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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Musical Journalism: Continuing a Legacy through the Flute
DESCRIPTION:Due to rising Covid cases\, the artist has asked to postpone his planned January 15th Musical Journalism: Continuing a Legacy Through the Flute performance at Crosstown Theater. Crosstown Arts is issuing full refunds to ticket holders.  \nStay tuned to crosstownarts.org or our social media channels for an announcement about a new date. \nThank you for understanding! \nCrosstown Arts presents Memphis Symphony acting principal flutist Adam Sadberry with pianist Artina McCain and clarinetist Andre Dyachenko. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: $15 (students $5 with student ID at the door)\nDoors at 7 pm | Performance at 7:30 pm \n*The artist has requested proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \nAdam Sadberry continues the legacy of his grandfather\, the late journalist L. Alex Wilson\, through “musical journalism\,” which he defines as “performing music that tells stories of the world.” This specific concert will feature pieces by composers of African descent that Adam is pairing with articles from L. Alex Wilson’s newspaper\, The Tri-State Defender. \nAdam will be joined on stage by pianist Dr. Artina McCain\, clarinetist Dr. Andre Dyachenko clarinetist\, and a guest narrator. \nMusic is always telling us something regardless of whether it is a specific message or not\, and in the case of this concert\, the music tells us stories that are rooted in the African diaspora and the legacy of the late journalist\, L. Alex Wilson. L. Alex Wilson was the general manager and editor of The Tri-State Defender here in Memphis during the Civil Rights Era\, and during 2019\, his grandson and flutist Adam Sadberry moved from Detroit to Memphis to join the Memphis Symphony Orchestra during “the modern Civil Rights Era.” \nAdam Sadberry is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and is represented by Concert Artists Guild. \n\nAbout Adam Sadberry:\nMemphis Symphony Orchestra acting principal flutist Adam Sadberry is known for his radiant\, lyrical playing\, and he’s committed to expanding the Black diaspora in the classical music world through promoting equity\, representation\, music education\, and commissioning music that tells stories of the Black diaspora – in other words\, creating musical journalism. Adam is motivated to continue the legacy of his late grandfather L. Alex Wilson\, an important journalist and unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement. \nAdam has performed with orchestras around the country\, including the St. Louis Symphony\, Minnesota Orchestra\, Detroit Symphony Orchestra\, Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra\, Albany Symphony Orchestra\, Omaha Symphony\, Sphinx Symphony Orchestra\, and the New World Symphony. As a concerto soloist\, he has performed with the Clear Lake Symphony\, Conroe Symphony Orchestra\, Cordancia Chamber Orchestra\, and the Detroit Chamber Orchestra\, and he has also made guest appearances at Oakland University\, University of Memphis\, University of South Florida\, National Flute Association\, and the New York Flute Club to give recitals\, masterclasses\, and presentations. Adam’s presentation\, Using Your Identity to Create a Relevant Voice in Music\, lays a foundation for using one’s experiences and perspectives as a catalyst for generating change through music. \nAlong with maintaining a private flute studio\, Adam teaches and mentors through non-profit organizations that provide free private lessons and resources to underserved communities including The Key Change and Raise the Bar. He is also proud to formerly teach through the Memphis Music Initiative\, an organization that “invest[s] in youth through transformative music engagement\, creating equitable opportunities for black and brown youth in Memphis.” Adam is on the boards of the Umoja Flute Institute and the International Society of Black Musicians\, organizations that provide resources to musicians of African descent. \nAdam’s education includes receiving a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and a fellowship with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He is indebted to all of his former teachers and mentors including Bonita Boyd\, Anne Harrow\, Jennifer Keeney\, Amanda Blaikie\, Sharon Sparrow\, and Jeff Zook. He currently receives coaching from Keith Underwood. In his spare time\, Adam enjoys roller skating\, being in nature\, and eating as much food as his body can handle. \nAdam can be heard playing on the soundtrack of Disney’s The Lion King (2019).
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/musical-journalism-continuing-a-legacy-through-the-flute/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Raneem + Better in Color at Crosstown Arts
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Raneem + Better in Color in an evening full of original music and colorful covers. \nTICKETS: $10 advance | $15 day of show\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\n\n\nRaneem Imam is a singer/songwriter and producer from Memphis\, Tennessee. She graduated cum laude from Rhodes College with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Throughout college\, she began to hone in on her songwriting\, co-producing her first mixtape “DIALOGUE.” in 2017 and\, later\, her solo debut “Wise Up” in 2018. Toward the end of 2018\, she was awarded the prestigious Robert H. Buckman Fellowship to spend a semester abroad in England studying music production and performance at the University of Kent Medway. The Rhodes College Music Department also granted her the Jane Hyde Summer Fellowship award to fund her first solo project during the 2019-2020 academic year. \nHer recent single “Nothing Lasts Forever” timely debuted a week before the COVID-19 crisis hit the U.S. and rapidly progressed into a pandemic. A nostalgic pop tune that bittersweetly reminisces on memories from the past\, the music and lyrics have become somewhat of an anthem to her senior year of college being cut short and having to say an abrupt goodbye to friends\, teachers\, and also to the last days of being a carefree college student. Though some days are happier than others\, life is constantly balancing out the good and the bad. Just as nothing good can last forever\, neither can the bad. “Nothing Lasts Forever” reassures the listener of this balance with an upbeat digital production juxtaposing a somber melodic line.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/raneem-better-in-color-at-crosstown-arts/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents Mirror
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Mirror at Crosstown Theater.\nAndrei Tarkovsky / 1975 / 106 minutes / Rated R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \n2K Restoration! From Janus: A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory\, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images\, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage\, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes\, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood\, wartime\, and marriage\, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure\, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan director’s most renowned and influential works\, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-mirror/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joshua Espinoza Trio
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the Joshua Espinoza Trio live in The Green Room. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: $10 advance | $15 day of show\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\n\n\nPossessing a wide color palette\, the Joshua Espinoza Trio (Joshua Espinoza\, Kris Monson\, and Jaron Lamar Davis) explores shimmering harmonies and shifting orchestral contours with the aesthetic of a chamber ensemble as much as a jazz trio. Influenced by artists as disparate as Herbie Hancock\, bassist Avishai Cohen\, Gerald Clayton\, and composer Maurice Ravel\, the Joshua Espinoza Trio takes listeners on a journey for the ears and the mind. Through their genre-bending approach to songwriting\, they’ve built a cross-generational audience of diverse backgrounds bound together by their love of good music. Their debut album “Journey Into Night” was released in June 2019. \nWith a style that is tastefully modern yet firmly rooted in the jazz tradition\, Latino-American pianist Joshua Espinoza blends and bends genres into original compositions and arrangements that are immediately relatable\, yet hard to define. Recently\, Espinoza has performed alongside such notable artists as Sean Jones\, Warren Wolf\, Miho Hazama\, Dezron Douglas\, Jerome Jennings\, Paul Bollenback\, Alex Norris\, John D’earth\, Mike Pope\, Kris Funn\, Todd Marcus\, and Chuck Redd. A finalist in the 2018 Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition\, his playing has been heard on stages large and small including the Piccolo Spoleto Festival\, The Kennedy Center\, The Jazz Kitchen\, the Barns at Wolftrap\, the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, and the DC Jazz Festival. His debut album “Journey Into Night” is available on all platforms. To read and hear more\, visit www.JoshuaEspinoza.com.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/joshua-espinoza-trio/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Paul Taylor and The PRVLG
