The Center For Southern Folklore is a cool blues venue and shop in downtown Memphis. It’s a great place to hear live blues, soul, jazz or gospel, enjoy a cold beverage or purchase books and CDs about Memphis music and history.
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Beale Street Music Festival 2012
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
3rd Annual Ole Skool Majorette and Drummer Jamboree, Memphis
The Ole Skool Majorette and Drummer Jamboree was held Saturday night at the Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis. Unlike many of the jamborees I have been to this year, this one was more like the good jamborees I remember from my youth, with the majorettes working out to drummers’ beats instead of compact discs. The event opened with Triggaman and Bugs Can Can (AKA The Showboys) leading everyone in gangsta walking to the old-school anthem “Triggaman.” 4/21/12 #MemphisRising
Fayette-Ware High School from Somerville TN Marches into the Frayser Battle of the Bands, Memphis
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Fayette-Ware High School band from Somerville, TN marches into the Battle of the Bands at Frayser High School in Memphis, April 13, 2012
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Memphis Producer Lil Pat Backstage at the A3C Showcase at SXSW
Lil Pat, one of Memphis’ earliest and most successful hip-hop producers, backstage at the A3C hip-hop showcase at SXSW, March 17, 2012
Willie Mitchell Historical Marker at Royal Studios
On March 1, 2012, a historical marker was unveiled outside Royal Studios at 1320 Willie Mitchell Blvd in South Memphis in honor of the studios, Hi Records and Willie Mitchell. A number of Memphis music figures and personalities were there, including Preston Lauterbach, the author of The Chitlin Circuit and the Road to Rock and Roll, Boo Mitchell and many other members of the Mitchell family, Steve Burrage and the Novareses of the Poplar Tunes record stores, Otis Clay, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Earl Randle, Darryl Carter, Teenie Hodges, Charles Hodges, Howard Grimes, Scott Bomar of the Bo-Keys, Wes Phillips and DJ Bay of Select-O-Hits Music Distribution, Elizabeth Montgomery of Ardent, Cameron Mann and Pat Mitchell of the Memphis Music Foundation, local music supporter and businessman Kris Kourdevelis, George Klein, Jack Hale of the Memphis Horns, Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell and US Representative Steve Cohen of the 9th Congressional District. It was a beautiful day, and one of the kind of events that shows the good side of Memphis and what our city can and will be with a shared purpose and vision.
Star Steppers and Drummers at a Majorette Jamboree, 2012
The Star Steppers and drummers perform at a majorette jamboree in South Memphis at New Life M.B. Church, February 11, 2012
Memphis Music Foundation and Select-O-Hits’ Plug In Memphis Reception 9/30/11
At the Memphis Music Foundation and Select-O-Hits’ Plug In Memphis reception, Friday September 30, 2011
James Sexton-Drum Solo at Memphis Music and Heritage Festival 2011
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Memphis drummer James Sexton takes a solo during the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival September 3, 2011
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