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On the Fly: Week of 5/2/25

Post author By Abigail Morici
Post date May 1, 2025

Kick off the dog days of summer at Crosstown Concourse's Puppy Palooza. (Photo: Courtesy Crosstown Concourse)

RiverBeat Music Festival
Tom Lee Park
Friday-Sunday, May 2-4
RiverBeat Music Festival returns this year, with headliners Missy Elliott, The Killers, and Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals. Also performing are a bunch of other people including some local folks, and I have neither the space nor the energy to list them all out, so check out the full lineup here. Single-day tickets are $99, and three-day passes are $249.

Memphis Art and Fashion Week
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Friday, May 2-Saturday, May 10
Walk, walk, fashion, baby. Work it, move it to the Brooks, baby, as the museum presents its Art and Fashion Week, a weeklong series of events highlights the artistry of fashion, featuring exclusive experiences with renowned designers, thought-provoking discussions, and unforgettable moments. There will be a Blue Suede Vintage After Hours Shopping event, Met Gala Watch Party, Culinary Couture: Dinner by Karen Carrier, Backstage with Korto Momulu talk, Runway at the Museum, and Cocktails with the Curator: Black Dandyism. Read more about the week here.

Trolls Garden Party
Memphis Botanic Garden
Friday, May 2, 6:30 p.m.
This 21+ event will have you embracing nature and exploring the Memphis Botanic garden after hours. Guests will enjoy live music, interactive activities, gourmet food trucks, and more — all while visiting Thomas Dambo’s “Trolls: Save the Humans” exhibit. Tickets are $35 for nonmembers and include three complimentary cocktails. Also this weekend is the family-friendly Troll Fest, on Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. There will be crafts, games, music, community partners, vendors, artists, and more.

Raising Ilana’s Mother
TheatreSouth
Friday-Saturday, May 2-3, 8 p.m. | Sunday, May 4, 2 p.m.
Madness, failure, yearning, and dreams yield danger, humor, reimagined psalms, and more in this unconventionally classic mother-child drama, where Jewish culture could be its own character in the cast. Time travels fluidly between 1950 and 2002, allowing for magical meetups as the action bubbles across metro-Jerusalem, New York suburbs, and beyond. Get tickets ($23.02) here.

Chalkfest
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Chalk it up to a good time at the Brooks’ free Chalkfest, where you can join local artists and transform the Brooks’ plaza into the most colorful work of art. Explore the galleries and exhibitions for inspiration, dance to music from the Soul Shockers and DJ Siphne, and enjoy art activities and face painting with Nicole Dorsey. Plus, watch local artists Kaylyn Webster, Carl E. Moore, Craig Thompson, and Mikaela Colina recreate favorites from Memphis’ art’ collection.

Bookstock
Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Saturday, May 3, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
This fest is for the books. Literally. This free, family-friendly event features a lineup of keynote speakers (Roxane Gay, author of Hunger & Difficult Women, and Shamichael Hallman, author of Meet Me at the Library), 60 local authors’ exhibits, performances, workshops, exhibits, and activities for all ages. Find out more here.

Overton Square Crawfish Festival
Overton Square
Saturday, May 3, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Overton Square is hosting its Crawfish Festival, with live music, ice-cold beer, and a local artist market.

Puppy Palooza
Crosstown Concourse
Saturday, May 3, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Crosstown Concourse is putting on its Puppy Palooza with pet photos and caricatures, dog adoptions, a costume contest, toy giveaways and bacon bubbles, a magic show and DJ, a blessing of the animals, agility courses, yard games, and more. The day is free to join.

Alton Brown Live: Last Bite
Orpheum Theatre
Saturday, May 3, 4 p.m.
In the Middle Ages, May was considered the month of three milkings because, apparently, with all the fresh spring grass the cows were eating, you could milk them three times in one day during May. And that friends is where my food fun facts end for the day, but if you want more, check out Alton Brown’s show at the Orpheum, where the famed foodist will “present several of his favorite culinary mega-hacks, sing some of his funny food songs, and in general offer a culinary variety show the likes of which human eyes have never seen.” Tickets ($51.90-92.90) can be purchased here.

