06/27/2026
#๐ฝ๐ง๐๐ฃ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ ๐ถ After years of hard work, we FINALLY have a light at the end of the tunnel for the Mud Island Amphitheater coming back to life! Council JB Smiley Jr., Councilwoman Jana Swearengen-Washington, and Councilwoman Yolonda Cooper-Sutton put forward a resolution in the city's 2027 budget to fund the repairs needed to bring the amphitheater up to ADA standards after a contractor submitted a bid for $96,000 to repair it based on necessary items outlined by an ADA consultant hired by the city. These repairs will allow for the planned "Comeback Concert Series" and other future activations to move foward!
This past Tuesday, the resolution was adopted and included in the now approved city budget!
Next steps? Glad you asked! Next the funds will be distributed to Memphis River Parks and are earmarked for these repairs specifically. DNA President Jerred Price & Memphis River Parks President Paul Chandler will work on the proposed plan for activation and start coordinating with the city to ensure the repairs take place in a timely fashion.
Additionally, we will be planning our next public event where we will outline the next steps to bring this venue back to life! This meeting will be a chance to see our proposed activation plan, sign up to volunteer, and sign up to be a SPONSOR! So stay tuned for the event announcement which will include date, time and registration link.
We hope to see this all completed and our first event in Spring 2027!
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A statement from DNA President &
Bring Back The Music Movement Founder Jerred Price:
"๐๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ #๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฅ ๐๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏโ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ!
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐ค๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฅ ๐๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ด. ๐๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช ๐๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐จ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช. ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด. ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ฅ ๐๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ.
๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ข๐บโ๐ด ๐ง๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆโ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ช๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด. ๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ถ๐ฎ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ด, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ฆ, ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ดโ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ค๐บ.
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐จ๐ฏ๐ช๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ. ๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค, ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ฅ ๐๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ถ๐ด."
