Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Twilight Yoga and Pilates
Join us at the historic Overton Park Shell each Monday evening for a rotating Twilight Yoga and Pilates workout, presented by Baptist Memorial Health Care.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: SWEAT
Early risers, get ready to SWEAT. Make your way to the Shell for a unique blend of Pilates, strength, and stretch, courtesy of The Well, as the Baptist Health and Wellness Series continues.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Pilates in the Park
Ballet Memphis returns for the Baptist Health and Wellness Series with free, all-ages, all-levels Pilates pop-up classes at the Overton park Shell.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Brother Wallace
About the Artist:
A true force of nature, Brother Wallace was born to make music that ignites pure joy, even in the darkest of moments. Since getting his start playing piano in church at 11 years old, the Georgia-bred artist has followed his lifelong passion down an extraordinary path that spans from sharing the stage with gospel legend Kirk Franklin to performing at historic venues like Madison Square Garden as a background vocalist for globally adored rock band The Heavy. Over the past few years, Brother Wallace has teamed up with The Heavy guitarist Dan Taylor in dreaming up a body of work built on his electrifying brand of soul music, all while continuing his longtime job as a K-12 music teacher. Newly signed to ATO Records, Wallace is now set to release a one-of-a-kind album revealing the transcendent power and life-affirming impact of his timeless yet daring artistry.
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WEBSITE | SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC | SOUNDCLOUD | YOUTUBE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | X
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Food Trucks: Odd Smash & Grab Burger Lab | CrossoverEats | Eat Good Groceries | Antojeria | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: FreeWorld
About the Artist:
FreeWorld is an independent, ever-evolving, Memphis-based musical ensemble that draws from influences as broad-based as Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Steely Dan, Chicago, John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, The Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, and The Meters. These brothers under one multicultural groove have remained a consistently entertaining and informed voice on the Memphis music scene since the group’s inception in 1987.
FreeWorld was honored to receive a coveted Brass Note on the Beale Street Walk of Fame in 2012, and they’ve also had the honor and privilege of sharing the stage with a wide variety of musical legends over the years, including Levon Helm, The Memphis Horns, Billy Preston, Bootsy Collins, Richie Havens, Blues Traveler, Derek Trucks, Hot Tuna, Los Lobos, Dr. John, Timothy Leary, The Bar-Kays, Ann Peebles, Steve Cropper, James Cotton, Mojo Buford, Jimmie Vaughan & Double Trouble, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang, Jim Belushi, and Widespread Panic just to name a few.
FreeWorld’s 8th album, “More Love”, showcases the band at a creative high point, with a set of new songs that covers the gamut of their musical breadth and originality. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Grammy Award nominated audio engineers Kevin Houston, Ari Morris, and Brad Blackwood – and with the added bonus of an Atmos surround sound mix of the song “Rush Hour” available online – the overall audio quality of the album is state-of-the-art, and the broad cross section of musical styles and genres that FreeWorld is famous for playing during their extended live sets on Beale Street all blend together effortlessly across the entire album. In addition, featured cameo appearances from over a dozen special guests and FreeWorld alumni – including the Tennessee Mass Choir on the title track – only add to the fullness and richness of the songwriting craft displayed on the album, and further showcase the quality of the musicianship and the deep camaraderie that flourishes within the extended FreeWorld family.
FreeWorld’s new album also includes the audio track from their recent, award-winning music video, “D-Up (Here’s To Diversity)”, which took multiple 1st place awards in various international film festivals and global music video award contests in 2022, and also features the four surviving original FreeWorld band members from 1987 on a song entitled “Red Moon”, composed by their legendary founding father, Dr. Herman Green.
FreeWorld is also proud to once again feature an amazing piece of custom art by Memphis painter/muralist David Lynch on the cover of “More Love”.
Keep your eyes & ears tuned to FreeWorld throughout 2026 and beyond, as their latest studio album, “More Love”, marks yet another proud milestone in the band’s musical odyssey that now spans almost 40 years.
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Food Trucks: Pok-Cha’s Eggrolls | Odds Smash & Grab Burger Lab | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Stax Music Academy Summer Music Experience
About the Academy:
Stax Music Academy inspires young people and enhances their academic, cognitive, performance, and leadership skills by utilizing music with an intense focus on the rich legacy and tradition of Stax Records.
Vision
Stax Music Academy exists to nurture and present the next generation of great Soul Communicators from the greater Soulsville region, holistically equipping them to excel and to impact the world through the universal language of music.
Memphis has given the world some of its most memorable melodies. But whether it’s blues, gospel, rock-and-roll, or R&B, the one thing Memphis music has always had is plenty of is soul.
At Stax Music Academy (SMA), a registered 501 (c) 3 nonprofit, we are helping instill soul in the next generation of Memphis artists. SMA is an after school and summer music institute located adjacent to the home of the legendary ’60s-’70s soul record label Stax Records, now the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.
Founded in 2000, SMA exists to continue the legacy of Stax by nurturing the musicians of tomorrow.
Stax Music Academy students take classes in music theory, preparing them to read music with proficiency, read and perform all twelve major and minor scales, and apply harmonic analysis to a musical selection. Students are required to participate in moderated juries at the end of each semester that tests both their performance acumen and their western theoretical grasp of music. Students learn the art of storytelling and composition to create their own music plus music business to assure each young artist understands how to make a living in music. Success is defined individually for each student,
Our programs teach more than notes, however. Stax Music Academy helps students enhance their character by teaching skills in leadership, teamwork, and discipline. The end goal is to prepare graduates for post-primary success regardless of path, whether it be attending college or entering the music workforce.
Since its founding, Stax Music Academy has graduated more than 4,000 students. Since 2008, every high school senior has been accepted to a college or university, many on full scholarships. Academy alumni can be heard around the world, teaching, performing, recording, and more at the highest levels of the music industry.
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In support of Table Spread Memphis, non-perishable items will be accepted during the show:
Pasta
Pasta Sauce (non-Meat options)
Crackers
Canned Beans (No Added Meat)
Peanut Butter
Jelly
Rice
Sugar
Tuna
Oil
Oatmeal
Canned Vegetables
household items
hygiene products
infant essentials
Food Trucks: Tops BBQ | BBQX | Hot & Heavy Dogs | DP Italian Ice | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Twilight Yoga and Pilates
Join us at the historic Overton Park Shell each Monday evening for a rotating Twilight Yoga and Pilates workout, presented by Baptist Memorial Health Care.
901 Goats Presents Goat Yoga
The coolest kids in town are coming to the Overton Park Shell to help calm your nerves. Prepare to relax on the lawn as 901 Goats presents Goat Yoga.
901 Goats Presents Goat Yoga
The coolest kids in town are coming to the Overton Park Shell to help calm your nerves. Prepare to relax on the lawn as 901 Goats presents Goat Yoga.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: KARROT (METAL NIGHT)
About the Artist:
KaRRot: A Tribute to KoRn, formed in 2022 in Nashville, TN. KaRRot brings the intensity and energy you'd expect from KoRn, themselves. KaRRot has even performed Drummer with Ray Luzier. Bringing you songs from their entire catalog, they only have one question. Are you ready??
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Food Trucks: Halinkas | Smoke&Toast | Chias Halal Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Memphis PowerPop Festival
MPPF Set Times:
5:00-5:25- Joybomb
5:40- 6:10- Your Academy
6:25- 7:00- Sonny Wilsons
7:30-9:00- The Smithereens
About The Smithereens:
Since their formation in Carteret, New Jersey in 1980, The Smithereens have earned a reputation as one of America’s most enduring rock bands. Founding members Pat DiNizio (vocals/guitar), Jim Babjak (guitar/vocals), Mike Mesaros (bass/vocals), and Dennis Diken (drums/vocals) built a distinctive sound rooted in the melodic punch of the British Invasion, fused with the raw energy of American garage rock. The result was a catalog of timeless songs that continue to resonate with audiences worldwide.
The band’s breakthrough came with the 1986 release of Especially for You, featuring the modern rock classics “Blood and Roses” and “Behind the Wall of Sleep.” Critical acclaim and radio success soon followed with Green Thoughts (1988) and 11 (1989), albums that delivered charting singles including “Only a Memory,” “A Girl Like You,” and “Too Much Passion.” Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, The Smithereens became fixtures on MTV, college radio, and mainstream rock stations, while touring extensively with artists such as Tom Petty, Lou Reed, and The Pretenders.
Celebrated for their muscular live performances, The Smithereens have always stayed true to their roots while expanding their reach. Their body of work includes not only original material but also acclaimed tributes to their musical heroes, including full-length homages to The Beatles and The Who, affirming their place in the lineage of classic rock.
Following the passing of frontman Pat DiNizio in 2017, Babjak, Mesaros, and Diken made the decision to honor his memory by continuing to perform and record. Joined by guest vocalists such as Robin Wilson (Gin Blossoms), John Cowsill (from the Cowsills & Beach Boys) and Marshall Crenshaw, the band continues to bring their celebrated songs to both longtime fans and new generations. The band’s latest album is THE LOST ALBUM featuring previously unreleased sessions with Pat DiNizio.
