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.
It's Halloween weekend, and the clocks fall back an hour early Sunday morning, so you get an extra hour to recover from Saturday night.
Let's dive in.
What's Happening This Weekend
All Weekend Long
🎃 Zoo Boo (Memphis Zoo)
Final weekend for trick-or-treating at the zoo. Tickets are $23 ($20 for members), sold online only.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 6 to 9:30 PM, last entry at 9
🏰 MemRen: Memphis Renaissance Faire (Overton Park Greensward)
The Renaissance faire takes over the Greensward. Saturday tickets are $45, Sunday $35 and a weekend pass $75.
Saturday: 10 AM to 5 PM, plus a night program from 6:30 to 10 PM
Sunday: 10 AM to 9 PM
🎭 Monty Python's Spamalot (Orpheum Theatre)
Closing weekend for the Broadway tour. Tickets run about $47 to $162; recommended for ages 8 and up.
Friday: 7:30 PM
Saturday: 2 and 7:30 PM
Sunday: 1 and 6:30 PM
🕸️ Haunted Web Scream Park (2665 S. Perkins Rd.)
Closing weekend. Tickets start at $29.99 ($34.99 on Saturday), and Sunday is "Lights Out" night: total darkness and one glow stick.
Friday and Saturday: 7 PM to midnight
Sunday: 7 to 10 PM
🌽 Mid-South Maze (Agricenter International)
The season ends Saturday. 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
🍺 Zootoberfest (Memphis Zoo)
A 21+ beer fest inside the zoo. Zoo admission is separate; a stein and first beer are $12, refills $8.
Saturday and Sunday: 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM
🎹 Million Dollar Quartet (Theatre Memphis)
The Sun Studio musical runs through Nov. 7. No show on Halloween.
Friday: 7:30 PM
Sunday: 2 PM
Friday, October 30
📚 "Boooooks!" Halloween at the Library — 3:30 to 5:30 PM at the Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave. (free)
🚋 Trolley Night: Halloween Edition — 5 to 11 PM in the South Main Arts District (free, with live music and specials)
🎶 Shell on Wheels: Hallows' Eve at Wiseacre — 5 to 11 PM at Wiseacre's original taproom on Broad Ave. (Recent Future, Bailey Bigger, Cyrena Wages, Aquarian Blood and Country Westerns on the Shell's mobile stage)
👻 Scare on the Tanger Square — 5 to 8 PM at Tanger Outlets, Southaven (free, sensory-friendly trunk-or-treat)
🏐 Tigers Volleyball vs. UTSA — 6:30 PM at Elma Roane Fieldhouse
⚽ Tigers Women's Soccer vs. East Carolina — 7 PM in Memphis
🏒 Mid-South Monarchs vs. Columbus River Dragons — 7 PM at Landers Center, Southaven
🎸 Pure Prairie League, Atlanta Rhythm Section & Firefall — 7 PM at the Cannon Center (doors 6)
🎻 The Orchestra Unplugged: The Planets — 7:30 PM at the Halloran Centre (Memphis Symphony Orchestra)
💃 Scary Movie Drag Night — 9 PM at the Lamplighter Lounge (free, adults only)
Saturday, October 31
🏃 Halloween Trick or Trot 5K/10K — waves from 7:30 AM on the downtown Riverwalk (costumes encouraged)
🧒 901KidsFest — 11 AM to 3 PM at Tom Lee Park (free with registration; books, treat bags, crafts and a storybook trail)
⚰️ Elmwood Cemetery Halloween Tours — 1 and 3 PM (about $23; the 10:30 tour is sold out)
🍻 Memphis Official Halloween Bar Crawl — 3 to 10 PM, check in at Old Dominick Distillery (21+)
🧘 Breath Work & Meditation — 4 to 5 PM at the Overton Park Shell (free)
🎨 Halloween Paint 'N Sip — 6 to 9 PM at Creations Memphis, 10 N. 2nd St.
