🎃 Rock-n-Romp is Back with a Halloween Bash! 🎃
Gather your costumes and get ready for Rock-n-Romp’s Halloween Spooktacular on Saturday, Nov. 2, from 1-5 p.m. at BVO on Mud Island (101 N. Island Drive)! This family-friendly concert promises a Halloween day filled with live music, creativity, and fun for all ages!
✨ What’s in Store?
Live Music: Memphis's own Hope Clayburn and DJ Aura will be setting the vibe with her amazing sounds, brought to you by Downtown Memphis Commission, Memphis Made Brewing, and Live From Memphis.
Kid's Activities: BVO has lined up arts and crafts to let the kids’ imaginations run wild!
Costume Contest: Show off your spooky, creative, or quirky outfits! Prizes for best costume, most original, and more!
Food & Bevs Enjoy bites from Stickem, Mempops, and drinks by Memphis Made.
Tickets are just $5 for adults (children get in free!), and all adults must have a kiddo with them to attend. Thanks to BVO, it’s a rain-or-shine event! If the weather turns, we’ll move into BVO’s cozy new lounge.
For the latest updates, follow us on facebook.com/MemphisRocknRomp or visit livefrommemphis.com/lfm/rock-n-romp. See you there! 🎶
A special thanks to our sponsors: BVO, Memphis Made Brewing, Mud Island Pirates, Downtown Memphis Commission, Profound Sound, Champion the Cause, Live From Memphis, and of course our awesome community of volunteers.
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Poster design by Christopher Reyes
Birdcap Iliumpta
Birdcap Iliumpta at Crosstown Arts Feb 9th 6-8pm
Birdcap Iliumpta is a retelling of Homers Iliad set in the Southernmost bayous of Mississippi. Named after the county the story takes place in, Iliumpta draws comparisons between masculinity in the American South and the sandaled heroes of yore, often pointing out the weakness in a regional outlook that insists on staying put during hurricanes.
Directly, this work is about Southern fatalism and its effects on masculinity. Fatalism makes an outlook so despairing that stoicism may masquerade as heroism. The men in these works shout from a nihilistic void, and in their attempts to be heroic, they, like the ancients before them, choose death over happiness, a closed ear before sound advice, and doom before an apology.
Everybody Draw Everybody - Memphis!
The World's Best Portrait Swap returns to Memphis! All skill levels welcome, supplies provided, seats limited, RSVP required.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2bYQ0bAwQf/
About the Event:
The nationally touring portrait swap Everybody Draw Everybody is happy to return Lamplighter Lounge with Brian Butler and extra special guest host Birdcap (ahead of his huge solo exhibition at Crosstown Arts)
This is a timed group activity, where everybody draws quick portraits of eachother. It's speed is a unique challenge that puts both expert artists and novices on a common playingfield. Everybody takes home the portraits of themselves as a fun momento.
Seats are limited. RSVP required. Materials provided. Punctuality provides a better experience for everyone, please try and arrive on time :)
Rock-N-Romp Rising From the Grave!
Rock-n-Romp returns with Halloween show Oct. 28 at the Ravine.
Family friendly concert to feature costume contest, arts and craft activity for kids.
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Rock-n-Romp, the popular family friendly concert series, is back with a special Halloween extravaganza from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28 at the Ravine, 571 Marshall Ave., in the Memphis Medical District.
https://www.memphismadebrewing.com/ravine/
Bands include KittyPool, Above Jupiter and Tamar Love (from Mama Honey). The show is sponsored by the Downtown Memphis Commission and Memphis Made Brewing and produced by Live From Memphis. Food trucks will include Fuel, Mempops, and others.
https://mamahoneymemphis.com/album/out-of-darkness
https://abovejupiter.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kittypool901/
Cost is $5 per adult. Children are admitted free of charge. Adults must have a child with them to attend.
“Rock-n-Romp took a break during the pandemic, but people never stopped asking, ‘What happened to Rock-n-Romp?,’ ” said board member Graham Burks. “A group of us started talking and we thought, ‘We gotta bring this back!’ ”
The group of planners ultimately decided to pay tribute to Memphis Rock-n-Romp’s past by the bands they asked to play the show. Two of the bands playing the show are made up of people who started playing music as kids at the Rock-n-Romp Rock summer camp 10+ years ago.
“When Mati was a baby, we took her to one of those classic Rock-n-Romps at Mud Island, but she doesn’t remember,” said Live From Memphis co-founder Christopher Reyes. “She and her sister are now at the perfect age to really appreciate it, so for me, it made a lot of sense to bring it back. Once we started planning, we were all like, ‘Hell yeah,’ and everyone we told about it pretty much had the same response.”
The Art Project will lead a Halloween arts and crafts activity for the kids, and there will be a Halloween costume contest with prizes awarded in categories such as best costume and most original.
For more information, visit facebook.com/MemphisRocknRomp or livefrommemphis.com/lfm/rock-n-romp