Today, The Smithereens stand as a vital, influential force in American rock—defined by ringing guitars, unforgettable hooks, and a spirit of resilience that ensures their music remains as powerful and relevant as ever.
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About The Sonny Wilsons:
The Sonny Wilsons is the power pop project of Adam Yancey (Solo artist, Afterglow, The Chain Hopsons, The Becky’s) and Allen Couch (East Link).
Adam Yancey, who gigged his way through flight school is, and this is a direct quote, “The only idiot in the world that got into the music business for the money. And the only idiot, in the history of idiots, which is a long list, who had to fall back on a music career to become an airline pilot!”
Multi-instrumentalist Allen Couch's love of music began when he stumbled upon, and subsequently appropriated, his parent's 8-track copy of Abbey Road. Yep, he's that old…. Thus began a lifelong appreciation for a well structured pop harmony.
They are joined by singer-songwriter-guitarist Danny McGreger (Lately David), singer-guitarist Chris Swenson (The Devil Brothers, David Brookings Band, Victor & The Spoils, Megawhat, Black Oak Arkansas) and bassist Johnny Norris (Crash Into June, Your Academy). The Sonny Wilsons’ first album, recorded at Ardent and High/Low studios with Jon Auer (Posies, Big Star) producing, will be released late summer of 2025.
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FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | BANDCAMP | SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC
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Food Trucks: BBQX | Eat Good Groceries | Halinkas | Hot & Heavy Dogs | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Shell Yeah! Benefit Series Presents Booker T. Jones
On Thursday, September 10th, Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & The M.G.s will take the stage at the Overton Park Shell for the 90th Birthday Shell-ebration Weekend kick off. Learn more and purchase tickets.
90th Shellebration: Birthday Picnic ft. Memphis Youth Symphony
About Memphis Youth Symphony:
The Memphis Youth Symphony Program (MYSP) was formed by Maestro Vincent de Frank in 1966 under the umbrella of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. In March 2006, MYSP legally separated from the Memphis Symphony and reorganized as a separate and distinct nonprofit organization.
The MYSP serves as the premiere youth symphony program in the Mid-South. MYSP consists of seven large ensembles, multiple chamber ensembles, and a student advisory council. All students (public, private, rural, faith-based, and home-schooled) are invited to audition. The result is a diverse mix of students that reflects the community's culture and complexion. The program engages 300 students annually, ages 6-19, from the tri-state area.
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Food Trucks: TO BE ANNOUNCED
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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90th Shellebration: Sounds of the Shell (9 Decades of Delight)
About the Event:
Join us on Saturday, September 12th, as we turn the pages on our 90th Anniversary scrapbook of great musical memories at the Overton Park Shell. We start with selections from The Pirates of Penzance celebrating the M.O.A.T days to a swinging big band. The page turning continues as the finest Memphis musicians pay homage to Johnny Cash, the big E, Rufus Thomas, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, the historic blues festivals right on through to today’s amazing concerts.
Sounds of the Shell is presented by David, producer and author of Memphis Mayhem.
ARTISTS TO BE ANNOUNCED.
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Food Trucks: Soi No. 9 | BBQX | Odds Smash & Grab Burger Lab | Hot and Heavy Dogs | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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90th Shellebration: The Gathering ft. EvVie Mckinney
The Gathering Schedule:
12:00 PM - Gates Open
1:00 PM – 1:05 PM - Welcome & Opening Remarks | Ephie Johnson & Natalie Wilson
1:05 PM – 1:10 PM - Liturgical Dance Performance ft. Cooler Kids/Cooler Grands Performance
1:12 PM – 1:15 PM - Performance by Josiah Turner of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church
1:15 PM – 1:20 PM - Melvin Cole (Pure Academy)
1:25 PM – 1:30 PM - Princeton James Productions ft. Cooler Kids/Cooler Grands Performance
1:32 PM – 1:37 PM - Spoken Word by Jeffrey Johnson
1:40 PM – 1:45 PM - Spoken Word
1:45 PM – 1:50 PM - Ephie Johnson with Neighborhood Christian Center
1:55 PM – 2:20 PM - Tennessee Mass Choir Performance
2:25 PM – 2:55 PM - Evvie McKinney Performance
About Ephie Johnson (Event MC):
Sharing my voice is more than a performance; it’s a calling, and a way to touch hearts. With over 30 years of worship leading and musical performances. I’ve seen how music can heal wounds, uplift spirits, and unite communities.
Whether in a church, special event, commercial, or movie, music connects and inspires. A gentle hymn can bring peace, while a lively song can bring joy and energy. It's a privilege to be part of these moments, offering comfort, hope, and celebration through song.
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About Evvie McKinney:
Influenced by the fabled and fertile Memphis music scene, Evvie McKinney’s unique merging of good ol’ gospel vibes, current pop sensibility and deep-rooted soul has her perfectly positioned for international acclaim. And she has no doubt that God has planned exactly that for her: “I’ve been called a ‘superstar’ since I was in diapers,” she laughs with a humble confidence.
She is now well on her way, having won the inaugural season of the voice competition, “The Four” on Fox Network and then following that up in 2021 with her first #1 radio hit, “Just Like God,” from her debut EP, This Is Evvie McKinney, which earned her Stellar and KLOVE Fan Award nominations.
Growing up, Evvie was surrounded by a large and devout family. Her mother’s determination and unwavering faith filled their home with an expectation of divine intervention. In fact, her large family was actually able to build their home by entering a Habitat for Humanity contest. Amazingly, her mother’s letter was chosen from 20,000 entries. Miracles are still happening for singer/songwriter Evvie McKinney. From the age of seven, Evvie was singing at services and on holidays at her home church, and at “every other church around Memphis.” In 2015, when she was only 14, Evvie moved to New York to go on the road with her brother’s band, Gedeon Luke and The People, touring nationally and internationally.
On The Four: Battle for Stardom, with judges Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, DJ Khaled and Meghan Trainor, Evvie stunned the country with her otherworldly stage performance of “Proud Mary.” According to Evvie, “I went into beast mode,” she says laughingly. “I had sung that song since I was five years old, but I just let God use me that night. I really wanted to win, but I knew it would take more than just singing. I had so many emotions going, it was amazing. But I knew that God was going to make it happen.” P. Diddy also ended up producing her first single, “HowDo You Feel?” Pop star Meghan Trainor has co- written Evvie’s Motown Gospel debut single, “Bring The Whole Hood”, a joyful, giant shot of positivity and inclusivity with a soul/pop/gospel groove and the true story about Evvie’s loving family. Evvie truly wants to “Bring The Whole Hood” along with her on her exuberant journey...or as she sings, “when I make it, we make it.” Perfect timing. Perfect message
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About TN Mass Choir:
The Tennessee Mass Choir, Inc. (TMC) is a nonprofit organization that provides a diverse culture of service opportunities through music, cultural arts, and community partnerships. High-energy vocals performed by a powerfully gifted, versatile and spirited group of individuals, The Tennessee Mass Choir has been recognized as one of the finest, most respected and talented Mass Choirs in the entire country. Under the leadership of award winning, GRAMMY nominated music producer Jason Clark, this choir has shared the stage and/or recorded with notable artists such as Martina McBride, Al Green, Fred Hammond, Foreigner, John P. Kee, Jekalyn Carr, Kirby Lauren, St. Paul and The Broken Bones along with countless others.
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Food Trucks: Smoke & Toast | Flipside Asia | Camelita’s Taquería | Chais Halal | La Antojeria | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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90th Shellebration: Memphis Studio Super-Set
About the Event:
Sam Phillips Recording, Stax Records, Sun Studios, American Recording Studio, Royal Studios, and Unapologetic. will join forces to showcase the legendary sound of Memphis recording throughout the years.
ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Mark Edgar Stuart
Kyndle Wylde
Jerry Phillips
Marcella Simien
Jimmy Davis
Bailey Bigger
Singa B
Boo Mitchell
Jerome Chism
Lina Beach
Royal Studios House Band
And Many More!
About the Sam Phillips Recording Services:
Sam Phillips is not just one of the most important producers in rock history, he is also one of the most important figures in 20th-century American culture. As owner and founder of his Memphis Recording Service Studio and Sun Record Company, he was the vital creative innovator at the epicenter of establishing rock n’ roll as the fresh, new, global music of the 20th-century era. He produced, recorded, inspired and launched the careers of the artists that originally defined this new musical sound…Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, B.B. King, Ike Turner, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, and so many more. Sam first made his mark (and a very deep one) with electric rhythm and blues by African American black performers. He will always be remembered for all of the music he created, but probably most remembered for his difference-making rock n’ roll artists, particularly Elvis Presley.
