A Celebration of the Stax Museum’s 20th Anniversary To purchase tickets to Night Train, please click HERE. Fashioned to replace our annual Staxtacular event that raised over $1 million over 10 years, the inaugural Night Train gala, to be held April 29, 2023 in celebration of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music’s 20th Anniversary,
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The Soulsville Foundation Chief Operating Officer (COO) will help lead the organization in honoring and building on the powerful history of Stax Records to develop young people for lifelong success. This experienced leader will report to the President & Chief Executive Officer and work with Soulsville Foundation leadership to advance the three entities of Soulsville
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Irving Schild doesn’t remember much about the photograph he took for the cover of the LP Green Onions by Booker T. & the M.G.’s. It was 1962, it was the first album released by Stax Records, and it changed music forever, helping to establish Stax as a funky, bluesy, chewing-the-fat record label housed haphazardly in
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The Stax Museum is sad to learn that it has lost another one of its own, songwriter and dancer Helen Washington, who was part of the Isaac Hayes Movement. She wrote for the Bar-Kays and appeared in a photograph with Isaac Hayes on the front cover of Ebony magazine in the early 1970s. READ MORE HERE
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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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