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Memphis Art & Fashion Week Begins Friday

Post author By Abigail Morici
Post date May 1, 2025

Photo: Courtesy Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Kicking off on Friday, May 2nd, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will host its Memphis Art and Fashion Week, complete with a runway, immersive experiences, and conversations.

“It’s about culture. It’s about art. It’s about music, community, and inclusivity,” says Ramona Sonin, director of Memphis Art and Fashion Week and associate professor at the University of Memphis. “It’s a celebration of art, fashion, and the creatives in Memphis.”

In that vein, interior designers Carmeon Hamilton and Colin Chapman will host a Met Gala Watch Party on Monday, May 5th, and Wednesday’s Culinary Couture event will celebrate chef Karen Carrier as she prepares a menu inspired by the artistry and boldness of high fashion. DJs will take over the runway’s after-party. “Having these wonderful creatives all come together to celebrate art and fashion, it’s just really wonderful,” Sonin says. “I’m so grateful to the Brooks for listening to my ideas.”

Last year was the Brooks’ inaugural Art and Fashion: Runway at the Museum, then a one-night event. “It sold out,” Sonin says. “And then we found ways to make a few more spots again, and then we opened tickets up again and it sold out again in seven minutes. So Memphis has been so supportive of it, and clearly it’s something that they love seeing. Knowing that, we came back this year officially with a Memphis Art and Fashion Week — and not just necessarily the traditional runway but also celebrating art.”

The Friday, May 9th, runway show with nearly 50 designers, local and national, will feature several categories including mini collection, micro collection, wearable art, and more, with headliner Korto Momolu, acclaimed Project Runway designer. “She is an amazing talent I can’t wait for Memphis to see on the runway,” Sonin says. “From watching her on Project Runway, the way she works with fabric and her structure, I’ve always adored that, and her use of fabrics as well.”

At the start of the runway will be works by U of M students in the school’s fashion program. Students will also be backstage helping with models get dressed and undressed and so forth. “It gets super chaotic in a wonderful way,” Sonin says. “It’s something you could never teach in the classroom. You can talk about backstage all day long in the classroom, but until they’re back and they’re experiencing it, they’ll never understand it fully. So I’m so happy that we’re able to do that.”

Almost nine years ago, when Sonin first moved here, opportunities like this didn’t exist for students. U of M’s fashion program didn’t exist. “We already had a fashion merchandising program, which I was hired to come in and revamp. In doing that, I pitched the idea of design, and it was approved. And so the design program has just been growing and growing.

“There wasn’t anything really here, the love for it was here, but there was not an outlet for celebrating it.”

Of course, there was the now-closed Arrow Creative’s Memphis Fashion Week, last celebrated in 2023, but as Sonin says, “They had their own mission, and our mission is certainly different.”

Already, the Brooks and Sonin are looking to 2026’s Memphis Art and Fashion Week. “We had so many applications that we are now in the process of considering that the runway may need to be a two-night event,” Sonin says.

“The Brooks has really embraced the idea of fashion as part of art,” Sonin adds, pointing out the museum’s Couture Collective, whose members can attend exclusive events and have access to opportunities in selecting works of art related to the fashion community. “Fashion is an art, and there’s some very artful things that are done in the creation process of making anything, even for a traditional runway. So I think it’s the celebration of that, and people are starting to realize that as well.”

For more information about Memphis Art and Fashion Week and for tickets, visit brooksmuseum.org/program/fashion. A schedule of events is below. (All events take place at the Brooks unless otherwise noted.)

Memphis Art and Fashion Week Schedule

Blue Suede Vintage After Hours: Shop local, get your unique vintage look, and stand out at Memphis’ week of fashion and fun. | Blue Suede Vintage, 486 North Hollywood Street, Memphis, TN 38112, Friday, May 2nd, 5 p.m., free

Met Gala Watch Party: Kick off Memphis Art & Fashion Week and watch the red carpet arrivals of the Met Gala in style. | Monday, May 5, 6 p.m., free/Couture Collective, $20/museum member, $35/general admission

Culinary Couture: This exclusive dinner features a menu by chef Karen Carrier that celebrates creativity across the senses. | Wednesday, May 7, 6 p.m., $175/Couture Collective, $175/museum member, $195/general admission