After successfully outgrowing his Memphis Recording Service/ Sun Studio, Phillips opened Sam Phillips Recording service in 1960.
This studio is still owned and operated by the Sam Phillips family. Walking through the doors of the studio today is like taking a musical journey back to 1960. It has remained an Analog focused recording facility and the Phillips family has no plans to change.
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About Stax Records
In 1957, Jim Stewart founded Satellite Records in Brunswick, Tennessee. With a loan and the support from his sister Estelle Axton, the duo relocated Satellite Records to Memphis in 1959, setting up shop in an old movie theater at 926 E. McLemore Avenue. From this partnership, Stax Records emerged and so did its name—combining the first two letters of Stewart and Axton. The establishment of this new company marked the beginning of a transformative journey in soul music.
In Memphis, Stax Records quickly became a beacon of musical diversity, blending emerging rhythm and blues styles into a branded “Memphis Sound” of soul music that would evolve to captivate global audiences. With input from luminaries like Rufus Thomas, his daughter Carla Thomas, and crooner William Bell etching an early impression on the label, Stax earned a reputation as a haven for local talent. Soon, instrumental ensemble Booker T. & the M.G.’s provided a backbeat for the label’s roster of artists, serving as the de facto studio band and hitmakers in their own right. Also charged with helping to define the label’s signature R&B sound, star songwriters David Porter and Isaac Hayes scribed lyrics tailored to the Stax performers. On loan from distributor Atlantic Records, the livewire vocal duo Sam & Dave paired with Hayes and Porter with hits like “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Coming,” solidifying Stax’s place as a powerhouse of rhythm & blues music.
The label’s roster expanded to include talents like Eddie Floyd, whose anthem “Knock on Wood” became a cornerstone of Stax’s repertoire. Otis Redding, perhaps the label’s most treasured star, left an everlasting legacy with his evocative and emotive vocal performances on tunes like “These Arms of Mine” and “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” Tragically, Redding’s life, along with those of four teenage members of the Bar-Kays, was cut short in a fatal plane crash in 1967, leaving a void in the music world that could never be filled.
Following the loss of Redding and the dissolution of its partnership with Atlantic Records, Stax Records was forced to evolve. Under the leadership of Al Bell, the label orchestrated a “Soul Explosion” in 1969, flooding the market with nearly 30 albums to revitalize the Stax brand. Isaac Hayes emerged as a central figure in this musical renaissance, transitioning from staff songwriter to Stax’s marquee performing artist thanks to the breakout success of his album “Hot Buttered Soul.” Before long, he’d reach newer heights with the Oscar®-winning “Theme from Shaft,” earning him a spot as an international household name.
In this era of renewed creativity, Stax broadened its reach to become a launching pad for revered groups from outside Memphis, such as the Staple Singers, the Dramatics, and the Emotions, as well as solo acts like Johnnie Taylor and Albert King. The label’s diversification went beyond geography and into various genres, solidifying its status as a formidable marketing juggernaut.
Among its endeavors was the historic Wattstax concert and film in 1972, epitomizing Stax’s commitment to celebrating African American culture through music. Despite its luminous achievements, Stax faced mounting challenges in the 1970s, including financial woes and legal disputes.
In 1973, Stax Records faced financial strain after its intended expansion effort was complicated by racial tensions and economic pressures in Memphis. Despite efforts to sustain operations, Stax succumbed to these challenges, culminating in involuntary bankruptcy in 1975.
In June 1977, Fantasy Records purchased the Stax Record Company’s masters out of bankruptcy. Soon, they’d resuscitate the Stax brand, along with Volt and other associated subsidiaries, to release new recordings and previously unreleased material.
Concord, which acquired the legendary Memphis label as part of its 2004 purchase of Fantasy Records, has since honored Stax’s unique legacy, releasing definitive collections, rare performances, unreleased tracks, and more in deluxe collectors’ packages. Additionally, Concord proudly supports and works closely with the Soulsville Foundation to preserve and honor the legacy of Stax Records and the Memphis Sound.
Today, at 926 E. McLemore in Memphis, Tennessee, the Soulsville Foundation occupies a multimillion-dollar campus that includes the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Stax Music Academy, and the Soulsville Charter School. The Soulsville Foundation’s two youth programs serve the inner-city youth who are carrying the unique legacy of Stax Records into the future for generations to come.
Stax Records is critical to American music history as one of the most popular soul music record labels of all time. In 15 years, Stax placed more than 167 hit songs in the Top 100 on the pop charts and a staggering 243 hits in the Top 100 R&B charts. It launched the careers of legendary artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus & Carla Thomas, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, among numerous others.
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About Sun Studios:
Sun Studio is known worldwide as “The Birthplace of Rock’n’roll”. It is the discovery location of musical legends and genres of the 50’s from B.B. King and Elvis Presley to Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis; from Blues and Gospel to Country and Rock’n'roll. Today our goal is to spread the story of Memphis’ history and culture through the music that put Memphis on the map.
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About American Recording Studio:
American Recording Studio is one of the most legendary Memphis studios. The building was designed by architectural and acoustical engineers, who hand crafted the rare stereo echo chambers and concrete floated floors in Studio A. The studio is the first and only recording studio in Memphis,built from the ground up, with the intent to be a recording studio. It has a history of being an integral part in producing numerous Gold and Grammy Award-winning records. Stan Kessler was the studio operator and General Manager of American East. When American Sound began to expand, it was renamed American East with Chips Moman and Don Crews . It is the only physical part of American Sound Group that remains in Memphis.
As time went on, the studio went to host other names. Don Crews re-opened as Onyx after Chips went back to Nashville and Georgia. The Bar-Kays occupied the studio as their home base after Stax closed. Easley McCain Recording operated at the studio until 2005 when a control room fire closed the studio, forcing them to move to another location. David Gicking purchased the studio in 2011 to restore the studio back to its glory days. In 2011, the studio was reopened and Today, the studio is equipped with world class recording gear and continues to make music history.
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About Royal Studios:
Nestled in the heart of South Memphis, Royal Studios stands as a testament to the city’s rich musical heritage. With a history that spans over six decades, this legendary recording studio has been a birthplace for countless hits and has played a pivotal role by shaping the sound of American music and being a leader in highlighting and preserving Black culture through music.
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About Unapologetic.:
Unapologetic. is a brand based in inspiring others to be boldly, daringly, and unapologetically themselves. We aim to disrupt. We aim to ease. We also aim to build discomfort when necessary, through art. Our art is our voices, sounds, illustrations, perspectives, event, and experiences. It is unapologetically our lives.
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Food Trucks: Smoke & Toast | Flipside Asia | Carmelita’s Taquería | Chais Halal | La Antojería | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Jackie Venson
About Jackie Venson:
Heralded as one of “Austin’s rising stars” by Rolling Stone and “an Austin legend in the making” by Forbes, Jackie Venson has established herself as one of the most commanding performers to come out of Texas. An Austin native, Venson has shared the stage with icons like Gary Clark Jr and Melissa Etheridge and even performed with Alanis Morissette and Lainey Wilson at the 2023 CMT Awards and in 2024 Venson was selected to perform as part of Rolling Stone’s Future of Music showcase.
Venson’s breakthrough album Joy received critical acclaim upon its release in 2019, and while the pandemic stood in the way of touring plans for the next year, Venson nonetheless found new levels of fame with her livestreaming presence throughout 2020, which led to her landing the #9 position on Pollstar’s Top 50 Livestreamers list for the year and a booking on the legendary Austin City Limits Television Season 46.
Acclaimed by greats as diverse as Vernon Reid and Michael McKean, Venson continues to evolve as an artist, whether it’s on Texas blues focused albums like Love Transcends, the eclectic electro-funk and rock of Ghost in The Machine or the mesmerizing soul and R&B of The Love Anthology. With her passionate commitment to exploring diverse sounds and styles, Venson’s artistry is only going to continue to grow.
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Food Trucks: Odds Smash & Grab | Crossover Eats | Green Beetle | La Antojería | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series:Taz
About Taz:
The twenty-two-year-old phenom has commanded festival headlining stages, including Coachella and Met Life Stadium opening for The Rolling Stones. TAZ starred on television and Broadway, and has been championed by some of music’s biggest stars. Now, he prepares to unveil his long-anticipated recorded debut. TAZ is currently a touring guitarist with multi-Grammy winning performer Jon Batiste.
For TAZ, music is a calling. TAZ was inspired at age eight to pick up a guitar after seeing the movie School of Rock, and just a few years later he was starring in School of Rock the Musical on Broadway. By age sixteen, he had already performed with countless stars — including Lady Gaga, Jon Batiste, Stevie Nicks, Gregg Allman, Quinn XCII, Mac DeMarco, Gary Clark Jr., Derek Trucks, Slash, and The Revivalists — and earned an endorsement from John Mayer as “the first young guitar player that is not a gimmick.”
