Suavo J and the Memphorleans Street Symphony at the Memphis Music & Heritage Fest
This year, the On Location: Memphis International Film and Music Festival moved to Labor Day Weekend, which was also the date of the Memphis Music …
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A Celebration of the Blues at On Location: Memphis
This year’s On Location: Memphis International Film and Music Festival launched something new, a gala blues concert at Cooper-Walker Place in Memphis’ Cooper-Young neighborhood. Hosted …
Great Coffee, Gourmet Food, Designer Clothes and Art on South Main
I was on South Main downtown one evening because I was to speak at a hip-hop conference at Leadership Memphis, but I wanted a coffee …
Checking Out Memphis’ All-New Soul Band @TheObjekt12 at Memphis’ All-New Red Zone Sports Bar in Binghampton
I had read on the Memphis Flyer‘s website that a soul band called Objekt 12 would be playing at the new Red Zone Cigar and …
Kenny Brown, Cameron Kimbrough and Garry Burnside Live at Holly Springs
Going the Old Hudsonville Road from Hudsonville to Holly Springs proved to be a mistake, because more than half the distance between the two communities …
Bringing Art To The Neighborhoods in Memphis
This has been a relatively rough year for Memphis, and yet one of the more uplifting things I have noticed has been the spreading of …
Hate at InLOVE Memphis with Jason Da Hater
InLOVE Memphis is one of Memphis’ most elegant clubs, but it is not usually the venue for any kind of rap music, so I was …
Blues In The Grove At Oxford
The Oxford Blues Festival was not held on the Square this year, as I would have expected, but rather on the Grove on the Ole …
Hill Country Blues in Benton County on a Very Hot Day
Just to the east of Marshall County, Mississippi is Benton County and its county seat of Ashland, which are also part of the Mississippi Hill …
The Cassie Bonner Band on the Square in Holly Springs
Although the Delta of Mississippi is known as “The Land Where Blues Began”, the area to the east known as the Hill Country produced a …