Events & Live Music in Memphis This Week!

Good morning Memphis! And a huge welcome to the 89 new people who joined us since last Thursday.

Today feels like Christmas morning for a few lucky subscribers who won the $50 gift card to Sunrise. For everyone who didn’t win, make sure you stay with us for a chance next time 😉.

Here’s what’s cooking in Memphis this week:

• 🖼️ Former home of Tom Lee becoming a Museum

• 👨‍🍳 Cooper-Young Chili Cook-off

• 🎶 Live Music in Memphis

Let’s get to it.

- Jonah Baer & Reuben Skahill

🗞️ The Rundown 

New Tom Lee Museum & slave market memorial receives funding

The former home of Tom Lee in the Klondike neighborhood will be opened as a museum. It’s a tribute to the role he played in his own community and “the countless people who shaped him and the rest of that Black neighborhood, the first one to be incorporated in our city.” Also, Calvary Episcopal Church will build a public memorial to the 3,800 Black people sold as slaves at the market, which is owned by Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Ten public history projects were selected from more than 750 entires with Memphis being the only city with two winners.

Tennessee named its 2022-23 top schools. 34 Memphis ones made the cut

Each year, the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) releases its annual school and district designations. Overall, Memphis-Shelby County Schools received a “satisfactory” designation, a step down from last year’s “advancing” designation. However, 34 schools — or about 8.5% of the 400 schools — received “reward” status as one of the top schools in the state.

See which schools are on the list from the Commercial Appeal.

Memphis Zoo could be first city building to receive solar panels

With the city’s goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in government buildings by 55% over the next decade, the addition of solar panels added to the Memphis Zoo would be a major development. The Memphis Zoo is one of the most energy-consuming city buildings and this $527,000 grant could offset its consumption by the end of 2025. Learn more here.*

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🤸 9 things to do in the 901

From special films and comedy shows to Tigers games and a chili cook-off, check out 9 things going on in Memphis over the next week.

Theater & Comedy

The Crosstown Arts Film Series Presents MEMPHIS 13 | Feb. 22, 7 PM @ Crosstown Concourse

Film Screening: Show Her the Money | Feb. 22, 6 PM @ Malco Powerhouse Cinema

Kerwin Claiborne | Feb. 23, 10 PM @ Chuckles Comedy House

Sports

Memphis Grizzlies vs. Los Angeles Clippers | Feb. 23, 7 PM @ FedEx Forum

U of M Baseball vs. Bowling Green | Feb. 23, 4 PM @ FedEx Park Avron Fogelman Field

U of M Basketball vs. FAU | Feb. 25, 1 PM @ FedEx Forum

Other Things Happening

The Art of Bath Salt Crafting | Feb. 23, 5 PM @ Boshi Botanicals (tickets)

Cooper-Young Chili Cook-Off | Feb. 24, 1 PM @ Memphis Made Brewery

African-American History Trail Program | Feb. 24, 11 AM @ Memphis Museum of Science & History (tickets)

_{Source: The Memphis Flyer}

Best of Memphis

🍳 Three Sunrise gift card winners

Congrats to the three winners of the Sunrise $50 gift card this week! We randomly drew 3 emails from a random email picker.

Details were sent to the 3 winners. Make sure to check your email to see if you were a lucky winner. You have 1 week to claim. Now go enjoy the best breakfast in Memphis!

A huge thank you and shoutout to Sunrise for winning the Best Breakfast in Memphis and generously offering gift cards to our newsletter audience.

For the rest of you, make sure you stop by Sunrise soon to try out The Rooster chicken biscuit or indulge in the Kitchen Sink, a mix of everything you might want in a breakfast plate. Or really anything else on the menu, it’s all fantastic.

OH and a question for all of you…

Do you have a favorite coffee shop? 

We’re brewing up something new with another bracket challenge. Stay tuned ☕️.

🎶 Live Music in the Bluff City

Every week, we curate a list of live music in Memphis over the coming weekend. Let’s get groovy this weekend, Memphis!

Thursday 2/15

Taj Farrant with special guests Jazel Farrant, Nathan Bryce, Loaded Dice @ 7 PM Lafayettes’s Music Room

Blind Mississippi Morris @ Blues City Cafe

Birth of the Cool Jazz Night @ 730 PM | Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center

Eric Hughes @ 7 PM | Rum Boogie Cafe

The Orchestra Unplugged: The Crazy Journey of Mozart’s Magic Flute @ 730 PM | Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education

Opera Lab presented by University Opera @ 730 PM | Harris Concert Hall

John Williams & the A440 Band @ 8 PM | Neil’s Music Room

Drop It Like It’s Yacht - The Smoothest Yacht Rock Party @ 9 PM | Growler’s

Friday 2/16

Chris Corsano @ 9 PM | Goner Records

Buddy Albert Nemenz @ 1 PM | Silky O’Sullivan’s

Drivin’ Sideways @ 7 PM | Delta Blues Winery

Sound Fuzion @ 7 PM | The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

Laser Beyonce, Laser Bruno Mars @ 7 PM | Museum of Science & History

Blind Mississippi Morris @ 8 PM | Blues City Cafe

Blackdogg @ The Echos Purple Passion Show: Tribute to Prince @ 8 PM | BSIDE

Wasteland @ 9 PM | Canvas

Marcella & Her Lovers @ 9 PM | Bar DKDC

Saturday 2/17

9 Pound Hammer @ 6 PM | Delta Blues Winery

An Evening with Paul Thorn @ 7 PM | Black Lodge

Wayd Battle and Pat Sullivan @ 8 PM | Cripple Creek

Mike Hurtt and the New Orleans Night Howlers @ 9 PM | Bar DKDC

The GOODLife DJs Salute to Black History of House and Disco @ 9 PM | House of Mtenzi Museum

Driftwood Ramblers with Grape @ 9 PM | Murphy’s

Ecstasy 2•2•2 X The Black and Brutal Tribute @ 830 PM | Growler's

Nocturnal @ 10 PM | Canvas

Sunday 2/18

Love for Lissa @ 12 PM | BSIDE

Over the Garage Band @ 130 PM | Delta Blues Winery

School of Rock House Band; Savior Foundation Benefit @ 2 PM | Neil’s Music Room

Singer Songwriter Sundays @ 4 PM | Meddlesome Brewing Company

Your Mom’s New Boyfriend @ 4 PM | The Haystack Cafe

Buddy Albert Nemenz, David Ingle One Man Piano Show @ 1 PM | Silky O’Sullivan’s

Mahogany Chamber Music Series: Vocal Juggernauts @ 6 PM | Crosstown Theater

Memphis Reggae Nights ft. Keenya and DJ Static @ 730 PM | B-Side

FreeWorld @ 8 PM | Rum Boogie Cade

_{Source: The Memphis Flyer}

THANK YOU MEMPHIS!

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