A live performer like no other — seamlessly slipping between blistering guitar riffs and soulful vocals with a carefree charisma — TAZ built an international fan base through extensive touring in the US, Europe, Asia, Canada, and the Caribbean. TAZ has an engaged social media following, capping a recent headlining tour with sold-out shows at Bowery Ballroom in New York City and across the USA.
In collaboration with Grammy-winning producer Theron “Neff-U” Feemster (Justin Bieber, Doja Cat, Kendrick Lamar, Train, Michael Jackson), TAZ has written and recorded a slate of material for his genre-bending debut studio project that is sure to captivate his existing fans and grab the attention of an entirely new audience.
TAZ is graduating Yale University in May 2025 and while attending school, he continued to extend his acting, musicianship, and multi-media performances in original directions to explore new creative dimensions. TAZ’s acting continues to flourish, recently landing a role in Sony Pictures release of “SATURDAY NIGHT” the major motion picture based on the first episode of Saturday Night Live.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Larry Springfield
About Larry Springfield:
When Larry Springfield was born, his family lived on world famous Beale street. I guess you could say he was destined to sing. At the age of 18, he found himself back on that famous street. On a Dare, he entered a contest called, “The Stair Ways to the Stars” at the club Royale on Beale. A local talent show that gave young artists the opportunity to display and cultivate their talent. Larry was such natural on stage. The owner recognized his talent and ability to connect with his audience and encouraged him to continue and pursue entertainment and offered him a job to sing as one of his Featured acts at his club.
Under the mentorship of Ruby Wilson, The queen of Beale Street and veterans like Preston Shannon, Chick Rogers and Phineas Newborn, Larry continued to hone his skills and was dared again to audition for a television show. At the age of 20, Larry audition and appeared on the nationally syndicated hit television Show, “Star Search”, hosted by Ed McMahon. Larry went on to win the show that season, and soon after, was offered a recording Deal by Clarence Avant and became a recording artist for his label Tabu A&M and later, signed another Recording Deal with Motown records. As a music industry insider he has work as a music producer and has produced records for himself and such artists as Chanté Moore, Brian McKnight, and Wayne Brady. He has written songs with or for Chanté Moore, Wayne Brady, Debra Cox, Jamie Foxx and a host of other notable artists. He has toured with such artists at Barry White, Chanté Moore. Gerald Levert , Toni Toni Tone. Al Green and Darryl Coley and has head lined shows all over the country. He's head lined and was the feature act at Issac Hayes's Night club in Memphis and Chicago. Notably, Larry was also a feature male vocalist for the BB Kings club chain of restaurants. There he was the music Director for the Memphis, Nashville and Orlando Restaurants. The owner of the company, Realizing and recognizing Larry’s Strong ability to draw and entertain his audiences, Larry was offered the Featured artist title for The BB Kings Blues Club inside of the World famous Mirage casino in Las Vegas Nevada.
While working for BB Kings, he got a close and intimate look into the workings of a entertainment/restaurant” business. He worked, under the tutelage of its owner Tommy Peters, for 15 years moving from city to city as a headline and manager of the music production for the company. After his run for company, he came back to Memphis from Vegas, and approached by Tommy with a proposal. Larry was offered the chance to owner and run his own club, a partnership. An opportunity to do a joint venture with the owner of The B. B.KINGS franchise. This partner would give him autonomy. And with that, one of Larry’s dreams had come to fruition. The vision of “SugaShack” was realized.
“Sugarshack”, a makeshift funky good time. Where the experience of extraordinary soul music and Great soul food culminates into a Wang Dang Doodle, All night long! Where the roots of rock 'n roll meet and clash with musical Titans of Soul, Live! Every night. Where it's black, white and blues in the middle. The birth place of get down. Yes, the Memphis sound! Stax and Hi, with a little Motown, Muscle Shoals, and the sounds of soul that's been heard all round the world. Yes, It can be found and heard in it's authenticity! A modern day Juke Joint. A Chic Speak Easy. A place where the mature adult can let their hair down and be free to get lost in themselves, the moment and Music.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Memphis Country Blues Festival
About the Event:
From 1966-1969, the Overton Park Shell hosted the annual Memphis Country Blues Festival, uniting white and black artists on stage. These festivals served as a benefit and showcase for blues masters like Furry Lewis, Bukka White, and Reverend Robert Wilkins, aiming to rectify the historical mistreatment of blues artists by white society and recognizing them as American cultural icons.
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Food Trucks: Tops BBQ | BBQX | Eat Good Groceries | Hot & Heavy Dogs | Mempops
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Hattiloo 20th Celebration
About The Hattiloo Concert Experience:
Join us for an evening that brings the feeling of a Saturday-night soul revue to the theatre stage - blending gospel-rooted vocals, R&B grooves, Broadway show tunes, and short theatrical vignettes. This live concert captures the sound, spirit, and storytelling energy of Black performance in true Hattiloo style.
About Hattiloo Theatre:
Ekundayo Bandele, with support from an engaged board that Michael de Caetani chaired, founded Hattiloo Theatre in 2006, as 501(c)3, non-profit organization. It is named in honor of Ekundayo’s two daughters: Hatshepsut (Hatti) Bandele, and Oluremi (Loo) Bandele. The theatre opened on September 22, 2006 in a small store-front in the Edge District of Memphis, TN.
After eight years operating with a three-person staff, staging eight productions each season, in June 2014, following a $4.3M capital campaign, Hattiloo moved from its 75-seat theatre to a newly-constructed facility, debt free, and established a $500K endowment. A second campaign in 2016 funded the construction of a new Development Center. Also, in 2016, Hattiloo entered into a $1/year lease with the City of Memphis and converted an 8,000 square foot head-start school into the Hattiloo Technical Theatre Center. In 2017, the theatre purchased and opened HattiHouse – a residential space for guest artists and interns.
As the only freestanding Black repertory theatre in five surrounding states, Hattiloo has developed a strong regional audience (32% in 2015). Hattiloo is known for offering high-quality, free programming and performances staged throughout the city, engaging over 5,000 people each year. The evolution of its artistic vision and programming, and the success of its business model has made Hattiloo a sought-after resource nationwide.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Gonerfest 23
About Gonerfest:
Gonerfest is a festival in Memphis organized by Goner Records. The festival is known for its intimate setting and cutting edge mix of bands. Bands who have played Gonerfest include Shannon & The Clams, Mudhoney, Guitar Wolf, Ty Segall, Cosmic Psychos, Osees, Oblivians, Robyn Hitchcock, Derv Gordon, Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano, King Brothers, The Oh Sees, The King Khan & BBQ Show, Negative Approach, Compulsive Gamblers, Reatards, Amyl & The Sniffers, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, AWFM, Snooper, Black Lips, New Bomb Turks, Gories, Mummies, Fred & Toody Cole, Carbonas, Leather Uppers, Head, The Gizmos, X_X, Wreckless Eric, The Hipshakes, Human Eye, Sonny Vincent, Sick Thoughts, Icky Boyfriends, and tons and tons more. 20 festivals at 30 + bands per festival = 600 plus bands!
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About Goner Records:
Goner Records was founded in 1993 to put out underappreciated music, beginning with Tokyo's Guitar Wolf and Memphis' Oblivians and Reatards. In 2004 we opened up our brick and mortar store at 2152 Young Avenue in Memphis, processing more than 30,000 orders for over 15,000 customers. We stock all kinds of interesting LPs and 45s, continue to put out LPs, and promote shows and DJ nights in Memphis. Every September we host Gonerfest, a four day festival with bands and fans from across the United States and all over the world.
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Food Trucks: Smoke & Toast | BBQX | Pok Cha’s Egg Rolls | Hot & Heavy Dogs | La Antojería | Mempops
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Shell Yeah! Presents Indigo Girls with Linda Perry
On Tuesday, September 29th, the Indigo Girls and Linda Perry will take the stage at the Overton Park Shell as part of the 2026 Shell Yeah! Benefit Series. Tickets on sale 22nd. All proceeds support the Overton Park Shell mission.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Drivin N Cryin
About Drivin N Cryin:
In 1985, Drivin N Cryin played their first show at Atlanta’s famed 688 Club. Recent inductees to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Wisconsin Music Hall of Fame, founding members Kevn Kinney, Tim Nielsen and longtime drummer Dave V Johnson find themselves enjoying a continued legacy, having survived the pressures of fame, a shifting musical landscape, multiple lineup changes, traveling miles of back roads and highways to arrive here.
Latest projects include a re-release of Mystery Road on Island Records (Universal), a Darius Rucker cover of the band’s beloved anthem “Straight To Hell”, a remastered 1997 eponymous album re-released as Too Late To Turn Back Now followed by the latest studio album Live The Love Beautiful and the ongoing 100+ song tribute series to the songwriting of Kevn Kinney
Recent dates with Hootie & The Blowfish, The Black Crowes, Blackberry Smoke, Marshall Tucker Band and Jason Isbell amid touring the US and abroad on their own including repeat appearances on Rock Boat, Outlaw Country Cruise, Moon Crush and other specialty events.
