Events

40 things to do in Memphis this week

Updated Friday, September 4· every event verified at the organizer’s own page

This is what’s actually happening in Memphis — today, tonight, and through the weekend. Every event below was checked at the organizer’s own website: real dates, real start times, real prices. No Facebook account required, no paywall. If we couldn’t confirm it at the source, it isn’t here.

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Today — Friday, September 4

  • Ideas Over Lunch: Annette Fournet, 'Capturing the Mystery of the Ordinary'

    Overton Park Conservancy · 11:45 AM · $5-$20

    A Czech-American photographer on black-and-white work and a life of travelling to make it, over lunch.

  • Fresh Food Friday at Roxie's Market

    Roxie's Market · 12:00 PM · Free to attend

    A neighborhood market run out of an Uptown corner store, all local vendors, and every dollar stays in the neighborhood. They were shut two weeks ago by a storm outage; this is the first Friday back.

  • Flingin' Friday

    Nolan Field, Christian Brothers University · 2:00 PM

    Bring a friend and a frisbee.

  • Delta Fair & Music Festival opening day

    Agricenter International · 4:00 PM · Gate $15 adults 13+, $10 youth 5-12, $10 seniors 65+, free 4 and under. Advance online $12/$8/$8. Ride wristband $31 Friday.

    Ten days of midway, livestock and fair food open Friday afternoon; buying the gate ticket online first saves a few dollars.

  • Delta Fair & Music Festival opens

    Agricenter International · 4:00 PM · $15 ages 13+, $10 ages 5-12 and 65+, free under 4 ($12/$8/$8 advance). Friday ride wristband $31.

    Ten days of it, starting tonight. Gates at four, which in this heat is the part worth knowing.

  • Family Movie Night

    Cordova Library · 6:00 PM · Free

    A double feature — Harry Potter, then How to Train Your Dragon — in somebody else's air conditioning, and nobody has to cook.

  • Memphis Symphony Big Band Orchestra at The Grove

    The Grove at GPAC (Germantown) · 7:00 PM · $30 + $5 handling adults; $5 + $3 handling ages 5-18; free 4 and under; table for up to 6 $40 + $6

    The MSO's big band keeps the archive of the Peabody Skyway Ballroom broadcasts - the same Big Band radio remotes a young Sam Phillips announced before he founded Sun. Lawn chairs, blankets, food trucks, outside food and drink allowed.

  • Ask Dylan / Kevin & Graham / Twin Heart Trap

    B-Side · 7:00 PM

    Three bands, one of them driving up from Birmingham, in a room that announces its whole week on Instagram and nowhere else.

  • Memphis Symphony Big Band at The Grove

    The Grove at GPAC (Germantown) · 7:00 PM · $30 + $5 fees adults, $5 + $3 ages 5-18, free under 4, table for six $40 + $6. Gates 6.

    The band keeps the archive of the Peabody Skyway Ballroom big-band radio broadcasts, the same remotes a young Sam Phillips announced before he built Sun. Lawn chairs, food trucks, outside food and drink welcome.

  • Metal Night: KaRRot (a KoRn tribute)

    Overton Park Shell · 7:00 PM · Free

    The Metal Museum's warm-up party for its own grand opening, thrown at the Shell with a Nashville KoRn tribute band. The museum's dress code, in its own words: best metal attire, blacksmith or rock.

  • The Band CAMINO opens Satellite Music Hall

    Satellite Music Hall · 7:00 PM

    Memphis got a new 1,300-capacity music hall, and a Memphis band gets to break it in. The name is a nod to Satellite Records, which is what Stax was called before it was Stax.

  • Metal Night: KaRRot (a tribute to KoRn)

    Overton Park Shell · 7:00 PM · Free

    A Korn tribute band on the Shell's free series, thrown as the warm-up party for the Metal Museum's move to Overton Park. Dress code, per the museum: your best metal attire, blacksmith or rock.

  • Halfway to St. Patrick's Day

    AutoZone Park · 7:05 PM · Tickets start at $9.01

    Green beer, a parade, dueling pianos and a pipe band in September, plus a St. Patrick's-themed jersey to the first 1,500 through the gate.

  • Redbirds vs. Durham — Halfway to St. Patrick's Day

    AutoZone Park · 7:05 PM · From $9.01

    Green beer, a parade, dueling pianos, a pipe band and a jersey giveaway to the first 1,500. March in September, essentially.

