Wed, 29 November 2006 ![]() Please join us on the evening of Saturday, December 9 for the Stax Music Academy's annual Winter Concert! Featuring performances by the Stax Music Academy Rhythm Section, StreetCorner Harmonies, Premier Percussionists, the all-new Soulsville Swing Band, and the Soulsville Charter School's Soulsville Symphony Orchestra. Special appearance by the Stax Music Academy's Artist-in-Residence, internationally acclaimed jazz and gospel artist, Kirk Whalum! Saturday, December 9, 2006 7:00 p.m - 8:30 p.m. FREE ADMISSION! Lausanne Collegiate School's Elder Performing Arts Center 1381 West Massey Road, Memphis, TN 38120 Call 901 946 2535 for more information. Category: Stax Music Academy -- posted at: 4:40 PM Comments[57] |
Mon, 20 November 2006 JAZZ ARTISTS SAL CROCKER & THE STRICTLY JAZZ QUINTET! Complimentary Hors D'oeuvres & Soft Drinks...Cash Bar Thanks to our sponsors Comcast and Andrea Zucker Photography. Category: Last Mondays in Studio A -- posted at: 12:17 PM Comments[51] |
Wed, 15 November 2006 Even Scots got soul. Arts/culture blog "Alternatives to Valium" recently visited the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and wrote one of the most wonderful pieces about the Soulsville dream that we've seen in a long time... Looking for the birthplace of southern soul, I came across the Hooper Chapel, an African Methodist Episcopalian church which used to stand in Duncan, Mississippi, 100 miles south of Memphis on Highway 61. It was a spartan building with hard pews, an ornate pulpit and a piano that was never tuned. By the right aisle was a case containing a paper fan with a portrait of Mahalia Jackson on it, and a notice, with an explanatory message from Deanie Parker, whose grandfather founded the church in 1906: "The full moon would shine brightly, casting a shadow on the bayou. The sounds of the bullfrogs and crickets were drowned out by the stirring music that reverberated from thigh-slapping male quartets. The visiting preacher, along with the unrehearsed choirs singing R&B selections, could be heard way down the road past the silos and bamboo thickets." The Hooper Chapel is the second thing you see when you enter the Stax Museum of American Soul Music... Enjoy the rest of their visit here. Category: general -- posted at: 1:10 PM Comments[155] |
Fri, 3 November 2006 ![]() When
Billie Holiday entered the recording studio in The Stax Museum of American Soul Music will host a very special photography exhibit from November 12, 2006 - January 29, 2007: Milt Hinton: All That Jazz Behind the Scenes Photographs of 20th Century Jazz. The exhibit, on loan from the New York City-based Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection, will include 50 Hinton photographs of the most important jazz figures in history, including Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk, Memphis' own Mulgrew Miller and Aretha Franklin, the aforementioned Billie Holiday, and dozens of other legendary performers who helped shape the American art form. The Category: Exhibits -- posted at: 11:05 AM Comments[61] |
Thu, 2 November 2006
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500 people searching four times a day will raise about $7,300.00 in a single year-- without anyone spending a dime. These funds will be used to support the great new exhibits and live music events at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and the music education programs, unique performance opportunities, and valuable mentoring resources for at-risk youth at the Stax Music Academy. You can also make Goodsearch.com your homepage by visiting www.goodsearch.com/MakeHomepage.aspx, and add Goodsearch.com to your browser's toolbar by visiting www.goodsearch.com/toolbar. Tell everyone you know--and start your soul searching today... Category: general -- posted at: 9:21 AM Comments[71] |



