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

🎃 Zoo Boo (Memphis Zoo)
Trick-or-treating at the zoo, rain or shine. Tickets are $23 ($20 for members), sold online only.

  • Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 6 to 9:30 PM, last entry at 8:30

🧟 Monster Market X (The Medicine Factory, 85 Virginia Ave. W.)
Closing weekend for Memphis' horror-and-oddities market. Free to browse.

  • Friday: Dinner in Hell, 6:30 to 8:30 PM (ticketed, limited seats)

  • Saturday: costume social and contest, awards at 8 PM

  • Sunday: Sip & Shop with Boycott Coffee, noon to 2 PM

🎃 Patio Pumpkin Carving (Momma's, 855 Kentucky St.)
Momma's first pumpkin carving on the patio. Buy a draft pitcher and get a free pumpkin while supplies last; carving tools and stencils are provided. 21+.

  • Saturday: 11 AM to 5 PM, with Austin Gray playing at noon

  • Sunday: 11 AM to 5 PM, with Clint Kilmore playing at noon

🎄 Holiday Market of Memphis (Agricenter International)
The big holiday shopping market is back at the Agricenter, with two ticketed specials.

  • Friday: Margaritas & Mistletoe, 4 to 8 PM

  • Saturday: Muffins & Mimosas, 9 AM to noon

🏡 Fall Vesta Home Show (Piperton Preserve)
Last weekend to tour the show homes. Adults $25, youth $15, military and first responders $20.

  • Friday: 10 AM to 6 PM, plus Friday Night Lights from 6 to 9 PM ($60, $50 for members)

  • Saturday: 10 AM to 6 PM

  • Sunday: 1 to 6 PM (closing day)

🖼️ Hot Off the Wall Art Sale (Dixon Gallery and Gardens)
The Dixon's annual sale of work by local artists wraps up Sunday. Free to browse.

  • Friday and Saturday: 10 AM to 5 PM

  • Sunday: 1 to 5 PM

💃 Collage Dance Collective: ORIGINS (Playhouse on the Square)
Memphis' own ballet company takes the Playhouse stage for three performances.

  • Friday: 7:30 PM

  • Saturday and Sunday: 2:30 PM

🎹 Million Dollar Quartet (Theatre Memphis)
The Sun Studio musical runs through Nov. 7.

  • Friday and Saturday: 7:30 PM

🦇 Flightmares: Aerial Arts Haunted Experience (High Expectations Aerial Arts)
A haunted show performed in the air. Tickets are about $32.

  • Friday and Saturday: 5, 6:30 and 8 PM

🌽 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 (no haunted maze)

🕸️ 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

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Saturday, October 24

Sunday, October 25

🎶  Live Music Around the City

🎸 Friday, October 23

Downtown

Midtown

  • Lafayette's Music Room — Super 5 (6PM), Basketcase (9:30PM)

  • Bar DKDC — Night of the Banshee with Rachel Maxann, Nubia Yasin, Raneem Imam and special guests

  • B-SIDE — Bryan Hartley Industries with Toby Vest (9PM)

  • Hi Tone — Choir Boy, Optic Sink, Decoration Policy (doors 7PM, show 8PM, small room)

  • Growlers — Collective Dust, Pretty Much Over, Abigail & the Starlings, Sleepless Nights (doors 6PM, show 7PM)

  • Satellite Music Hall — We Came As Romans with Varials and Cane Hill (6PM)

  • Crosstown Arts — Memphis Jazz Orchestra featuring Terell Stafford (7:30PM, Green Room, $25 advance)

  • Hattiloo Culture Box — Music Box featuring Teal Wright (8PM, second show 10:30PM)

East Memphis

  • Neil's Music Room — Pam and Terry on the patio (4–8PM), The ShotGunBillys (8PM, $10)

Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville

South Memphis

Tunica

🎤 Saturday, October 24

Downtown

  • Tin Roof — Jad Tariq (3PM), Jay Jones (7PM), Denver Massey (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 (South Main) — Pam & Terry (2–6PM), Rodell McCord (7–10:30PM)

  • Rum Boogie — Chris Gales (4–7PM), FreeWorld (8PM–12AM)

  • Momma's — Austin Gray (12PM, during the patio pumpkin carving)

  • Blues City Cafe — Jad Tariq (8PM)

  • Grind City Brewing — Ole 60 (doors 7PM)

Midtown

  • Lafayette's Music Room — Souled Out (5PM), Almost Famous (9PM)

  • Bar DKDC — Recent Future record release party

  • B-SIDE — Alice Hasen Halloween Show plus three more acts TBA

  • Crosstown Arts — Garrison Starr with Kristy Lee (7:30PM, Green Room)

  • Hattiloo Culture Box — Music Box featuring Adrian Ace Kennard and Ashundra Bernard (8PM, second show 10:30PM)

East Memphis

Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville

South Memphis

🎶 Sunday, October 25

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)

  • Momma's — Clint Kilmore (12PM, during the patio pumpkin carving)

  • Huey's Downtown — The Bugaloos (3–6PM)

  • Tin Roof — Rodell McCord (7PM)

  • Blues City Cafe — FreeWorld (8PM)

Midtown

  • Bar DKDC — Jazz brunch with Joe Restivo

  • B-SIDE — Memphis Reggae Nights with Exodus Soul Reggae Band (7:30PM)

  • Lafayette's Music Room — Wyly Bigger (12PM), Landslide, a Fleetwood Mac tribute (5PM)

  • Huey's Midtown — Davis Coen & The Change (3–6PM)

  • Hi Tone — Rev & Marcia, free matinee (doors 5PM, show 6PM, small room)

  • Crosstown Arts — Notez&Flow: The Stax Edition (6PM, Green Room)

  • Growlers — No Survivors III Tour: The Convalescence, Knifeback, The Red Mountain, Ruined God (doors 6PM, show 7PM)

East Memphis

Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville

Millington • DeSoto

That's it for this week!

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Enjoy your weekend, Memphis. We'll see you Monday!

— 901 Today