Friday: Cooper-Young Festival 4 Miler, 7 PM, starting at Cooper Ave. and Central

Saturday: The festival itself, 9 AM to 7 PM, free — live music all day on the Guaranty Bank and Mempho Presents stages

Friday: 6 to 9 PM, $23–$25

Saturday: 6 to 9 PM, $23–$25

Friday: Taz (Brandon "Taz" Niederauer), 7 PM

Saturday: Larry Springfield's Marvin Gaye Tribute, 7 to 9 PM

Saturday: 7:30 PM at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, downtown

Sunday: 2:30 PM at the Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center, University of Memphis

Friday: 7:30 PM

Saturday: 7:30 PM

Sunday: 2 PM matinee

📖 Reading Rhythms with Cazateatro Bilingual Theatre Group — 10 AM at Beale Street Landing

🅿️ PARK(ing) Day — 11 AM to 2 PM at Peabody Place & South Main (free)

🎉 Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration — 4 to 7 PM at 5702 Summer Ave (free; Chilean Independence Day festivities, food trucks, and a mechanical bull)

🖼️ John Robinette Artist Reception — 5:30 PM at GPAC in Germantown

🍺 Sept-Hymn Beer Event — 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Hampline Brewing Co. (free)

🔪 Clue (Touring) — 7:30 PM at the Orpheum Theatre

🏈 High school football — Friday night at stadiums across the metro (our guide has every schedule)

🎤 Live at the Garden: Kool & the Gang and Patti LaBelle — gates open 5:30 PM, music at 8 PM at Radians Amphitheater (lawn tickets start around $65; free shuttles run 5 PM–midnight)

💪 Baptist Health & Wellness Series: Cardi-O Fitness — 9 AM at Overton Park Shell (free)

🧸 Small Fry Tri — 9 AM in Bartlett (17th annual toddler triathlon, ages 2–6; $25/racer, first 150 only)

🏪 Shelby Street Market — 9 AM to 2 PM at 2867 Shelby St., Old Bartlett

🃏 Mid-South Card Show — 9 AM to 3 PM at The Venue at Bartlett Station (free)

🖌️ Super Saturday: Autumn Landscapes — 10 AM to 12 PM at the Brooks Museum (free drop-in art)

🍕 Aldo's Pizza Fest — 10 AM at Aldo's Pizza Pies in Midtown (free)

🎶 5th Annual Walls Delta Festival — 10 AM to 6 PM in Walls, MS (free, live Delta blues and soul)

🧒 Children's Day at Hernando Farmers Market — 10 AM to 12 PM on the Hernando Town Square

🌮 901 Food Truck Festival — 10 AM to 6 PM at Shelby Farms Park, Gate 10

📿 Bead Bar: Design Your Own Necklace — 12 PM at the Brooks Museum

🏐 Tigers volleyball vs. Little Rock — 1 PM at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse (Food Drive Day)

🥨 Soul & Spirits Oktoberfest — 1 to 8 PM at Soul & Spirits Brewery (stein-holding contest, food trucks)

🎪 Carriage Cookout — 1 to 4 PM at Carriage Crossing in Collierville (free)

🔪 Clue (Touring) — 2 and 7:30 PM at the Orpheum Theatre

🏈 Tigers football vs. UT Martin — 6 PM at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium (Youth Day, ESPN+)

🏃 Golden Harvest Half Marathon, 5K & 10K — 8 AM at Overton Bark Park

🎨 Picnic Sip & Paint — 11:30 AM to 7 PM at 113 Harbor Town Square

🔪 Clue (Touring) — 1 and 6:30 PM at the Orpheum Theatre (closing performances)

☕ Sober Sunday at Belltower Coffee — 6 PM (free)

⚽ Tigers men's soccer vs. Florida Atlantic — 7 PM at the Memphis Track and Soccer Complex (admission is free)

Rum Boogie — Cowboy (4–7PM), FreeWorld (8PM–12AM)

Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert Nemenz (1–5PM), New Era Band on the patio (6PM), Dueling Piano Show (7PM), guest DJ on the patio (10PM)

Tin Roof — Keer (7PM)

Old Dominick — standing Friday night live music (performer TBA)

Blues City Cafe — Will Tucker Band (8PM)

B.B. King's — Jason Foree Band (12PM), Memphis Jones (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)

