
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
🎸 Mempho Music Festival (Radians Amphitheater at Memphis Botanic Garden)
Three nights of music in the garden. Set times are posted on the festival's schedule page. The Botanic Garden itself closes at 3 PM all three days for the concert.
Friday: gates at 3 PM, with Pretty Lights, Spoon, STS9 and Broken Social Scene
Saturday: gates at 1 PM, with Widespread Panic, Gary Clark Jr., Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs and De La Soul
Sunday: gates at 1 PM, with Widespread Panic's second night, Ziggy Marley and JJ Grey & Mofro
🎡 Mid-South Fair (Landers Center, Southaven)
Final weekend for the rides, pig races and circus show. Hours may change, so check the fair's page.
Friday: 4 to 11 PM
Saturday: 1 to 11 PM
Sunday: 1 to 10 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
🎷 Memphis Jazz Festival (Downtown, free)
Free jazz across Downtown. Parking with the code JAZZ is $12 for 8 hours.
Friday: 6 to 9 PM in the Westin Memphis Beale Street lobby
Saturday: 1 to 7 PM at the New Daisy Theatre, then a jazz jam at The Dame (Hotel Pontotoc) at 9 PM
Sunday: afternoon through 7 PM on Main Street Mall and in Court Square Park
🎭 Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Love's Labor's Lost Shout-Out (free, outdoors)
Free outdoor performances at three spots. Bring a chair, seating is first come, first served.
Friday: 7 PM at St. George's Episcopal Church, 2425 S. Germantown Rd.
Saturday: 3 PM at the Raleigh Library (lakeside)
Sunday: 5 PM at the Overton Park Shell
🏡 Vesta Home Show (Piperton Preserve, Piperton)
Fall home show with tickets at $25 for adults and $15 for youth.
Friday and Saturday: 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday: 1 to 6 PM
Friday, October 9
🌱 Fall Plant Sale — 9 AM to 3 PM at Memphis Botanic Garden
📚 Reading Rhythms with Firefly Creative — 10 to 11:30 AM at Beale Street Landing (free, ages 2 to 5)
🎨 Crosstown Arts Fall Exhibition Opening Reception — 6 to 8 PM at Crosstown Arts Galleries (free)
🎹 Jazz in the Box: Ehud Asherie Duo featuring Zaid Nasser — 7 PM at GPAC
🏈 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 — 7:30 PM ($20 and up)
🎤 John Waite — 7:30 PM at the Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center
Saturday, October 10
🏃 Hernando Water Tower 10K and Half Marathon — 8 AM at Hernando Town Square
🥕 Memphis Farmers Market — 8 AM to 1 PM at 567 S. Front St.
🐕 Mutt Strut 5K — 9 AM at Rainbow Lake, Overton Park ($40.49, dog-friendly, benefits Dogs 2nd Chance)
🚗 Edge Motorfest — 9 AM to 2 PM at Edge Motor Museum (free)
🎒 Peanut Butter & Jam: Songs by Jake — 10:30 AM at GPAC (pay what you can)
🐭 Playhouse on the Square's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie — 10 AM at Memphis Botanic Garden
🍺 Edgetoberfest — 11 AM at Flyway Brewing
🪦 Soul of the City 2026 preview — 1 to 2 PM at Elmwood Cemetery
🏈 Tigers football vs. UAB, Battle for the Bones — 6 PM at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (BBQ & Blues theme, with a pregame BBQ contest on Tiger Lane)
🎸 Henry Rollins: The Cramps "Gravest Gravy" — 6 PM at the Memphis Listening Lab, Crosstown Concourse
🎶 Opera Memphis 70th Anniversary Concert — 7 PM at the Overton Park Shell (free)
🙏 Elevation Nights with Elevation Worship and Steven Furtick — 7 PM at FedExForum
Sunday, October 11
📖 A Li'l Spooky Somethin' — entry at 11 AM, noon or 1 PM at Novel ($15, includes a Moode Matcha Cafe drink)
⚽ Tigers women's soccer vs. Charlotte — 11 AM at home
📚 Memphis Zine Fest — noon to 4 PM at Jack Robinson Gallery (free)
🏍️ Benefit for Matt Davidson — 2 to 6 PM at Knuckleheads Sidecar (live music, bake sale, 50/50 raffle and auctions to help his wife and daughter)
👑 2nd Sunday Drag Bingo — 3 PM at Hi Tone Cafe ($8.50 to $13.50)
🎶 Live Music Around the City

🎸 Friday, October 9
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Cowboy (4–7PM), FreeWorld (8PM–12AM)
