{"id":818,"date":"2017-03-13T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/03\/13\/the-memphis-picnic-has-got-the-blues\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T15:00:04","slug":"the-memphis-picnic-has-got-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/03\/13\/the-memphis-picnic-has-got-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Memphis Picnic Has Got the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Announcement_SXSW-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Memphis Announcement_SXSW\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21597\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a music fan, you probably know a thing or two about Memphis: birthplace of blues, city of Elvis and Al Green, Sun Studio, Hi Records, Stax and American, Ardent, and Big Star. But what do you know about what\u2019s happening right now?<\/p>\n<p>Memphis is still a city of originals, and you can sample some of them when <strong>Music Export Memphis<\/strong> brings its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/schedule.sxsw.com\/2017\/events\/OE05772\">Memphis Picnic<\/a><\/strong> to Brush Square Park\u2019s East Tent tomorrow, <strong>March 14<\/strong> from <strong>3-7pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ll be music, of course. The centerpiece of the picnic is a diverse lineup of Memphis music, featuring <strong>Emi Secrest<\/strong>, <strong>Chris Milam<\/strong>, <strong>Marcella &amp; Her Lovers<\/strong>, <strong>Dead Soldiers<\/strong>, and <strong>Southern Avenue<\/strong>. You can listen to a preview on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ez3ADYzhD\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If music is the main course, try a few more Memphis originals on the side. <strong>Gus\u2019s<\/strong> will be frying up chicken just a few feet from where it\u2019ll hit your plate. Between bites, grab some Memphis swag\u2014and try your brain at Memphis trivia\u2014from <strong>New Memphis Institute<\/strong> and enter to win a trip to Memphis courtesy of the <strong>Memphis Convention &amp; Visitors\u2019 Bureau<\/strong>. Remember the day with a photo op you\u2019ll never forget inside the <strong>Amurica Photo Trailer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Picnic is hosted by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/musicexportmemphis.org\/\">Music Export Memphis<\/a><\/strong>, a not-for-profit initiative that creates opportunities to showcase Memphis music outside the city to drive talent attraction, business development, music tourism and the music economy. It\u2019s co-hosted by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/neverstop.co\/\">StartCo<\/a><\/strong>, a Memphis venture development organization, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epimemphis.com\/\">EPIcenter<\/a><\/strong>, a collaborative community-wide strategic initiative that helps entrepreneurs conceive, launch and scale businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Add the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/schedule.sxsw.com\/2017\/events\/OE05772\">Memphis Picnic<\/a><\/strong> to your schedule.<\/p>\n<p><em><small>Content and image provided by Music Export Memphis<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/attend\">Register<\/a> to attend SXSW 2017 <\/li>\n<li>Explore the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/festivals\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\">SXSW Music Festival<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggersguide.sxsw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Music Bloggers Guide to SXSW<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/news\/2017\/memphis-picnic-got-blues\/\">The Memphis Picnic Has Got the Blues<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\">SXSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: SxSW Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a music fan, you probably know a thing or two about Memphis: birthplace of blues, city of Elvis and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/03\/Announcement_SXSW-640x360.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-dc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}