Crosstown Arthouse presents THE BLACK CAT
2022-10-13 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE BLACK CAT at Crosstown Theater.
Edgar B. Ulmer / 1934 / 65 minutes / N/R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.

Chinese Connection Dub Embassy: "Crew Vibes"
2022-10-14 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Friday, October 14, 2022
Doors open at 7PM | Show begins at 7:30PM
Tickets: $15 in advance | $20 at the door
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The Reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy was created by Omar, David, and Joseph Higgins in 2010, bringing hard-hitting originals and revamped covers that leave dance floors Irie all around. They released their first LP in 2013, The Firm Foundation, with the lead singles “Heavy Meditation” and “Tyrant”. They’ve played festivals all over such as Beale Street Music Fest, Wakarusa, Grateful Fest, W.C. Handy Fest, and they’ve opened for such artists as T-Pain, Bone Thugs & Harmony, The Wailers, The Slackers, and Mephiskapheles. After the passing of their fellow band leader/brother Omar Higgins in 2019, Joseph and David are now leading the band to continue the legacy that was built on the foundation of unity. They took a newer Dacehall & Roots Reggae approach to their 2020 project Crew Vibez.
CCDE has been featured in Reggaeville, Memphis Flyer, Irie Magazine, and Afropunk. Now they’re more motivated than ever to continue the legacy of spreading truth and rights, keeping the Good Vibes flowing through and through.

Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters
2022-10-15 09:30 - 11:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Theater
Saturday, October 15, at 2:30 p.m.
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Daffy, Bugs Bunny, and Porky Pig start their own “ghostbusting” service in this compilation of horror spoofs. Included: “The Night of the Living Duck,” “The Abominable Snow Rabbit,” “Hyde and Go Tweet,” and “The Duxorcist.” Rated G. 1 hour and 18 minutes. 2:30 p.m.
Crosstown Concourse presents the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts. The events are free and open to the public.

The Shining
2022-10-15 13:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Theater
Saturday, October 15, at 6:30 p.m.
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Director Stanley Kubrick’s psychological horror film based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel. A writer takes a job as a winter caretaker at an isolated (and haunted) hotel. After he and his family move in for the winter, the hotel’s spirits slowly drive the writer mad. Rated R. 2 hours and 26 minutes. 6:30 p.m.
Crosstown Concourse presents the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts. The events are free and open to the public.

Stephan Crump
2022-10-15 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm

Tickets: $20 advance | $25 day of the show ($10 student tickets available)
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This solo performance, which explores Stephan Crump’s unique musical language through an expansive range of sonorities on the acoustic bass, is a culmination of decades of work as a bassist, composer, and improviser. Throughout the last year, he released monthly solo recordings in a fan-supported series via his Bandcamp page. The new album, Rocket Love, is curated from this body of work.

“I am tempted to call Rocket Love my favorite solo bass recording of all time. At a minimum, it is the most varied and fun.” Popmatters
“As a bassist and composer, Mr. Crump avoids obvious routes but manages never to lose his way” The New York Times
“strikingly fresh and unobvious compositions…an impressive and original voice” The Wire
“categories cease to matter” JazzTimes
“Crump’s music is original” Downbeat
Memphis-bred, Grammy-nominated, Echo Award-winning bassist/composer Stephan Crump is an active bandleader with twelve critically-acclaimed album releases in addition to numerous film scoring contributions. Stephan’s solo performance, which explores his unique musical language through an expansive range of sonorities on the acoustic bass, is a culmination of decades of work as a bassist, composer, and improviser. Throughout the last year, he released monthly solo recordings in a fan-supported series via his Bandcamp page. The new album, Rocket Love, is curated from this body of work.
Known for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity of magnetic pull, his focus on creative instrumental music has led to collaborations with many of the leading lights of his generation, most notably Vijay Iyer, in whose trio and sextet Crump played a dynamic, founding role. He can also be heard as long-standing member of Jen Chapin Trio, Ches Smith Trio, Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Liberty Ellman Sextet, Secret Keeper (duo with Mary Halvorson), his own Rosetta Trio (with Jamie Fox, Liberty Ellman), his Rhombal quartet (with Ellery Eskelin, Adam O’Farrill, Tyshawn Sorey), as well as co-led ensembles with Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe, Eric McPherson, Mat Maneri, and Okkyung Lee.