Tin Roof — The Super 5 (7PM), The Reddvines (10:30PM); Green Room: Computermane (8PM), DJ Bori (10:30PM)
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Jason Foree Band (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Blues City Cafe — Jacob Huffman
Ghost River Brewing — Motel California (7–10:30PM)
Midtown
Hi Tone — Headcannon, The Narrows, Joybomb (doors 7PM, small room); Ronaldo Mercado & Friends (doors 7PM, big room)
Lafayette's Music Room — The Lori Willis Band (6PM), Big Wheel (9:30PM)
Bar DKDC — Turnstyles T3 Release Party with Hit Parade, Turnstyles and Arc of Quasar (8:30PM)
Lamplighter Lounge — Russ T.'s Book Release with music by J. Robot, The Switchblade Kid and Javi$ the Hyenas (8PM)
B-SIDE — Proving Ground, a Widespread Panic tribute and Mempho Fest after party (10PM)
Minglewood Hall — Pretty Lights After Party with Maddy O'Neal, Motifv and Since Juleye (11:30PM)
Satellite Music Hall — The Renaissance Orchestra (7PM)
Crosstown Arts — Caroline Davis: Solo (7:30PM, Green Room, $20)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — Pam and Terry on the patio (4–8PM), Spectrum (8PM)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Nashoba (Collierville) — Southbound Acoustic on the Patio (5–7PM), Almost Famous (8–10:30PM)
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Donald Robbins (7–10PM, $10 cash cover)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — The Shotgunbillys (7PM)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Ernie Johnson from Detroit (doors 9PM, show 10PM)
🎤 Saturday, October 10
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Chris Gales (4–7PM), FreeWorld (8PM–12AM)
Tin Roof — Keszler and Evans (3PM), Keer (7PM), The Reddvines (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)
Blues City Cafe — Jacob Huffman
Ghost River Brewing — Pam & Terry (2–6PM), Landslide (6:30–10PM)
South Main Sounds — Van Duren (6:30–8:30PM)
Midtown
Hi Tone — Cowboy Fly Presents (doors 7PM, big room); Rough Dreams, The Catastrophe's, The 714's, Serg (doors 7PM, small room)
Lafayette's Music Room — The Lost 45's (5PM), Aquanet (9PM)
Bar DKDC — 3rd Annual Memphis Tribute to John Prine, curated by Mark Edgar Stuart with Curtis B. Scott, Bailey Bigger, Alexis Jade, Jeremy Stanfill, Amy LaVere, Brian Blake and Michael Cusack (7PM, cover at the door, dinner served)
Lamplighter Lounge — Aquarian Blood, Lorette Velvette, Bluff City Backsliders, Diane Green and Roy Brewer (7PM)
Growlers — OmenBringer with Üga Büga, Viqueen and Thundergun (doors 7PM, show 7:30PM)
Satellite Music Hall — Motionless In White with The Plot In You and Thrown (time TBA)
Crosstown Arts — Folk All Y'all: Roberta Lea (7:30PM, Green Room, $20)
East Memphis
Neil's Music Room — Off the Tracks (2–6PM), The Peter Blunt System (8PM)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Preston and Roger Duo on the patio (1–5PM), Matt Boone Band (7–11PM)
🎶 Sunday, October 11
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (3–6PM), The Sensations (7–11PM)
Tin Roof — Rodell McCord (7PM)
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pic's Band (4PM), Memphis Soul Factory (8PM)
Blues City Cafe — FreeWorld
Huey's Downtown — Deep Roots (3–6PM)
South Main Sounds — Kelly Hunt (3–5PM)
Midtown
Hi Tone — Rev & Marcia matinee, free (doors 5PM, small room, 21+)
Lafayette's Music Room — Wyly Bigger (12PM), Back in Time: Huey Lewis & The News Tribute (5PM)
Bar DKDC — Tea Dance with DJs Jess Digitech and Jak3 Jones, dub, reggae and drum & bass (4–8PM, no cover)
Crosstown Arts — Strictly Jazz: The Music of Dinah Washington featuring Michaelyn Oby (6PM, Green Room, $20 advance)
Huey's Midtown — Duane Cleveland Band (3–6PM)
East Memphis
Huey's Poplar — The Chaulkies (3–6PM)
Neil's Music Room — The Mixers (4–7PM)
Millington • DeSoto
Huey's Olive Branch — Twin Soul Duo (3–6PM)
That's it for this week!
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