DESCRIPTION:Due to the recent surge in Covid cases\, Paul Taylor & The PRVLG’s January 25th performance in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts has been postponed. Crosstown Arts is issuing full refunds to ticket holders. Thank you for understanding! \nCrosstown Arts presents a night of original music by Paul Taylor with very special guests\, The PRVLG. \nTICKETS: $12 advance | $15 day of show\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\n\n\nA note from Paul: \n”Hello\, PT here. I’m just dropping a line to say how glad I am to make a brief return visit to my hometown of Memphis\, and to play music once again at The Green Room. Coincidentally\, this will fall almost two years to the day since my last Memphis performance\, the record release show for (my alias) New Memphis Colorways\, “The Music Stands\,” which was also held at The Green Room back in late January 2020. \nThe world drastically changed very shortly thereafter\, and I had no idea at the time I would be moving far far away. \nAs most of you know\, I’ve been on the Memphis music scene for my entire life\, and I’ve made many different kinds of music with many different folks. The last year-plus of living in Door County\, WI has been a major contrast to that reality\, and I’ve found myself inspired by the solitude and rural environment to write a great many new instrumental solo acoustic guitar pieces. \nSo\, I’d like to start the show by playing some of this new music for you. Then\, I’m going to be reunited with my dear friends\, the incredibly gifted twins The PRVLG\, for an adventurous set of experimental funk improv! We also haven’t been on stage together in just over two years now\, and something special\, dare I say even magical\, always seems to happen when we join up. So\, don’t miss it! \nWe’d love to see you there\, and who knows when I’ll be able to make it back?!” \n\nAbout Paul Taylor: \nPaul Taylor has been a mainstay on the Memphis music scene for over 30 years and has put out several critically acclaimed records over the past decade\, including last year’s instrumental offering under the nom de plume New Memphis Colorways “It Is What It Isn’t\,” which earned an editor’s pick in Downbeat and favorable reviews internationally. He relocated to Door County\, Wisconsin in 2020. \n\nAbout The PRVLG: \nAfter touring as the backing musicians for rising hip-hop artist Healy\, up-and-coming R&B and soul singer-songwriters The PRVLG have released their very own debut single “What You’re Missing\,” a rhythmic and soulful masterpiece. \nThe duo\, consisting of twin brothers Christian and Christopher Underwood\, began playing music together at a young age and have hence developed a musical connection that can be heard not only through this single release but also in their live performances. As bass and drum players\, the pair have the ability to lock in a powerful rhythm and bass foundation to their music\, effortlessly making up for each other’s shortcomings and complimenting one another’s strengths. \nGrowing up in a musical family and listening to their father – a guitarist – play classics by the likes of Jimi Hendrix\, The Isley Brothers\, and Earth Wind & Fire\, it was only natural for them to begin writing together at the age of 16 and continue to develop their writing talent from then. Since officially forming in early 2017\, the duo named themselves The PRVLG\, chosen due to the privilege they feel having the opportunity to grow up playing music together and to connect with others through the universal language. \nTheir debut release “What You’re Missing” (September 2017) presents mature and polished raw talent that has been continuously developed and improved throughout their musical career together. Inspired by the likes of Bruno Mars\, Justin Timberlake\, and Al Green\, the track is a feel-good single with a catchy groove that makes it impossible to sit still. Lyrically\, the duo took their inspiration during a night out after seeing a group of beautiful women\, but surprisingly the chorus was written at a vacation Bible school\, allowing the song to take on multiple meanings and become interpreted in various ways by the listener. \nThe release of What You’re Missing will surely mark the indie-soul duo as a new force in the industry.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/paul-taylor-and-the-prvlg/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents The Holy Mountain
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents The Holy Mountain at Crosstown Theater.\nAlejandro Jodorowsky / 1973 / 114 minutes / Rated HARD R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nIf you know\, you know! Come see  The Holy Mountain on the Crosstown Theater’s giant screen in deep\, full color!!!! From ABKCO: The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival\, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept’s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-the-holy-mountain/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Sundance Satellite Screenings
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis is an official Sundance Satellite screen partner for 2022. In collaboration with Crosstown Arts\, they will be screening a specially curated selection of 2022 Sundance Film Festival Films during the festival’s closing weekend\, Friday\, January 28 – Sunday\, January 30\, 2022\,  at Crosstown Theater. \nLean more and check out the film lineup/schedule HERE.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/sundance-satellite-screenings/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bailey Bigger
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents a night of original music by Bailey Bigger and her bluegrass band\, featuring Mark Edgar Stuart\, Eric Lewis\, Andy Ratliff\, and Wyly Bigger\, plus special guest Rowdy Franks who will open. Bailey is promoting her new full-length album “Coyote Red\,” which will be released in the spring. Come out and support your local Memphis folk scene! \nTICKETS: $12 advance | $15 at the door\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\n\nAbout Bailey Bigger:\nBorn and raised in small town Marion\, Arkansas\, just outside of the musically historic city of Memphis\, Tennessee\, Bailey has always had a passion for songwriting. Picking up the guitar at only nine years old\, she began to write songs within the first week of playing. With early influences including John Denver\, Joni Mitchell\, and John Prine\, Bailey’s songs represent an era of authentic sound and songwriting that sometimes seems lost in today’s music industry. \nAt the age of 17\, Bailey won “Memphis’ Best Song of 2017” for her original song “Wildflower.” Since then\, she has performed at many festivals and venues\, including Celebrate Memphis\, AmericanaFest\, and many more. She has also recorded at studios such as Dark Horse Studios\, Sun Studios\, and Ardent Studios\, and she signed a record deal with Big Legal Mess Records at the age of 20. She has also been recognized as a top ten up-and-coming Americana artist you should be listening to by Ditty TV\, a songwriter you should be listening to by Memphis Magazine\, and was most recently named Memphis’ 2020 “Newcomer of the Year” by The Commercial Appeal. Bailey is working on her new release\, the full-lenth “Coyote Red” album\, with Madjack Records\, and it will be released in the spring of 2022. \n“Every now and again\, one of those quintessentially shining voices appears\, and now is definitely one of those times.” — Melissa Clarke (Americana Highways) \n“… certainly her skills as a songwriter and vocalist were obvious. Her unaffected alto\, reminiscent of Buffy Sainte-Marie\, was the perfect vehicle for her simple\, deft turns of phrase.” — Alex Greene (Memphis Flyer) \n\nAbout Rowdy Franks:\nRowdy Franks is a West Tennessee native with a passionate and soulful voice. Raised on a mixing pot of genres\, he has a unique musical style. His songs (original and cover) combine a blend of rock\, soul\, blues\, and country. Rowdy currently plays throughout the Mid-south as a solo act and with his band “Rowdy Franks and the Strays.”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/bailey-bigger/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:The Fourth Wall Hybrid Arts Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents The Fourth Wall Hybrid Arts Ensemble’s one-of-a-kind family-friendly variety show\, Fruit Flies Like a Banana. \nTICKETS: $10 plus fees ($5 plus fees with student ID at check-in) \nThe Fourth Wall blends music\, theater\, dance\, and acrobatics into a new hybrid art form. This trio of musicians creates new interdisciplinary works and reinterprets classic repertoire to make music that leaps off the stage. On Saturday\, January 29\, The Fourth Wall presents their one-of-a-kind family-friendly variety show\, Fruit Flies Like a Banana\, in the East Atrium at Crosstown Arts. \nThe Fourth Wall puts a vaudevillian twist on classical chamber music with their one-of-a-kind variety show\, Fruit Flies Like a Banana. Chopin on hoverboards\, Satie performed while hanging upside down\, Joplin on plastic boomwhacker tubes\, and tangos where the musicians are also the dancers! The audience chooses the order of over 20 pieces specially chosen for each show in this fast-paced hybrid arts experience that’s a fan favorite across North America. Interactive online performances of Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Virtual Style put everyone in a front-row seat\, and all are invited to help create a show that leaps off the screen. \nFew musical ensembles earn top marks for their “deft choreography” (The Wall Street Journal)\, but this is no ordinary ensemble. Part chamber music group\, part theatre company\, part modern dance troupe\, part circus act\, The Fourth Wall blends music\, theatre\, dance\, and acrobatics into a new hybrid art form. This trio of musicians creates new interdisciplinary works and reinterprets classic repertoire to make music that leaps off the stage. \nThe Fourth Wall is a 501c3 nonprofit with a mission to create programming that engages everyone from elementary school children to classical performance connoisseurs through a new hybrid of the performing arts in which musicians are also actors\, dancers\, and acrobats. In a theater\, breaking the fourth wall brings the world on stage directly into the audience; as an ensemble\, The Fourth Wall breaks the barrier between serious art and serious fun.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-fourth-wall-hybrid-arts-ensemble/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, East Atrium\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Atrium
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents Foxes