Kafé Kirk featuring Kirk Whalum and Dave Koz
2022-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Sunday, October 16, 2022 at Crosstown Theater

Box office opens at 5PM | Doors open at 5:30PM
Show begins at 6PM
Tickets: General Admission $45 (plus fees)
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DAVE KOZ
In a recording career that spans nearly three decades, saxophonist Dave Koz has racked up an astoundingly impressive array of honors and achievements: nine GRAMMY® nominations, 11 No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, numerous world tours, 13 sold-out Dave Koz & Friends At Sea cruises, performances for multiple U.S. presidents, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and appearances on a multitude of television shows, including “Good Morning America,” “The View,” “The Tonight Show,” “Entertainment Tonight” and more. A Platinum-selling artist, Koz is also known as a humanitarian, entrepreneur, radio host and instrumental music advocate.
KIRK WHALUM
Soulful, passionate, stirring…these are the words most often used to describe Kirk’s music. Forged from his Memphis, (TN) gospel roots and his 1980‘s initiation into the thriving Houston, TX nightclub scene, Kirk’s big, rich tenor sound is unmistakably his. The 80’s were highlighted by Kirk’s stepping out of his blossoming sideman role and forming his own band. It was there that Kirk ultimately developed both his “voice” and songwriting in the crucible of the local club scene––especially at a rooftop club called Cody’s. It was also in Houston where jazz pianist Bob James “discovered” him and brought him on tour, which led to five successful albums with Columbia Records, including Cache, Kirk’s first #1 album. As well, Kirk and Bob received a Grammy nomination for their collaboration album, Joined at the Hip. After moving to Los Angeles, Kirk became an in demand session player for top artists like, Barbara Streisand, Al Jarreau, Luther Vandross, Larry Carlton, Quincy Jones and most notably, Whitney Houston, amongst many others. It’s his sax heard on the mega-hit, “I Will Always Love You.” Kirk soon followed that career high point with his phenomenal hit album released on Warner Bros. Records, For You, perhaps the most successful of over 25 solo recordings to date; others include his eclectic, and much lauded, Gospel According to Jazz series, (Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4). In addition to his many solo projects, Kirk was also a member of the popular soul/jazz group, BWB, which features Kirk as the “W” of the group with Rick Braun (trumpet) and Norman Brown (guitar).
Kirk is the recipient of numerous awards and acknowledgements for his musical excellence including three Dove Award nominations, an NAACP Image Award nomination and has won two Stellar Awards- Gospel music’s highest honor. A twelve time Grammy nominee, Kirk won his first Grammy award (2011)for Best Gospel Song (“It’s What I Do”––featuring Lalah Hathaway) alongside life-long friend and gifted songwriter, Jerry Peters.

PUBLIQuartet
2022-10-18 14:30 - 16:30 | TN
Crosstown Arts presents GRAMMY-nominated PUBLIQuartet at Crosstown Theater.

Crosstown Theater
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 in advance | $25 day of the show ($10 student tickets)
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Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” the GRAMMY-nominated PUBLIQuartet’s modern interpretation of chamber music makes them one of the most dynamic artists of their generation. Dedicated to presenting new works for string quartet, PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild’s New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PQ’s genre-bending programs range from 20th century masterworks to newly commissioned pieces, alongside re-imaginations of classical works featuring open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet.
PUBLIQuartet has served as artist-in-residence at top institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Sawdust and has appeared at a wide variety of venues and festivals, from Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Their latest album, the GRAMMY-nominated Freedom and Faith, debuted atop the Billboard Classical Charts in May 2019. The 2019-2020 season brings a diverse array of programs to venues across the United States and abroad, including an appearance at the String Quartet Biennale in Amsterdam.
PUBLIQuartet’s commitment to supporting emerging composers inspired their innovative program, PUBLIQ Access, which promotes emerging composers and presents a wide variety of under-represented music for string quartet–from classical, jazz and electronic, to non-notated, world and improvised music. Other unique projects include MIND|THE|GAP, a series of group-composed works developed by PQ to generate interest in new music while also engaging traditional classical music audiences. These unique creations range from “Bird in Paris” (Claude Debussy meets Charlie Parker) to more recent extended works including “What Is American?” (an exploration of Dvorak’s beloved “American” String Quartet) and Sancta Femina (based on themes by three medieval and baroque female composers).
Founded in 2010, PUBLIQuartet is currently based in New York City.
This programming is made possible in part thanks to an Organizational Development Fund grant from New Music USA.

Crosstown Arts Film Series presents THE BEYOND
2022-10-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents THE BEYOND at Crosstown Theater.
Lucio Fulci / 1981 / 80 minutes / Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
From legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci comes the ultimate classic of supernatural terror THE BEYOND: The Composer’s Cut featuring Fabio Frizzi’s new score with a brand-new 4K restoration! A remote and cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways, becomes a yawning, malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifictions, chunk-blowing chain-whippings, eyeball impalements, sulphuric acid meltdowns, flesh-eating tarantulas, throat-shredding demon dogs, and ravenous bloodthirsty zombies. The BEYOND is a towering achievement in hair-raising, mind-bending cinematic terror!
The Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground, and documentary features.

