Stories Archive - Page 20 of 20 - Stax Music Academy

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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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 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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