Ghost River Brewing — Piano Men: Tribute to Legends (7–10:30PM)

B-SIDE — Grape + TBA (9PM)

Hi Tone — Memphis miniFEST (6PM), Superstition Darkwave Dance Night ft. BellHead (10PM)

Lafayette's Music Room — Bluff City Bandits (6PM), Southbound (9:30PM)

Bar DKDC — Born To Liv ft. Model Zero, Kate Teague + DJs DivjeBabe, RhinestoneE, DJ Livin Herself

Minglewood Hall — United We Dance: Festival Energy. All Night. (9PM)

Crosstown Theater — Singa B & The Blues Boyz: The Prince of Blues LIVE (7:30PM)

Growlers — After The Rain, Serg., The Down Bads, and Thundergun (8PM)

Neil's Music Room — Brannon Heath w/ special guest Bruce Lester (3–7PM, no cover); Trouble No More: A Tribute to the Allman Brothers (8PM–12AM, $10)

Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Almost Famous (7–10PM, $10 cover)

Nashoba (Collierville) — Pam & Terry on the Patio (5PM), JAM-JAM1 (8PM)

Villa Castrioti — standing Friday live music, 6:30–9:30PM (performer TBA)

GPAC — BoDeans (ticketed, time TBA — check gpacweb.com)

Knuckleheads Sidecar — Martin & Taylor (7:30PM)

Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Bella Rayne Band (8PM)

Horseshoe Casino's Bluesville (Tunica) — Gary Allan (8PM)

Rum Boogie — Stephanie Bradley (4–7PM), FreeWorld (8PM–12AM)

Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert Nemenz (1–5PM), New Era Band on the patio (6PM), Dueling Piano Show (7PM), guest DJ on the patio (10PM)

Tin Roof — Heartbreak Hill (3PM), The Super 5 (7PM)

Flyway Brewing — Harris & Fitz (5PM)

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 (2:30–6:30PM), Patty & The Cakes (7:30–11PM)

Hi Tone — After Party Tour 2026 ft. Jo Tyler, Kng Ego & more (8PM, 21+); Whether / Coachlight / Thundergun / Seize & Desist (8PM, small room)

Lafayette's Music Room — JT McCaffrey Band (5PM), Rowdy n the Strays (9PM)

Bar DKDC — Night of the Virgo ft. DJ Larry, South Memphis Jeff + special Virgo guests

Satellite Music Hall — Judah & the Lion (7PM)

B-SIDE — nothing on the calendar this Saturday

Neil's Music Room — The Memphis Funk N Horns (7–11PM, $10)

Delta Blues Winery — Donald Robbins (7–10PM)

GPAC — Withers to Wonder: Celebrating the Songs of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder (8PM); BoDeans (time TBA)

Villa Castrioti — standing Saturday live music, 6:30–9:30PM (performer TBA)

Knuckleheads Sidecar — Frankie Hollie Duo (2PM), Your Moms New Boyfriend (7:30PM)

Rum Boogie — Red Thomas (3PM), The Sensations (7–11PM)

Blues City Cafe — nothing on the calendar this Sunday

Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert Nemenz (1–5PM), New Era Band on the patio (6PM), David and Jeremiah, "Bring the Thundah" (7PM)

B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pic's Band (4PM), Memphis Soul Factory (8PM)

Ghost River Brewing — Terry Greene Acoustic (3:30–7:30PM)

B-SIDE — Marc Franklin Anniversary Party (5–8PM); Aberrant / Bodywerk / MDMA / Collective Night (9PM)

Lafayette's Music Room — Pretty & Loud: The Brunch (12PM), Trouble No More (5PM)

Huey's Midtown — Medium Walter (3PM)

Satellite Music Hall — Houndmouth (7PM)

Hi Tone — Guitar Center presents: The Fall Showcase (12PM)

Huey's East — The Pretty Boys (3PM)

Neil's Music Room — Van Duren and Vicki Loveland (4–7PM)

Delta Blues Winery — Let's Come Together (2–5PM)

Huey's Germantown — The Bugaloos (6PM)

Huey's Collierville — Terry & The Wallbangers (6PM)

Huey's Millington — Charvey Mac (6PM)

Huey's Southaven — Duane Cleveland Band (6PM)