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Foxes at Crosstown Theater.\nAdrian Lyne / 1980 / 106 minutes / Rated R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nThe story of four teenage girls living in LA in 1980\, mostly doing what they hell they want\, anytime they want\, with hardly any supervision or input by any sensible adult. Foxes takes place in a world and a time when being a teenager was fun\, free\, and DANGEROUS. Directed by Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction\, Flashdance)!! With a cameo concert by Kiss proteges and fellow Casablanca Records artist Angel (Punky Meadows!!!). Also with Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver\, Bugsy Malone\, The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane\, Freaky Friday – and that was JUST WHAT SHE WAS IN THAT WAS RELEASED IN 1976!!!!!)\, Cherie Currie (THE RUNAWAYS LEAD SINGER YA’LL!!!)\, Randy Quaid (Midnight Express\, The Long Riders\, Independence Day) in an early\, super-creepy role and HOT LIPS Sally Kellerman (MASH\, A Little Romance)\, as Jodie Foster’s uptight but distant mother!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-foxes/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Mempho Presents Todd Snider at Crosstown Theater
DESCRIPTION:Mempho Presents Todd Snider on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater on Friday\, February 4\, 2022 and Saturday\, February 5\, 2022. Opening performance by Will Kimbrough. \nTICKETS: Tickets $38-$42 (plus fees)\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show at 7:30 pm (both nights) \nPurchase Tickets Here \n\n\n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.\n \n*Tickets for this event are non-refundable with less than 72 hours before the event.  \n\n\n\n\nYou don’t often hear about an artist reinventing their sound eighteen albums into a celebrated career. But for Todd Snider\, his latest release\, First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder\, isn’t so much a sudden change in direction as an arrival after years of searching. \n“After my last album\, Agnostic Hymns\, I felt like I was out of ideas\, and I just didn’t know where to go next\,” Snider says. “So I did a side project with the Hard Working Americans\, and I learned a ton. I tried to study music by other people and come to this record hoping that I’d have something new to say. I wanted to do what I was calling ‘funk in back and busking up front\, with White Album-y shit scattered about.’ I had done a lot of listening to Parliament and James Brown and lots of reggae music\, too. It’s embarrassing to admit\, but I’ve been trying to think of this sound all my life. This is the closest I’ve come to thinking\, ‘Man\, I don’t know that I’ve heard anything like this before.’” \nEspecially within the often too-purist context of Americana\, the record’s sound is refreshingly experimental. More funk than folk\, more Sly Stone than singer-songwriter\, it’s fatback-style grooves\, full of ghost notes and disparate syncopated elements\, slither and slide around Snider’s acoustic guitar with caduceus-like precision. The arrangements are given extra texture and atmosphere by ace mixer/multi-instrumentalist Tchad Blake (Tom Waits\, Elvis Costello). On songs like “Never Let A Day Go By\,” “Stoner Yodel Number One\,” and “The Get Together\,” there is a taut\, dry snap\, an intimacy that invites you inside and best of all\, opens up space for Snider’s husky voice and thought-provoking lyrics to breathe and connect. It’s music that makes you move\, smile and think all at once. \n“My main collaborator on all the grooves was Robbie Crowell\,” Snider says. “He’d played one show with [my band] the Bulldogs\, and he and I started hanging and listening to funk songs. He gave me an education on drummers. Most of the time\, I started with a basic kick and snare pattern\, and I’d sing. Then he would add more groove\, and I’d chisel more melody out of that. Robbie knew that I wanted to do something idiosyncratic\, without any reference to other records. So a snare might not go with the kick drum in a logical way. We were trying to get drum sounds and grooves that made their own kind of sense. We’d build it up\, add parts\, tear it apart\, build it back up. The songs went through a lot of different incarnations. But we had so much fun trying to find the grooves.” \nSince debuting in 1994\, Snider has gone through his own incarnations. His first single “Talking Seattle Blues” was a head fake that might’ve pointed to goofy novelty songs. But he quickly showed that his artistic quiver was much deeper and more interesting. A storyteller who works a similar creative soil to John Prine and Shel Silverstein\, Snider’s best songs are both sad and funny\, political and entertaining\, and always written with a poet’s eye and a stand-up comedian’s sensibility about the follies of human condition. While he’s made eighteen fine albums\, it’s on stage where Snider is even more potent\, with between-song banter that weaves subtle emotional threads through his sets. A road dog who loves the road\, Snider has toured with Emmylou Harris\, John Prine\, Jimmy Buffett\, and appeared at festivals like Farm Aid\, Newport Folk Fest\, Lockn’ and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. \n“I miss banging around America like it’s my yard\,” Snider says of the lost\, last year. “I like to play for people. Staying home\, I gardened\, I got a boat\, I played guitar a lot. But then I usually don’t make up ten songs in one year\, so that’s one good thing about the pandemic.” \nThe other key framing device for the new songs is the album’s colorful title. “If the gods of folk didn’t want no funk\, they shouldn’t have started none\,” Snider says with a chuckle. “2020 was a terrible year\, and it kept taking people that I loved. So I kept feeling funky\, and the church idea came out of that. I’ve always had the First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder in mind. Aren’t we always hoping for something and wondering ‘What the fuck?’ We hope there’s a God. We wonder if there is. We hope you’re coming. We wonder if you will.” \n“I started realizing because I had this church\, in my mind\, that I could make up different kinds of songs\,” he continues. “I don’t usually like bossy kinds of songs\, where someone tells you to breathe. Me and Neal Casal used to say\, ‘I don’t have to know when to fold ’em. I don’t have to live like I’m dying.’ I’m always telling the radio when I’m listening to it\, ‘No\, I don’t!’ But this is a reverend thing. I have a reverend license. I married Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires\, and my tour manager and his wife. So it just felt like this natural thing for it to be on Sunday mornings where I can do like these pseudo-sermons.” \nHe playfully undermines typical sermon themes like faith can move mountains – on “Turn Me Loose (I’ll Never Be the Same”)\, he reckons “Mountains can get around just fine on their own – and finding meaning on mystical sojourns – “Oh\, shit\, I quit my job\,” the truth seeker on “The Get Together” realizes in a panic. \n“The record is the story of a preacher who starts this church that is total bullshit\,” Todd says. “People start giving him money anyway\, but then they start asking him questions. So then he prays to God and God helps him. But the moral of the story is that God’s hilarious.” \nLike all preachers\, Snider manipulates language\, riffling and sleight-of-handing it like a deck of cards. “I love lyrics\, but I don’t think the alphabet is this magic thing that I thought it used to be\,” he says. “Mostly\, I think the alphabet was a bad idea. I know\, because I use it. It’s a shell game. It feels okay to use this jive language thing that I’ve been learning over the years on the Sunday shows. There are ways to not say stuff. You can go for a great long chunks of time without saying anything. Politicians do it all the time. I’ve been getting into that. I still like making up lyrics. I don’t know that I think there’s anything to say.” \nAmidst the groovier\, more playful songs are two somber centerpieces that have much to say about mortality – “Sail On\, My Friend” and “Handsome John” – the latter a gorgeous tribute to John Prine. Nobody was as important to Snider as a friend and mentor. \nSnider says. “I started singing that song about him almost right after he died. Nobody had ever been kinder to me\, more vulnerable with me. He’d take the time to sit down and generously explain something that he believed was not serving you. I was young when I met John\, so I’m embarrassed to tell you that the lecture that I got from him was a painful one\, but it saved my life. It changed my songs completely. I remember I was withdrawing on a plane\, and he said\, ‘You’re doing this wrong.’ And I had seventeen songs\, and he was the only who’d heard them\, and he said\, ‘You’ve got two songs here.’ And I said\, ‘What about the others? And he said\, ‘Yeah\, let’s talk about those.’ Those conversations changed everything about the way I approached my life. People don’t want to tell everybody what the therapist said\, so I’ll leave it there. But very compassionately\, he said\, ‘Here’s why you’re not happy.’ Of all the people I know who wrote songs and sang\, he was the happiest and the one who’d most dialed the troubadour life in and made peace with it. I loved him.” \nIt feels appropriate that with his latest album\, Snider may play a similar inspirational role for the parishioners in his church. “I’d like it to feel like a drum circle or a revival for listeners. I’d like it to feel like a hippie summer\, where you take acid and listen to the songs by a beautiful lake. There’s a thing called effervescence – that feeling that you’re present\, alive. I’d like for people to have a moment with this record. I think about records that will come into my life and they’ll help put a little more salt on the moment. That’s what I’m going for. But then\, who knows if anyone will like the record. I dig it. I know it’s a cliché for people to say\, ‘This is how I’ve been meaning to sound forever.’ But I swear\, that’s how it feels.”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mempho-presents-todd-snider/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT | Keenan Shotwell presents Notez&Flow
DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out. \nCrosstown Arts presents jazz pianist Keenan Shotwell and guests for special performance of music and spoken word titled Notez&Flow. \nTICKETS: $15 in advance | $20 at the door (plus fees)\nDoors at 7 pm | Performance at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \nPrepare to be immersed in an atmosphere of artistic freedom that will take you on a journey through the striking melodies and uncharacteristic rhythms of jazz intertwined with spoken word. This platform will showcase a collaborative experience of the music\, art\, culture\, heritage\, and forms of jazz including renaissance jazz\, be-bop\, cool\, and more. Experience the electrifying sounds of various legends such as Louis Armstrong\, Billie Holiday\, Nat King Cole\, Thelonious Monk\, Art Blakely\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Miles Davis\, Herbie Hancock\, John Coltrane\, and others. Get ready to be caught up in the mix of Notez&Flow! \nKeenan Shotwell is a Memphis native known throughout the region for his striking creative ear for the musical arts. Jumpstarting his legacy\, Shotwell practiced music at a young age with Jackson Studios during the early 90s. He graduated from Whitehaven High School in 1993\, then mastered the piano and organ as a young adult while attending the University of Memphis. The two-time Verizon Wireless How Sweet the Sound winner has mastered evolution within the art of music. His impeccable gift for the piano has made way for his renowned reputation as the master of his abilities. Shotwell has orchestrated and played for The Herbie Hancock Tribute\, A Night with Joe Sample\, the MLK50 Tribute\, and shared the stage with many national artists such as Melba Moore and Kirk Whalum. Keenan has also taken his talent to the movie screen by arranging and performing piano for the 2010 film\, The Grace Card. He is also a seasoned producer and is the co-founder and CEO of WalkWell Productions. Keenan Shotwell has definitely brought nostalgia and excellence to the world of music and has done it flawlessly!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/keenan-shotwell-presents-notezflow/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED John Ellis
DESCRIPTION:John Ellis’ February 8th performance in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts has been postponed. Stay tuned to Crosstown Arts’ socials for a new date. Thank you for understanding! \nCrosstown Arts presents John Ellis in The Green Room\, performing with several of the finest musicians on the Memphis jazz scene. \nTICKETS: $18 advance | $22 day of show\n$10 student tickets available at the door with student ID \nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nIf that Dickens chap hadn’t already snagged it\, “A Tale of Two Cities” would make the ideal title for the John Ellis story. The gifted\, versatile saxophonist/clarinetist/composer occupies an imaginary (and extremely imaginative) space directly between the celebratory\, welcoming spirit of New Orleans and the edgy\, frantic streets of New York City. Both as the leader of his own eclectic projects and as an in-demand sideman for a mind-boggling number and variety of artists\, Ellis expresses a keen intellect and easy virtuosity while maintaining a mischievous gleam in his eye and never letting tongue stray far from cheek. \nThat combination is best showcased in Ellis’ eccentric combo Double-Wide\, which recently released its third album\, Charm\, on Ellis’ own Parade Light Records. While the title is an apt descriptor of the band’s inviting\, joyous vibe\, its soul is even better captured by the song that gives the album its name: “Charm is Nearly Always Sinister.” That dichotomy perfectly encapsulates Double-Wide’s split metropolitan personality\, with a chainsaw-juggling balance of bayou brass\, raucous gospel\, and devil-may-care modern jazz. Ellis’ band of merry pranksters includes Gary Versace (organ/piano/accordion)\, Alan Ferber (trombone)\, Matt Perrine (sousaphone)\, and Jason Marsalis (drums). \nEllis also leads his own quintet of A-list players\, whose most recent album was the 2012 Criss Cross release It’s You I Like. Featuring Mike Moreno (guitar)\, Aaron Goldberg (piano)\, Matt Penman (bass)\, and Rodney Green (drums)\, the album definitely leans more toward the NYC end of Ellis’ playing spectrum\, though its two dedicatees still show off his “serious fun” duality: the repertoire includes songs by moody singer-songwriter Elliott Smith and legendary kids’ TV host Mr. Rogers. \nAn ambitious composer as well as an agile musician\, Ellis in recent years has composed three large-scale narrative pieces commissioned by The Jazz Gallery in collaboration with playwright Andy Bragen. The most recent\, MOBRO (released in 2014 on Parade Light)\, looks at environmental issues through the story of the infamous MOBRO 4000 trash barge. \nAs if those three wide-ranging projects weren’t enough to occupy his time and talents\, Ellis also maintains an impossibly busy schedule as a first-call sideman. Having established himself as one of New York’s premier tenor saxophonists since his arrival in 1997\, he’s since worked with artists as diverse as bass great John Patitucci\, organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith\, MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón\, the Brooklyn-bred big band led by composer Darcy James Argue\, guitar groove master Charlie Hunter\, and pop icon Sting. His discography lists more than 100 album credits as a sideman\, with more than a dozen released in 2014 alone\, including acclaimed albums by Zenón\, drummer Otis Brown III\, pianists Helen Sung and Edward Simon\, and blues/gospel/soul trio The Holmes Brothers. \nWhile New Orleans and New York are Ellis’ two spiritual (and\, over the last 22 years\, actual) homes\, he doesn’t hail from either city – or any city at all\, for that matter. He grew up in rural North Carolina\, two and a half miles outside of a tiny town populated by only 200 people. But his mother\, an English teacher at the local community college\, insisted that her sons be exposed to culture\, and the love of music took hold in young John\, who pursued that love to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in the relatively big city of Winston-Salem. \nIn 1993\, Ellis moved to New Orleans to study with renowned jazz family patriarch Ellis Marsalis\, eventually playing in the pianist’s band while jamming with local peers like trumpeter Nicholas Payton. He released his debut album\, The Language of Love\, in 1996 and a year later relocated to New York City. Despite the move\, the name of his 2005 album One Foot in the Swamp captures his continuing ties to the Bayou\, which shines through in the southern-accented\, gospel-tinged funk grooves of his music. Ellis has released nine albums as a leader\, three of those featuring his urban carnival band Double-Wide\, which has toured extensively and was featured on the Main Stage of the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival. \nWhile his presence on countless recordings and stages attests to the esteem in which Ellis is held by his peers\, he’s also received numerous more official accolades. Most prominently\, he was the second place winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition in 2002. He was the recipient of three composition grants through The Jazz Gallery for his collaborations with playwright Andy Bragen (“Dreamscapes”\, “The Ice Siren”\, and “MOBRO”) and was selected as the 2014 Make Jazz Fellow by the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica\, leading to the composition of music for Charm.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/john-ellis/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:The City of Tomorrow: Waves\, Breaths\, Dead Cities
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents The City of Tomorrow: Waves\, Breaths\, Dead Cities in The Green Room. \nTICKETS: $15 plus fees ($5 student ticket with ID at the door)\nDoors open at 7pm | Performance begins at 7:30pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\n\n\nFeaturing works by J.S. Bach\, Olof Cornéer\, Adam Scott Neal\, Jacob Druckman\, Luciano Berio\, Leander Star\, and Daniel Cueto. \nElise Blatchford\, flute\nStuart Breczinski\, oboe\nRane Moore\, clarinet\nNanci Belmont\, bassoon\nLeander Star\, horn \nThe City of Tomorrow is a wind quintet that is always more than a wind quintet. Live shows feature lighting\, staging and set pieces\, electronics\, and the kind of ritualistic feel reminiscent of a Yoko Ono or Marina Abramović conceptual performance. The City of Tomorrow: Waves\, Breaths\, Dead Cities is no exception\, featuring a custom set by Memphis carpenter Celeste Von Ahnen\, video work by Breezy Lucia\, also of Memphis\, and choreography by the ensemble’s horn player\, Leander Star. \nThe first half of the show recalls the shutdown and the long months of quarantine\, starting with a blithe reworking of a Vivaldi Concerto and concluding with Jacob Druckman’s mournful Delizie Contente Che L’Alme Beate\, a work for electronics and live winds that quotes liberally from Francesco Cavalli’s 1649 aria of the same name. Olof Cornéer’s minimalist work\, Waves\, Breaths\, Dead Cities and Leander Star’s quarantine project Shoulder to Shoulder take the audience through memories of empty streets and monotonous days. \nThe second half begins with Luciano Berio’s intricate and vibrant work\, riccorenze. Appropriately\, the score calls for the musicians to be spread out as far as possible from each other on the stage\, the perfect music for social distancing. As the musicians become situated closely again\, the concert comes to a powerful and hopeful ending with Puma by the young Peruvian composer Daniel Cueto. \n\nAbout The City of Tomorrow: \nThe City of Tomorrow is an experimental wind quintet with a fearless aesthetic and a commitment to 21st-century music. Their U.S. tours have included concerts at Trinity Wall