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Stax Music Academy performance in new film The King garners $25,000 donation

Posted on July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 by Tim Sampson

In Eugene Jarecki’s new film The King, the Stax Music Academy is featured in a scene in which they pile into Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls Royce and sing Aretha Franklin’s […]
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PBS: Memphis youth carry on the legacy of Stax Records Soul Music

Posted on July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 by Tim Sampson

On Saturday, July 7, 2018, PBS NewsHour featured a national story on the Stax Music Academy, filmed the day of our Spring Concert at historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, ground […]
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Meet 926, the new Stax Music Academy Alumni Band! Now performing at the Stax Museum & B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale Street

Posted on June 6, 2018June 6, 2018 by Tim Sampson

Join us at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music each Tuesday 2-4 pm June 5 – July 3, 2018 for live music by the hottest new musicians in Memphis, 926, […]
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USA TODAY: Stax Music Academy wows crowd at Smithsonian Event

Posted on September 27, 2016August 21, 2017 by Tim Sampson

Students from the Stax Music Academy just performed for three days in September at “FREEDOM SOUNDS: A Community Celebration, the grand opening festival for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of […]
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