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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Stax Museum executive director Jeff Kollath and his colleagues are taking this slower-than-usual season to reflect on their mission: to share the music of Stax and highlight the people, causes and communities that brought soul music into being. Grammy.com’s Hilary Hughes recently spoke with Kollath about history of the label, and how the curation of
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When the Stax Museum reopens on June 18, 2020, one new exhibit will show off some familiar faces and famous Stax album cover photographs. (Shown here is the photo for David Porter’s LP Gritty, Groovy & Gettin’ It, with model Gloria Hendry who appeared in the first James Bond movie.) As a new decade dawned, a
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