Backstage with Korto Momolu: A dynamic conversation with the acclaimed Project Runway designer on creativity and cultural influence. | Thursday, May 8, 6 p.m, free/Couture Collective, $10/museum member, $18/general admission, $7/student

Runway at the Museum + After Party: A showcase of more than 50 visionary designers from across the country followed by a party in the Summer Art Garden. | Friday, May 9, 6 p.m., free/Couture Collective, $35/general admission, $25/U of M student, $110/VIP, $15/after-party only

Cocktails with the Curator: Black Dandyism: An exploration of fashion, identity, and resistance with the assistant curator of photography C. Rose Smith. | Saturday, May 10, 3 p.m., free/museum member, $18/general admission

Tags brooks, fashion, Memphis Art and Fashion Week, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Ramona Sonin

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New Exhibit at the Pink Palace Explores Black Belt Prairie

Post author By Sarai Bennett
Post date April 30, 2025
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The “Landshaping” exhibit pairs ancient history and geology with contemporary photography. (Photo: Courtesy Pink Palace)

Did you know that Memphis and the Mid-Southern region of the U.S. was once covered by a prehistoric ocean? That’s how the term “Black Belt Prairie” originated. If you are curious to learn more then the “Landshaping: The Origins of Black Belt Prairie” exhibit at the Pink Palace Museum & Mansion will teach you all about the Black Belt Prairie phenomenon and much more.

So, what is the best and easiest way to describe the Black Belt Prairie? “The Black Belt Prairie is a geographic location on the map,” says Raka Nandi, the Pink Palace’s director of exhibits and collections. “And it’s an area of a country where the soil is very, very rich. The soil is rich because of a geologic phenomenon that happened about 75 million years ago [which] is called the Mississippi Embayment. And what happened millions of years ago, there was actually an inland sea.”

“Landshaping” will display fossils from the marine life that existed in these inland waters, plus photographs taken by Memphis photographer Houston Cofield. Cofield has taken images of farms, prairies, and individuals to help audiences visualize the beauty and the impact of the Black Belt Prairie on the South.

“In the exhibition, we juxtaposed these ancient fossils [and] farm tools that were used in the past to till the soil with these beautiful photographs taken by Houston,” says Nandi. “So it’s a real sort of narrowing of art with science if I can put it that way.”

The exhibition is open to the public through October 12th, so you have some time to check it out before it leaves. It’s also worth mentioning that the exhibit is included if you purchase a general admission ticket. For more information about the new exhibition and where to purchase tickets, visit moshmemphis.com/landshaping-the-origins-of-the-black-belt-prairie.

“Landshaping: The Origins of the Black Belt Prairie,” Pink Palace Museum & Mansion, through October 12.

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We Saw You: Love Food Hate Waste

Post author By Michael Donahue
Post date April 30, 2025

Marie Dennan, Mike Larrivee, and Cristina McCarter (Photos: Michael Donahue)

People helped the environment by attending Love Food Hate Waste, which was held Friday, April 11th, at Memphis Made Brewing Co. at The Ravine.

**Dreisy Aguilera, Lindsey Jenkins,**
**Lance Willinger, and Alex Smith**

The event, hosted by Project Green Fork during Food Waste Week, included food trivia, prizes, and two food trucks, Flipside Asia and Good Groceries. Project Green Fork notes on their website that “we waste up to 40 percent of food grown for human consumption. Most of this food ends up in landfills where it gives off methane gas that is driving climate change. Additionally, in Memphis nearly one in five residents is food insecure. We’re throwing away the solution to two problems and creating new ones.”

**Marie Dennan and**
**Patrick Gridley**

According to information sent by Project Green Fork program consultant Ali Manning, Love Food Hate Waste is “a free, interactive event designed to engage the community in fun, educational activities focused on reducing food waste. The event will feature three rounds of food waste trivia, a culinary demo using surplus ingredients, and a volunteer recognition.”

