STAX MUSEUM

Stax Museum In Memphis Has New Virtual Events Honoring Black History Month

The events include an online concert and virtual tour

As Billboard reports, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and its music academy in Tennessee are once again offering an online concert and a virtual tour in honor of Black History Month in February 2022.

The museum is located on the premises of Stax Records in Memphis where the original studio produced soul music by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, The Staples Singers, Booker T., and the MGs, Wilson Pickett, and others in the 1960s and 1970s. The studio has been turned into a museum, and the adjacent Stax Music Academy teaches music theory, business, and performance to young people.

According to the museum’s press release, it offered an online concert and virtual tours in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. More than 130,000 students and adults viewed the programs.

“Even with the ongoing waves of the COVID virus and other events that continue changing the world by the day, our Stax Music Academy students still find a great deal of comfort and happiness in studying, creating, rehearsing, and performing music,” Pat Mitchell Worley, executive director of the Stax Music Academy, said in a statement.

The virtual tour will focus on the achievements of Mavis Staples of the Staple Singers, former label owner Al Bell, songwriter and singer Bettye Crutcher, and Al Jackson Jr., the drummer for Booker T. & the M.G.’s.

Study guides and other activities will accompany the productions. Registration is available at the Stax Museum website.

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