Street\, Spectrum\, and IN\TER/SECT\, (co-presented by Bryant Park and Chamber Music America) as well as the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series in Chicago\, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Michigan\, and Red Note New Music Festival in Illinois. The quintet’s work has been supported by residencies at the Banff Center for the Arts & Creativity and the Avaloch Farm Music Institute. \nIn 2015\, the quintet began exploring physical movement and spatial relationships in their concert programming. Collaborating with lighting designer Alex Deahl\, the quintet has experimented with an ensemble-controlled lighting setup and choreography to create a seamless and immersive musical experience. \nFrom 2012 to 2014\, the quintet was engaged in a musical exploration of climate change\, which culminated in the commissioning of major new works from composers Hannah Lash\, Nat Evans\, and John Aylward. The City of Tomorrow’s first album\, Nature\, released on PARMA/Ravello in 2014\, further wrestled with questions of human involvement in the natural world. Exploration of these natural themes resulted in a new work from Hannah Lash\, which was supported by a 2014 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant. \nThe City of Tomorrow’s members are based in New York\, Boston\, and Memphis and are in demand as new music specialists\, curators\, collaborators\, and teachers. As an ensemble\, they have recently given residencies at Vermont College of Fine Arts\, Berklee College of Music\, Indiana University\, Tufts\, and Yale. Members of the ensemble can also be heard with some of the finest ensembles in New York and beyond\, including Talea Ensemble and the International Contemporary Ensemble.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-city-of-tomorrow-2/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents The Apartment
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents The Apartment at Crosstown Theater.\nBilly Wilder / 1960 / 125 minutes / Rated M \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nRestored in 4K from the 35mm original picture negative and 35mm duplicate picture negative! Park Circus in collaboration with Metro Goldwyn Mayer presents The Apartment. From Park Circus: C.C. Baxter is an office clerk who courts favor with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small apartment for their extramarital flings. Among them is his callous boss\, J.D. Sheldrake\, who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik\, the sweet elevator operator the clerk has loved from afar. When Sheldrake coldly dumps the vulnerable young woman\, she tries to commit suicide in Baxter’s apartment\, giving the clerk the opportunity to save the woman of his dreams but possibly lose his job. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-the-apartment/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
DESCRIPTION:The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents a program titled Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde\, featuring works by Wagner\, Joseph Boulogne de Chevalier de St. George\, Villa-Lobos\, and Haydn  at Crosstown Theater. Featuring cellist Brant Taylor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. \nTickets: $35  \nRobert Moody\, conductor\nBrant Taylor\, cello \n \nBOULOGNE  Symphony No. 1\nHAYDN  Cello Concerto No. 1\nVILLA-LOBOS Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1\nWAGNER  Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde (arranged for chamber orchestra) \nWagner changed the direction of love music forever with Tristan and Isolde. Joseph Boulogne de Chevalier de St. George was a black French contemporary of Mozart\, who was one of France’s most celebrated composers during his life. Brant Taylor\, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and an accomplished soloist\, performs Haydn’s First Cello Concerto.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-memphis-symphony-orchestra-presents-wagners-tristan-and-isolde/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Case Study of 'The Devil Will Run' w/ Noah Glenn & IMAKEMADBEATS
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a case study of the 2021 Indie Memphis Film Festival Jury & Audience award-winning short film\, ‘The Devil Will Run.’ Join writer/director Noah Glenn and producer IMAKEMADBEATS as they share insights and stories from each stage of the production process — from receiving an IndieGrant in 2019 all the way through production and into festival distribution.\n\nThe case study will also feature a screening of the 10-minute film\, ‘The Devil Will Run’.\n\nDoors open 6:30 pm\nBegins at 7:00 pm\n\nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required.\n\nShoot & Splice is a FREE filmmaker forum presented by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis\, featuring a wide variety of technical\, educational\, and unique topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-case-study-of-the-devil-will-run-w-noah-glenn-imakemadbeats/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Fireside Collective
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the progressive folk band Fireside Collective in The Green Room. \nTICKETS: $12 advance | $15 day of show\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\n\nQuickly blazing a name for themselves with their progressive approach to American folk music\, Fireside Collective delights listeners with memorable melodies and contemporary songwriting. Formed in the mountain city of Asheville\, North Carolina\, the band plays original songs on stringed instruments\, intended for a modern audience. Following the release of their debut album “Shadows and Dreams\,” the band hit the road seeking to engage audiences with their energetic live show built on instrumental proficiency\, colorful harmonies\, and innovative musical arrangements. \nWell what do you call it? \n“Bluegrass\, Newgrass\, perhaps Progressive folk…” These are some descriptions mandolinist and songwriter Jesse Iaquinto chooses to identify with. “Depending on where you come from and your experience with folk music\, you may think we’re very traditional\, or on the other hand\, consider us a progressive act. We appreciate both ends of the spectrum and may lie on a different end on any given night.” While roots music lies at the core of the Collective’s songs\, a willingness to explore the boundaries and present relevant new material remains fundamental. \nThe band burst onto the scene in early 2014 following the release of “Shadows and Dreams.” The album weaves bluegrass\, funk\, rock\, and blues influences into a refreshing representation of modern folk music. From the opening track “Poor Soul” with it’s energetic bluegrass overtones to the closer “Shine the Way Home”\, the album takes listeners on a journey through simple love songs to complex themes such as metaphysics and coexistence. The album\, recorded in Asheville at Sound Temple Studios\, features guest musicians from Asheville’s rich acoustic music scene alongside members of the Fireside Collective.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/fireside-collective/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Lisa Nobumoto & Jazz Masters: Tribute to the Music of Diana Ross
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice.\n\nCrosstown Arts presents Lisa Nobumoto & Jazz Masters 20-piece Orchestra: Tribute to the Music of Diana Ross in The Green Room.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: $15 plus fees\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\nThis unique show encompasses the essence of singer Diana Ross’ 1973 album “Touch Me In The Morning.” A tribute to the Diva\, this performance extends the music into the various sounds of a 20-piece orchestra with a special one-of-a-kind visual presentation. The Jazz Masters Orchestra features a genuinely diverse group of exciting instrumentalists who offer fiery and inspiring solos\, paying tribute to the legacy of Diana Ross. \nAbout Lisa Nobumoto: \nA California native\, Lisa Nobumoto is a Memphis-based jazz singer who has worked with be-bop pioneers such as Teddy Edwards\, Jimmy Cleveland\, Al “Tootie” Heath\, Larry Gales\, Conti Condoli\, Billy Higgins\, George Gaffney\, and Gerald Wiggins in an abundance of tours and festivals.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/lisa-nobumoto-jazz-masters-tribute-to-the-music-of-diana-ross/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents A Tree Grows In Brooklyn at Crosstown Theater.\nElia Kazen / 1945 / 128 minutes / Rated PG \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nWe were originally going to show A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at Christmas as it is is one our favorite Christmas movies here at the Arthouse series!! It was postponed but it is still cold so come see this film and you won’t ever think about Christmas the same way again! A gut punch of a film\,  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn tells the story of an Irish immigrant family\, the Nolans\, living out their lives in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912. About 100 years before Williamsburg got to be the gentrified Hell hole it currently is\, this story takes place when the neighborhood was filled with thousands of first generation immigrants from all different parts of the world\, crammed together in tenements and hustling every day to put food on the table and maybe a little liquor down their gullet! With Dorthy McGuire (Old Yeller\, Swiss Family Robinson) as stern mom Katie Nolan! Joan Blondell (Glenda in Stay Away\, Joe) as sassy Aunt Sissy!! Come out and get in the spirit with us!!  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\, CAN’T MISS!!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-crosstown-arthouse-film-series-presents-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Memphis Quarantine
