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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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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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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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 African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. The performances included a show on the Freedom Sounds main stage on Friday, September 23, and on […]
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