
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
🍖 Bartlett Festival, BBQ Contest & Car Show (W.J. Freeman Park, Bartlett)
Free festival with a BBQ contest, car show and live music. Free shuttles run from Bartlett Baptist Church.
Friday: 5:30 to 10 PM, with Bruce Key Band and Your Mom's New Boyfriend on the music lineup
Saturday: 9 AM to 5 PM
🎄 Mistletoe Merchants of Memphis (Agricenter International)
The holiday shopping market is back. One-day tickets are $11.37 and a three-day pass is $21.72.
Friday: 9 AM to 8 PM, with Margaritas & Mistletoe from 4 to 8 PM ($21.72)
Saturday: 9 AM to 5 PM, with Muffins & Mimosas from 9 AM to noon ($21.72)
Sunday: 11 AM to 4 PM
🎡 Mid-South Fair (Landers Center, Southaven)
The fair runs Oct. 1 through 11. Check the fair's page for Friday hours.
Saturday: 1 to 11 PM
Sunday: 1 to 10 PM
🍺 Zootoberfest (Memphis Zoo)
Oktoberfest at the zoo, with $12 steins for the 21+ crowd (zoo admission required).
Saturday and Sunday: 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM
🦎 Memphis Reptile Expo (Pipkin Building)
Snakes, lizards and more. Tickets are $12 online or $15 at the door.
Saturday: 10 AM to 5 PM
Sunday: 10 AM to 3:30 PM
Friday, October 2
🌱 Fall Plant Sale — starts at 10 AM at Memphis Botanic Garden
🌽 Mid-South Maze — 4 to 6 PM at the Agricenter (adults $12, kids $8)
🎬 Rhodes French Film Festival closing night: The Mohican — reception at 5:30, film at 6 PM at Rhodes College's Blount Auditorium (free)
🍽️ Sabores de Su Casa — 6 to 8:30 PM at Su Casa Family Ministries (ticketed)
🏐 Tigers volleyball vs. Tulane (Dig Pink) — 6:30 PM at Elma Roane Fieldhouse
🎮 Undertale: The Determination Symphony — 6:30 PM at Grind City Amphitheater
🎤 Drivin N Cryin — 7 to 9 PM at the Overton Park Shell (free)
👑 It's Raining Queens — 7 PM at the Halloran Centre, with Martha Wash, Marsha Warfield and Anita Ward ($58.65 and up)
🏈 High school football — 7 PM at stadiums across the metro (our guide has every schedule)
🧼 Haunted Car Wash — 7 to 10 PM in Germantown ($25; runs Thursday through Saturday in October)
🎶 Hattiloo Theatre Culture Box: Music Box with Corey Lou and DaVillage — time not listed ($20)
Saturday, October 3
🥕 Memphis Farmers Market — 8 AM to 1 PM at 567 S. Front St.
🏃 Navy & Marine Corps Freedom 5K — 8 AM at Shelby Farms
🏃 Panther Pride 5K — 8 AM in Bartlett
🏃 Youth Villages YV5K — 9 AM
🏈 Tigers football at Charlotte — 10 AM (away; kickoff was moved earlier)
🎨 V&E Greenline Artwalk — 10 AM to 4 PM (rain date is Sunday)
🥖 La Baguette's 50th anniversary — 10 AM to 3 PM
🍂 Urban Earth Fall Flicker Fest — 11 AM to 3 PM
🛍️ Evergreen Street Fair — 11 AM to 3 PM (rain date is Sunday)
🍗 Wing Wars at Stax — 11 AM to 4 PM ($24 general admission, $59 VIP)
🥦 Screaming Vegan Food Festival — 11 AM to 6 PM at the Pink Palace (free)
🍺 Wiseacre Oktoberfest — noon to 10 PM (free)
🖌️ Paint Memphis — noon to 6 PM on Broad Ave.