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents an exhibition of photographer Jamie Harmon’s Memphis Quarantine photographs.\n\nFrom March 13-May 31\, 2020\, Jamie Harmon photographed more than 2\,000 people at more than 800 homes in the Greater Memphis area to document life during the quarantine period of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Through portraiture\, the images document Memphis residents’ shared isolation anxieties and bonds renewed by survival\, hope\, and solidarity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Jamie Harmon: \nJamie Harmon is a Memphis-based photographer with decades of experience in documenting both found objects and human subjects through film and digital media. A visual anthropologist\, Harmon’s photographs have been featured in the New York Times\, CBS News\, Bitter Southerner and Memphis Magazine. His latest project “Quarantine Memphis” offers an intimate\, early record of life during the 2020 global pandemic through showcasing home-bound notable local figures and everyday Memphians. Through portraiture\, the images document Memphis residents’ shared isolation anxieties and bonds renewed by survival\, hope and solidarity. His other work includes an ongoing portable studio called “Amurica\,” a renovated midcentury Airstream trailer lit with bright\, whimsical props that help visitors come alive with color in the shutter. Grounded in an exploration of place from community to individual to object\, Harmon’s work breathes in a sincere interest in capturing human emotion and character as story. \nArtist Statement:\nThe Memphis Quarantine Project started on March 13\, 2020\, when I\, along with many others\, officially started distancing from one another. I thought I needed something to keep me busy but still be safe. I assumed this would only be for a few weeks and asked a friend if I could photograph them from outside their home. This led to posting an open invitation on social media\, and the project quickly grew to hundreds of people. I eventually reached over 1\,200 people on the sign up link before I had to put a freeze on it. \nFrom March 13 through May 31\, 2020\, I photographed over 800 dwellings and 2\,000 people with an average of 13 photoshoots a day\, each lasting between 15 -30 minutes. Leah Keys\, my partner\, sorted and scheduled all 800 requests by zip code and surrounding cities in the greater Memphis area with daily efficiency routes\, which made it possible to keep such a tight schedule. After the photos were taken\, there was still editing and sorting to do. Generally 8 hours of shooting would lead to another 8 hours of editing. So even though the shooting stopped at the end of May\, the editing continued every day until July. \nThe project was free for participants. Each home\, person\, or family received a private web link with edited images that they could download at no charge. Although many people donated to the project\, it was never advertised as a requirement in efforts to keep participation equitable.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/memphis-quarantine/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery
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SUMMARY:The Barnes Family at Crosstown Theater
DESCRIPTION:Gospel group The Barnes Family presents a special show at Crosstown Theater. \nTICKETS: $30 first-level seating | $20 balcony seating\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\nWith more than 30 years in the music industry\, The Barnes Family has been called “one of the most influential Gospel families in Memphis\, TN.” They’re reuniting on-stage after a five year hiatus. \nChris and Courtney of the Sensational Barnes Brothers released their critically acclaimed debut album Nobody’s Fault But My Own in 2019. The following year\, in 2020\, Calvin J. Barnes II and Carla Barnes-Anderson released James Anderson\, an album with more R&B influences centered around inspiration and motivation. The success of these projects were the missing piece in reuniting the family on stage and shifting their time and energy on the revival of the Barnes family. \nThis show gives the family an opportunity to have fun and create music on their terms. Since their time apart\, each member of the family has toured and performed with acts\, such as the Bar-Kays\, and in solo ventures in Las Vegas. However\, this time around they are looking forward to sharing their favorite songs in their own way. And more importantly\, they’ll be revisiting the moments that have gotten away from them over the years. \nThe Barnes family has deep ties to gospel\, often bridging the gap between soul and non-secular music. There is a familiarity in the way this family performs as it teeters the line of both fervid and faithful. Although the Barnes family got its start in gospel music\, this concert will be a melting pot of old and new. It will be a raw look at the life that each of them has experienced individually over the last couple of years and how that translates into the way they will perform together. \nThis holiday production will be an elevation of where the Barnes family left off in 2015 after the release of their family album\, Family Tree.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-barnes-family/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Sound Fuzion
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Sound Fuzion\, a University of Memphis band\, in The Green Room. \nTICKETS: $10 plus fees (free with student ID for University of Memphis students and faculty)\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \nSound Fuzion is a University of Memphis band composed of students from all majors and musical backgrounds. In its 30+ year legacy\, this band has been known for performing covers of popular songs locally as a way to recruit for and represent the university. Most recently\, this band has also released a single\, “Say Nothing\,” on all streaming platforms\, soon to be followed by their seven song debut album\, “Insight.” \nThe diversity of Sound Fuzion members’ majors and musical backgrounds allow for a blend of genres\, often pop and R&B\, but always a few surprises. \nOpening performance by Blu Jay
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/sound-fuzion/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:BlueTom Live
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents BlueTom Live with Alexis Jade and Massey Lane in The Green Room. \nTICKETS: $10 (free with student ID at the door)\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nBlueTom Records\, the student-run record label at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music\, is proud to present BlueTom artists Alexis Jade and Massey Lane. Join us at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts as BlueTom features two artists from the label performing R&B\, Pop\, and Hip-Hop. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required. \nArtists Performing include the following:\nAlexis Jade\, singer-songwriter\nMassey Lane\, rock band comprised of Grant Carr\, Matthew Sanders\, Miles Norwood\, and Logan Harvey\nDJ Bryce Todd
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/bluetom-live-2/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents  WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA at Crosstown Theater. \nIn advance of the Memphis release of Sony Pictures Classics’ “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America\,” the focus of the documentary Jeffery Robinson and the directors (Emily and Sarah Kunstler) will be hosting an exclusive showing and Q&A at the Crosstown Theater on Thurs.\, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m.\n\nEmily & Sarah Kunstler / 2022 / 118 minutes / Rated PG-13\nTickets: $5 at the door (or purchase presale tickets HERE)\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \n\nInterweaving lecture\, personal anecdotes\, interviews\, and shocking revelations\, in WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA\, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States\, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-film-series-presents-who-we-are-a-chronicle-of-racism-in-america/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Hub New Music
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Boston-based contemporary chamber music trailblazers Hub New Music in Crosstown Theater. This performance is sponsored in part by Concerts International. \nTICKETS: $20 ($10 with student ID at the door)\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \nCalled “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe\, Hub New Music – composed of flute\, clarinet\, violin\, and cello – performs on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. The ensemble will perform works by Christopher Cerrone\, Takuma Itoh\, Christian Quiñones\, Du Yun\, and Eric Nathan. \nThis concert is presented in collaboration with Concerts International. \n\nAbout Hub New Music: \nCalled “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe\, Hub New Music – composed of flute\, clarinet\, violin\, and cello – is forging new pathways in 21st-century repertoire. The ensemble’s ambitious commissioning projects and “appealing programs” (New Yorker) celebrate the rich diversity of today’s classical music landscape. Its performances have been described as “gobsmacking” (Cleveland Classical)\, “innovative” (WBUR)\, and “the cutting edge of new classical music” (Taos News). \nHub’s 2021-22 highlights include concerts presented by the Morgan Library and Museum\, Celebrity Series of Boston\, Seattle Symphony\, Soka Performing Arts Center\, and Williams Center for the Performing Arts. Season residencies include visits to Baylor\, Portland State\, Illinois State\, and Georgetown universities. The coming season brings premieres of new works by Nathalie Joachim\, Laura Kaminsky\, and Nina C. Young. In fall 2021\, the Library of Congress presents the “virtual premiere” of Hub’s collaboration with composer Carlos Simon\, Requiem for the Enslaved\, which will tour in 2022-23. Simon’s large-scale work honors the lives of 272 slaves sold by Georgetown University (where Simon serves on the faculty) in 1838\, and features spoken-word artist Marco Pavé\, trumpeter Jared Bailey\, and Simon on piano. \nHub’s debut album\, Soul House\, released on New Amsterdam Records in 2020 