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Arts Beat: Meet Memphis Art & Fashion Week’s featured designers
Runway at the Museum includes six featured designers, most of whom are local.
Elle Perry
Arts and Culture Editor
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May 2026
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April 2026
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The To-Do List A very Wu-Tang weekend, a River of Time and Riverbeat Music Fest
In this week’s To-Do List, you get a pass to peek into people’s backyards, there’s a morning rave on Beale Street and Global Cafe hosts a beer mile for a cause.
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Music 5 must-see concerts in May
May is a notable month for music in Memphis.
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The To-Do List A free Grind City show, a singalong brunch and a Halloween party in April
In this week’s To-Do List, a Kubrick classic screens at Crosstown, Shelby Forest has a fest for hillbillies and Memphis Roller Derby opens its 20th season.
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Music Patti LaBelle, John Legend, Alabama, Kansas: Who’s playing Live at the Garden in 2026?
An EGOT winner, a Nashville country group, a funky band alongside the “Godmother of Soul” and beyond are hitting the stage at Memphis Botanic Garden.
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The To-Do List Hear music on porches, the Peabody rooftop and at the new Grind City Amp
In this week’s To-Do List, an animal-free circus comes to the Buckman, crawfish are on Riverside Drive and you can watch every episode of the first season of “Twin Peaks” on a big screen.
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Arts & CultureArts Beat: Why the national choreography center is stopping in Memphis
The National Center for Choreography–Akron is “Making Moves” across the United States, but the ties that bring it to Memphis go beyond tour dates.
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Arts & Culture Concerts in the Grove return to Germantown with new spring lineup
Singer-songwriter and bassist Mark Edgar Stuart opens the spring series on May 7.
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Arts & CultureArts Beat: Nashville-based artist plays tribute to his Memphis hometown
Elvis, Jerry Lawler and the Beale Street Flippers: Find the nooks and crannies of Memphis culture in this “Where’s Waldo”-inspired piece.
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The To-Do List Dress like Selena, party with Trekkies and get a tattoo at Graceland
In this week’s To-Do List, the Stax Music Academy takes over Handy Park, Ballet Memphis performs a Shakespeare classic and Novel’s new club lets you walk and read at the same time.
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Music Bodywerk, Brezay, Sunset Symphony to play Overton Park Shell
The lineup includes Scottish and Australian artists, as well as artists from Brooklyn, Hawaii and New Orleans.
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Music Grind City Amp’s grand opening kicks off with a free concert
Grind City Amp’s official grand opening on Saturday, April 25, will feature a free concert of Memphis-area musicians, but you can catch another concert a few days earlier.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: More on baseball movies
More Daily Memphian staffers share their favorite baseball movies.
Some of these can be considered to be more baseball movies than others, but hear us out.
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The To-Do List Easter egg hunts, a pierogi class and thrift shopping to benefit WKNO
In this week’s To-Do List, the ’80s are back at Bar Keough, the women of Memphis jazz are at Crosstown Arts and Blue Suede Vintage has retro finds for all sizes.
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Visual Arts Fuchsia, Los Angeles landscapes, light inspire April art shows
Bright fuchsia, light and space, “Alice in Wonderland,” full-circle moments, retrospectives, nature, and mysteries decorate Memphis art galleries in April.
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Music 5 must-see concerts (and a festival) for April
April is full of opportunities to see multiple Memphis musicians on the bills of local venues. The month also includes the debut of a local venue and the return of a local festival.
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Performing ArtsBallet Memphis’ 2026-27 season includes ‘Peter Pan’
“What makes our production a little bit different than a lot of productions is it’s a fully automated flying rig,” said artistic director Steven McMahon. “And we can fly five dancers at one time.”
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March 2026
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Arts & Culture ‘Good Things’ coming to the Buckman, starting with the BoDeans
Peking Acrobats, Urban Bush Women, an “America’s Got Talent” semifinalist puppet show and Caroline Rhea: What’s on the Buckman stage this season?
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Brooks Museum highlights an MCA alumnus outside of its walls, too
Samilia Pelshak, a Memphis-based fashion designer, is the artist behind the outdoor installation “Wax Print Wonderland.”
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The To-Do List Trolley Night is back, and a garden party at the Dixon is gonna be golden
In this week’s To-Do List, a Ghanaian artist makes life-sized movie poster art, an author chases ghosts at Elmwood and Soul & Spirits has a street-food fest.
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Visual Arts‘Hillbilly Bible’ movie to film in Memphis later this year
“Hillbilly Bible” is a faith-based comedy drama that will now be filmed in honor of late actor John Amos.
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Germantown GPAC’s latest season includes Mavis Staples, Second City, Samara Joy
The season includes actor/singer Darren Criss, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, and fiddle duo Carter and Cleveland.
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MusicArts Beat: Downtown is coming alive with the sound of street performers
Walking in Memphis is about to get a lot more entertaining as the DMC will hire buskers to perform along a Downtown street.
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The To-Do List Welcome spring with beer, kites, fairies and all the colors of the rainbow
In this week’s To-Do List, there’s a comedy show at DKDC, a final goodbye from Journey at FedExForum and a mash-up of goth culture and cumbia music at Growlers.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Drawing strangers with crayons in a bar
In a Cooper-Young bar, a musician and painter led a room full of people through speed portraits.
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