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Stax Museum announces 20th Anniversary plans with performance by Booker T. Jones and Stax Music Academy alumni

During a special event on September 14, 2022 at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Soulsville Foundation officials, former Stax artists, and others announced plans for the museum’s 20th Anniversary to be celebrated throughout 2023. On hand for the announcement was special guest and Stax icon Booker T. Jones, keyboardist for Stax house band

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Stax Museum Offering Free Field Trips for All Title 1 Schools

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is offering admission-free field trips to all Title 1 Schools, with special emphasis on Memphis Shelby County Schools and schools in the South Memphis neighborhoods surrounding the Stax Museum and Stax Music Academy. Field trips to the Stax Museum for students of all ages are a great way

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Stax Museum and Sam Phillips Recording announce new partnership today on what would be Phillips’ 100th birthday

Iconic Memphis studios aim to enhance their legacies with restored vintage Stax recording console at Phillips Photos by Nathan Black.   JANUARY 5, 2023 MEMPHIS, TN – Two of Memphis, Tennessee’s most prolific, iconic, and groundbreaking recording studios announced today that they  are partnering to continue their legacies that changed the world in the 1950s and 1960s

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Happy 80th Birthday, CARLA THOMAS!

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music would like to wish Memphis Queen of Soul CARLA THOMAS a very Happy 80th Birthday today, December 21, 2022! We know her as our longtime friend and Stax Records icon, but many younger generations are getting to know her now because, in part, of her recent accomplishments. Carla

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