
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
🎨 Pink Palace Crafts Fair (Pink Palace grounds, 3050 Central Ave.)
The 54th annual fair brings artists and makers from across the region. Free shuttle from U of M Lot 46.
Friday–Sunday: 10 AM to 5 PM. Advance tickets $10 adults, $8 seniors/military, $3 ages 5–12, under 5 free ($12/$10/$5 at the gate)
🏮 Asian Night Market (Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Rd.)
Year four of the food, vendor and performance night market, with KAZHA headlining.
Saturday: starts at 4 PM
Sunday: runs until about 7 PM
$15 for ages 13+ ($20 for a two-day pass), $5 ages 6–12, under 6 free. Parking is $10
🎸 Gonerfest 23 (Wiseacre Brewing; Overton Park Shell)
Memphis' garage-rock institution takes over the weekend, with late-night afterparties at B-SIDE and Bar DKDC (see Live Music below). There's a free livestream, too.
Friday and Saturday: at Wiseacre Brewing, $70/day wristband. Friday's lineup runs from 1:30 PM to a 10:30 PM close with Toody Cole & Her Band; Saturday closes with Death at 11 PM, with Henry Rollins as MC
Sunday: free finale at the Overton Park Shell, 5:30 to about 9:30 PM: Gwenifer Raymond, Jack Oblivian, Cloudland Canyon with Kid Millions and Man or Astro-man?
🦁 Zoo Boo (Memphis Zoo)
Halloween at the zoo, and this weekend only gets two nights.
Friday: 6 to 9:30 PM (last entry 9), $23 ($20 members)
Saturday: 6 to 9:30 PM (last entry 9), $23 ($20 members)
🖼️ Brooks Museum: Last Weekend in Overton Park (Brooks Museum)
The museum closes its Overton Park home after Sunday, and admission is free for Shelby County residents through September.
Friday: Come As Thou Art, a Broadway musical masquerade ball and runway, 7 to 10 PM ($25 general admission, $95 VIP)
Saturday: Super Saturday drop-in art, 10 AM to noon (free)
Sunday: final day, 11 AM to 5 PM, with a guided tour (2 PM), Figure Drawing (2 PM) and Junk Journal Jam (3 PM)
🎭 Twelfth Night (Theatre Memphis, Next Stage)
Shakespeare's comedy runs through Oct. 4.
Friday: 7:30 PM
Saturday: 7:30 PM
Sunday: 2 PM matinee
🏃 Navy Mid-South Half Marathon Weekend (Millington)
Two days of races on the naval base side of Millington.
Saturday: 5K at 8 AM and Family Fun Mile at 9 AM, N82 Gym (7915 Memphis Ave.)
Sunday: Half Marathon at 6 AM and 10K at 6:10 AM, USA Stadium (4351 Babe Howard Blvd.)
Friday, September 25
🎞️ Honoring Dolly: 9 to 5 screenings — 9 AM, 2, 5 and 9 PM at the Halloran Centre (free, for Dolly Parton Day)
🎤 Stax Music Academy Songwriting Master Class — 5:30 to 7 PM with Felly the Voice (free; RSVP recommended)
🚎 Trolley Night on South Main — 5 to 11 PM (free)
🎭 Opera Memphis "30 Days" opening — 5:45 PM
🥮 Mid-Autumn Festival — 6 to 9 PM at Crosstown Concourse
🖌️ UrbanArt "Canvas for a Cause" 6x6 show — 6 to 9 PM at Cossitt Library (free; open again Saturday, noon to 4 PM, art is $25 a canvas)
🌿 Plant Parties — 6 to 8 PM at Memphis Botanic Garden (21+; $45 members, $55 non-members)
🎶 Memphis Country Blues Festival — 5:30 to 9 PM at the Overton Park Shell (free; North Mississippi Allstars and Mr. Sipp)
🎭 Tennessee Shakespeare Company's free Love's Labor's Lost Shout-Out — 7 PM at the Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center
🎻 Orchestra Noir, Culture 2000 Tour II — 7:30 PM at the Orpheum
🏈 High school football — 7 PM at stadiums across the metro (Southwind at Briarcrest Christian; our guide has every schedule)