Tags food insecurity, food waste, Food Waste Week, Love Food Hate Waste, Project Green Fork

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On the Fly: Week of 04/25/25

Post author By Abigail Morici
Post date April 25, 2025
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Get your crawfish on at the Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival this Sunday. (Photo: Molly Berry)

Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale
Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Friday, April 25, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. | Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Sunday, April 27, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
The Friends of the Library is hosting its annual Spring Book Sale, not to compete with its annual Fall Book Sale. And they’ll be selling books, CDs, DVDs, vinyls, and more at low, low prices this weekend. Sunday is Bag Day, so get that bag.

Science of Wine
Pink Palace Museum & Mansion
Friday, April 25, 6:30 p.m.
Drink wine and eat food. And “learn” — ’cause that’s why you’re going to this event, right? General admission tickets are $80 and can be purchased here.

10-Minute Play Festival
Hattiloo Theatre
Friday-Saturday, April 25-26, 7:30 p.m. | Saturday-Sunday, April 26-27, 2 p.m.
See six 10-minute plays at Hattiloo Theatre’s inaugural 10-Minute Play Festival. (Talk about a bang for your buck!). Each play features some of Shelby County’s best theater talent — writers, actors, directors and crew — creating stories about the Black experience. Tickets are $25.

Independent Bookstore Day
Saturday, April 26
It’s Independent Bookstore Day this weekend. Celebrate with Novel (exclusive merch, storytime, Sweet Moon Cookies pop-up, prize drawings, and Spillit Memphis Slam at 6 p.m.) and Burke’s Bookstore (giveaways, drawings, and cookies).

Art in the Loop 2025
Ridgeway Loop
Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Sunday, April 27, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Get in the loop with Art in the Loop, which is in the loop about fine crafts in metal, glass, wood, clay, and fiber, as well as 2D disciplines. The festival will also have food trucks and performances. Admission is free.

32nd Annual Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival benefiting Porter-Leath
Downtown Memphis on Riverside Drive, between Jefferson and Union
Sunday, April 27, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Thousands of pounds of fresh Louisiana crawfish? Pinch me, I must be dreaming, or you might be a crawfish. Oh, but it’s real. It’s all at the Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival, where thousands of pounds of fresh Louisiana crawfish await you. Enjoy games including crawfish bobbing, eating, and racing; arts and crafts vendors; music, and a kids area. Funds raised at the festival support local children and families through Porter-Leath’s early childhood services, foster care, teacher training, mentoring, and more. Admission is free.

Benny Elbows: 40 + Hours of Stand-Up
Hi Tone Cafe
Through Saturday, April 26, 10:15 p.m.
“Telling jokes for 40-plus hours is no laughing matter” — that’s what Michael Donahue wrote for his piece on Benny Elbows, who’s attempting to break a world record by doing stand-up for more than 40 hours. Stop by his show for a record-breaking moment. Admission is free, but people must register for the last hour when the album is being made. Register here.

Earth Day Festival
C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa
Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Enjoy open access to the archaeology lab, spear throwing, a guided nature hike, birds of prey program, crafts, and more.

23rd Annual World Championship Hot Wing Contest and Festival
River Garden Park on Riverside Drive
Saturday, April 26, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Wing, wing, wing, this festival is calling for you. Enjoy food, contests, and fun — all to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis. General admission ($25) tickets get three wing bucks for redemption of three wings from the competing teams. VIP tickets ($150) are also available.

Mix Odyssey
Mud Island River Park
Wednesday, April 30, 6-9 p.m.
Shake, shake, shake, shake your cocktail for Volunteer Odyssey’s Mix Odyssey. Six mixologists from around the city will compete to be the Memphis Mixologist of the year, and you get to choose the winner as you sample the custom-made recipes. The evening will have music, food, beer, wine, and more. Tickets are $60/single or $100/pair.

AAPI Heritage Month Kickoff: Island Vibes & Happy Hour!
Caption by Hyatt – Beer Garden & Talk Shop
Thursday, May 1, 5-7:30 p.m.
Kick off Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Memphis with a vibrant Happy Hour celebration filled with island flavors, tropical cocktails, and community spirit! Tickets are $40 and include Pacific Island-inspired cocktails and Pacific Island cuisine. This 21+ event kicks off AAPI Heritage Month Memphis & The Hungry Tiger Food Tour with Edible Memphis. Find the full schedule of AAPI Heritage Month events here.

See a full calendar of events here. Submit events here or by emailing calendar@memphisflyer.com.

