As part of its 15th anniversary celebration, the Stax Museum honored Stax legend Floyd Newman, who donated his 100-year-old saxophone that he played his entire career with a who’s who of music icons such as Otis Redding, Booker T. & the MGs, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Stephen Stills, Etta James, Sam Cooke, and a host
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The Stax Museum recently celebrated its 15th anniversary with an event that also honored Stax legend and longtime Memphis musician Floyd Newman. The catered affair included Ike Griffith from Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s Youth Services Division reading a proclamation that proclaimed May 3, 2018 Stax Museum and Floyd Newman Day. Read more here from the
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Currently on display through July 31, 2018, the Stax Museum’s newest exhibit features the Memphis music and culture photography of Patricia Rainer, whose body of work focuses mainly on the city’s music scene post Elvis and the original Stax Records (the label was revived in 2007 by new owners Concord Music). Just some of the
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Taking A Stand: The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Photography by Richard L. Copley Open February 15, 2018 through April 30, 2018 Little did Richard Copley know that when he was hired by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) to document the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike that he would not just
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The legacy of the world’s most exciting singer lives on through the Otis Redding Foundation Here at the Stax Museum, Stax Music Academy, and The Soulsville Charter School, Otis Redding fans from all over the world have been asking us in recent weeks what we are going to do to commemorate the 50th anniversary
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