Singer-songwriter Kris Thomas joins Trump Tight performing live Sunday night at "For Lovers Only" at the Zodiac Lounge.
Valentine's Day is Tuesday, and area romantics are providing Memphians a number of ways to mark the occasion, beginning Friday.
Here are some special events:
Friday
The Shelby Farms Park Conservancy is putting a different slant on Valentine's Day with its second annual Love the Park, Love the Greenline Mixer & Happy Hour. The event at the Shelby Farms Park Visitors Center is a fundraiser for the nonprofit group that manages the park and the Shelby Farms Greenline.
"People don't realize the park and the Greenline operate on love," says the conservancy's communications director, Jen Andrews. "People think we're funded by the government, but 85 percent of our funding comes from the public."
The mixer and happy hour will feature food and drink, and prize giveaways including a new bicycle. Music will be provided by a deejay, with members posting requests on the Shelby Farms Park Facebook page.
6-9 p.m. 500 North Pine Lake Drive; (901) 767-7275. Admission: Free for conservancy members, $10 for nonmembers. For more information, visit shelbyfarmspark.org.
The second edition of the new Torch Songs series is Friday at Otherlands Coffeehouse. The monthly show teams troubadour Davy Ray Bennett with different female singers. This time, Bennett is joined by his former girlfriend and musical partner, Misti Rae Warren. With a band that includes bassist CJ Manning, drummer Jesse Dakota and saxophonist Jim Spake, the pair will perform a number of jazz-inflected bygone-era love songs, including selections from Cole Porter, Marilyn Monroe and Eartha Kitt.
8 p.m. 641 S. Cooper Cover: $8; (901) 278-4994.
Made up of two married couples -- Jared and Lori McStay and Corey and Kate Crowder -- the Wuvbirds may be the perfect Valentine's Day band. The garage-pop band has been holed up learning a new batch of love songs since their record release last fall, including numbers by the Yardbirds, the Shirelles and the recently departed Etta James, in preparation for their show tonight at The Cove.
"Even though we're maybe not 100 percent ready to play this, we feel like we have to do a valentine show," says Jared McStay, adding that the wives may even be baking sweet treats for the audience.
10 p.m. 2559 Broad. Cover is $5; (901) 730-0719.
Saturday
Few eras rival the Victorian for sheer romanticism, making Saturday's Sweet Serenade at the Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum a particularly tasty treat. The concert by the new-music ensemble Luna Nova is a fundraiser for the Victorian Village landmark and will feature love songs by Franz Schubert, Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and new Spanish-inspired works by Mark Volker.
6:30 p.m. 680 Adams. Tickets: $35. (901) 493-0958 or (901) 647-8978. For more information, visit lunanova.org.
For a more rocking take on romance, Minglewood Hall is hosting the Valentine's All Star Jam, featuring a lineup that includes classic rock stars Joe Lynn Turner (Deep Purple, Rainbow), Derek St. Holmes (The Ted Nugent band), Bobby Kimball (Toto) and Jeff Adams (Starship). Locals Amy Jamison, The Will Tucker Band and others also will appear.
Doors open at 6 p.m. 1555 Madison; (901) 312-6058. Tickets: $25 in advance, $30 day of show. Tickets available at the box office and at minglewoodhall.com.
Sunday
Blues-jazz singer Di Anne Price is one of Memphis' greatest interpreters of love songs. Price and her band, appropriately titled Her Boyfriends, will perform a special free Sunday morning valentine concert at the romantically set First Unitarian (the Church of the River).
11 a.m.-noon. 292 West Virginia. (901) 526-8631 or churchoftheriver.org.
The local British Invasion tribute band Jeffrey & The Pacemakers will focus on the love songs of the Beatles, et al, at their Valentine Sunday Matinee at the Hi-Tone Café.
4-7 p.m. 1913 Poplar. Cover: $5. Call (901) 278-8663, or visit hitonememphis.com.
C3 Productions, the organizers behind events like the high-energy live hip-hop event "The Show," slow things down a bit Sunday with "For Lovers Only," a romantic Valentine's Day-related event at the Zodiac Lounge. For $45, couples get reserved seating for two, a catered dinner, a rose, chocolate-covered strawberries and complimentary wine.
Music will be provided by C3 house band Trump Tight and local singer-songwriter Kris Thomas, who is currently featured on Grammy-winning country singer Pam Tillis' new Elvis Presley/Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tribute, "Two Kings."
6135 Mount Moriah Ext. For tickets and more information, e-mail djparksjr@gmail.com or call (770) 865-4285.
Tuesday
The old saying that women find nothing sexier than a man who can make them laugh will be put to the test this Valentine's Day at Lovers Laugh Jam at the New Daisy Theater. A comic lineup that includes Comedy Central veterans B-Cole, Honest John and Memphis' own Spank E will be joined by local soul singing great Toni Green, no stranger to love songs herself. Hosted by Sonya D.
7 p.m. 330 Beale. (901) 525-8981. Tickets: $20, $50 for VIP. comedyandbluestour.com.
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