🐷 West Memphis Rhythm & Ribs BBQ Festival — noon to 6 PM
🏮 Tom Lee Day Gumption Revival Lantern Parade — festivities 5 to 8 PM, parade steps off at 7 PM on the riverfront (free)
🧘 WellGroove Dance Flow — 5:30 to 6:30 PM at the Overton Park Shell (free)
💃 Hispanic Heritage Celebration — 6 to 8:30 PM at the Overton Park Shell, with Los Kumbia Brotherz, DJ Mala Leche and Danza Azteca Xochiquetzal (free)
🥂 Collierville Taste of the Town / Preservation Party — 6:30 to 10 PM (21+)
🌽 Mid-South Maze — noon to 6 PM, with haunted nights 7 to 10 PM ($25) at the Agricenter
⚽ Tigers men's soccer vs. No. 7 Missouri State — 7 PM at home
🎭 Twelfth Night — 7:30 PM at Theatre Memphis ($25)
🎷 Lakecia Benjamin — 8 PM at GPAC
Sunday, October 4
🏃 Fright and Flight 5K — 9 AM at Shelby Farms
🎭 Twelfth Night closing matinee — 2 PM at Theatre Memphis ($25)
🎭 Tennessee Shakespeare Company's free Love's Labor's Lost Shout-Out — 3 to 4:30 PM at the Dixon (free)
🚒 Annual Firefighter Memorial Service — 3 to 4 PM at the Fire Museum (free)
🕵️ Back to the 90s Soulful Murder Mystery — 3 PM at the Halloran Centre ($87; check the Orpheum's page for a 7 PM show)
🤼 901 Wrestling: Midtown Massacre — 4 to 7 PM at Minglewood Hall
🍝 Fall Fest Memphis Italian dinner & auction — 5 to 9 PM in Collierville
😂 John Crist — 7 PM at the Orpheum
😂 Hannibal Buress — 7 PM (doors at 6:30) at Crosstown Theater ($35 and up)
🎶 Live Music Around the City

🎸 Friday, October 2
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Cowboy (4–7PM), The Sensations (8PM–12AM)
Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert (1–5PM), band (6–10PM), Dueling Pianos (7PM–1AM), DJ Taz (10PM)
Tin Roof — Benton Parker (7PM), Rodell McCord (10:30PM); Green Room: Computermane (8PM), DJ Bori (10:30PM)
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Memphis Jones (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Ghost River Brewing — Boat Crew Paradise Tour (6–10PM, ticketed)
Midtown
Hi Tone — Dungeons & Drag Queens (doors 7PM, big room); Subteens, Deaf Revival, Ryan Kidd and the Kobras, Armed Spiders (doors 8PM, small room)
Lafayette's Music Room — Machinetown (6PM), Proving Ground (9:30PM)
Bar DKDC — Jack Oblivian (9:30PM)
Growlers — Convictions with Afterlife, Stray View, Taken by Tides and Collective Dust (6:30PM)
Minglewood Hall — Drake White with Bella McCormick and Fox N' Vead with Taxi (doors 7PM, both listed at 8PM)
Satellite Music Hall — Punchis Punchis Banda Rave, 18+ (8PM)
Crosstown Arts — The LeWitt Etudes with Dave Soldier and Alex Greene (7:30PM, Green Room, $25)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — The Boneyard, heavy classic rock (8PM–12AM, $10)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Nashoba (Collierville) — Indianna on the Patio (5–7PM), The Pinch (8–10:30PM)
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Risky Whiskey Boys (7PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Alexis Jade and the Gemstones (7PM)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre with Driftwood Ramblers (8PM)
🎤 Saturday, October 3
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (4–7PM), The Sensations (8PM–12AM)
Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert (1–5PM), New Era Band (6–10PM), Dueling Pianos (7PM–1AM), DJ Tree (10PM)
Tin Roof — Hunter Creed (3PM), Benton Parker (7PM), Rodell McCord (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)
Ghost River Brewing — Pam & Terry (2–6PM), Tilt (6–10PM)
Flyway Brewing — "This Is Music" with Harris & Fitz (5PM)
Midtown
Hi Tone — Hidden Sixes, Red Sun Sermon (doors 7:30PM, small room); Outside Source, Strooly, Dancealone (doors 9PM, big room)
Lafayette's Music Room — Rice Drewry Collective (5PM), Seeing Red (9PM)
Bar DKDC — Foxy Dance Party from Nashville with DJs Clarence Edwards, Groovyspank and DJ Spaceage (9PM, $10, 21+)
B-SIDE — An Evening of Ornamented Time: Late Night Cardigan, Recent Future, Rosey, Chayse Porter (9PM, doors 8PM, $10)
Lamplighter Lounge — "I'm Da Birthday," a birthday show for Jordan Occasionally: Jamogi, Celest, Davidd, Jodis Fable and Jordan Occasionally (8PM–12AM, $5 presale, $10 at the door)
Growlers — The Satin Hour with Dedrick, Alexis Norman, Ozioma, Ricky Davine and DJ Solo (7PM)
Minglewood Hall — Xavier Wulf: The Cool World Tour (doors 7PM, show 8PM)
Crosstown Arts — Modern Jazz Masters: Troy Roberts with the Ted Ludwig Trio (7:30PM, Green Room, $25)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Jase and Robby Duo (2PM), Fireman's Benefit (3PM), 901/ROX (7PM)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Dolly Parton Tribute Show (8PM)
🎶 Sunday, October 4
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (3–6PM), The Sensations (7–11PM)
Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert (1–5PM), David & Jeremiah (6PM)
Tin Roof — Rodell McCord (7PM)
Blues City Cafe — FreeWorld
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pic's Band (4PM), Memphis Soul Factory (8PM)
Midtown
Bar DKDC — Paws & Tunes, a benefit for The Rescued Pack: Alexis Jade, Mary Hatley, Kim Garmon (3–8PM, suggested $20 donation)
Lafayette's Music Room — Wyly Bigger (12PM), Pulse (5PM)
Hi Tone — The Sweet Kill, DJ Audio Spectre (doors 7PM, small room)
Huey's Midtown — The Chaulkies (3–6PM)
East Memphis
Huey's Poplar — John Paul Keith (3–6PM)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — John Paul Penn & Reagan Strange (2PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Robby and Greg Duo (2PM)
Huey's Germantown — Even Odds
Millington • DeSoto
Huey's Olive Branch — Jack & Noah (3–6PM)
That's it for this week!
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