Memphis Symphony Orchestra: SCHUBERT THE GREAT C MAJOR
2022-10-21 13:30 - 15:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Paul and Linnea Bert Classic Accents · 1
SCHUBERT THE GREAT C MAJOR
Friday, October 21, 2022 · 6:30pm
Crosstown Theater
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Robert Moody, conductor
Jonathan Okseniuk, violin
MONTGOMERY Strum
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 “The Great C Major”
The Vibrancy of Youth – Schubert’s “Great C Major” Symphony would not be heard for another ten years after the young 31 year old’s tragic death. The vibrant contemporary composer, Jessie Montgomery, brings her ecstatic work for string orchestra, “Strum”.
Jonathan Oksenuik garnered 10 million views as a toddler conducting Beethoven
Symphony. Now a young teenager, he joins MSO to perform Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto.

Mike Dowling
2022-10-21 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents GRAMMY-nominated American roots guitarist Mike Dowling in the Green Room.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Friday, October 21, 2022
Doors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 day of the show
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When the late, great Vassar Clements heard Mike Dowling play guitar back in 1975 he did the sensible thing. He hired him. Mike was the guitarist in Vassar’s first touring band and can be heard on his GRAMMY-nominated “Nashville Jam”. Clements called him simply, “One of the finest guitarists there is, anywhere.”Echoing that sentiment is an ever-growing chorus of music critics, guitar students, and acoustic music fans from throughout the world.
Mike digs deep into the musical bag of American roots guitar, favoring the melodic Piedmont style of acoustic blues masters like Mississippi John Hurt and slide great Tampa Red. But Mike can’t be pigeonholed as a blues player, or even as a fingerstylist. He’s far too versatile for that. From bottleneck blues to vintage jazz and much more in between, Mike’s musicality, depth, and mastery of the instrument translates fluently to flattop, archtop, and resonator guitars alike.
Mike grew up in central Wisconsin and early in his career in the midwest caught the ear of jazz violin great Joe Venuti and mandolinist Jethro Burns. In the 1970’s, in addition to touring with Clements, he worked and recorded with Burns and Venuti in Chicago and in between jobs took time off to move to California when he had the opportunity to study with the late, great George Barnes. Barnes had been “the” session guy for many years, recording with everyone from Big Bill Broonzy to Tony Bennett. “I was very fortunate to be able to spend some time with him”, Mike says. ” He was so tasteful, so rhythmic. He set the bar very high for me and he continues to be an inspiration.”

Coco
2022-10-22 09:30 - 11:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Theater
Saturday, October 22, at 2:30 p.m.
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A boy named Miguel dreams of becoming a famous guitar player, despite the misgivings of his close-knit family. When his lofty ambitions cause him to run afoul of a curse, he must journey into the Land of the Dead to seek forgiveness from his ancestors. Rated PG. 1 hour and 45 minutes. 2:30 p.m.
Crosstown Concourse presents the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts. The events are free and open to the public.

Rosemary’s Baby
2022-10-22 13:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Theater
Saturday, October 22, at 6:30 p.m.
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A young woman living in an old New York City apartment building becomes pregnant following a horrible nightmare, and begins to fear the worst for her unborn child while suspecting that she is surrounded by evil. Rated R. 2 hours and 16 minutes. 6:30 p.m.
Crosstown Concourse presents the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts. The events are free and open to the public.

Loveland Duren
2022-10-22 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents The Loveland Duren Band in the Green Room.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Doors open at 7pm | Show starts at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 at the door
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Memphis singer/songwriters Vicki Loveland and Van Duren return to the Green Room celebrating more than 10 years of collaboration through hundreds of live shows here and abroad. As recording artists, Vicki and Van have released 3 albums of original songs on their Edgewood Recordings imprint with the most recent, Any Such Thing, making The Memphis Flyer’s “10 Top Albums of 2021 list.” The Loveland Duren Band features veteran Memphis musicians Art Edmaiston (saxophones/vocals), Gerald Stephens (keyboards), Adam Holton (bass, vocals), Ian Duren (drums), and Adam Hill (lead guitar, vocals) with Ms. Loveland on vocals & percussion and Mr. Duren on vocals, guitar, and keyboards. From rock & soul to power pop to orchestral to rhythm & blues to eclectic improvisation, Loveland Duren & Band conjure quite a soundscape to experience live—and the Green Room is the ultimate venue where you can surrender to it all.

