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NOW AUDITIONING FOR 2018-19 SCHOOL YEAR AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM!

Posted on July 26, 2018August 1, 2018 by Tim Sampson

The Stax Music Academy is currently holding auditions for the 2018-19 SNAP! After School Program and Stax 101 beginner lessons! Any student interested in music is welcome to schedule an audition regardless of musical experience. We offer scholarships and no young person is turned away because of inability to pay tuition. Auditions are mostly for […]
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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 “Chain of Fools” in front of the house in which she was born in Memphis. TIME magazine called the students “royalty.” The film, which debuted […]
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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 zero for the organizers of the 1968 Sanitations Workers Strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Junior to Memphis. The concert featured Stax “message” songs […]
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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, the Stax Music Academy Alumni Band! These are singers and musicians who have graduated from our world-renowned Stax Music Academy and now either attending college […]
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