Set in the smoky halls and underground clubs of the segregated 50s, MEMPHIS, The Musical, is loosely based on the life story of DJ Dewey Phillips who challenged racial barriers by bringing black music to white radio in the segregated 1950s, igniting a cultural revolution. At its core, MEMPHIS is a powerful tale of love [...]
Memphis Rock N Soul Museum, Memphis TN
Located at 191 Beale, on the corner of legendary Highway 61 at the FedExForum sports and entertainment complex, the Memphis Rock N’ Roll Museum offers a comprehensive Memphis music experience from the rural field hollers and sharecroppers of the 1930s, through the explosion of Sun, Stax and Hi Records and Memphis’ musical heyday in the [...]
Sun Studio & Records | Memphis, TN
Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers. Prior to those days Sun Records had mainly been noted for recording African-American artists, as Phillips loved Rhythm and Blues and wanted [...]
Africa In April Cultural Awareness Festival | Memphis, TN
Established in 1986, the Africa In April Cultural Awareness Festival is an annual Memphis celebration that puts focus on various cultures and regions of Africa over a four-day period (during the third week in April ) along Beale Street and throughout downtown Memphis. Arts & crafts, culture, fashions, music, history, economics, education and cuisine [...]
Center for Southern Folklore | Memphis, TN
Founded in 1972, the Center for Southern Folklore is an American non-profit cultural organization whose mission is “to preserve, defend, protect and promote the music, culture, arts, and rhythms of the South.” The Center produces documentary films and maintains a large archive of video and audio recordings of music and narratives, contemporary and historical photographs, film [...]
Stax Museum of American Soul Music | Memphis, TN
If you are a soul music lover, make sure you get to Soulsville, USA, aka Stax Museum of American Soul Music when you visit Memphis. Built almost to the exact specifications of the original Stax recording studio, housed in the former Capitol Theatre, the Stax Museum features hundreds if not thousands of videos, films, photographs, original instruments [...]
![Vintage Beauty Marsha Hunt |1970s [2 od 2]](http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8160/6968813588_1f8e132719_s.jpg "Vintage Beauty Marsha Hunt |1970s [2 od 2]")
![Vintage Beauty Marsha Hunt | 1970s [1 od 2]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5444/7114887705_21425df673_s.jpg "Vintage Beauty Marsha Hunt | 1970s [1 od 2]")