Experimental Music for Flute
2022-10-25 14:30 - 17:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Experimental Music for Flute in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts.
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Doors 7PM / Show 7:30PM
Tickets: $15 (free for students with student ID)

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Flutist and experimental musician Elise Blatchford will share works for flutes, electronics, and multimedia in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts on Tuesday, October 25th at 7:30 p.m. Composers will include Eve Beglarian, Du Yun, Raminta Serksnyte, and others, with music exploring the Me Too Movement, loss, and imagery.
Praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for her “superb command of color and nuance,” Elise Blatchford is the Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Memphis Scheidt School of Music in Tennessee.
A chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician, and teacher, Ms. Blatchford is a flutist who embraces the independent, the experimental, and the DIY. As a founding member of the new music woodwind quintet The City of Tomorrow, Ms. Blatchford won first prize at the 2011 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and received a Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning grant in 2014. The quintet tours nationally and has enjoyed residencies at Yale, Tufts, Vermont College of Fine Arts, and Williams College. Ms. Blatchford has appeared with the International Contemporary Ensemble in New York and at the Banff Centre for Creativity in Alberta, Canada.
As a recitalist, Ms. Blatchford frequently programs music of the 20th and 21st centuries, and has been an invited guest at venues across the U.S., including the Dame Myra Hess Series at the Chicago Cultural Center, Yale University, the University of Oregon, and Virginia Tech. This season will include recital appearances in Chicago, Memphis, Indiana, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Also at home in the traditional orchestra world, Ms. Blatchford served as Guest Principal Flute for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s 2018-19 season. She has performed with the Oregon Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, IRIS Orchestra, and the YOA Orchestra of the Americas. With YOA, she toured extensively throughout South America, the Caribbean, and mainland China, made an appearance at Carnegie Hall, and recorded with Philip Glass.
Ms. Blatchford holds degrees in flute performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory. A Powell Artist, she performs on a 14K gold handmade Powell flute.

Crosstown Arts presents THE SNAKE GIRL AND THE SILVER-HAIRED WITCH
2022-10-27 14:00 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents THE SNAKE GIRL AND THE SILVER-HAIRED WITCH at Crosstown Theater.
Noriaki Yuasa / 1968 / 82 minutes / Rated PG-13
Tickets: $5 at the door
Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
This movie feels like it was dreamed into existence. When a girl named Sayuri is reunited with her family after years in an orphanage, she’s plagued with phantasmagorical visions involving a fanged demon, wild monsters, and murder by snakes. And it only gets weirder from there. Directed by Noriaki Yuasa (the co-creator of the GAMERA series) and adapted from the work of manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu, THE SNAKE GIRL AND THE SILVER-HAIRED WITCH is a stylish, theremin-fueled gothic nightmare that’s easily the most traumatizing movie ever aimed at a kids audience.
The Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground, and documentary features.

Curtis Lundy Umoja Ensemble
2022-10-27 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Curtis Lundy Umoja Ensemble in The Green Room.
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Doors at 7 p.m. | Show at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25 | $20 in advance |$10 students
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World-renowned and widely acclaimed jazz virtuoso Curtis Lundy (bass) performs with Phareed Malulih (saxophone), Michael Cruise (trumpet), Terreon Gully (drums), and Louis Heriveaux (piano).
The performance of Curtis Lundy Umoja Ensemble presented in collaboration with Crosstown Arts, and Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame is supported by Chamber Music America’s Presenter Consortium for Jazz program, funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

CURTIS LUNDY
Born in 1955, Curtis Lundy is a double bassist, composer, producer, choir director, and arranger. Lundy began his musical career in the All Miami Youth Jazz Band and was classically trained at the University of Miami under the tutelage of renowned bassist Dr. Lucas Drew. He has studied privately with Cecil McBee, Linda McKnight, Jaco Pastorius, and Ron Carter.
Best-known for his work as part of jazz vocalist Betty Carter’s band, Lundy made his debut on the New York jazz scene in 1978. Over the years, he has performed with an impressive list of musicians, including: Art Blakely, John Griffin, Freddie Hubbard, Paroah Sanders, John Hicks, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, George Coleman, Clark Terry, Sam Rivers, the Savoy Sultans, Bobby Watson, Stanley Turnetine, Idris Mohamed, Steve Nelson Quintet, Mulgrew Miller, Hammiet Bluiet, Don Pullen, Elvin Jones, Hank Jones, Sonny Stitt, Jon Faddis, Hilton Ruiz, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Phyllis Hyman, Lionel Hampton, Phineas Newborn, Johnny Hartman, Charlie Persip, Louis Hayes, Bobby Hutcherson, Barry Harris, and Frank Morgan.
In the late 1980s, he issued Just Be Yourself (1989), and a decade later, with Justin Time Records, he released Against All Odds (1999), followed by Purpose (2002). Lundy remains one of the most spiritually uplifting bassists on the jazz scene today. He is featured on the G-Three recording SWIFT with Billy Robinson on sax, Stacie McGregor on piano, and Billy Hart on drums. Lundy’s arrangement on “Walk With Me,” recorded by the ARC Gospel Choir, was sampled by rapper Kanye West and became the Grammy Award-winning hit “Jesus Walks.” This arrangement was also sampled in “This is Why I’m Hot” by Shawn Mims.
Curtis Lundy, bass
Phareed Malulih, saxophone
Michael Cruise, trumpet
Terreon Gully, drums
Louis Heriveaux, piano