Comfortable in their past and confident in their future, Drivin N Cryin are armed with an arsenal of songs, a full tank of gas and no intention of stopping any time soon.
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Food Trucks: Smoke & Toast | BBQX | Pok Cha’s Egg Rolls | Hot & Heavy Dogs | La Antojería | Mempops
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Hispanic Heritage Celebration
About the Artists:
Los Kumbia Brotherz
Originarios de la Ciudad de México y con presencia en Memphis, Los Kumbia Brotherz son una agrupación de estilo cumbia que lleva al escenario el ritmo, la alegría y la energía de la música latina. Con un sonido que invita a bailar y celebrar en comunidad, buscan conectar con el público y compartir su pasión por la cumbia con cada presentación.
"Nos gustaría conquistar tu corazón" con música, tradición y mucho sabor cumbiero.
Originally from Mexico City and now sharing their passion for music in Memphis, Los Kumbia Brotherz are a cumbia-style group bringing rhythm, energy, and Latin flavor to every performance. With music that gets people dancing and celebrating together, they aim to connect with audiences and share their love for cumbia through every show.
“We’d love to win your heart” through music, tradition, and plenty of cumbia spirit.
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Mala Leche
Originario de Los Ángeles, California, y con raíces salvadoreñas, Mala Leche es diseñador gráfico, muralista y DJ, fusionando las expresiones artísticas de la subcultura chicana con el orgullo de Memphis y creando una comunidad de jóvenes artistas latinos. Sus mezclas musicales destacan ritmos con una fuerte esencia cultural como la cumbia, merengue, punta y reggaetón.
Originally from L.os Angeles, CALIFORNIA with Salvadoran ROOTS, Mala Leche is a graphic designer, muralist, and DJ blending the Chicanx subcultural art forms with Memphis pride and curating a community of young Latinx artists. His mixes consist of heavy cultural music like cumbia, merengue, punta, AND reggaeton.
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Danza Azteca Xochiquetzal
Celebrando la cultura, la historia y la tradición a través del movimiento, Danza Azteca Xochiquetzal lleva al escenario el arte ancestral de la danza tradicional azteca. A través de vestuarios tradicionales, ritmos ceremoniales y movimientos llenos de significado, el grupo honra tradiciones indígenas transmitidas de generación en generación, compartiendo la riqueza y el orgullo de la herencia cultural mexicana con la comunidad.
Celebrating culture, history, and tradition through movement, Danza Azteca Xochiquetzal brings the powerful artistry of traditional Aztec dance to the stage. Through vibrant regalia, live rhythm, and ceremonial movement, the group honors Indigenous traditions passed down through generations while sharing the beauty and spirit of Mexican cultural heritage with the community.
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Horacio Méndez – MC & Cumbia Instructor
Una cara reconocida dentro de la comunidad latina de Memphis, Horacio Méndez es una personalidad de medios, conductor de eventos y promotor cultural con años de experiencia colaborando con medios de comunicación en español en Memphis. Conocido por su energía, carisma y cercanía con la comunidad, Horacio se ha convertido en una figura reconocida participando como maestro de ceremonias y ayudando a unir a las personas a través del entretenimiento y la cultura.
Apasionado por preservar y compartir las tradiciones latinas, Horacio también impulsa el crecimiento de la cumbia en Memphis a través de clases de baile y actividades comunitarias. En Overton Park Shell, llevará su entusiasmo y experiencia al escenario como maestro de ceremonias e instructor de cumbia, creando una experiencia interactiva para que la comunidad baile, aprenda y celebre unida.
A familiar face in Memphis’ Latino community, Horacio Méndez is a media personality, event host, and cultural advocate with years of experience working with local Spanish-language media outlets. Known for his energy, charisma, and connection with the community, Horacio has become a recognizable voice at events across Memphis, serving as an MC and helping bring people together through entertainment and culture.
Passionate about preserving and sharing Latin traditions, Horacio is also helping grow the love for cumbia in Memphis through dance instruction and community engagement. At Overton Park Shell, he will bring his enthusiasm and expertise to the stage as both MC and cumbia instructor, creating an interactive experience that invites the community to dance, learn, and celebrate together.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Opera Memphia
About the Performance:
For 70 years Opera Memphis has never stopped singing. Through 13 presidents, nine recessions, three trips to the final four, and one global pandemic they kept singing, whether it was onstage, online or on the back of a pickup truck. Help celebrate seven decades of opera with a night of love, lust, murder, revenge, and high notes that will melt your face off.
About Opera Memphis:
Opera Memphis was founded in 1956 and has a long history of attracting some of the world’s most acclaimed singers and musicians. In addition to its reputation for offering world-class productions, Opera Memphis has earned widespread praise for its innovative approach to education and civic engagement, which reaches more than 40,000 children and adults per season through mainstage productions, 30 Days of Opera, and its Sing2Me program. For more information on Opera Memphis, visit www.operamemphis.org.
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Food Trucks: Wok n Go | Soi No. 9 | Smoke & Toast
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Shakespeare at the Shell Presents Love’s Labor’s Lost
About the Production:
After vowing to avoid women, the King and three of his friends have to host a princess and her three ladies. The four men fall in love and decide to court the women. In the end, the women must return to their kingdom for a year after which they will marry the king and his friends, providing they remain true to them.
About TN Shakespeare Company:
Tennessee Shakespeare Company is the first and only professional, not-for-profit theatre and education organization in Memphis dedicated to live, diverse performances of William Shakespeare’s plays, as well as works of social significance by classical, Southern, and modern playwrights/composers; and to providing innovative education, training, and outreach programming.
We believe William Shakespeare and his stories are for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, race, educational background, geography, gender or gender preferences, or economic ability.
We believe the plays of William Shakespeare should be central to every child’s formal education.
We believe Memphis and Tennessee deserve a world-class, professional Shakespeare company.
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901 Goats Presents Halloween Goat Yoga
The coolest kids in town are coming to the Overton Park Shell to help calm your nerves. Prepare to relax on the lawn as 901 Goats presents Goat Yoga.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Brezay
About the Artist:
Brezay is a Memphis-born recording artist, designer, and founder of the streetwear brand Brezerk known for her genre-blending sound and dynamic stage presence. Embracing the title “Genre Queen,” her music moves effortlessly across hip-hop, pop, R&B, and melodic rap, reflecting the versatility and creativity at the core of her artistry. Beyond music, Brezay merges fashion and performance through her brand and major collaborations, including live activations with the Memphis Grizzlies. As both an artist and entrepreneur, she continues to build a movement centered on creativity, individuality, and Memphis culture.
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Food Trucks: Soi No. 9 | Eat Good Groceries | Smoke & Toast | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
Juneteenth Douglass Freedom and Heritage Festival 2026
In it’s 33rd year, the Juneteenth Douglass Freedom and Heritage Festival will feature a lineup of local entertainment on the Shell on Wheels stage.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Deanté Hitchcock
About the Artist:
Deante Hitchcock doesn’t just want to make good and timeless hip-hop music. He wants to use it as a vehicle to capture the purest and most honest emotion that most rappers won’t: love.
The exceptional emcee’s upcoming sophomore LP, Once Upon A Time (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA Records),” departs from his knack for delivering introspective, witty lyrical gymnastics on past cuts like “Wide Open,” “How TF” and “I Got Money Now” in favor of a more melodic, harmonic collection of songs that puts love front and center. Inspired primarily by his relationship with his girlfriend, Once Upon A Time is a 16-song journey into the emotional rollercoaster that he experienced with his romantic partner and the birth of their infant son, Otto Saint Hitchcock.
“This is the season in life that I’m trying to figure out how to balance everything,” Hitchcock said. “Between music, a relationship, even beyond just a child, me and shawty still matter. Our relationship matters and us apart from our relationship as individuals. We’re parents now, so we can’t get lost in parenthood. That can’t be our only identity.”
For inspiration, Hitchcock was determined to create a concept project in the same vein as Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, M.A.A.D. city or The Game’s The Documentary, themed like T.I.’s King or Frank Ocean’s Nostalgia, Ultra, but using similar vocal stylings as Smino and The Weeknd. He tapped in with producers like Arsenio Archer (Summer Walker, Mary J. Blige, Trey Songz) and SlimWav (Diddy, 6LACK) along with his chief collaborator Brandon Phillips-Taylor to create an arc that’s transparent yet complex about the uncertainties that men like Hitchcock face but haven’t expressed those emotions to the women in their lives.
Once Upon A Time’s dreamy opener, “Time of Their Lives,” pilots Hitchcock’s coming-of-age story with its haunting, psychedelic vocals. With its bouncing beat, “Whoa!” chronicles the joys of bachelorhood before being caught by surprise by feelings beyond physical attraction, while the rapper talks about getting to know one another on “Zodiac (feat. Shamba).”
