Sarah Mclachlan returning to Memphis for Feb. show
Sarah Mclachlan is returning to Memphis.
The Canadian singer-songwriter is scheduled to perform Feb. 22 at the Orpheum. Tickets went on sale Friday.
Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the song “Building a Mystery” on her 1997 album “Surfacing,” Mclachlan, 50, has sold 40 million albums worldwide, from her
While they will have classic board games like Monopoly and Sorry, they will also carry more modern games like Star Wars X-wing, Settlers of Catan and Betrayal at House on the Hill.
Merritt said he and his wife can’t wait to get through the final stages of the remodel and be able to put their personal touches on the space. He said they want the store to have a polished feel with a quirky Midtown flair.
Pinball pub to open next door
Merritt said he’s also excited about Yopp’s Pub, a pinball bar expected to open next door to 901 Games at 2493 Broad Ave. in the spring.
“When I learned that he was coming in and we were going to be sharing a wall — a board game store and pinball — I think that’s an awesome match,” Merritt said.
David Yopp, a picture archiving and communications system administrator for Tenet Healthcare, and his business 1997 debut, “Touch,” to her 2016 release, “Wonderland.”
Influential for more than her writing and recording, Mclachlan is arguably most renowned as the founder of Lilith Fair, a tour that flouted conventional music-industry wisdom by demonstrating that a festival showcasing female artists could draw big crowds. partner, Michael Muhlert, a radiologist, are the unlikely pair who will run the pub. While neither of the men have even opened a bar in the past, Yopp has loved pinball since he was a child growing up in the Frayser community.
When he was 11, Yopp said his mother put him in a Saturday morning bowling league. The bowling alley had a pinball machine. Even as arcades started to bring in more modern machines, pinball remained his game. But by the mid’90s, pinball was almost impossible to find.
“I didn’t play or touch or see a pinball machine in two decades,” Yopp said.
That was until five years ago. After watching a documentary about restoring pinball machines, he decided to give it a shot.
He bought a machine for less than $300 and restored it. Today he owns 43 machines. His Holy Grail machine is a game called Firepower, from the 1980s. He loved playing it as a teenager.
“It hooked me and took all my lunch The tour ran from 1997-1999 and was revived in 2010.
Tickets will be available via Ticketmaster.com, through the Orpheum website and at the Orpheum box office.
They also can be ordered by calling 1-800-745-3000. money,” Yopp said. “It was also one of the first machines I bought.”
Only one of them will be available for customers to play. The other will be in storage for safe keeping.
Although it’s his first time running a pub, Yopp thinks he’s got a successful idea on his hands. When he first started restoring machines, he would set up a few in his garage and invite friends over to play. That was when Muhlert came to him and said, “Look, you’ve got a business here” and offered to partner.
Yopp doesn’t have people over to play in the garage anymore. He had to take over the entire space to create a dedicated workshop to make sure all the machines would be ready by the time the pub opens.
“No more playing for me,” he laughed. “I had to get to work.”
Desiree Stennett can be reached at desiree.stennett@commercialappeal.com, 901-529-2738 or on Twitter: @desi_stennett.