🎲 Board to Beers: Grant Lyon's Board Game Comedy Hour — 7 PM at Board to Beers (check availability)
🎵 Hattiloo Theatre Music Box: Keenya Creates — 8 and 10:30 PM ($20 advance, $25 at the door)
Saturday, September 26
🏃 Oktoberfest Run — 7:30, 8 and 8:30 AM waves on the Riverwalk
🥕 Memphis Farmers Market — 8 AM to 1 PM at Central Station
🥕 Bartlett Station Farmers Market — 8 AM to noon at W.J. Freeman Park (last day of the season)
🥕 Olive Branch Outdoors and Farmers Market — 8 AM to noon at the Historic Wesson House lawn (closing day of the market season)
🚗 Memphis EuroFest Car Show — C.O. Franklin Park, 7725 Poplar Pike, Germantown (42nd year, free; start time not listed)
🚰 Hernando Water Tower Festival — 9 AM to 3 PM (free)
🚛 Olive Branch Touch-A-Truck — 10 AM to 2 PM at City Park
🌳 Adventure Day on the Wolf River Greenway — 10 AM to noon at the Epping Way trailhead (free; RSVP required)
🌽 Mid-South Maze — noon to 10 PM at the Agricenter (adults $12, kids 6–12 $8, under 6 free)
💃 Latin Fest 901 — noon to 6 PM at Overton Square, 2101 Madison Ave. (free; part of Hispanic Heritage Month)
🥎 Tigers softball vs. Rust College — 2 PM at the Tigers Softball Complex (fall ball)
🐾 Paw Prints Party — 5 PM at 935 Farm Rd. (Humane Society fundraiser with dinner, open bar and auctions)
🎤 Hattiloo 20th Anniversary Celebration — evening at the Overton Park Shell (free)
🎷 Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience — 7 PM at the Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center
🎸 "Weird Al" Yankovic — 8 PM (doors at 7) at the Landers Center (with special guest Puddles Pity Party)
Sunday, September 27
🥎 Tigers softball vs. Holmes — noon at the Tigers Softball Complex (fall ball)
🌽 Mid-South Maze — noon to 8 PM at the Agricenter
🥂 Farm Fest, the Memphis Farmers Market's 20th anniversary party — 1 to 3 PM at Central Station Pavilion (21+; chef tastings, live music and a silent auction)
🖼️ Dixon Gallery lecture: "An Investment in Pleasure" — 2 to 3 PM
🎭 Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Love's Labor's Lost — 3 PM on the Tabor Stage ($22 adults, $15 seniors, $10 students)
🍽️ The Longest Table in Memphis — 5 to 7 PM at Overton Park's East Parkway (free potluck for National Good Neighbor Day)
💃 Rhythm in the Park — 5:30 to 7:30 PM at Belltower Coffee at Shelby Farms (free dance-fitness party)
🎭 Lightwire Theater: The Adventures of Tortoise and Hare — 7 PM at the Buckman Performing Arts Center
🎶 Live Music Around the City

🎸 Friday, September 25
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Cowboy (4–7PM), FreeWorld (8PM–12AM)
Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert (1–5PM), patio band (6PM), Dueling Pianos (7PM), DJ Saint (10PM)
Tin Roof — Benton Parker (7PM), Natalie Uhlenhake (10:30PM); Green Room: Computermane (8PM), DJ Bori (10:30PM)
Old Dominick — Harris and Fitz (7PM)
Blues City Cafe — Jacob Huffman (8PM)
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Jason Foree Band (4PM), BB King All-Stars (8PM)
Ghost River Brewing — The Xperience with Kiea Johnson (7–10:30PM)
Midtown
B-SIDE — Goner Fest After Party: Dragnet, AAAA, The New Memphis Legs, Drunks with Guns, Genre Is Death (11:30PM, going late)
Bar DKDC — Dig! Does Gonerfest: Mod Lang, Ye Sophisticated Doods, TV Lottery, plus DJs Damp Velour and TimGenerate
