The Stax Museum is planning the following events in 2023 to celebrate its 20th Anniversary. This is a working list and some events and dates are subject to change. Among the Stax Museum 20th Anniversary events, highlights include: A year of free field trips to the Stax Museum for all school students attending Title 1
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The Soulsville Foundation’s Stax Museum of American Soul Music’s 20th Anniversary celebration includes offering free-admission field trips to all Title 1 Schools, with special emphasis placed on Memphis Shelby County Schools (MSCS), which are all Title 1 Schools. Even greater focus will be placed on schools in the South Memphis neighborhoods that surround the Stax
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The Soulsville Foundation has debuted its third annual free virtual Black History Month presentation created by the Stax Music Academy in conjunction with the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. This year’s film is a special celebration of the Stax Museum’s 20th Anniversary. It is free to everyone. Watch the film and access our study
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Stax Records founder Jim Stewart will be honored posthumously on February 4, 2023 at The Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards Ceremony by receiving the Grammy Trustees Award, placing him in the company of The Beatles, Les Paul, Walt Disney, Clive Davis, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, and Stax label mates Estelle Axton and Al Bell, who have
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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 Anniversary to be celebrated throughout 2023. On hand for the announcement was special guest and Stax icon Booker T. Jones, keyboardist for Stax house band
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