
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
🎨 RiverArtsFest (Riverside Drive, Downtown)
The riverfront art festival turns 20, with more than 160 juried artists, live music, food trucks and kids' art activities. One day is $15, a two-day pass is $20, and youth 6 to 17 pay $5. Credit card only at the gate.
Saturday: 10 AM to 5 PM
Sunday: 10 AM to 5 PM, with the Tennessee Mass Choir closing out the main stage
🎃 Zoo Boo (Memphis Zoo)
Trick-or-treating at the zoo, rain or shine. Tickets are $23 ($20 for members), sold online only, and parking is included.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 6 to 9:30 PM, last entry at 8:30
🌽 Mid-South Maze (Agricenter International)
Classic maze tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for kids 6 to 12. The haunted maze is $25 and tends to sell out.
Friday: classic maze 4 to 6 PM, haunted maze 7 to 10 PM
Saturday: classic maze noon to 6 PM, haunted maze 7 to 10 PM
Sunday: classic maze noon to 8 PM
🎡 Fall Fest Memphis (Church of the Incarnation, Collierville)
A carnival, eight bands, a BBQ cook-off, a car show, 55+ vendors and food trucks. Gate admission is $5.
Friday: 5 to 10 PM
Saturday: 10 AM to 10 PM
🪦 Soul of the City: Elmwood Obscura (Elmwood Cemetery)
Elmwood's annual twilight tour, where costumed actors bring Memphis history to life. Tickets are $22 to $27, and kids 12 and under are free.
Friday: tours start every half hour from 5 to 7:30 PM
Saturday: tours start every half hour from 5 to 7 PM
🎹 Million Dollar Quartet (Theatre Memphis)
The musical about the night Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins jammed at Sun Studio opens Friday and runs through Nov. 7.
Friday: 7:30 PM (opening night)
Saturday: 7:30 PM
Sunday: 2 PM
🕸️ Haunted Web Scream Park (2665 S. Perkins Rd.)
General admission is $29.99 plus fees.
Friday and Saturday: 7 PM to midnight
Sunday: 7 to 10 PM
📸 Blues Power! Celebrating the Legacy of Albert King (Stax Museum)
Last weekend to see the photo exhibit. It's included with museum admission.
Friday through Sunday: 10 AM to 5 PM
Friday, October 16
🎨 Fall Break Bonanza — 1 to 3 PM at Dixon Gallery and Gardens (free, drop-in, all ages)
🏐 Tigers volleyball vs. Temple — 5 PM at Elma Roane Fieldhouse
🎬 DECEIVER + Short Film Showcase — 6 to 7:30 PM at Hattiloo Theatre (free)
🕯️ Candlelight concerts — Soundtrack of the '60s at 6:30 PM, Queen vs. ABBA at 8:45 PM, at the Brooks Museum building on Poplar
🏈 High school football — 7 PM at stadiums across the metro (our guide has every schedule)
🏀 Grizzlies vs. Charlotte Hornets — 7 PM at FedExForum (final preseason game)
🎤 Bert Kreischer — 7 PM at the Orpheum
🎶 The CoLab benefiting Music Export Memphis — 7 to 10 PM at the Overton Park Shell ($25; five trios of local artists, plus a finale jam produced by Boo Mitchell)
🎭 KevOnStage: Grief Sucks — 7:30 PM at Satellite Music Hall (one-man show)
Saturday, October 17
🐾 Paws on the Move 5K — 8 AM at Shelby Farms Park
🏃 Le Bonheur Pumpkin Run 5K — kids' run at 8:30 AM, 5K at 9 AM, 1000 Ridgeway Loop Rd. ($35 race day)
🧙 Junior League Witches Run 5K/10K — 9 AM at 3475 Central Ave.
🍄 Memphis Mushroom Festival — 9 AM to 4 PM in Overton Park (free)
🖼️ Belltower Fall Art Market — 9 AM to 1 PM at Belltower Highland, 525 S. Highland St.
👻 Halloween Hike — 9:30 AM to 2 PM at Memphis Botanic Garden (timed entry, $15, $10 for members)
🐶 Howl-O-Ween Dog Parade — noon to 4 PM at Handy Park on Beale, parade at 12:30 (free, register your dog)
🌕 Harvest Moon Fall Festival — noon to 6 PM at Bobby Lanier Farm Park, Germantown ($10; rain date Sunday)
🖍️ Memphis Creativity Fest — noon to 3 PM at Cossitt Library (free)
🎗️ HER-Fest: Spinning the Block on Breast Cancer — noon to 5 PM on S. 2nd St. at Butteriffic (free)
🍺 Cooper-Young Beerfest — 1 to 5 PM at 769 Cooper St.
