McMillan runs Kenny Dorham’s Backyard, a multi-use venue space that’s long been an Eastside holdout for blues jams and reliable residencies. The city-owned venue has struggled financially over the ...

The newly renovated Beale Street Theater will host its first live performance on America’s 249th birthday, and brings a ...

Landmark concert venues, museums, and music trails around the South continue to tell the region’s ever-changing sonic story.

From the Cathedral of Junk in Austin to the Sun Tunnels in Utah, these lesser-known art destinations offer a unique and ...

From academics and facilities to athletics, Fred Smith deeply invested in the future of the University of Memphis.

Caught in that genteeling was the street of dance halls, voodoo doctors, fortune tellers and saloons that Blueswriter W. C. Handy made famous in Beale Street Blues.

MEMPHIS --While Beale Street is famous for being the Home of the Blues, red was the color of the day Dec. 26 at the Beale Street Parade, where many watchers were clad in red -- a team color for ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Along historic Beale Street, you can hear the blues known around the world emanating from nightclubs, but some tourists want to know if a few club closings mean the street is … ...

Opinion :Redevelopment of Beale Street began less than two decades after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Now the iconic street needs a reboot.

B.B. King's Blues Club Tony Holmes, from right, Jonathan Ellison and Darryl Cooper perform with the P.S. Band on June 17, 2020, at B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale Street in Memphis.