  • Speak, Salvation, Speak

    Hattiloo Theatre (main stage) · 7:30 PM

    Hattiloo's current main-stage run, with a Saturday matinee and a Sunday afternoon if Friday's already spoken for.

  • Toby Vest & The Dream Machine, with Frank McLallen & Extra Eyes

    The Green Room at Crosstown Arts · 7:30 PM · $20 advance plus fees, $30 door. Doors 7.

    Toby Vest has engineered half the Memphis records you own; this is him out front instead of behind the board, in a room where people actually shut up during the solos.

  • Music Box: D'Vonna Taylor

    Hattiloo Theatre Culture Box · 7:30 PM · $20 advance, $25 door

    A small back room, a singer, and a second set at ten for anyone whose Friday starts late.

  • Keer / Phases / Vixxen

    Hi Tone (small room, downstairs) · 8:00 PM · $13.50. Doors 7.

    Three bands downstairs for less than a movie ticket.

  • Clownvis / IV and The Strange Band

    Hi Tone (big room, upstairs) · 9:00 PM · $24.50-$29.50. Doors 8.

    A full Elvis revue performed in clown makeup. In Memphis that's either sacrilege or exactly right.

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Tomorrow — Saturday, September 5

  • Hernando Farmers Market

    Hernando Town Square (Hernando) · 8:00 AM · Free to attend

    A Mississippi Certified Market on the old courthouse square, with SNAP dollars doubled up to $20 on fruit and vegetables.

  • Bartlett Farmers Market

    A. Keith McDonald Pavilion (Bartlett) · 8:00 AM · Free to attend

    Get there early - by ten it is already too hot to browse.

  • Hustle & Flow HIIT

    Sunset Canopy, Tom Lee Park · 9:00 AM · Free

    Free riverfront workout under the canopy.

  • Breath Work and Meditation

    Overton Park Shell · 9:00 AM · Free

    An hour of breathing and guided meditation on the Shell lawn before the heat lands.

  • Free gallery hours

    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art · 10:00 AM · Free

    Two free hours every Saturday morning, and this is one of the last autumns the Brooks spends in Overton Park before the move downtown.

  • Meet Children's Author Kayle Boyd

    Cordova Library · 11:00 AM · Free

    A real author, in person, for the picture-book set.

  • Metal Museum Grand Opening

    Metal Museum (new Overton Park home) · 12:00 PM · Free (RSVP requested)

    The Metal Museum opens the doors of its new Overton Park home after 47 years on the river bluff - inaugural exhibitions, live smithing demonstrations and hands-on activities. The museum's own words: everyone is invited.

  • Project Pop-up! (all ages)

    Dixon Gallery & Gardens · 1:00 PM · Not printed on the organizer's page

    Drop-in art making for all ages in the air conditioning.

  • Memphis PowerPop Festival with The Smithereens

    Overton Park Shell · 5:00 PM · Free

    Four hours of power pop for nothing, with The Smithereens closing it out from 7:30.

  • Havana Good Time

    Hi Tone Cafe (Big Room) · 5:00 PM · Free

    A free Latin set in the big room at five, which is early enough to still make dinner.

  • Memphis Tigers vs. Arkansas State

    Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium · 6:00 PM · From $9

    The home opener, and the first game in the finished stadium after a $226.5 million renovation. Nine dollars gets you in the door.

  • Wrestling Night + Jimmy Hart autograph signing

    AutoZone Park · 6:05 PM · Tickets start at $9.01

    Live wrestling, a free autograph session with the Mouth of the South himself, a Rockey bobblehead to the first 1,400 and fireworks after the last out.

  • Music Box: Kortland Whalum

    Hattiloo Theatre Culture Box · 7:30 PM · $20 advance, $25 door

    A Whalum on a Memphis stage in a room that seats a few dozen.

Sunday, September 6

Monday, September 7

  • Memphis Parks splash pads - final day of the season

    David Carnes, Douglass, Hollywood, McFarland, Orange Mound, Peabody and Whitehaven Parks · 10:00 AM · Free

    All seven shut off after Labor Day and do not reopen until May.

  • Delta Fair & Music Festival (Labor Day)

    Agricenter International · 11:00 AM · Gate $15 adults 13+, $10 youth 5-12, $10 seniors 65+, free 4 and under. Monday ride wristband $31.

    The fair runs straight through the holiday on its longest Monday hours.

Just missed

The last couple of days, for the record — and a pretty good argument for getting tomorrow’s list at 6am.

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