🎃 Youth Workshop: Block Carving Pumpkins — 1:30 to 3:30 PM at Dixon Gallery and Gardens (ages 10 to 13, $15)
🚒 Benefit for Chris Wages — 3 PM at Knuckleheads Sidecar, 2194 Whitten Rd. (bake sale, 50/50 raffle, silent auction and live music for a firefighter, paramedic and ER nurse recovering from a motorcycle wreck)
🎸 23rd Annual Memphis Tri-State Blues Festival — 6:30 PM at Landers Center, Southaven (Tucka, King George, Cecily Wilborn, Glenn Jones and more)
⚽ Tigers men's soccer vs. UAB — 7 PM at the Track and Soccer Complex (Alumni Weekend)
😂 Mojo Brookzz — 7 and 10 PM at the Orpheum (sold out)
🎤 Brittney Spencer — 7:30 PM at the Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center
🪩 Get Down Boogie Night with The Sensations — 8 PM at Rum Boogie Cafe (dress in your best boogie outfit; $5 cover after 8)
🎙️ Mavis Staples — 8 PM at GPAC, Germantown
Sunday, October 18
🦇 Spooky Sprint Memphis — 8 AM at Shelby Farms, Mullins Station Event Field (1 mile, 5K, 10K and half marathon)
👑 Eureka Live Drag Brunch — noon at Lafayette's Music Room
🏐 Tigers volleyball vs. East Carolina — noon at Elma Roane Fieldhouse
🌮 Bartlett Lions Club Taco Bingo — 4 to 8 PM at Wally Hatchet's, 6439 Summer Ave. ($40, 18+, buy ahead)
🎶 Live Music Around the City

🎸 Friday, October 16
Downtown
B.B. King's — Jason Foree Band (12PM), Memphis Jones (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Tin Roof — Rodell McCord (7PM), Keith Fields and the Muskrats (10:30PM); Green Room: Computermane (8PM), DJ Bori (10:30PM)
Rum Boogie — Cowboy (4–7PM), The Sensations (8PM–12AM)
Blues City Cafe — CowBoy Neil and The Real Deal (8PM)
South Main Sounds — Leah Grams Johnson, Dutch Vanderpool & Kitty Dearing (7–9PM)
Midtown
Lafayette's Music Room — Bruce Kee Band (6PM), Houston Kelly (9:30PM)
Crosstown Arts — Deb Swiney's "You Taught My Heart To Sing" album release (7:30PM, Green Room, $20 advance)
Hi Tone — Hooves, The Only Name Left (doors 7PM, show 8PM, small room)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — Motel California, an Eagles tribute (8PM, $15)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Nashoba (Collierville) — Almost Elton John and the Rocketmen (8–10:30PM)
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Classic Vinyl (7–10PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Tilt (7PM)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Ben Flournoy Trio (doors 6PM, show 8PM)
🎤 Saturday, October 17
Downtown
Tin Roof — Jad Tariq (3PM), Keer (7PM), Keith Fields and the Muskrats (10:30PM); Green Room: Computermane (8PM), DJ Bori (10:30PM)
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pic's Band (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (4–7PM)
Blues City Cafe — CowBoy Neil and The Real Deal (8PM)
South Main Sounds — Minnesota Mike Lowapolis Album Release Party (7–9PM)
Midtown
Growlers — Delta Doom Fest with Tommy Stewart's Dyrewulf, Ninja Witch, Red Sun Sermon, Stonewielder, PondDigger, Megaton Communion, Burnt Witch and Ruined God (doors 2PM, show 3PM, all ages)
Lafayette's Music Room — Twin Soul (5PM), Six-One-Six Reunion 2.0 (9PM)
Hi Tone — Psyche Fest 901 (doors 7PM, show 8PM, both rooms, all ages)
Crosstown Arts — MDR Showcase, with visuals by Memphis Chroma Collective (7:30PM, Green Room)
Hattiloo Culture Box — Music Box featuring King Juju I (7:30PM, second show 10PM)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — Psycho-Acoustic with Adam & Keith (4–7:30PM), Elmo & the Shades (8PM, $10)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Brent & Zach Acoustic (1–5PM), Your Mom's New Boyfriend (7PM)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Robert Ellis with Alicia Blue (doors 7PM, show 8PM)
🎶 Sunday, October 18
Downtown
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pic's Band (4PM), Memphis Soul Factory (8PM)
Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (3–6PM), The Sensations (7–11PM)
Tin Roof — Rodell McCord (7PM)
Blues City Cafe — FreeWorld (8PM)
Midtown
Satellite Music Hall — Mastodon with Deafheaven and Alcest (6PM)
Hi Tone — Fraxiom, Cel Shade (doors 7PM, show 8PM, small room); Mean Green, Ruined God, Burnt Witch, Stonewielder (doors 7PM, show 8PM, big room)
Lafayette's Music Room — Motel California, an Eagles tribute (5PM)
Huey's Midtown — Heartbreak Hill (3–6PM)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — The Rob Haynes Band playing Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and more (4–8PM, $10)
Huey's Poplar — Medium Walter (3–6PM)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Richard Wilson (2–5PM)
Huey's Collierville — Tequila Mockingbird (6–9PM)
Millington • DeSoto
Huey's Olive Branch — Deep Roots (3–6PM)
That's it for this week!
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Enjoy your weekend, Memphis. We'll see you Monday!
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