Hi Tone — Burnt Witch, +3 Against Undead, Sibyl (8PM)
Lafayette's Music Room — Baunie & Soul (6PM), Terry Greene & the Honey Golds (9:30PM)
Satellite Music Hall — Club 90s Presents MJ Night, 18+ (7PM)
Crosstown Theater — Sanctuary with DJ Brilli and Lana J (7:30PM, Green Room)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Amari Miller (7–10PM)
Nashoba (Collierville) — Scott Sudbury on the Patio (5PM), Radio City (8PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Risky Whiskey Boys Band (7:30PM)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Airshow (8PM)
🎤 Saturday, September 26
Downtown
Rum Boogie — Chris Gales (4–7PM), FreeWorld (8PM–12AM)
Silky O'Sullivan's — Buddy Albert (1–5PM), New Era Band (6PM), Dueling Pianos (7PM), DJ Ben Murray (10PM)
Tin Roof — Emilee + Levi (3PM), June & Giles (7PM), Natalie Uhlenhake (10:30PM); Green Room: Computermane (8PM), DJ Bori (10:30PM)
Blues City Cafe — Jacob Huffman (8PM)
Flyway Brewing — "This Is Music" with 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), The Brian Johnson Band (7:30–11PM)
Midtown
B-SIDE — Dot Dash Afterparty: The Sheaves, Fruited Planes, Chris Burns & His Growing Concerns (11:30PM)
Bar DKDC — Gonerfest Afterparty: Gino and the Goons, Amy Beth & Thee Creeps, Mercy Mercy, Badzy
Hi Tone — F*** You Joe, Becky D, Sam's Town (7PM, small room); General Labor, Plastic Mystic, Cel Shade, Snake Wine (10PM)
Lafayette's Music Room — Basketcase (5PM), JAM-JAM1 (9PM)
Satellite Music Hall — Project Pat: Redemption Tour 2 (7PM)
Minglewood Hall — Bit Brigade performs Mega Man II, Castlevania and Tetris live (8PM, doors at 7, all ages)
Growlers — Hot Fix Sideshow (8PM)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — The Lowdown (7–10PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Preston and Roger Duo (1–5PM), Frankie Holland (5:30–7:30PM), DJ Mark Anderson: Mark's the Spot Reunion (7:30PM)
🎶 Sunday, September 27
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 (8PM)
B.B. King's — Beale St Blues Band (12PM), Flic's Pic's Band (4PM), Memphis Soul Factory (8PM)
Ghost River Brewing — Pam & Terry (2–6PM)
Huey's Downtown — Tequila Mockingbird (3PM)
Midtown
B-SIDE — Memphis Reggae Nights with Iyah Sypha (7:30PM), Sid Birthday Bash (10PM)
Bar DKDC — Jazz Brunch with Joe Restivo; Gonerfest Official Comedown Dance Party (time TBA)
Lafayette's Music Room — Duane Cleveland Acoustic (12PM), Elevation Memphis: Tina Turner Experience (5PM)
Huey's Midtown — Bob Nelson & the Bobcats (3PM)
Growlers — 901 Underground (5:30PM), Out of Gas, The Soundyouhear and Abigail and the Starlings (7PM)
Crosstown Theater — Kafè Kirk: Kirk Whalum & Kayla Waters (6PM, $59 advance)
East Memphis
Huey's Poplar — The Settlers (3PM)
Huey's Southwind — Back Alley String Band (6PM)
Germantown • Bartlett • Lakeland • Collierville
Delta Blues Winery (Lakeland) — Ken & Darrin (2–5PM)
Huey's Collierville — Terry & The Wallbangers (6PM)
Huey's Germantown — Charvey Mac (6PM)
Huey's Cordova — Twin Soul (8PM)
Nashoba (Collierville) — School of Rock Showcase (11AM–8PM)
Knuckleheads Sidecar — Martin & Taylor Duo, Sunday Funday (2PM)
South Memphis
Hernando's Hide-A-Way — Laid Back Country Picker (7PM)
Millington • DeSoto • Tunica
Huey's Olive Branch — The Double Ds (3PM)
Huey's Millington — The Bugaloos (6PM)
Huey's Southaven — Even Odds (6PM)
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