Looking to hit the road? Five spots in Tennessee and Mississippi every music lover should visit Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal
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After a year of quarantine, shutdowns and limited movement for most Memphians, this summer looks to be a busy one for travel and entertainment.
While the Bluff City boasts plenty of world-class music museums of its own, for those looking to make an easy regional road trip, there are a number of intriguing options. There are several spots in Mississippi and Tennessee some newly opened, others recently expanded that every music lover should check out.
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After a year of quarantine, shutdowns and limited movement for most Memphians, this summer looks to be a busy one for travel and entertainment.
While the Bluff City boasts plenty of world-class music museums of its own, for those looking to make an easy regional road trip, there are a number of intriguing options. There are several spots in Mississippi and Tennessee some newly opened, others recently expanded that every music lover should check out.
Here are five musical destinations worth visiting.
Grammy Museum Mississippi
Hours: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; noon-3 p.m. Sunday
At the time it was opened in 2016, the Grammy Museum Mississippi was only the second Grammy museum to be built. The first is located in downtown Los Angeles L.A. Live complex.
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Fathom Events presents a 25th anniversary screening of Mission: Impossible in select theaters on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Tom Cruise stars in the big-screen blockbuster, directed by Brian De Palma, that launched one of today’s biggest action movie franchises. Ethan Hunt (Cruise), is a top secret agent, framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA s most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. The screening also includes a featurette, Mission: Catching the Train. For theaters and showtimes, visit fathomevents.com.
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Musician Bobby Rush soon will be able to add the title Dr. Rush to a list of informal accolades that includes King of the Chitlin Circuit and International Dean of the Blues.
The ever-upbeat Mid-South blues legend who has contributed such observations as I m not henpecked, I ve just been pecked by the right hen, What s good for the goose is good for the gander, too and She must have a booga bear up under there to the cultural discourse will be this year s recipient of the Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Rhodes College, the school announced Thursday. I m on cloud nine, man, said Rush, 87, in a phone interview from his home in Jackson, Mississippi. This means everything to me.
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This live set captures the former Big Star frontman for a 1999 one-off in Memphis, where he serves up a feast of soul-music staples backed by the cityâs legendary Hi Rhythm Section.
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Boogie Shoes a homecoming of sorts. A native son of Memphis, Alex Chilton adopted New Orleans as his new home in 1982âwith typically perverse logic, the Big Star leader headed to the famously decadent city to get sober, a gambit that paid offâbut his connection to the birthplace of rockânâsoul remained strong. When Memphis promoter David Less summoned him in the fall of 1999 to play Fredstock, a charity show for the ailing Fred Ford, a Memphis musical fixture who co-founded the Beale Street Music Festival in 1977, Chilton heeded the call, albeit reluctantly.