was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” by the Boston Globe. The ensemble’s upcoming recording with Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi) and Asia-America New Music Institute (AANMI) will be released on Tōrō Records in 2022. Other upcoming recording projects include Carlos Simon’s Requiem for the Enslaved\, and Michael Ippolito’s abstract- expressionist inspired work\, Capriccio. The group will also be featured on Eric Nathan’s portrait album\, Missing Words\, to be released on New Focus Recordings. \nHub New Music is a group of passionate educators whose approach to teaching melds the artistic and entrepreneurial facets of modern musicianship. The ensemble was recently in residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program\, working with 10 outstanding high school aged composers. Other residency activities include those at New England Conservatory\, Princeton\, Harvard\, \nUniversity of Michigan\, University of Texas-Austin\, UC Irvine\, and University of Nebraska- Lincoln. In 2021-22\, the ensemble continues its K-12 program\, HubLab\, that uses graphic scores and improvisation to create group compositions with students of all levels. \nHub New Music owes thanks to its supporters including Chamber Music America\, the Cricket Foundation\, Boston Cultural Council\, the Florence & Joseph Mandel Family Foundation\, Johnstone Fund for New Music\, Amphion Foundation\, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation\, and Alice M. Ditson Fund for Contemporary Music at Columbia University. The ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston’s reputation as a hub of innovation. Hub New Music is exclusively represented by Unfinished Side.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hub-new-music/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Black Bettie with Jeremy Stanfill
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed to Friday\, February 25\, 2022 due to winter weather. Tickets will automatically be transferred to the new date\, but refunds will be given to those that request them.  \nCrosstown Arts presents Joshua Cosby’s solo project\, Black Bettie\, with special guest Jeremy Stanfill in The Green Room. \nTICKETS: $10 advance | $15 at the door\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \nJoin Black Bettie in his first live show performance since early 2020. Listen as he walks through the nostalgic stories of his songs\, which range from the joys of childhood to the hardships of growing up. He’ll be bringing a visual and intimate element to the performance and songs. \nNative Memphian Joshua Andrew Cosby writes and sings songs that take the simple pleasures of life\, love\, family\, and friends\, and turn them onto their underbelly\, exposing what’s there to a pure and gentle light that he is uniquely gifted to shine. He has been doing so for upwards of 10 years as a founding member of Star & Micey\, and more recently\, his solo project “Black Bettie\,” named after his 17-year-old dog. Her fierce\, whimsical independence inspired him to hunker down and make his first proper solo record. Spurred on by friends and collaborators across the community\, his faith swelled that this new collection of songs could be something worth sharing.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/black-bettie-with-jeremy-stanfill/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Back in Memphis! The Alex Nollan Jazz Quintet
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the Alex Nollan Jazz Quintet in The Green Room. \nTICKETS: $10 advance | $15 day of show\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \nCrosstown Arts presents the Alex Nollan Jazz Quintet\, featuring international award-winning jazz pianist and composer Alex Nollan and distinguished musicians Don Aliquo (saxophone)\, Neal Bowen (bass)\, Renardo Ward (drums)\, and Johnny Yancey (trumpet).  Alex has performed throughout the South\, including Austin\, Lubbock\, Knoxville\, Pensacola\, and Gulf Shores.  Tennessee-based\, the quintet has performed together many times. The Alex Nollan Jazz Quintet works closely with jazz great Donald Brown\, who produced the group’s latest album\, Stand. \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\nAlex Nollan \nAn award-winning* jazz pianist\, composer\, and recording artist. He earned a B.A. in music at Rhodes College and studied jazz on the master’s level at the University of Tennessee. His teachers include Michael Jefry Stevens\, Gerald Stephens\, Bobby Lyle\, and Donald Brown. Brown is also his mentor and the producer of his debut CD\, titled Stand (2019). The CD features saxophonist Don Aliquo\, bassist Neal Bowen\, drummer Renardo Ward\, and trumpet player Johnny Yancey. Alex has over seventeen years of performance experience in jazz\, with engagements in Memphis\, Knoxville\, Pensacola (Jazz Fest)\, Orlando\, and Lubbock\, TX (Hub City Jazz Orchestra). He currently is working on his second CD\, which will be produced by Donald Brown. Visit his website alexnollan.com. \n*Downbeat Magazine\, Unsigned Only (top ten Honorable Mention for jazz composition 2020) \nDon Aliquo \nAn active performer and recording artist\, saxophonist Don Aliquo has released five solo recordings and several collaborations\, including with trumpeter Clay Jenkins (New Ties and Binds). Don has performed in concerts and on recordings with many world-class jazz artists\, such as Gary Burton\, Greg Osby\, Roger Humphries\, Rufus Reid\, Harold Danko\, Scott Robinson\, and Jim McNeely. He is Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. \nNeal Bowen \nNeal Bowen is an electric/acoustic bassist\, and accompanist for New York City-based artist Brennan Villines\, L.A. vocalist Alexis Grace\, Lucky 7 Brass Band\, and Memphis guitarist Garry Goin & G3. He has performed with numerous prominent artists and provided bass for countless recording sessions. He has also mentored several notable musicians. Neal resides in Memphis\, TN with his wife and two children. \nRenardo Ward \nRenardo Ward is an international instructor\, jazz Ambassador\, and local first-call musician in the Memphis area. He has performed with many jazz luminaries\, including Donald Brown\, George Coleman\, Bill Mobley\, Roseanna Vitro\, Don Aliquo\, Clavin Newborn\, Jonathan Wires\, Michael Jefry Stevens\, Joyce Cobb\, and Kirk Whalum. He is a former Kennedy Center and U.S. Department of State Jazz Ambassador to West Africa. \nJohnny Yancey \nHome-grown “Johnny” was inspired to play the trumpet by his older brother\, a saxophonist. At Southside High School in Memphis he was mentored by a senior classmate\, Donald Brown\, who later became an internationally-acclaimed pianist. At Memphis State University he majored in Music Education. He formed his own group in 2002\, the Sanctuary Jazz Orchestra. Johnny is quoted as saying\, “Jazz is the true music from the soul and for the soul.”
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LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mahogany Chamber Performances: Vocal Juggernauts
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents an evening of show-stopping vocal music across multiple genres\, featuring works by HT Burleigh and María Grever\, musical theater pieces by Kurt Weill\, and famous arias by Puccini and Wagner. Featuring local artists Paulina Villareal (U of M vocal professor)\, Gavin Wigginson (PRIZM Executive Director)\, and guest artist dramatic soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas. They will be joined by pianists Jonathan Tsay and Artina McCain.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Mahogany Chamber Performances is a series of three chamber music concerts curated by Dr. Artina McCain\, spotlighting Black and other underrepresented composers and performers. \nTICKETS: $15 ($5 with student ID at the door)\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required. \n\nTakesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas\, soprano \nMultidisciplinary creative performing artist and founder of SWAP’ra North America\, Mrs. Takesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas is a vocally and visually stunning force on stage and screen. From leading roles with many storied institutions such as the Metropolitan Opera and Sydney Opera House\, to sharing the stage with the likes of Yo-Yo Ma and Wynton Marsalis\, to collaborating with Broadway in Chicago and HBO\, she also brings her global worldview to building community\, education\, and innovation. This is evidenced by her recent partnerships with Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra\, as well as her 15+ years of experience as a Master Vocal Technician\, Coach\, Songwriter\, and Arranger who specializes in holistically integrating and freeing the Mind\, Body\, and Spirit to effectively communicate one’s clarity and purpose. A performer since the age of two\, and counting music legends McKinley “Muddy Waters” Morganfield and Tina Turner among her relations\, she consistently propels her vision of uniting tradition with innovation in all she creates. In so doing\, Mrs. Kizart-Thomas recently launched “The Meshé Legacy” with her husband\, Dr. D. Vincent Thomas Jr. and infant daughter\, Little Miss Joëlle Meshé. As marriage and family advocates who believe in the immense power of partnership\, they are collectively driven by their mission to promote Love\, Life\, and Legacy initiatives for families and their children. \nPaulina Villarreal\, mezzo-soprano \nMexican mezzo-soprano Paulina Villarreal is a prominent recitalist\, cabaret\, operatic\, and musical theater singer around the United States and Mexico. A graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music\, Dr. Villarreal has been a soloist and resident artist in important companies and orchestras around the United States like Opera Saratoga\, Cincinnati opera\, Opera Fusion: New Works\, the Tanglewood Music Center\, the Boston Pops (Boston\, MA)\, Opera Memphis\, Opera Steamboat\, Princeton Symphony Orchestra\, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra\, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra\, Appalachian Symphony