Mak Ro
2022-10-28 14:30 - 17:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Friday, October 28, 2022
Doors open at 7PM | Show begins at 7:30PM
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 at the door
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Mak Ro is a duo of Filipino-American artists who are cousins — Eric Makapugay (multi-instrumentalist/producer/songwriter) and Kristoffer Ruaro (singer/producer/songwriter) — based out of Memphis, Tennessee. The duo produce a soulful sound with influences from pop, R&B, and rock music, but overall create works that fuse together a variety of genres.
They have released 10 singles and a 4-song EP since their first release in 2019 with their newest single “Sip” being their sixth song to drop this year.
You can find Mak Ro on social media @makromusicofficial or visit makromusicofficial.com for more info.

Hocus Pocus
2022-10-29 09:30 - 11:30 | TN
Crosstown Theater
Saturday, October 29, at 2:30 p.m.
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Three 17th-century witches, hanged for their murderous crimes, are resurrected on Halloween in modern-day Salem by an unsuspecting boy, who must now figure out how to get them back in the ground. Rated PG. 1 hour and 36 minutes. 2:30 p.m.
Crosstown Concourse presents the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts. The events are free and open to the public.

The Return of the Living Dead
2022-10-29 13:30 - 15:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Theater
Saturday, October 29, at 6:30 p.m.
Free with registration
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Two employees of a medical supply company accidentally release a toxic gas that raises up the dead. Soon the town is overrun with flesh-eating residents of the local cemetery who are hungry … for BRAINS!!! Rated R. 90 minutes. 6:30 p.m.
Crosstown Concourse presents the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts. The events are free and open to the public.

Brian Blake Album Release Show
2022-10-29 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Doors open at 7PM | Show begins at 7:30PM
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 at the door
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Brian Blake is a Memphis-area songwriter who has been active in the local music scene for more than 25 years. Brian was named the Songwriter of the Year in 2021 by the Memphis Songwriter’s Association for his song “Move on J.D.” The song will be featured on his first full-length album, Book of Life. Full of memorable stories and characters, Book of Life delves into Blake’s southeast Texas roots, where his family goes back more than 175 years. The album was produced by Walt Wilkins and Ron Flynt and was recorded in Austin, Texas, with some of Austin’s finest touring and studio musicians such as Rich Brotherton (Robert Earl Keen), Warren Hood (Hayes Carll), and Betty Soo joining in the mix.
Brian has assembled an all-star backing band for the Book of Life release show, which is the launch of a regional tour in support of the album.

Crosstown Arts Resident Artist Talk
2022-11-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts Fall 2022 resident artists R Jason Rawlings, Nelson Gutierrez, and Angelo Madsen Minax will present artist talks.
Free and open to the public. Masks are encouraged at this event.

R Jason Rawlings is a filmmaker and visual artist residing and working in Memphis, Tennessee. His work often revolves around the home and how our living spaces connect us to the world at large. The stories are born from a place, evolve from there, and are colored by the intricacies of the location. His most recent work, Natives, has been featured in both Indie Memphis and Oxford Film Festivals and awarded Best Director by the Mid-South Black Film Festival. He is a graduate of the University of Memphis film program.

Nelson Gutierrez is an artist exploring the constant struggle of individuals and some communities at large for a better life — resilience, hope, the search for common ground. His work is informed by personal and collective memories. It is composed of two- and three-dimensional pieces, conceptual objects and installations that reflect current socio-political issues. Different materials are juxtaposed in a way that provides symbolic relevance to the topic being explored. Diverse mediums are used to express feelings of collective longing, fear, grief and hope.

Angelo Madsen Minax is a filmmaker, visual artist, performer, and educator. His projects consider how human intimacies are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships. His recent film, North By Current (2021), aired on season 34 of POV (PBS), was a New York Times Critics Pick, and has been called “A beautiful, complex wonder of a film,” by Rolling Stone. Madsen is currently a Guggenheim Fellow.