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WE SAW YOU: Huey’s 55th Anniversary Block Party

Post author By Michael Donahue
Post date April 23, 2025

Alex, Henry, Thomas, Jenay, Reagan Boggs (Photos: Michael Donahue)

Beautiful weather, the smell of hamburgers, the sound of music from performers that included Lucero and Sons of Mudboy, and a throng of people helped make Huey’s 55th Anniversary Block Party a success.

The party was held around the original Huey’s Midtown location at 1927 Madison Avenue. Huey’s now has eight locations in Tennessee and two in Mississippi, says Alex Boggs, Huey’s area director and marketing director.

**Drew Helland and**
**Savannah Maxwell**

**Ashley and Michael Robilio and**
**Lauren Robinson**

Madison Avenue from Barksdale Street to Rembert Street and 100 yards of Tucker Street were blocked off for the April 13th event, Boggs says. As for the crowd count, he says, “I think we had about 3,500 to 4,000.”

The block party wasn’t just to celebrate 55 years. “We wanted to thank Memphis for taking care of us. Thank our staff and customers for being so loyal and supporting Church Health, which has been a charitable partner with us for decades.”

**Kiryn Brossard, Brandy Brossard, and**
**Willie Terry**

He adds, “Our employees are the ones who make Huey’s what we are.”

Huey’s, which supports many charities, is “more than a restaurant,” Boggs says. It’s “part of the entire community for the greater Memphis area.”

Tags Alex Boggs, Huey's, Huey's 55th Anniversary Block Party, Lucero, Sons of Mudboy

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Memphis Listening Lab Introduces New Listening Series

Post author By Alex Greene
Post date April 23, 2025

John Snyder (Photo: Cathy Weeks)

David Less and Robert Gordon are no strangers to the Memphis Listening Lab (MLL), being scholars of music from Memphis and elsewhere. During their appearances at MLL listening events, they’ve premiered, willy-nilly, their share of unreleased, just-released, or little-known tracks on the lab’s hi-fi stereo system. But now they’re about to make a regular thing of it with a new listening series, Echoes in the Room: Unreleased Recordings & the Stories They Left Behind, slated to premiere this Saturday.

Curating a listening experience of raw, unreleased recordings comes naturally to Less and Gordon — and to the music insider guests they’ll be hosting. Saturday’s inaugural event will feature one such guest, who’s been heavily invested in some of the deepest music of our times: John Snyder. Having played in bands through the ’60s, then rising quickly to produce jazz sessions from the ’70s on, Snyder has decades of experience heading up projects at labels as diverse as CTI, A&M, Atlantic, and RCA.

Reaching him by phone in Athens, Georgia, I ask Snyder what we could expect in the way of unreleased tracks from artists he’s worked with. Would there be sonic treasures by, say, Chet Baker, Etta James, or Dave Brubeck? Surprisingly, the first audio gems he thinks of are not artists’ outtakes from studio sessions, but even rarer gems: audio interviews.

“I have a lot of spoken word Ornette [Coleman],” Snyder notes, “because every time I would talk to him about his business stuff, he was so opaque in his speech and his syntax that I couldn’t really understand him. Trying to make legal sense out of it was impossible. So I said, ‘Tell me what you’re actually talking about,’ routinely, with the tape machine sitting right in front of him. Just hearing his speech is kind of instructional because it’s a lot like his playing. You can have some difficulty in understanding it until you get used to it.”

Yet another interview from his archives may be even more fantastical. “I have some Sun Ra talking about interstellar travel,” says Snyder, “and his opinions on this planet in comparison to others. And that has a story, too. When I signed Sun Ra back in the ’80s, he objected to the contract that was ‘for the universe’ because he wanted the rights to Saturn. He wasn’t kidding. So when the lawyer said A&M wouldn’t let me do it, my question to the president of A&M was, ‘Who’s crazier, your lawyers or Sun Ra? Because Sun Ra is for real. You guys are just making shit up.’ They didn’t need the rights to Saturn. They could give up Saturn. Sunny [Blount, aka Sun Ra] was … different.” Moreover, in the audio interview, “you can hear him talk, you can hear that voice.”

