By Ryan Bergeron, CNN Rickey Fondren, right, and other students of the Stax Music Academy rehearse. Photo by Claire James. (CNN) Rickey Fondren is a 15-year-old 10th grader with an old soul. Growing up in Memphis, he says his childhood was shaped around “older soul music.” One of his biggest influences growing up was someone […]
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MEMPHIS — The Soulsville Foundation, which operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Stax Music Academy at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, is pleased to announce it has been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts […]
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In February 2022, the Soulsville Foundation’s Soulsville Foundation’s Stax Music Academy and Stax Museum of American Soul Music will release original virtual Black History Month productions that offer two distinct but complementary celebrations of Black American Music and its impact on American culture. We invite you to join us by registering today and help youth […]
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A new documentary film about the Stax Music Academy, SOUL KIDS, opened at approximately 50 theaters across France on November 24, 2021 during a week filled with screenings, performances, cultural exchanges, press interviews, and other meetings in Paris with a delegation of staff and alumni from the Stax Music Academy in attendance. The film’s director, […]
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