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Austin’s Mingo Fishtrap (@Mingo_Fishtrap) is a funky, soulful, horn-and-B3 organ driven ensemble, with heavy Stax and Memphis overtones. It was only logical that they would appear at the Stax to the Max Souslville Street Festival, and they amazed the crowd with their feel-good version of alternative soul. Find out more about Mingo Fishtrap at http://www.mingofishtrap.com/. Like them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/mingofishtrap. If you still go on Myspace, find them here: http://www.myspace.com/mingofishtrap.

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Stax to the Max Soulsville Street Festival, South Memphis, 4/28/12

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Memphis Jones (@theMemphisJones) performs Memphis standards for the crowd at Soulsville for the Stax to the Max street party in South Memphis, 4/28/12

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At the Stax to the Max Soulsville Street Festival, Memphis TN, 4/28/12

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The Stax Museum of American Soul Music sponsored a Soulsville street festival on Saturday 4/28/12 called Stax to the Max, held on the parking lot behind the museum and Stax Music Academy in South Memphis. The event featured a live music stage, as well as kids’ activities, food and vendors’ booths, and got under way about noon with the LeMoyne-Owen College Concert Choir on the main stage. 

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The Stax Academy and Soulsville Charter School operate in the South Memphis neighborhood where Stax Records was located. The Academy trains young people to be musicians, while the charter school is a publically-funded high school. The Stax Academy drumline was in Clarksdale during Juke Joint Festival warming up for their performance on the Delta Blues Museum Stage. 

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In South Memphis Saturday morning April 7, I stumbled accidentally upon this Bikers and Social Clubs 4 Change rally, where a gospel rap concert was in progress. #MemphisRising

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The rapper No Soda put in some promo work last Saturday at the Sophisticated Divas jamboree in South Memphis

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