“We’ve seen different seasons in each other’s lives, and we’ve been able to learn each other,” Hitchcock said. “This is what I put down because I’ve lived this shit. That first ‘I love you’ was scary as hell. The feelings are a little bit more intense than I thought they were, but I wasn’t ready to put that out there yet. A lot of times, people aren’t ready to jump ship. It’s tough, but commitment is tough.”
Hitchcock starts to get vulnerable and resists the temptation of commitment on Once Upon A Time with the acoustic guitar-driven “Alone” before he comes to terms with those feelings on “2 Special (feat. David Fuller),” “U Were Right I Was Wrong” and “Callin’ (feat. Big K.R.I.T. and Westside Boogie)”. “May 26 (feat. Samoht),” the album’s gut-punching closer written in Hitchcock’s home studio, revisits the moment he got confirmation that he was going to become a daddy.
“Since he got here, that’s the star of the show,” Hitchcock said. “Whatever he wants. If he wants to play at any point in time, anything I’m doing stops.”
The road to making Once Upon A Time started in late 2020 when the clever wordsmith started making songs with no concept in mind. Hitchcock hadn’t toured since 2019 when he hit the road with rapper Wale and multi-talented performer Jidenna but was determined to keep his stride. Despite the coronavirus pandemic forcing the world to shut down and shelter in place in March
2020, he dropped his full-length major label debut, BETTER, two months later.
Hitchcock put out Live from Quarantine at the top of 2021, immediately followed by the raunchy, Valentine’s Day-themed EP Everyday the 14th in February 2022. “I was just trying to stay in folks’ faces,” the rapper said. “If I had to perform from somebody else’s couch in their living room, I was gonna lose my shit. I was so tired of quarantine in general. To be able to get a stage even though there was no crowd, still feeling like a show is amazing.”
Hitchcock thought about all of the women in his life – his girlfriend, mother, grandmother, and his best friend, coincidentally all Cancers - and wanted Once Upon A Time, especially the tracks “Helluva Woman” and “Royal (feat. DRAM & The Riverdale Love Choir)” to act as the counter-narrative to the toxic masculinity found throughout popular music. He recently launched The Mother God Project as a platform to help and support women from his community in starting their own businesses. The rapper partnered with the Atlanta-based nonprofit Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE’s) Women’s Business Center to offer LLC registration and training for women entrepreneurs. So far, Hitchcock’s efforts have helped 70 women go through the program. It’s a way for Hitchcock, a child of divorce by age seven who was raised around two aunts and a slew of his mother’s female friends, to acknowledge the women similar to his relatives who deserve a chance.
“Most of the time I spent growing up was around women,” he said. “My mom, who is a nurse, had some shit she wanted to do when I was 15, and she just couldn’t do it because she didn’t have money for it and had two kids to raise. I’ve had some very important people in my life, and
I pulled from them a lot.
Born a Grady Baby on the westside of Atlanta on March 10, 1993 but raised on the southside in Riverdale, Georgia, Hitchcock started rapping when he was 12 years old after learning how to spit rhymes from one of his uncles. The Pisces man briefly attended Georgia Southern University, majoring in pre-med/biology but realized music was his calling. The aspiring artist purchased a camera and started dropping weekly freestyles, New Atlanta Tuesdays, with one of his classmates. Those videos shot from his dorm room started going viral: forcing Hitchcock to drop out of college to pursue his music full-time.
Releasing his first mixtape, 19 Summers, in September 2012, Hitchcock consistently dropped freestyles on Twitter. In 2015, he released a follow-up mixtape, Wishful Thinking, another one, Good, in 2016, and came back with So Much for Good Luck in 2017. Hitchcock teamed up with rapper Childish Major for an EP, Just a Sample 2, in 2019. It wasn’t long before the rapper started getting cosigns from hip-hop personalities like Charlamagne tha God, Wale, and ByStorm Entertainment founder Mark Pitts in his Instagram direct messages.
The stars kept aligning for Hitchcock. His feature on “PTSD” with Omen, Mereba, and St. Beauty from the Dreamville Records compilation Revenge of the Dreamers III in 2019 earned the charismatic talent his first-ever Grammy nomination. His buzz and talents led to Hitchcock becoming the opener on tour for JID, Rapsody, Mikayla 47, 6LACK, Wale, and Jidenna well before he even released his own album.
Hitchcock prides himself on bringing versatility and vulnerability to his music. Reshifting his energy and subject matter to make Once Upon A Time doesn’t even feel like a two-year process. The artist is proud of making a collection of songs that can act as both a cautionary tale for his son’s future relationships as an adult and an opportunity for him to evolve as an artist musically.
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Shell on Wheels: South Memphis Juneteenth Festival
In partnership with the Four Way Grill, Well Groove, and Soil 2 Souls, Shell on Wheels is hitting the road to celebrate Juneteenth in South Memphis.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: The Lone Bellow
WEATHER UPDATE:
We are currently monitoring the forecast for tonight’s show. In the case of inclement conditions, we will move to Minglewood Hall. Stay tuned.
About the Artist:
With their upcoming sixth studio album, “What A Time To Be Alive” , The Lone Bellow embarks on a bold new chapter while honoring the deep bonds that have defined their journey. Written collaboratively for the first time with their full touring band—founding members Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, and Kanene Pipkin joined by drummer Julian Dorio and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Geertsma—the album channels the raw, ecstatic energy of the band’s live show into a dynamic collection of songs that pulse with warmth, honesty, and human connection.
Recorded live in Muscle Shoals, AL, after a writing retreat in a converted Kentucky firehouse, the album is both a celebration and a reckoning: of friendship, loss, love, and resilience. From the gritty, Stones-tinged opener “After The Rain” to the soul-stirring closer “What A Time To Be Alive,” the record captures the joy and vulnerability that have long defined The Lone Bellow’s sound—lush harmonies, heartfelt lyrics, and genre-blurring arrangements steeped in folk, rock, and gospel.
The album’s creation was marked by setbacks, including the theft of early recordings, but the outpouring of support from their fanbase reaffirmed what the band has always known: their music is a shared experience. That spirit echoes throughout the album, whether in anthems like “Common Folk” and “I’m Here For You,” or in intimate reflections like “You Were Leaving” and “Night Goes Black.”
Since their acclaimed 2013 debut, The Lone Bellow has appeared on The Tonight Show, Austin City Limits, and The Late Show, topped Americana charts, and headlined storied venues from Carnegie Hall to the Ryman Auditorium. But with their next album, they reaffirm their commitment not just to making music, but to building community—on stage, in song, and around the table.
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Food Trucks: Halinkas | Smoke & Toast | Flipside Asia | Antojeria | Mempops
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Pilates in the ParK
Ballet Memphis returns for the Baptist Health and Wellness Series with free, all-ages, all-levels Pilates pop-up classes at the Overton park Shell.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: SWEAT
Early risers, get ready to SWEAT. Make your way to the Shell for a unique blend of Pilates, strength, and stretch, courtesy of The Well, as the Baptist Health and Wellness Series continues.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Twilight Yoga and Pilates
Join us at the historic Overton Park Shell each Monday evening for a rotating Twilight Yoga and Pilates workout, presented by Baptist Memorial Health Care.
901 Goats Presents Goat Yoga
The coolest kids in town are coming to the Overton Park Shell to help calm your nerves. Prepare to relax on the lawn as 901 Goats presents Goat Yoga.
🚨LOCATION CHANGE🚨Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Mustang McGee
Out of abundance of caution, as advised by the Memphis National Weather Service, tonight’s show featuring Mustang McGee has been moved inside to The Hi-Tone Cafe.
ADDRESS: 282-284 N Cleveland St.
Free to attend
All ages
No chairs
No coolers
Free lot parking available
Beer, liquor, and food available for purchase
About Mustang McGee:
Mustang McGee is a mustachioed bassist who identifies as a horse. He is known for his energetic presence on stage as a member of Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country. In his solo song writing efforts, Mustang explores melodically and lyrically driven soul, rock, and folk music. Drawing influence from decades of soulful music, he creates post-modern sonic scenes that leave you asking “when was this made?”
In October 2024, Mustang released his first cosmic collaborations: “Ten Feet of Rope” and “Free Wheelin’.” Recorded quickly at Nashville’s Welcome to 1979 studio, these tracks capture the raw, live energy of Cosmic Country and showcase its signature swinging sound.
May of 2025, Mustang released his debut full-length album, “Horseplay.” Recorded at the legendary Royal Studios in Memphis with producer Boo Mitchell, the album channels the soulful essence of the space that brought Al Green’s classics to life. The record is a fiery, romantic collection of songs that reflect years of creative growth. Featuring singles like “Where You Found Me” and “For a Long Time,” the album spans psychedelic folk, Southern rock, soulful ballads, and quirky pop, blending vintage vibes with timeless grooves.
