
Happy Friday, Memphis!
We like making your life easier. Every Friday, we round up events and live music happening this weekend around the 901, so that all you have to do is decide who you're bringing.
Let's dive in.
What's Happening This Weekend

All Weekend Long
🍜 FoodieLand Food Festival (Tiger Lane at Liberty Park)
One of the country's biggest traveling food festivals makes its Memphis debut with more than 250 vendors serving creative, over-the-top eats from around the world. Kids 5 and under get in free.
Friday: 3 PM to 10 PM
Saturday: 1 PM to 10 PM
Sunday: 1 PM to 10 PM
😂 Leanne Morgan: The Time of Our Lives Tour (Orpheum Theatre)
Tennessee's own queen of clean comedy sets up camp downtown for five shows in three days.
Friday: 7 PM
Saturday: 4 PM and 7 PM
Sunday: 4 PM and 7 PM
⚾ Memphis Redbirds vs. Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (AutoZone Park)
The Redbirds are home all weekend against the best-named team in baseball.
Friday: 7:05 PM, with $5 Fiesta Friday deals
Saturday: 6:35 PM, Harry Potter Night with postgame fireworks
Sunday: 1:05 PM, Kids Run the Bases After the Game
🎺 The Music Man (Theatre Memphis)
Seventy-six trombones open Theatre Memphis's 106th season. This feel-good classic runs through Sept. 6.
Friday: 7:30 PM
Saturday: 7:30 PM
Sunday: 2 PM
🎭 Speak, Salvation, Speak (Hattiloo Theatre)
Hattiloo opens its 20th season with this brand-new production, running through Sept. 6.
Friday: 7:30 PM
Saturday: 2 PM and 7:30 PM
Sunday: 2 PM
Friday, August 21
📚 Reading Rhythms story time — 10 AM at Beale Street Landing (free, with the Cossitt Library)
🎨 Happy Friday in The Grove — 5 PM at GPAC in Germantown (free, with live music and a full bar)
🎬 Teen Dive-In Movie Night: "Michael" — 5 PM at Hickory Hill Aquatic Center
🛶 Canoes + Cocktails — 6 PM at Shelby Farms Park (21+, sunset paddle on Hyde Lake)
👑 Night of 1000 Dolly's Drag Show — 7 PM at Meddlesome Brewing in Cordova
🏈 High school football Week 1 — Friday night at stadiums across the metro (our guide has every schedule)
🎀 Mean Girls: The Musical opening night — 7:30 PM at Playhouse on the Square (runs through Sept. 13)
Saturday, August 22
🏊 Small Fry Tri kids triathlon — 9 AM in Bartlett
🧘 Breath Work and Meditation — 9 AM at the Overton Park Shell (free)
💪 Hustle & Flow HIIT — 9 AM at Tom Lee Park (free workout under the Sunset Canopy)
🧡 Vintage Market — 9 AM to 1 PM at Belltower Coffeehouse (by the U of M)
🔍 Kids Curiosity Crew — 10:30 AM at the Overton Park East Parkway Pavilion
🌱 Native Plant Palooza — 10:30 AM at Lichterman Nature Center
🧺 Memphis Labor Council Picnic — 11 AM at the Overton Park Shell
📖 Lawrence Wells book talk — 2 PM at Novel
📼 Analog Fest — 3 PM at Ghost River Brewing on South Main ($5, local music till 10 PM)
🍅 Edgy Tomato Festival — 4 PM in the Edge District (free, at Marshall & Monroe)
🏐 Tigers volleyball vs. Tennessee State — 4 PM at the U of M (exhibition, Back to School Bash)
🤍 Dîner en Blanc Memphis — Saturday evening at a secret location (all-white picnic, tickets sold in pairs)
🎤 D.L. Hughley — 7 PM at the Cannon Center
😂 Standup comedy at Bardog Tavern — 8 PM downtown
Sunday, August 23
🏃 Summer Sizzler 5K, 10K and 15K — 7 AM at Shelby Farms' Jones Pond (kids' dash and free Kona Ice)
💃 Eureka Live: Take-Over Drag Brunch — 12 PM at Lafayette's Music Room
🐔 Chicken Sh*t Bingo with Hillbilly Mojo — 12 PM at Hernando's Hideaway (free, all ages, win $100)
🥃 Agave & Ash Festival — 1 PM at Shelby Farms Park (21+, tequila, cigars and live music)
🛍️ The Jaye Sent Me Marketplace — 1 PM at the Taylor Made Event Center in Bartlett
🌿 Sunday Garden Club — 1 PM at Memphis Botanic Garden
🎶 Live Music Around the City

🎸 Friday, August 21
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Cowboy (4PM), The Sensations (8PM)
B.B. King's — Jason Foree Band (12PM), Memphis Jones (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Blues City Cafe — Will Tucker Band
Silky O'Sullivan's — New Era Band on the patio (6PM), Dueling Piano Show (7PM), guest DJ on the patio (10PM)