Crosstown Arts Film Series presents LIQUID SKY
2022-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents LIQUID SKY at Crosstown Theater.
Slava Tsukerman / 1982 / 112 minutes / Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
Margaret (Anne Carlisle) is a fashion model with dreams of stardom, whose alter ego and rival, Jimmy (also Carlisle), abuses and takes advantage of her to satisfy his rampant drug addiction. Unknown to them, tiny, invisible aliens have landed on the roof above the squalor in which they live and begin killing anyone Margaret is intimate with to feed on their pleasure-giving neurotransmitters. All the while, a German scientist attempts to capture and study them. Hailed by Time Magazine as a “two hour act of imagination,” Slava Tsukerman’s LIQUID SKY is “an underground masterpiece of avant-garde science-fiction filmmaking. Set against the visual majesty of New York’s early ’80s New Wave scene, and filled with arresting cinematography by Yuri Neyman, along with an acclaimed original soundtrack.” – Vinegar Syndrome.
The Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground, and documentary features.

Unheard-of//Ensemble
2022-11-05 14:30 - 17:30 | TN
Crosstown Theater
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Doors open at 7PM | Show begins at 7:30PM
Tickets: $20 ($15 if purchased in advance) | Student tickets $10
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Unheard-of//Ensemble will perform Fire Ecologies by Christopher Stark, a fifty-five minute unique musical and visual experience that explores American landscapes through the lens of climate change. Composer Christopher Stark and video artist Zlatko Ćosić embarked on a journey across the United States capturing audio and video for this multimedia experience. The work incorporates field recordings of the 2020 California wildfires along with sonic and visual imagery from Chris’s trip across Montana, Oregon, and California as well as parts of Colorado. Zlatko gathered footage from the American heartland surrounding Missouri as well as long form explorations of nature surrounding St. Louis. Stark created a work that can be experienced both in concert halls as well as in nature, from gallery spaces to the Gowanus Canal.
About Unheard-of//Ensemble:
Unheard-of//Ensemble is a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to connecting new music to communities across the United States through the development and performance of adventurous programs, using technology and interactive multimedia. Unheard-of is committed to the idea that new music belongs in every community, and implements this mission through concerts and educational workshops throughout New York, as well as across the United States through touring. Unheard-of’s scope and impact has grown dramatically since forming in 2014, now a nation-wide community across multiple artistic genres. With an approach that is open and welcoming of all voices, Unheard-of strives to be a vehicle for imaginative voices novel and experienced, experimental and traditional, uncomfortable and accessible.
Unheard-of commissions large-scale multimedia projects, runs its own summer workshop for emerging composers (the Collaborative Composition Initiative or CCI), and self-presents collaborative concerts with community organizations like the Gowanus Dredgers and Tideland Institute. These innovative projects range from concerts aboard rafts in the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, to gallery spaces and concert halls. Unheard-of’s 2022-23 season features new commissions by Nickitas Demos, Lila Meretzky, Adam Mirza, and “Unheard-of plays Unheard-of”, a concert of premieres written by the ensemble. This October the ensemble tours Ohio, visiting Kent State University, Kent State’s Stark Campus, and Oberlin. In November, Unheard-of has a residency at Washington University of St. Louis, visits Illinois State University, and performs on Crosstown Arts’ series in Memphis, Tennessee. Unheard-of’s spring features a four-day guest residency with the Northwestern University composition studio, a concert at Chicago’s Constellation, and a collaboration with Minnesota-based Spitting Image Collective workshopping and premiering new multimedia works written by the collective.
Unheard-of//Ensemble’s 2021-22 season took them across the Midwest, Southeast, Texas, and their home state of New York. Unheard-of served as the 2021-22 KEAR ensemble-in-residence at Bowling Green State University. They presented tours of the Midwest, visiting the Johnstone Fund Series in Columbus, Ohio, Miami University, Ohio University, and West Virginia University. The group also toured the South with performances at University of Texas- San Antonio, Texas State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Emory University, Chattanooga State Community College, and University of Georgia. In 2020-21, the ensemble presented virtual residencies at Florida State University, University of Florida, University of Central Florida, and the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. To date, the ensemble has premiered over 100 works with commissions.
Unheard-of has received support from the Johnstone Fund for New Music, the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Barlow Endowment, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, the Aaron Copland Fund, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York Women Composers Organization, the Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Puffin Foundation. Unheard-of was a recipient of a Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant to commission recent Rome Prize-winner Christopher Stark, as well as a Chamber Music America Ensemble Forward Grant made possible with support of the New York Community Trust.
Their debut album Unheard-of//Dialogues was released to critical acclaim: “a fantastic debut by a group that has been doing more than their part to inject vitality into the new music scene for the last few years” (Jeremy Shatan, An Earful). The album’s eclectic repertoire has garnered the attention of critics from ArtsATL (“Powerfully evocative”), Steve Smith of National Sawdust Log (“scintillating and evocative”), and Creative Loafing Atlanta (“mellifluous magic”).
This programming is made possible in part thanks to an Organizational Development Fund grant from New Music USA.