Artist Socials:
WEBSITE | SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC | YOUTUBE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK
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Food Trucks: Soi No. 9 | BBQX | Wok n Go
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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South City Heritage Festival
Join SCORE CDC and Shell on Wheels for South City Heritage Festival, a one-day celebration of Memphis’ South City neighborhood.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Club Pilates Control
Tend to your mind, your body, and spirit during the free weekly Baptist Health & Wellness Series featuring Club Pilates Control at the Overton Park Shell.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Steph Strings
About the Artist:
Steph Strings is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist whose music bridges the gap between the intimate and the expansive. Known for her unique ability to tell stories through her instrument, Steph’s signature sound fuses intricate fingerstyle guitar, percussive rhythms, and earthy, organic textures with lyrics that balance vulnerability with strength.
Emerging from the Australian music scene as a distinct force in contemporary folk and roots, Steph has built a reputation as a captivating live performer. Whether playing to a festival crowd or an intimate room, she possesses the rare ability to hold an audience spellbound with just her guitar and voice. Her dynamic performances have led to a string of sold-out headline shows and a rapidly growing fanbase across the UK, Europe, and beyond.
More than just a musician, Steph Strings is a storyteller who reminds audiences of music’s power to heal and connect. As she continues to tour globally and share her craft, she remains grounded in authenticity, emotion, and a passion for making people feel alive.
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Food Trucks: Smoke & Toast | Chais Halal | Flipside Asia
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: The Iguanas
About the Artist:
RENE COMAN: bass, keyboards, vocals
JOE CABRAL: saxophone, bajo sexto, vocals
DOUG GARRISON: drums, percussion
ROD HODGES: guitar, accordion, vocals
What if Americana actually encompassed ALL of the Americas? You'd have the Tejano and Conjunto sounds of the Texas/Mexico border region, as best exemplified by the accordion and bajo sexto, the American South's Blues, Jazz and New Orleans R&B, and the lilting grace and fiery passion of the music of the Caribbean, Mexico and Colombia. You'd also have New Orleans' premier distillers of this musical melange, The Iguanas.
Taking their cues from all of the above influences and then some, the band's music redefines the notion of Americana, crossing cultures, styles, eras ... and even languages. It's as if Rue Bourbon, Muscle Shoals and Plaza Mexico were all within earshot of each other and The Iguanas were the musical conduit between them.
Based out of New Orleans for the past three decades -- save for a short, Katrina-imposed exile in Austin - the members of the Iguanas have (collectively or individually) played or recorded with everyone from Charlie Rich, Alex Chilton, and Willy DeVille to Emmylou Harris, Allen Toussaint, and Pretty Lights. Their two-decade ride has taken them all over the map musically and geographically, yet the inescapable patina of their hometown infuses every note they play.
Through eight studio albums, countless tours and Jazz Fest appearances, and a flood in 2005 that did its best to take their adopted city with it, it's a testament to the band's endurance that the same four guys that started playing in the early 1990s are still together. Joe Cabral is philosophical about the band's persistence in the face of challenges that would have felled - indeed have felled - lesser bands. "First of all, this is all we know how to do; we're musicians. But more than that," he continues, "we respect the power of the band as an entity, and each individual in the band steps up to play his part. When it's good, that's really what it's all about."
Rod Hodges agrees. "I don't want to get all heady and mystical about this, but it's not really an outward reward we're looking for. We all enjoy playing music, we all get along, and finding a group of people who can say that after all this time is a rare thing."
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Food Trucks: CrossoverEats | Tops BBQ | Flipside Asia | Hot & Heavy Dogs | Antojeria
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Zumba
Dance your cares away as Baptist Memorial Health Care brings free, weekly ZUMBA® workouts to the Overton Park Shell during the Baptist Health and Wellness Series.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Twilight Yoga and Pilates
Join us at the historic Overton Park Shell each Monday evening for a rotating Twilight Yoga and Pilates workout, presented by Baptist Memorial Health Care.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: High Fade
About the Artist:
Funk/Rock trio High Fade – consisting of founder Harry Valentino (Guitar, Vocals), Oliver Sentence (Bass, Mustache) and drummer Heath Campbell (Drums) has grown from Scotland’s most excited busking band into a household name across the world after bursting onto the scene with viral sensations such as “Burnt Toast & Coffee”, “Gossip”, “Burnin’”, and an audacious cover of Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon”. Sold out tours across the UK, USA, and Europe have seen the band get well over 1,500 shows under their belt, allowing High Fade to fast become one of the most ferocious touring bands on the planet. Delivering shows that are packed with raw energy and jaw-dropping musicianship, thye refuse to accept the limits of what a three-piece band can do.
With sold out tours across the UK, USA, and Europe; and impactful slots at dozens of festivals like Boomtown (UK), Suwannee Hulaween (USA) and Glastonbury – where they performed three times in one day in 2024 – High Fade have come a long way from that street corner in Edinburgh. Drawing inspiration from funk, rock, disco, jazz, metal, punk, soul, and beyond, High Fade has developed a sound that explodes out of a rip-roaring melting point of musical influences and tears at the fabric of space time by managing to feel simultaneously fresh and retro. Firecly independent, the band releases music via their own label RPN Records (“Rippin’ Records”), including their debut album, Life’s Too Fast (2024), which charted in the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, USA, and Australia. Not bad for an independent DIY band operating entirely outside of the Major Label system. High Fade’s sophomore LP, Twice As Nice, due for release on RPN Records May 2026, was recorded at two of the world’s most renowned studios, East Iris Studios in Nashville and RAK Studios in London. The hotly anticipated new album arrives just in time for the band’s massive 50-date Twice As Nice tour that will bring the band to all corners of the USA and Canada this Spring and Summer.
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Food Trucks: Halinkas | | EGG | BBQX
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
Shell on Wheels: Memphis Pride Festival
Witness the magic as the most colorful queens, kings, and everybody in between bring their talents to the Shell on Wheels stage for Memphis Pride Festival on Saturday, June 6th!
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Jake Shimabukuro
About the Artist:
Jake Shimabukuro is a world-renowned ukulele virtuoso whose groundbreaking artistry has redefined the instrument for the 21st century. Hailed as the “Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele,” Shimabukuro has captivated audiences across the globe with his masterful technique, innovative spirit, and deeply expressive performances that seamlessly blend elements of jazz, rock, classical, blues, folk, and traditional Hawaiian music.
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Jake began playing the ukulele at age four, quickly developing a unique style that pushed the instrument far beyond its traditional boundaries. He first gained international recognition after his jaw-dropping rendition of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral, introducing millions to the ukulele’s untapped potential.
Over the course of his career, Shimabukuro has released numerous acclaimed albums, collaborated with an array of legendary artists—including Bette Midler, Yo-Yo Ma, Jimmy Buffett, Ziggy Marley, and Mick Fleetwood—and performed everywhere from the Sydney Opera House to the Hollywood Bowl and the Kennedy Center. His most recent projects showcase both his dazzling technical command and his growing focus on emotional storytelling through music.
Beyond the stage, Jake is a passionate advocate for music education and community outreach, frequently performing at schools and benefit concerts to inspire the next generation of musicians. Whether playing an intimate solo show or headlining with a full band, Shimabukuro continues to prove that the ukulele is an instrument of infinite possibilities—one that speaks a universal language of joy, connection, and hope.
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Food Trucks: Chais Halal | Pok-Cha’s Eggrolls | Flipside Asia
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Orion Financial Free Concert Series: East Nash Grass
About the Artist:
East Nash Grass is one of the hottest young bands in Bluegrass, picking up this year’s International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award for Best New Artist and stacked with IBMA Best Instrumentalist winners: Grand Master Fiddle champion and AMA Instrumentalist of the year nominee Maddie Denton, Cory Walker (banjo), and Harry Clark (mandolin). Put them alongside charismatic frontman James Kee and bassist Jeff Partin (Rhonda Vincent, etc.) and you’ve got a powerhouse leader of the next generation in bluegrass excellence.
WSLR in Fogartyville calls them “a balance of undeniably hard-driving bluegrass alongside surprisingly introspective songwriting and earnest narration.”
They are far more than a group of impressive instrumental technicians. As a group that came together organically via set after set on Nashville’s East Side, playing tiny stages for the love of it between tours backing bigger acts, they have a hard-forged bond that’s reflected in their stage chemistry. Audiences freak out over how much fun these guys have.
As they work on the follow up to 2023’s “Last Chance To Win” — look for a release in the spring of 2025 — they now find themselves one of the most in-demand groups in Americana, fanning out well beyond the traditional bluegrass spots.
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Food Trucks: Odd Smash & Grab Burger Lab | Carmelitas | Hot & Heavy Dogs | Antojeria
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Pilates in the ParK
Ballet Memphis returns for the Baptist Health and Wellness Series with free, all-ages, all-levels Pilates pop-up classes at the Overton park Shell.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Zumba
Dance your cares away as Baptist Memorial Health Care brings free, weekly ZUMBA® workouts to the Overton Park Shell during the Baptist Health and Wellness Series.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Twilight Yoga and Pilates
Join us at the historic Overton Park Shell each Monday evening for a rotating Twilight Yoga and Pilates workout, presented by Baptist Memorial Health Care.
