Past Events › The Green Room
July 2024
Eve Essex and General Labor
Eve Essex is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She performs with woodwinds and voice, accompanied by instrumental ensembles, and by electronic arrangements that use synthesizers, drum machines, live processing, and other sounds.
Sunny Side Jazz Band, with Victoria Doutón
Sunny Side provides a full New Orleans-style jazz band experience with three-part harmonies, a solid rhythm section, and an energetic vocalist and dancer.
Resident Artists Open Studios + Performances
Crosstown Arts is proud to invite the Memphis community to visit the Resident Artists’ studios during the Open Studios night. Crosstown Arts Summer 2024 resident artists will have their studios open to the public, and there will be a poetry reading and musical performances in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts.
Modern Masters Jazz Series: Fareed Haque and The Ted Ludwig Trio
Fareed Haque is a modern guitar virtuoso. Steeped in classical and jazz traditions, his unique command of the guitar and different musical styles inspire his musical ventures with tradition and fearless innovation.
Shoot & Splice: TV & Screenwriting with Brandi Nicole
Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a presentation and conversation on TV & screenwriting with writer Brandi Nicole (Showtime’s YOUR HONOR, Amazon’s BALLARD, Paramount+ HAPPY FACE). Brandi will discuss her writing career and provide advice and practical tips on both the creative and business sides of the film and television industry.
June 2024
Strictly Jazz: The Music of JD Warren and the Rudiment
The Crosstown Strictly Jazz Series, presented by Crosstown Arts in collaboration with Strictly Jazz Entertainment, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends. This special Jazz Month presentation of the series features New York-based performers JD Warren & The Rudiment in two back-to-back Memphis performances.
JD Warren & The Rudiment is helmed by husband and wife duo drummer Jeremy Warren and vocalist Dermel Warren. They play original music and arrangements of standards, and their debut album, “I Can Do All Things,” is available on all music outlets and platforms.
Dead Soldiers: Sad Songs and Story Time
Recognized for their raucous and rowdy shows, they seldom get to perform a fair bit of their catalog that is more conducive to a listening room environment. This show will feature many of Dead Soldiers’ least-performed songs and unique arrangements of existing songs in their live repertoire.
Marisa Anderson
Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her deeply original work applies elements of minimalism, electronic music, drone and 20th century classical music to compositions based on blues, jazz, gospel and country music, re-imagining the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, while NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’.
Folk All Y’all: Jessye DeSilva
Jessye DeSilva’s new, crowdfunded album, Renovations, chronicles an ongoing, imperfect journey to self-love and -acceptance, full of both moments of resignation and moments of triumph.
From Winter Hill to Duck Hill: Blues All Night Long
On their way to the Bentonia Blues Festival, Ryan Lee Crosby & Grant Smith will be playing new songs on 12 string and calabash, as well as material from the Bruce Watson produced Winter Hill Blues (recorded in Memphis). Willie Farmer and his trio will play songs from their upcoming album and also the Bruce Watson produced The Man From The Hill. Memphis local (by way of the UK) Shaun Marsh kicks it off solo with acoustic pre-war blues on National steel guitar.