Molly Nilsson with Elf Rage and DJ Cole Wheeler
2022-11-05 14:30 - 17:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Molly Nilsson with Elf Rage and DJ Cole Wheeler at the Green Room at Crosstown Arts.
The Green Room

Saturday, November 5, 2022
Doors open at 7:00PM | Show begins at 7:30PM
Tickets: $20 | $15 in advance

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Recorded in 2019 and throughout the 2020 global pandemic at home in Berlin, Extreme is a departure for Molly Nilsson, an explosion of angry love. It’s an album of anthems for the jilted generation, soaked with joy and offering solace, bristling with distorted metal guitars and planet-sized choruses that bring light to the dark center of the galaxy. It’s an album of the times, by the times, and for the people. It’s a record about power. About how to fight it, how to take it, and how to share it.
Molly Nilsson’s biggest, boldest, and most vital album to date, Extreme is about power. Against the love of power and for the power of love.

The Chills’ Soft Bomb 30th Anniversary Tour with Unwed Sailor and Ibex Clone
2022-11-08 13:30 - 15:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents The Chills with Unwed Sailor and Ibex Clone in collaboration with Goner Records.

Doors at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20
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Originally released in 1992, The Chills’ third album Soft Bomb is often stated as their finest hour.
In 2022, as their monumental record approaches its 30th Anniversary, The Chills will be heading to the US for a North American tour that sees them performing a three decade career spanning set. This milestone tour will see The Chills perform music from 1992-2022, it will also include music from their most recent album Scatterbrain which they’ll be touring in the US for the first time since its release.
A conceptual classic that embraces styles and genres, Soft Bomb is an eclectic slow cooked musical stew, rich and rewarding from the much-loved storytelling songwriter Martin Phillipps. It features contributions from giants of contemporary American music including Van Dyke Parks and ex dB’s Peter Holsapple as collaborators.
Martin Phillipps (Guitar/Vox)
James Dickson (Bass/Backing Vocals)
Todd Knudson(Drums/Backing Vocals)
Erica Scally (Guitar/Keyboards/Violin/Backing Vocals)
Oli Wilson(Keyboards/Backing Vocals)
Unwed Sailor
The journey of Unwed Sailor began in Seattle, WA in 1998, shortly after Johnathon Ford departed critically praised bands Roadside Monument and Pedro the Lion. While working within those projects, Ford began writing instrumental music after listening to Tortoise, Pullman, and seeing bands like Physics perform live. After recruiting Dave Bazan (Pedro the Lion), Casey Wescott (Fleet Foxes), and Melissa Palladino (Danielson Famile) to play on the now classic Firecracker EP, Unwed Sailor was born. Two decades and seventeen releases later, Ford has continued to rely on the band as a device for personal exploration and emotive narration. Unwed Sailor now joins forces with Spartan Records for the release of their latest moody and cinematic journey, Truth or Consequences, a sonic examination of particular memories or moments in Johnathon Ford’s life, with each song serving as a unique snapshot of an overarching narrative. Truth or Consequences is shaped around familiar musical DNA. Heavily present, driving, and stacked bass lines; wandering and evolving song structures; soaring crescendos and moody diminuendos; and, of course, a gripping sense of sonic storytelling.

Film Screening by Resident Artists R Jason Rawlings and Angelo Madsen Minax
2022-11-09 12:30 - 15:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents NATIVES and NORTH BY CURRENT at Crosstown Theater.
Free and open to the public
Doors at 6:00 p.m., and films begin at 6:30 p.m. in Crosstown Theater.
Two films will be screened, with a brief Q&A with the artists after the screening.
In Natives, a short film by fall session artist in residence R Jason Rawlings, two years after Hurricane Katrina, a claims adjuster returns home to The Delta to little fanfare.
In fall session artist in residence Angelo Madsen Minax’s feature-length film North by Current, after the inconclusive death of his young niece, the filmmaker returns to his rural Michigan hometown, preparing to make a film about a broken criminal justice system. Instead, he pivots to excavate the depths of generational addiction, Christian fervor, and trans embodiment. Lyrically assembled images, decades of home movies, and ethereal narration form an idiosyncratic and poetic undertow that guide a viewer through lifetimes and relationships. Like the relentless Michigan seasons, the meaning of family shifts, as Madsen, his sister, and his parents strive tirelessly to accept each other. Poised to incite more internal searching than provide clear statements or easy answers, North by Current is a visual rumination on the understated relationships between mothers and children, truths and myths, losses and gains.

