A Brass Note on Beale for Omar Higgins

Omar Higgins, the trailblazing bass player and front man of Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and Negro Terror, will receive a posthumous Brass Note at Handy Park on Beale Street at 5 p.m. on April 18th, with a celebration concert to follow.

Higgins died suddenly of septic shock on April 18th, 2019 at the age of 37. Shortly thereafter, the Memphis Flyer‘s Chris McCoy published this remembrance of him and this story on how the Memphis music community reacted to his death.