The Green Room

With a core in the music experience of the Black Church, The Knights salute the contributions of traditional jazz artists and composers. The eclectic and seasoned audience members that enjoy impassioned blues and hearty R&B are embraced. The soundscape produced stirs the soul and rouses the hands and feet.

Jazz Times magazine states that “Patrice Williamson isn’t a singer, she’s a one-woman jazz sampler. — She is a woman of many voices, each distinctly intriguing, all distinctly her own.”

Those Pretty Wrongs enter their tenth year as a band having just toured the U.S., UK, and Australia in support of their best-reviewed album yet, Holiday Camp, which Mojo called “irresistible” for its “celestial harmonies and dealing with wrangled emotions” while Uncut hailed the album for its “dreamily autumnal mastery of the power pop form”.

Elizabeth King, the Sacred Soul Queen of Memphis, will release her new album Soul Provider with this special record release concert at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. A special performance by the Jubilee Hummingbirds will open up the evening.

Steve Masakowski is an award-winning jazz guitarist, educator, and inventor. He invented the guitar-based keytar and the switch pick, and has designed three custom-built seven-string guitars. He developed an approach to playing the guitar by using his pick design, allowing him to switch from fingerpicking to flatpicking.

Cyrena Wages fell in love with music on the country backroads between Millington and Shelby Forest, two small towns just north of Memphis. Her upcoming debut album, Vanity Project, is both an exercise in rebellion against years of conditioning, as well as a way of processing her own struggles, healing, and growth. As much as Memphis shaped her positively, there were aspects of growing up as a woman in the South that didn’t align with who she wanted to become. Cyrena tapped producer Matt Ross-Spang (Charley Crockett, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Margo Price) to helm Vanity Project at Southern Grooves Studio in Memphis.

The group brings the Often and Rarely played: Beethoven and Fibich to The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. The Cypress Ensemble, a group of classically-trained Memphis musicians, is a collaboration of friends who love playing chamber music. The ensemble is currently on a mission to play the Beethoven Opus 18 Quartets and also chamber music treasures that Memphis audiences rarely hear in live performance.

Flamenco Memphis celebrates its one-year anniversary with an evening of flamenco music, singing, and dance!
The performance, presented in a “tablao” style, will bring the audiences a diverse repertoire that includes traditional and original flamenco compositions.

Flamenco Memphis will bring an evening of art aiming to inspire and captivate audiences with this unique blend of history, sounds, and movement that is flamenco. New works include “Alegrias,” “Soleá por Bulerias,” and “Seguiriyas.”

To celebrate the release of his new record Nowhere in Between, John Bass brings an amazing lineup of talented Memphis musicians and friends who the guitarist has worked with over the past 20 years.