Crosstown Arts Film Series presents ALPHAVILLE
2022-11-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents ALPHAVILLE at Crosstown Theater.
Jean-Luc Godard / 1965 / 99 minutes / Not Rated
Tickets: $5 at the door
Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s beautiful daughter Natasha (Anna Karina), Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”
The Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground, and documentary features.

Frog Squad Plays Horace Silver
2022-11-11 13:30 - 15:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Frog Squad in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts.
The Green Room
Friday, November 11, 2022
Doors at 7PM | Show at 7:30PM
Tickets $15 | $12 in advance
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Frog Squad is an outlet for creative expression and sound exploration based in Memphis, Tennessee. Their songs pull heavily on improvisation within loose structures, creating a psychedelic, avant-garde jazz sound.
The group curates and arranges songs from artists such as Thelonious Monk, Erik Satie, and Horace Silver, and bandleader David Collins composes eclectic, original music. Overall, Frog Squad gently defies the standards of what defines “good music” by composing song templates with experimental elements. In autumn of 2019, Frog Squad released Solar System in Peabody, a full-length work funded by the UrbanArts Commission. The Memphis Flyer called it “one of the most incredible pieces of music that came across our threshold this year.”

Folk All Y'all presents Carsie Blanton
2022-11-12 13:30 - 15:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Doors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20+
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Carsie Blanton writes anthems for a world worth saving. Inspired by artists including Nina Simone and Randy Newman, her songs encompass a wide range of genres, from sultry pop to punk-tinged Americana. Whether alone with her electric guitar or fronting her four-piece “handsome band,” Carsie delivers every song with an equal dose of moxie and mischief, bringing her audience together in joyful celebration of everything worth fighting for. We have been trying to get her to Memphis for YEARS, and trust us, this is a show worth waiting for.
About Folk All Y’all: Intimate, attentive performances by exceptional singer-songwriters, proudly presented in Memphis, Folk All Y’all is a public listening room series dedicated to providing artists and audiences with unforgettable music experiences.

BlueTom Live: The Clover Sessions hosted by Alexis Jade
2022-11-13 13:30 - 15:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Doors at 7 p.m. | Show at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10 (Free for U of M students and faculty with university ID)
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Presented by Blue Tom Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts.
In this new series, Alexis Jade will host Memphis songwriters to discuss their creative choices and share the stories behind their music. This exclusive listening room will get a sneak peek of Alexis Jade’s debut EP “With Love, Alexis Jade” which will be released on November 18 on all streaming platforms.
This series will serve to uplift the local songwriting community and support young songwriters in an educational environment. Special guests Kelsey Taylor and Rachel Maxann will join Alexis in the first songwriter round at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts, November 13 at 8 p.m. The three talented artists will share their craft and take part in a Q&A with the attendees. Join us on this special night to uplift the songwriting community and get a sneak peek of “With Love, Alexis Jade.”
About Alexis Jade:
Alexis Jade, simply put, is an old soul with a new sound. Her relationship with music was cultivated with her grandmother as they sang together on the front porch. During Alexis’s freshman year of college, she began to seriously pursue a career in music. In the fall of 2021, Alexis signed to Blue Tom Entertainment at the University of Memphis to release her first solo single, “Return to Sender.”
Following its success, Alexis recorded and self-produced her debut EP at Easley & McCain, a local Memphis studio. Alexis remembers the unwavering, fearless trailblazers who carved a path for women in country music while bringing a new sound to the time old tales of heartbreak and loss.
Alexis Jade’s debut EP, “With Love, Alexis Jade” will be out on all platforms Friday, November 18.
About Rachel Maxann:
Rachel Maxann is a diverse vocalist hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Rachel has had the pleasure of being able to move to different areas in the world and perform. Each new space has allowed her to grow in a new way while experimenting with different styles in every location. Rachel’s genre is self-described as Post-Modern Folk and Vintage Indie-Rock with a dash of blues and soul.
Rachel’s musical accomplishments range from performing alongside Valerie June on her Moon and Stars Tour, to performing at festivals around the country. You can follow Rachel Maxann at www.rachelmaxann.com, and on social media under Rachel Maxann Music.
About Kelsey Taylor:
Memphis-based singer/songwriter, Kelsey Taylor, has been refining her original musical style for the last three years. Growing up as a classical pianist, she developed an appreciation for the intricacy and beauty of music at an early age; she began writing in 2019, and has since released an EP (Silencer, 2020), three more singles, and her debut full-length album (The Frost, 2021). Her music is steeped in poetry and storytelling, and she strives to create music that listeners can hear themselves in.
Pulling influence from folk, rock, indie, and classical genres, Kelsey’s music stands firmly in a captivating blend of styles. Her songs are deeply, thoughtfully crafted, and her voice is rooted in artful intentionality.
Kelsey’s debut full-length album, “The Frost”, is out everywhere now.
