Wands up at AutoZone Park, a ukulele flash mob in Germantown, and 250 food stalls on Tiger Lane

Hey Memphis 👋 It's Thursday. Mostly sunny and 96, heat index reaching 106, then a 50-50 shot at storms between seven and one tonight — worth knowing if your evening is outdoors. Five things tonight below, then the whole weekend.

Two fixes first. The Third Thursday Trek we pointed you toward yesterday is sold out — the calendar still shows it open, the event page has a waitlist form where the button should be. And FoodieLand is $20 a day, not the $15 we printed twice this week. That one's on us.

🌙 Tonight

Get Outside Fitness: Yoga Sculpt — Shelby Farms Park, 6 PM, free. Yoga flows with cardio bursts, outdoors, right when the workday quits. Register ahead, and watch that storm line. Details

Memphis Redbirds vs. Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp — 2000's Night — AutoZone Park, first pitch 6:45, from $9.01. $2 Pabst if you're 21-plus, and $7 seats for anybody who can produce a college email address. Details

The Music Man — Theatre Memphis, 630 Perkins Extd., 7:30 PM, $15 to $62. Seventy-six trombones in a 411-seat room. Details

Canyon Lights — Hernando's Hide-A-Way, 3210 Old Hernando Rd., show at 8, $10 to $15. A blues bill in the old Jerry Lee Lewis juke joint. Details

Thirsty Thursdays Adult Skate 9pm-12am 21+ DJ PHATZILLA DA GREAT — Skate Odyssey of Horn Lake, 4560 Goodman Road, 9 PM to midnight, $10. Grown folks, a DJ, and the rental skates are included. Details

☀️ Your Weekend in Memphis

Friday

FoodieLand — Tiger Lane at Liberty Park, 940 Early Maxwell Blvd., Friday 3–10 PM, Saturday and Sunday 1–10 PM, $20 a day, kids five and under free. More than 250 vendors. Tickets online only, no re-entry, parking $11.50, and Saturday sells timed entry — the early-afternoon slots were gone when we checked. Details

Happy Friday—Free Admission! — Outdoors in The Grove at GPAC, 1801 Exeter Road, Germantown, 5–8 PM, free. Josh Threlkeld's weekly lawn set, except this week it's a ukulele flash mob. GPAC's page is blunt about your role: bring your ukulele. Details

End of Summer Block party — Al Town D.I.Y. Skatepark, 849 Roland Street, 3–11 PM, free. Eight hours at a park South Memphis skaters built themselves. Details

Music Box: Featuring Black Cream — Hattiloo Culture Box, 37 Cooper St., 8 PM, $20 advance and $25 door. A soul-rock trio in a deliberately tiny room, twice — if the 8 o'clock sells, there's a 10:30. Details

Saturday

Olive Branch Farmers Market — the front lawn of Olive Branch City Hall, 9200 Pigeon Roost Rd., 8 AM–12 PM, free. Produce, baked goods and crafts on the city hall lawn. Details

ANALOG FEST 2026 — Ghost River Main, 827 South Main St., 3–10 PM, $5 to $15. Seven hours of local bands, and the first hundred through the door get in for five dollars. Details

Memphis Redbirds vs. Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp — Harry Potter Night — AutoZone Park, first pitch 6:35, from $9.01. Postgame fireworks and Hogwarts house scarves for the first 1,500 in. A wool scarf in August is a bold move and we respect it. Details

Sunday

AUG. 23 | Sam Shaw (Dexter Lumis) is coming to Memphis Wrestling! — Memphis Wrestling WrestleCenter, 3296 Winbrook Drive, 1:30 PM, $14.90 to $31.30. The WWE name on a card with Memphis institution Bill Dundee. Details

Freyrsblót with The Fellowship of Yggdrasil — The Broom Closet, 552 South Main St., 7–9 PM, free. A Norse harvest ritual in the back of a South Main metaphysical shop. You will not find this on another calendar in this city. Details

👶 Kids & Family this weekend

Super Saturday – Optical Illusions — Brooks Museum of Art, 1934 Poplar Ave., Saturday 10 AM–12 PM, free. Kids build an Agamograph — the folded-strip trick where the picture changes as you walk past. Ages 5 to 12, registration required. Details

Native Plant Palooza — Lichterman Nature Center, 5992 Quince Rd., Saturday 10:30 AM–5 PM, free all day. Lichterman drops its gate entirely for plant sales and back-to-back talks — foraging at 10:30, a tree walk and fireflies at 11:30. Details

Kids Markets at Lakeland LAMP Summer Concert — 4523 Canada Road, Lakeland, Saturday 6–9 PM, free. Kids 5 to 17 run their own market stalls alongside the concert. Buying a five-dollar thing from a nine-year-old is an excellent Saturday. Details

Sunday at AutoZone Park: Kids Run the Bases — AutoZone Park, first pitch 1:05 PM, from $9.01. Any kid who wants to can run the bases after the last out, and it's the last home game for two weeks. Details

Want the whole verified list, updated daily? It lives at heymemphis.co/events.

📰 The Rundown

The Botanic Garden quietly grew a new permanent attraction: Fun Studio, a Sun Studio-inspired music play space inside My Big Backyard, built around child-scale outdoor instruments. Included with admission, and it is going to be loud. (via Memphis Flyer) · My Big Backyard

St. Jude has picked its next leader. Dr. Charles W.M. Roberts, who has run its Comprehensive Cancer Center since 2015, becomes president and CEO on January 1, 2027, succeeding Dr. James R. Downing. (via Action News 5) · St. Jude

MLGW is doing free pilot light safety checks for residential customers all September, by appointment. After October 1 the same visit runs $68. (via Action News 5) · MLGW

Driving south this weekend, give yourself the night. TDOT has intermittent lane closures on I-55 and S. Third Street, 8 PM to 6 AM nightly, running through Friday, August 28. (via TDOT)

🍽️ Food & Drink

The Uptown market where the farmers are the vendors — Roxie's Market runs Fresh Food Fridays every Friday, 12–6 PM, at 520 N. Third Street. A collaboration between The Works Urban Farm and Black Seeds Urban Farms, built to close the gap between local growers and Uptown residents without easy access to fresh food. Their market

🎟️ Looking Ahead

Two Minglewood on-sales hit tomorrow — Emo Nite (October 24) and Lucas Zelnick (February 19) both go on sale Friday, August 21. Details

Hernando starts a Thursday music series — Hometown Headliners kicks off September 3 — a new standing Thursday night in DeSoto County, which usually takes a year to hear about. Details

The Avett Brothers with Drive-By Truckers — Grind City Amp, Thursday, October 1, doors 5:30 and show 7, on sale now. Details

🏡 Community Corner

Friday's block party is at a skatepark that exists because a few people just built it. No ribbon cutting, no line item, no calendar. So what's the thing in your neighborhood that exists purely because somebody decided it should — the garden on the vacant lot, the little library, the goal everybody uses? Hit reply and tell us where. We'll go look.

The tip line never closes — a pop-up, a band, a Thursday night we missed — no gatekeeping — send it to hey@heymemphis.co.

That's it for today — see you tomorrow at 6.

— Josh