Snyder pauses to marvel a minute at the echoes of souls he’s encountered over his decades of work in music production, promotion, and education. And then he mentions some music that might be unearthed on Saturday: Chet Baker or the last recordings of Ornette Coleman’s original quartet. Snyder clearly takes delight at the thought of sharing them. “It’s fun because you see so much of the history of how things were done.”

Echoes in the Room: Unreleased Recordings & the Stories They Left Behind, Memphis Listening Lab, 1350 Concourse Avenue, Suite 269, Saturday, April 26, 6-8 p.m.

Tags David Less, Echoes in the Room, John Snyder, Memphis Listening Lab, Robert Gordon

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WE SAW YOU: Memphis Tattoo Festival

Post author By Michael Donahue
Post date April 16, 2025

Cameron Carroll traveled from the north Seattle area to Memphis for the Memphis Tattoo Festival, held April 4th, 5th, and 6th at the Renasant Convention Center.

It was his second year attending the festival, Carroll says. College Station, Texas, tattoo artist David Hershman worked on one side of his leg last year, and his other leg this year. Carroll says he “had to come back. [Hershman] invited me out here, and I flew out from Washington.”

**Jen Archer, James Archer, and**
**Jacques Van Wyk**

Asked what he likes about the festival, Carroll, who sports seven tattoos, says, “It’s a blast. Amazing people. It’s always a good time. Just a bunch of laughs. Great people out here. It’s a fun time.”

**Austin Gilbert,** **Breanna Nelson, Christina Robertson, and Travis Robertson**

Quinn Hurley, director of operations for the three-day event presented by Tattoo Fest and the Explore Tattoo Conference, was pleased to be “coming back to a city that really embraced us and embraced us again this year.”

**Madelynne Caldwell and Makayla Weaver**

**Zach Morris, Sarah Lee, Adrian Hood, Leah Chester, and Jenner and Joshua Brook**

“This is an artistic show,” he says. “Everyone that’s here is here because they love some sort of art. A lot of it’s tattooing, but we have our vendors that make art as well. And so we wanted the festival to reflect the love of that.”

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Good Vibes Comedy Festival Returns for a Second Year

Post author By Sarai Bennett
Post date April 16, 2025

Roast battle at last year’s Good Vibes Comedy Festival. (Photo: Courtesy Nathan Jackson)

Has life been so stressful lately that you haven’t had the time to do activities that you enjoy doing? Whether that’s watching your favorite movie or hanging out with your closest friends, it’s clear that it’s been way too long since you have had real fun. It’s okay, relax. Your one-stop destination for live entertainment has arrived because the Good Vibes Comedy Festival is back to make sure their attendees leave grinning ear to ear with their mouths sore from nonstop laughing.

Hosted by John Miller and Nathan Jackson, and sponsored by several local businesses like Hi Tone Cafe and Charlie Vergo’s Rendezvous, the Good Vibes Comedy Festival will feature several comedians that will be headlining this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. “So we have Carlos Hernandez. He’s from Miami. [Then we have] Erica Nicole Clark. [Next] is Joshua Black; he was voted one of Nashville’s best stand-up comics last year, I believe. And our local headliner is a young man named Wild Beale,” says Miller.

Black will be headlining Friday night, Clark and Hernandez will be there Saturday night, and last but not least, Wild Beale will be representing the Bluff City on Sunday night. In total, there will be 14 shows across three days with more than 40 comedians performing.

Those who are up-and-coming comedians or improv artists can apply to be featured as a headliner for next year’s festival. “Next year, anyone can submit. All [you] have to do is send a video to the submission form, fill out the application, pay the fee, and we’ll be watching your video,” says Miller. “And the selection process is by committee. So it’s me, [Nathan Jackson], and a few other people [who] will vote.”

The Good Vibes Comedy Festival will be held at the Hi Tone Cafe and tickets are on sale now. To find out more about this event and where to purchase tickets, go here.

Hi Tone Cafe, 282-284 North Cleveland Street, Friday-Sunday, April 18-20, 6 p.m., $20/single show, $35/all-day pass,
$80/three-day pass.

Tags Carlos Hernandez, Erica Nicole Clark, Good Vibes Comedy Festival, john miller, Joshua Black, nathan jackson, Wild Beale