Tin Roof — The Super 5 (7PM), Computermane (8PM), DJ Bori (10:30PM), Lola Blu (10:30PM)
Slider Inn — Frankie Hollie & The Noise (8PM)
Midtown
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts — One After 901 presents The Beatles in Memphis (doors 7PM)
Lafayette's Music Room — Landslide, a Fleetwood Mac tribute (6PM), Almost Famous (9:30PM)
B-SIDE — Steve Selvedge and Mary Hatley (8PM)
Hi Tone — Milkshake (9PM, free)
Growlers — Kawaii Rave (9PM)
Bar DKDC — Coco + The Hitmen & Friends
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — Pulse, a Pink Floyd tribute (8PM)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Nashoba (Collierville) — Cody & Heather Smith on the patio (5PM), Radio City (8PM)
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Amari Miller, soul (7PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Hillbilly Mojo (8PM)
🎤 Saturday, August 22
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (4PM), The Sensations (8PM)
Tin Roof — Austin Gray (3PM), Jay Jones (7PM), Computermane (8PM), DJ Bori (10:30PM), Lola Blu (10:30PM)
B.B. King's — Beale Street Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pics Band (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Blues City Cafe — Will Tucker Band
Silky O'Sullivan's — New Era Band on the patio (6PM), Dueling Piano Show (7PM), guest DJ on the patio (10PM)
A. Schwab — Beale Street Saturday Night with Optic Sink, We Live on the New Madrid and more
Slider Inn — FreeWorld (8PM)
Midtown
Lafayette's Music Room — Sarah Spain and the Nightshades (6PM), Terry Greene & the Honey Golds (9PM)
B-SIDE — Memphis Musical Moment with Willie Firecracker, Hope Clayburn and Dennis Lucky Taylor (7PM)
Minglewood Hall — 901 Rising with Dead Soldiers and Jombi (8PM)
Growlers — TopOppGen (8PM)
Hi Tone — Healing Frequencies (9PM)
Bar DKDC — Song Swap with Graham Winchester, Frank McLallen, Ben Church and Jeff Hullett (early), Night of the Leo DJ party (late)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — 5 for the Kill, hard rock and country rock (8PM)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Nashoba (Collierville) — The Super 5 (8PM)
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Folsom & Friends, country (7PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Duane and Josh Duo (2PM), Bruce Kee Band (8PM)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hideaway — Spaceman's Dead Friends with Jason Freeman (8PM)
🎶 Sunday, August 23
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (3PM), The Sensations (7PM)
B.B. King's — Beale Street Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pics Band (4PM), Memphis Soul Factory (8PM)
Blues City Cafe — FreeWorld
Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert Nemenz (1PM), David & Jeremiah (7PM)
Tin Roof — Rodell McCord (7PM)
The Dame at Hotel Pontotoc — Pushback (7PM)
Midtown
Bar DKDC — Jazz Brunch with the Joe Restivo Trio, then the Katie Loopz Birthday Tea Dance
Huey's Midtown — The Danny Banks Quartet (3PM)
B-SIDE — Susan Marshall (4–7PM)
Lafayette's Music Room — The Scott Sudbury Band with Sarah Spain (5PM)
Hi Tone — Rev Down Trio matinee (6PM, free)
1884 Lounge — Black Stone Cherry (7:30PM)
Growlers — Bozo Red with Wilshire and Fashow Tha 2nd (8PM)
East Memphis
Huey's East (Poplar) — Medium Walter (3PM)
Neil's Music Room — The Southern Express Band (4PM)
Huey's Southwind — El Ced & Groove Nation (6PM)
Huey's Cordova — The Bugaloos (8PM)
Germantown • Collierville • Lakeland • Millington • Southaven
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — 901 Tall Boys, classic rock (2PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Martin and Taylor Duo (2PM)
Huey's Germantown — Even Odds (6PM)
Huey's Collierville — Bob Nelson & The Bobcats (6PM)
Huey's Millington — Elmo & Lester (6PM)
Huey's Southaven — The Back Alley String Band (6PM)
That's it for this week!
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Enjoy your weekend, Memphis. We'll see you Monday!
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