Newby's

Newby's
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Location	539 S. Highland St., Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Owner	Todd Adams
Capacity	650
Opened	1975
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Newby's is a music venue, bar, pool hall, and restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, located about a block from the University of Memphis.

History

Newby's was established in 1975 by David “Newby” Harsh.^[1] The restaurant changed over the years as it expanded with a full bar, pool room, large outside patio and then adjoining a historic 1950s movie theater and transforming it into a music venue. After suffering a stroke in 1996 he sold Newby's to working bartender Todd Adams in January 1997.

Acts

Many notable acts continue to play the venue. All genres of music are booked at Newby's, from Alternative Rock, Country, Hip-hop, Singer Songwriter. The venue has also hosted mixed martial arts fights.^[2] Listed are a few past shows:

Eric Gales
Funkadelic
The Incredible Hook
The Chinese Connection Dub Embassy
Minivan Blues Band
Zack Brown
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Robert Earl Keen
John Mayer
Jason Maraz
Nickel Back
Muzik Mafia
Big 'n Rich
Gretchen Wilson
Kid Rock
Better than Ezra
Drivin N Cryin
Keller Williams
The String Cheese Incident
moe.
Del McCoury
Gillian Welch
Rehab
Al Kapone
Members of Widespread Panic
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons
Papa Roach
Creed
Cowboy Mouth
Pete Yorn
Dionne Ferris
The North Mississippi Allstars
The Kuduz Kings
Davis Coen
J. D. Westmoreland
Bobby Rush
Rufus Thomas
R. L. Burnside
Junior Kimbrough
Jason D Williams

Controversies

Beginning in the 1990s, Newby's engaged in a legal dispute with Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) over license fees levied by BMI for the right to perform music in the BMI catalog. Newby's stopped paying BMI for a yearly license due to Adams' objections to terms of the license agreement. One focus of contention was the venue capacity, which is one determinant of the license fee. BMI based its fee on a capacity of 600, but Adams maintained that Newby's has a legal capacity of only 132 people.^[1]^[3] In November 2014, Newby's closed after filing for bankruptcy that January.

Facilities

The concert hall has a capacity of about 500, and the bar/restaurant area offers live music with a capacity of about 150.

Typically, nationally touring bands play the concert hall and small acoustic acts play the bar side. Newby's has been reviewed favorably on the Memphis City Search website. Additionally, the website WCities says that at Newby's one can expect to hear anything from folk music to alternative music but that it is never boring.^[4]

The bar side transforms into a sports bar, with several pull-down screens, during University of Memphis football and basketball games.

References

External links

City of Memphis and Memphis metropolitan area (counties in TN, MS and AR)

Topics

Districts

Downtown
Midtown
North Memphis
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East Memphis

Neighborhoods

Metro area
landmarks

Tennessee	A. Schwab's Art Museum of the University of Memphis AutoZone Stadium Bartlett Museum Beale Street Bellevue Baptist Church Belz Museum Botanic Garden Brooks Museum Burkle Estate Central Station Chickasaw Bluff Children's Museum Chucalissa Museum Cotton Museum Davies Manor Dixon Gallery and Gardens Downtown Trolleys Elmwood Cemetery FedExForum Fire Museum Fort Assumption Fort Wright Graceland Hernando de Soto Bridge Liberty Bowl Stadium Libertyland Lichterman Nature Center Lincoln American Tower Magevney House Mallory-Neely House Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park Memorial Park Cemetery Cotton Exchange Memphis International Airport Motorsports Park National Cemetery Parkway System Railroad & Trolley Museum Memphis Zoo Mississippi River Mississippi River Park Mud Island Monorail National Civil Rights Museum National Ornamental Metal Museum Oaklawn Garden Orpheum Theatre Overton Park Peabody Hotel Pink Palace The Pyramid Rhodes College Rock N' Soul Museum St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral Shelby Farms Stax Museum Sun Studio South Main Arts District Temple Israel Tennessee Brewery Tipton County Museum T. O. Fuller State Park Tom Lee Park Union Station University of Memphis Victorian Village Wolf River

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counties

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Venues	Various locations (1920–1929) Memorial Fieldhouse (1929–1966) Mid-South Coliseum (1966–1991) Pyramid Arena (1991–2004) FedExForum (2004–present)

Rivalries	Louisville

Culture & lore	Pouncer Newby's TOM (mascot) "Go Tigers Go" Mighty Sound of the South

People	Head coaches All-Americans NBA players Retired jerseys

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NCAA Final Four appearances in italics