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Club Pilates Control
Tend to your mind, your body, and spirit during the free weekly Baptist Health & Wellness Series featuring Club Pilates Control at the Overton Park Shell.
🚨LOCATION CHANGED🚨Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Billy Allen & The Pollies
Out of an abundance of caution, and care for your visitor experience—and under the guidance of the Memphis National Weather Service regarding tonight’s threat of inclement weather—we have moved tonight’s show indoors to Off the Walls Arts.
ADDRESS: 360 WALNUT STREET
All ages welcome
Free to attend
Coolers and chairs PROHIBITED
Paid parking available
Beer and liquor available for purchase
Food Truck Partner: BBQX
About the Artist:
There is a ferocious Southern engine inside of Billy Allen + The Pollies’ debut album Black Noise. It thrums to life atop a classic rock chassis and expertly weaves in and out of gospel, grunge, funk, and soul along its eleven-song journey. From the explosive top of the album (a liberating anthem of self-worth called “All of Me”) to the spiritually haunting final track (the wurlitzer fueled “Go on Without Them”) Black Noise is a genre-defiant haymaker that lands.
The band is a hybrid of four piece rock outfit The Pollies and fellow Alabamian, and frontman, Billy Allen. The story of what fused Allen and The Pollies is one that begins in a bar 8 years ago. This particular bar was on Allen’s gig circuit and it just so happens to be where Jay Burgess (founder of The Pollies) was having a drink that evening. While there was intrigue and potential in that first chance meeting, the two would remain ships in the night, each building their own careers, until years later when the stars would align at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals. As the story goes, both Allen and The Pollies, who were all occasional session musicians at Fame, were finally in the room together and the track on deck was Little Richard’s “Greenwood, MS”. To hear Allen retell this part of the story is to hear a man talk about the beginnings of a priceless friendship. “There was an immediate romantic musical connection,” Allen said. “This is my band.” To hear Burgess tell it, the feeling was mutual. Over the subsequent year, the two groups rehearsed, toured, wrote, and gelled together under the moniker Billy Allen + The Pollies. The joining of Billy and Jay (along with the other charter members of The Pollies: Spencer Duncan, Jon Davis & Clint Chandler) was like the clicking of a dislocated bone back into true.
Named after a theoretical sound bomb with the power to destroy whole cities, Black Noise was written almost entirely during the pandemic, beginning as voice memos between Burgess and Allen. With the lockdown in full swing, the musicians became each other’s micro-community, and voice memos progressed to writing sessions in Jay’s garage, and continued to full band rehearsals at Jay’s Greenhill, Alabama, sanctuary Studio 144. When the time to cut the record arrived, they tapped long-time friend and Grammy winning musician Ben Tanner to produce and engineer. Tanner (co-owner of SingleLock Records and former Alabama Shakes keys player) brought the band to Sun Drop Sound in Florence where the bulk of the recording was done. The band was so deeply meshed that the album they captured between April and November of 2021, other than a small overdub section, was recorded fully live, without a click, and 3 takes or less per song.
Listening to Black Noise feels like walking on the alien terrain of a new genre. It sounds like garage grunge by way of Jackie Wilson. The very same kerchief Billy Allen uses to wipe sweat from his brow on stage could be carrying DNA from Wilson Pickett, Joe Cocker, D’Angelo, Ziggy Stardust, or any of the Spiders from Mars. Theirs is a gritty and trailblazing sound. They are a band full of smiling time travelers, able to visit and draw from a multitude of eras and styles. Black Noise is an album that devastates you to the point of remembering why you love music. This is the type of band you root for. You can’t help it. They're that damn good.
Artist Socials:
WEBSITE | STREAMING | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | YOUTUBE
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Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
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Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Mommy & Me Pilates
Early risers, get ready to SWEAT. Make your way to the Shell for a unique blend of Pilates, strength, and stretch, courtesy of The Well, as the Baptist Health and Wellness Series continues.
🚨LOCATION CHANGED🚨Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Eddie 9V
Out of an abundance of caution, and care for your visitor experience—and under the guidance of the Memphis National Weather Service regarding tonight’s threat of inclement weather—we have moved tonight’s show indoors to Minglewood Hall.
ADDRESS: 1555 MADISON AVENUE
Chairs permitted
Coolers PROHIBITED
Free street parking is limited
Paid lot parking is available
Please do not park behind Dunkin Donuts
About the Artist:
Eddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories – and you’ll find twelve of them on his most recent studio album Saratoga, released in November 2024 on the fabled Ruf Records label. A thrilling mix of Southern soul, blues, rock, and funk, Saratoga proved to be a gamechanger: a road trip-ready record filled with razor-sharp observations, vintage textures, and raw humanity. It also marked a major career milestone: Eddie 9V’s soulful sound began reaching hundreds of thousands of new fans across the globe.
Now signed to Easy Eye Sound — the Nashville-based label founded by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys — Eddie 9V is preparing to release a brand-new album in 2026. And the momentum keeps growing. Since Saratoga dropped, Eddie’s monthly listeners on Spotify have exploded from 8,000 to peaking at over 800,000.. Songs like “Halo,” “Saratoga” and “Love Moves Slow” have become SiriusXM Spectrum-certified tracks, gaining steady spins and major audience love.
But this rise is years in the making. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local Georgia stage, Eddie 9V (born Brooks Mason) has been an artist to watch. First cutting his teeth in cover bands and regional blues circuits, he made the leap to full-time frontman with a name that couldn’t be ignored. "I wanted to start from scratch – and I ain’t never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V."
That leap paid off. His early albums Left My Soul In Memphis (2019) and Little Black Flies (2021) turned heads for their wild energy and vintage flair. 2022's Capricorn was a breakout moment, earning rave reviews from Classic Rock, The Guardian, and more. It debuted at #1 on the blues charts before being dethroned by Bonnie Raitt — "a cool story to be able to say," Eddie laughs.
By the time Saratoga arrived, Eddie 9V had evolved into a full-spectrum songwriter, tapping into deep wells of soul and storytelling alongside his brother and longtime collaborator Lane Kelly. Much of the album was recorded at their Echo Deco Studio in Atlanta, with some sessions at Denver’s Crown Lanes Studio. From the disco-tinged horns of the title track to the fuzzed-out dreamscape of “Delta,” it’s a record that widened the lens without losing the grit.
Now with a major label partner, national tours, SiriusXM airplay, and streaming growth that shows no signs of slowing, Eddie 9V is poised for the next chapter. A new album is on the horizon. The band is sharper than ever. And if Saratoga was the ignition, what's coming next is the open highway.
"I’m already writing new songs," he says. "You never stop."
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Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
Sponsored By:
Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Zumba
Dance your cares away as Baptist Memorial Health Care brings free, weekly ZUMBA® workouts to the Overton Park Shell during the Baptist Health and Wellness Series.
Orion Financial Free Concert Series: Sunset Symphony
About the Artist:
Memphis has a deep history with music, including the Memphis Symphony Orchestra (MSO). From early years and through several wars, there were iterations of a local symphony. However, MSO was officially established in 1953 under the baton of the esteemed Vincent de Frank as the Memphis Sinfionetta. We have now grown into a full-scale nonprofit organization, complete with staff, volunteers and 36 core musicians.
Today, as the Mid-South’s resident professional orchestra, we employ 80+ musicians and arts professionals, and present Masterworks, Classic Accents and Pops subscription concerts, as well as multiple special concerts a year. We are the largest performing arts institution in the Memphis region, and the orchestra for a myriad of other arts organizations, including Opera Memphis and Ballet Memphis.
Just as a symphony takes four movements to create a musical composition for a full orchestra, we could not create MSO without the movement of our history, musicians, leadership and community. We are forever grateful to those who came before us and built MSO into the incredible organization it is today. Their work has continued to the present as we provide even more musicians and community members an opportunity to benefit from performances, programming and outreach.
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In support of Table Spread Memphis, non-perishable items will be accepted during the show:
Pasta
Pasta Sauce (non-Meat options)
Crackers
Canned Beans (No Added Meat)
Peanut Butter
Jelly
Rice
Sugar
Tuna
Oil
Oatmeal
Canned Vegetables
household items
hygiene products
infant essentials
Food Trucks: Chais Halal | Flipside Asia | Halinkas | BBQX | Hot & Heavy Dogs | Antojeria
Picnic baskets, coolers, beverages, blankets, and lawn chairs are always welcome. We also offer food and beverage for sale in the Autozone Food and Beverage Concourse. Dogs on a leash are welcome in designated areas. Overton Park Shell is a nonsmoking facility.
901 Goats Presents Goat Yoga
The coolest kids in town are coming to the Overton Park Shell to help calm your nerves. Prepare to relax on the lawn as 901 Goats presents Goat Yoga.