🏈 Memphis Tigers vs. Army — 7 PM at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (Homecoming and Hero Day; on ESPNU)
🏀 Grizzlies vs. Sacramento Kings — 7 PM at FedExForum
🏒 Mid-South Monarchs vs. Columbus River Dragons — 7 PM at Landers Center, Southaven
🎃 Bardog Tavern Halloween Bash — 7 to 11:30 PM at Bardog, 73 Monroe Ave. (free, 21+; $350 in costume prizes)
🦇 Slider Inn Halloween Party — 8 PM at Slider Inn Downtown, 363 Mulberry St. (no cover; DJs Katie Loopz and Just Stiino, $300 costume contest)
🕯️ Halloween Night at Mollie Fontaine Lounge — 8 PM to 3 AM, 679 Adams Ave. (21+)
🎸 Hotel Pontotoc 120th Anniversary Halloween Party — 9 PM to midnight at The Dame (Deviltrain plays two sets; $15)
💀 Nightmare on Whitten Halloween Bash — Saturday night at Knuckleheads Sidecar, 2194 Whitten Rd. (costume contest with $900, $450 and $250 cash prizes)
Sunday, November 1
🎎 Memphis Japan Festival — 9:30 AM to 4 PM at Memphis Botanic Garden ($12 adults, $7 for students and kids 2 to 12; rain or shine)
🎶 Live Music Around the City
🎸 Friday, October 30
Downtown
Tin Roof — "The Dead West" Halloween party with Timothy James, Computermane and Benton Parker (6:30PM, doors 4PM)
Rum Boogie — Cowboy (4–7PM), The Sensations (8PM–12AM)
Ghost River (South Main) — Standard Issue (7–10:30PM)
South Main Sounds — Ayanna Justine, Bo Adams and Faith Alexa (7PM)
Blues City Cafe — FreeWorld (8PM)
Momma's — Alexis Jade
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Jason Foree Band (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Midtown
Lafayette's Music Room — Grand Theft Audio (6PM), The Pinch (9:30PM)
B-SIDE — All Hallows Eve Fest with Gwiz & The Solar System, Moses Crouch and Black Magick (8PM)
Bar DKDC — Devils Night! Black Widow Boogie with Heartbreak Hill, Gurl Haggard, Turnstyles and DJ Witch Hazel
Minglewood Hall — Cosmic Charlie (doors 7PM, show 8PM)
Hi Tone — F!rst, Switchblade Kid, Soft Violence (doors 8PM, show 9PM, small room)
Lamplighter Lounge — Frog Squad (9PM, $5)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — Play Some Skynyrd, a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute (8PM, $10)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Nashoba (Collierville) — Pam & Terry on the patio (5–7PM), Heart Memphis (8–10:30PM)
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Risky Whiskey Boys (7–10PM)
🎤 Saturday, October 31
Downtown
Tin Roof — "Angels & Demons" Halloween party with Timothy James, Computermane, Benton Parker, Emilee & Levi, and Zeke & The Freaks (doors 11AM)
Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (4–7PM), The Sensations (8PM–12AM)
Ghost River (South Main) — Pam & Terry (3:30–7:30PM)
Blues City Cafe — FreeWorld (8PM)
Momma's — Sky King (brunch), Memphis Drivers (Halloween night)
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pic's Band (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Midtown
Lafayette's Music Room — School of Rock Halloween Bash (1–4PM), Terry Greene & the Honey Golds (5PM), JAM-JAM1 (9PM)
B-SIDE — 1979 Halloween Party, with sets as Blondie, Talking Heads, the Ramones, Neil Young, Joy Division and ZZ Top
Bar DKDC — Monsters Ball with Ill Stu Crew and Friends
Hattiloo Culture Box — Music Box featuring Damion "Yella P" Pearson (8PM, second show 10:30PM)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — Hairspray Nation Halloween Costume Party (8PM, $10)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers tribute with Jordan Dean (doors 6PM, show 8PM)
🎶 Sunday, November 1
Downtown
Ghost River (South Main) — Pam & Terry (2–6PM)
Tin Roof — Rodell McCord (7PM)
Midtown
Lafayette's Music Room — Duane Cleveland Acoustic (12PM), Trouble No More, an Allman Brothers tribute (5PM)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — Kevin Carson (5–9PM, $10)
That's it for this week!
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Enjoy your weekend, Memphis. We'll see you Monday!
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