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The Soulsville Foundation’s annual report/year-in-review is hot off the presses. This year we designed the magazine in homage to Written in their Soul, or two GRAMMY winning box set that...
MEMPHIS – Introducing the new Stax Music Academy shoe by SoGiv, inspired by the only remaining original feature from the 1960s Stax Records building at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, the...
Deanie Parker and William C. Rhodes III will receive honorary degrees at the 175th Commencement of Rhodes College on May 11. Rhodes is former president and chief executive officer of...
MEMPHIS – Among soul music fans, few things are as emotionally charged as comparisons between Stax Records and Motown. And now the Soulsville Foundation’s 2024 Black History Month production commemorates both labels in...
To help celebrate our 20th Anniversary, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music is offering admission-free field trips to all Title 1 Schools, with special emphasis on Memphis Shelby County Schools...
James Fauntleroy, 4x GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter, artist and producer (Drake, Rhianna, Justin Timberlake) brings the Beat Garden series to the Stax Music Academy in Memphis with an inviting space filled...
Doors at 5:30, Event 6-8 pm MEMPHIS – Kickoff Hispanic Heritage Month with the Stax Museum’s first examination of Chicano Soul, a Detroit-and-Memphis inspired subgenre of soul music that gained popularity from San Antonio...
The Soulsville Foundation announced today that it will debut its third annual free virtual Black History Month presentation created by the Stax Music Academy in conjunction with the Stax Museum...
Andre Johnson III (2018) first-ever recipient of Theatre Memphis’ Priscilla Presley Scholarship André Johnson III, TSCS Class of 2018 and a junior at the University of Memphis in the Department...
William Bell is one of our favorite Stax Records artists of all time. He’s also one of the Stax Museum and Stax Music Academy’s most avid supporters, with academy students...
In 1973, Stax Records’ Dale Warren was fresh off the success of his smash hit composition “Salvation Symphony” performed by an orchestra the year before at the famed Wattstax concert...
During a special event on September 14, 2022 at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Soulsville Foundation officials, former Stax artists, and others announced plans for the museum’s 20th...