and all-new rendition of their song “Better Days,” at the iconic Stax Museum of American Soul Music as part of the primetime broadcast special, “Celebrating America,”

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Concord, Soulsville Foundation, Stax Music Academy, and Stax Records hold Songwriting Workshop

clock 5 years ago user Tim Sampson

November, 2020 – Concord, in partnership with Stax Records, the Stax Music Academy (SMA) and the Soulsville Foundation recently held a six-week virtual event that paired high school students from the Academy with some of the top songwriting and publishing experts in the music business and a who’s who of renowned songwriters and producers. The

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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

clock 5 years ago user Tim Sampson

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

clock 5 years ago user Tim Sampson

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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