Orchestra\, and the Decatur Millikin Symphony Orchestra. Trained as a classical vocalist\, Villarreal is now additionally in demand for her singing versatility in musical theater\, and commercial music genres. \nIn the entrepreneurship and administrative world\, Dr. Villarreal is the founder and artistic director of the annual concert series Cantos para Hermanar al Mundo (Songs to Unite the world) devoted to the promotion of classical vocal genres hosted in Northern Mexico. She currently holds the rank of Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music and serves as the Young Singer Program Director at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival\, a prestigious summer training program in the United States. \nGavin Wigginson\, tenor \nGavin Wigginson has devoted his career to inspiring youth to explore their musical abilities and open their eyes – and ears – to the countless elements of music. \nWith a bachelor’s and master’s degree in music and in vocal performance from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville\, Gavin has fused his classical training to raise awareness and uplift victims of social injustice. Currently\, Gavin serves as executive director for PRIZM Ensemble and director of concert choir instructor of voice at LeMoyne-Owen College. Previously Gavin has served as a fellowship coach for Memphis Music Initiative\, where he partnered with dozens of local schools and managed a team of music fellows who taught more than 750 students each semester. \nAs PRIZM’s executive director\, Gavin oversees all operations and strategic direction for the nonprofit\, manages development\, drives programming\, recruits mentors\, and fosters community partnerships to support PRIZM’s vast youth outreach efforts. He also leads PRIZM’s largest program\, the Summer Music Camp and International Chamber Music Festival\, and the PRIZM in the Schools (PITS) program\, which provides high-level introductory music classes and orchestral instruction at various schools. \nArtina McCain\, piano \nDescribed as a pianist with “power and finesse” (Dallas Arts Society)\, “beautiful and fiery” (KMFA Austin)\, and having a “sense of color\, balance and texture” (Austin Chamber Music Center)\, Artina McCain has a built a three-fold career as a performer\, educator\, and speaker. Recent performance highlights include guest appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra\, Oregon East Symphony\, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist\, her credits include performances at the Mahidol University in Bangkok\, Hatch Recital Hall in Rochester\, and in 2022\, her debut at Wigmore Hall in London. \nDedicated to promoting the works of Black and other underrepresented composers\, McCain curates Black Composers Concerts for multiple arts organizations and is an American Prize winner for her solo piano recordings of these works. Recently\, she won a Gold Global Music Award for her recent solo album project Heritage. Currently\, she is Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the University of Memphis. Artina McCain is a Yamaha Artist. \nJonathan Tsay\, piano \nPrior to his appointment as Assistant Professor of Piano at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at The University of Memphis\, Jonathan Tsay served numerous roles in the music community including Head of Collaborative Piano at Conservatory Music in the Mountains\, Head of Piano at the Chloé Trevor Music Academy\, Presenter and Artist for Cliburn in the Classroom (which serves over 50k under-served 2nd-4th graders in the DFW area per year) and Artistic Director of Ensemble75\, a chamber music series based in the North Texas area. \nA sought-after collaborator\, Jonathan has also performed alongside some of the world’s premier musicians\, including Chee-Yun\, David Cooper (Principal Horn\, Chicago Symphony)\, Jing Wang (Concertmaster\, Hong Kong Philharmonic)\, dramatic soprano Alessandra Marc\, the Cézanne Quartet\, and Nathan Olson (Concertmaster\, Dallas Symphony Orchestra). As a solo recitalist\, Jonathan has performed throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Taiwan. \nJonathan earned a Bachelor’s of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Carol Leone at Southern Methodist University and his doctorate at l’Université de Montréal with Marc Durand. \nJonathan’s performances have been broadcast on WRR Classical\, KMFA Classical\, and are featured in the companion CD to “Brahms – A Listener’s Guide: Unlocking the Masters Series.” Jonathan’s album\, “Harmonic Allusions\,” was named in the “Top 5 Albums of 2017” by TheaterJones\, and his YouTube collaboration with Chloé Trevor performing “Danse Macabre” has garnered over 1.3 million views.
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LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lily Afshar
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents guitarist Lily Afshar in The Green Room.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: $20 plus fees\nDoors open at 7 pm | Performance at 7:30pm \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \nAn extraordinary artist\, Lily Afshar has grounded her career on a strong foundation of excellent formal education\, upon which she has built an exceptional record of innovative achievements. With a bachelor’s degree from The Boston Conservatory\, she earned her Master of Music at The New England Conservatory and went on to study at Florida State University\, where she became the first woman in the world to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Music in guitar performance. She pursued greater proficiency with summer studies at the Banff Centre for Fine Arts and the Aspen Music Festival\, advanced training at Gargnano\, Italy\, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena\, and master classes with Andrés Segovia at the University of Southern California. \nSince becoming a tenured professor and head of the guitar program at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music\, Afshar has received the 2000 Eminent Faculty Award\, and in 2011 she was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Boston Conservatory. She conducts master classes worldwide and has released six instructional DVD’s “Classical Guitar Secrets”\, Vols. I & II for beginner to Intermediate guitarists\, and six instructional DVD’s “Classical Guitar Collection”\, Vols. I & II for Intermediate to Advanced guitarists. Both are released with Guitarcontrol.com. She also produced a DVD entitled “Virtuoso Guitar”featuring live performances and an interview with Mel Bay.As a performing guitarist\, she has won a top prize in the Guitar Foundation of America Competition\, Grand Prize in the Aspen Music Festival Guitar Competition\, the Orville H. Gibson Award for Best Female Classical Guitarist\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Recording Award\, among others\, and she was chosen as an “Artistic Ambassador” to Africa for the United States Information Agency. \nWith her passion for going beyond the traditional guitar repertoire\, contemporary classical composers have sought after her for creative collaborations resulting in notable world premieres\, including works by Carlo Domeniconi\, John Baur\, Reza Vali\, Garry Eister\, Gerard Drozd\, Loris Chobanian\,Arne Mellnas\, Kamran Ince\, Barbara Kolb\, Marilyn Ziffrin\, David Kechley\, and Salvador Brotons. Most of these can be heard on her seven CDs. Her first recording\, “24 Caprichos de Goya\, Op. 195′′(1994) composed by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco led her to develop a unique multimedia concert combining performance and commentary along with visual presentation of Francisco Goya’s satirical black and white etchings which inspired the guitar pieces. She still receives special requests to present this unique program today. \nHer second recording\, “A Jug of Wine and Thou\,” (1999) was inspired by the famous Poem of Omar Khayyam and features arrangements of Persian melodies. Afshar was now attracting the interest of international composers and her third and fourth recordings\, “Possession” (2002) and “Hemispheres” (2006) feature a combined total of eight world premieres. “Hemispheres” reached No. 7 on Billboard Magazine’s Chart of Top Classical Albums in 2006 and attracted the attention of National Public Radio’s Robert Siegel\, who featured Afshar on “All Things Considered.” Next came “One Thousand and One Nights\,” (2012) which was recorded and released in Iran. Her sixth album and chamber recording\, “Musica da Camera”(2013)\, featured a world premiere by Russian composer Vladislav Uspensky in addition to compositions by Niccolo Paganini and Astor Piazzolla. Her latest album\, “Bach on Fire” (2014)\, highlights a completely unique and intricate approach to J.S. Bach’s guitar compositions. The arrangements on the album were taken from her book with Mel Bay’s Essential Bach: Arranged for the Guitar by Lily Afshar. \nAfshar’s Persian heritage has given rise to some of her greatest musical innovations. Born in Iran to a musical family\, she has drawn from Persian and Azerbaijani folk music traditions to create arrangements of works for the classical guitar which are as rich and beautiful as a Persian miniature. She arranged for guitar and published Five Popular Persian Ballads with Mel Bay\, and is presently creating a new collection of guitar arrangements of traditional Persian and Azerbaijani songs. She has also fascinated concert goers with occasional live performance on the seh-tar\, a traditional Persian instrument which evolved over many centuries into the guitar. \nA true citizen of the world\, Afshar’s concert touring has taken her to solo\, chamber music\, and orchestral performance venues inNorth and South America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Africa. From Wigmore Hall in London to the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington\, she has played before a wide range of audiences and learned to bridge gaps of culture and distance through her music. \nFor more information please visit www.lilyafshar.com
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