MUSIC MONTH
STAX: Memphis Music’s Museum
As a tribute to music month:
Memphis is known for it’s own history of music. In a recent interview, musician saxophonist Kirk Whallum spoke of specific ties that Memphis music is universal. Whallum stated that during his visiting and world tours he found the Memphis sounds in places such as restaurants, shopping plazas and on radios everywhere he went. Living in Paris for two years he said he never lost connection of hearing the sounds of Memphis music being played. Whallum was named to the position of CEO of Stax Music Soulsville on April 15, 2010. He still tours, but whenever he’s at his stationed position he’s promoting Stax. Whallum said in a recent television news interview that “Most music instruments have an African connection.” Instruments like drums, violins, flute and horns. This too, he mentioned is also the way of the music of Memphis with it’s blues sounds, rock, and rap and it one of its original type of music "American Soul."
Memphis music makes a universal wave and is known by its own diversity of tunes and sounds. Those who reside in Memphis can make a tour of the Stax museum which has been around for a while. Music and singers like Issac Hayes, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis are icons of the Stax museum but, there are so many others. Memphis music…part of the history of music month and a everyday sound world-wide. Tours of the STAX Museum Soulsville, USA are open daily. For those of who don’t live in Memphis, take a web site tour at this address:
www.soulsvilleusa.com/
Posted By: MIISRAEL Bride
Thursday, June 10th 2010 at 8:58AM
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