Events
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Amina Figarova Sextet
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesAmina Figarova is a quite phenomenal Azerbaijan-born, New York-based pianist and stunning composer. Her sextet is fast developing a huge reputation on the international scene. Amina has toured extensively, developing a tight-knit ensemble that, despite inevitable personnel changes, has attained a distinctive and inimitable voice by concentrating on all-original repertoire for almost 18 years. During that period, having collaborated with musicians residing in both the U.S. and Europe and having built up a circuit of welcoming venues, the Amina Figarova Sextet has triumphed at the main stage of the Newport Jazz Festival, been invited repeatedly to New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, won critical and audience acclaim in Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Amsterdam — and of course New York.
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Frankenstein
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesCrosstown Concourse presents Frankenstein, in the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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The Birds
Crosstown Concourse presents The Birds, in the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Folk All Y’all presents Lilli Lewis
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesLilli Lewis has composed in every tradition that inspires her, including soul, Americana, hip hop, classical, folk, jazz, rock, gospel, blues, soul and R&B. She integrated elements of New Orleans funk while co-writing and co-producing “Mask Up” in the summer of 2020. After carving out space for herself as an African-American lesbian of size, Lewis has lent her voice to the inclusion and equity in the music industry by speaking in conferences and seminars for Americana Music Association and Folk Alliance International in her role as VP & Head of A&R at Louisiana Red Hot Records. And she’s further sharing her message in the music of her eagerly awaited “Americana” album, following 2019’s critically acclaimed “We Belong.” In all things, Lewis does her best to live by the creed she and her ensemble have become known for: Practice Radical Decency. That’s a belief system we can get behind!
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CANCELLED: William Basinski
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesWilliam Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 30 years in NYC and, most recently, California. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life and resound with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time.
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Tim Fitzgerald
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesTim Fitzgerald is a Chicago based guitarist and bandleader. He is also author of the book 625 Alive: the Wes Montgomery BBC Concert Transcribed, which has been hailed as the "Ultimate Study of Wes Montgomery's music" (Just Jazz Guitar Magazine) and “One of the 50 greatest guitar books of all time” (The 50 Greatest Guitar Books). He has written columns for Downbeat Magazine, Just Jazz Guitar Magazine and Chicago Jazz Magazine and performed clinics at the Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival.
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Crosstown Arthouse presents THE BLACK CAT
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE BLACK CAT at Crosstown Theater.
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Chinese Connection Dub Embassy: “Crew Vibes”
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesThe 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.
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Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesCrosstown Concourse presents Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters, in the Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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The Shining
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesCrosstown Concourse presents The Shining, in the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
