Crosstown Arts

CRAIG BREWER’S SECRET SCREENING with special guest STH Memphis Jeff (host of WYXR's Funkytown)
2022-05-27 14:30 - 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
CRAIG BREWER’S SECRET SCREENING with special guest STH Memphis Jeff (host of WYXR’s Funkytown)

Friday, May 27, 2022

Doors and music start at 7:30 pm / Screening begins at 8:00 pm

$5 DOLLAR TICKETS AT THE DOOR

Crosstown Arts and WYXR present another edition of filmmaker and Memphian Craig Brewer’s SECRET SCREENING in the Crosstown Theater on Friday May 27! You are invited to come and enjoy one of Craig’s favorite films, with an introduction to the film from Craig himself! Doors open at 7:30 pm with music provided by WYXR DJ STH Memphis Jeff, host of WYXR’s Funkytown. Craig comes out for the reveal at 8:00 pm!!

SOLD OUT: The Colors of J.Buck
2022-05-27 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents R&B artist J.Buck in the Green Room.

Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 day of the show

THIS SHOW IS NOW SOLD OUT.

It’s time the world can open its ears to the dynamic R&B sounds of J. Buck aka “Buck Nasty”. Born Joshua Buck, this Memphis native is on his way to adding his contribution to Memphis’s music legacy. J.Buck distinguished himself as a solo artist and songwriter early in his career with unique stage presence and profound lyrics. In 2015, Buck released his debut EP The JBuck Experience, which the Murfreesboro Pulse cited as “a step towards the direction of this generation’s version of Marvin Gaye” At first glance, you may confuse him for the ghost of David Ruffin or Prince with his slick style and electrifying performances. With various influences from Rock, Blues, and Hip-hop, this soul brother amplifies the black male experience through love, addiction, and free thought.
In 2016, Buck hosted a European tour off the sophomore album Love Matters captivating audiences with vocal range and flashy dance moves. He’s also won various competitions including IKEAs Battle of The Bands and has been featured on Sofar Sounds and South by Southwest. Back in full effect in 2020 with the latest project Bar Talk, the album explores the reality of situationships, addiction, and the millennial black male experience. Spreading love and funk through his music, J. Buck embodies the ability to musically seduce his fans giving them an experience that they can’t forget.

Crosstown Arthouse presents NASHVILLE
2022-05-26 14:30 - 17:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents NASHVILLE at Crosstown Theater.
Robert Altman / 1975 / 160 minutes / Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
NASHVILLE is probably one of the most Robert Altman films Robert Altman ever filmed, with MANY characters and MANY story lines! Broadly the story takes place over the course of a few days before a rally by a populist business man running on a third party ticket for President, predicting 45 by 41 years! The film also takes a look at the Nashville music scene of that era. Too many to list, but NASHVILLE includes incredible performances by Shelley Duvall, Ned Beatty, Jeff Goldblum, Karen Black!!, Lily Tomlin!!!!, Keith Carradine!! CAN’T MISS!!!
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.

Anthony Wilson Album Release Show
2022-05-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Anthony Wilson in the Green Room for a special record release show for his new album “The Plan of Paris.”

Doors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 day of the show

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A guitarist and composer/songwriter known for a wide-ranging body of musical work that moves effortlessly across genres, Wilson has released twelve solo albums, including his Grammy-nominated debut. The three most recent — “Frogtown,” “Songs and Photographs,” and “The Plan of Paris” — reveal his growing dedication to the art of songcraft as a powerful mode of musical communication.
In addition to his solo work, Anthony Wilson has toured and recorded with a diverse group of legendary artists, including Diana Krall, Charles Lloyd, Ron Carter, Bobby Hutcherson, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Barbra Streisand, Melody Gardot, Aaron Neville, and many more.

Kyndle Wylde with special guest The PRVLG
2022-05-24 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Tickets purchased for the original February 3, 2022 date will be accepted at the May 24, 2022 rescheduled date. (Please email jenny@crosstownarts.org with questions.)

Crosstown Arts presents singer/songwriter Kyndle Wylde in The Green Room.
Doors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm
TICKETS: $12 advance | $15 at the door
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Gospel-raised in tiny Bolivar, Tennessee, singer/songwriter Kyndle Wylde has a voice that has demanded attention since she started singing in her crib. Kyndle is the lead singer of the Memphis Ukulele Band and a graduate of the University of Memphis. Her voice and harmonies have quickly made her an in-demand singer both onstage and in-studio in the soul city.
Kyndle was living in Nashville when the pandemic hit, and denied her performance outlet, she dug deep, and the songwriting that had always been on the sideline became her mission. Kyndle has been acclaimed for her singing since she’d first stood in front of an audience, but through songwriting, she discovered a new voice inside her. The result is a six-song sonic Polaroid of who she is at this moment. Kyndle Wylde’s self-titled debut EP, released under Memphis International Records, is out now.

The Adam Larson Trio featuring Bob DeBoo and John Kizilarmut
2022-05-21 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents The Adam Larson Trio featuring Bob DeBoo and John Kizilarmut.
Clinic at 4pm (Free and open to the public. Email jenny@crosstownarts.org for more information.)
Doors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 day of the show
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This performance and workshop is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Adam Larson (b. 1990) is an American saxophonist, composer, educator and author currently residing in the Kansas City-area. Larson is an endorsed artist for P. Mauriat Saxophones, Boston Sax Shop and Key Leaves.
Larson has released six albums under his own name and maintains an active touring schedule year-round playing his original music. Adam has been a guest artist at over 100 universities across the globe and has toured internationally in Germany, Holland, India, Taiwan, Africa, Poland and the United Kingdom. In the U.S., Adam has led his own bands at storied venues such as Birdland, Smalls, 55 Bar, Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s, The Green Mill, The Jazz Showcase, Dazzle, The Jewel, The Black Cat, Jazz at the Bistro and Noce, among others.
Larson has authored twelve educational texts and produced an online masterclass that have collectively sold in more than 75 countries and maintains a robust virtual lessons studio, working with dozens of students each month.
Larson currently teaches in the Arts Entrepreneurship Program at UMKC, where he previously taught jazz saxophone, music business and jazz pedagogy.

John Kizilarmut has performed with a wide range of artists and groups including Aretha Franklin, Doc Severinsen, Benny Golson, Jerry Bergonzi, Matt Wilson, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, Adam Larson, Logan Richardson, Clark Terry, New York Voices, Ana Gasteyer, Conspirare, Shirley Jones, DJ Starscream, and the Des Moines Symphony.
He is a frequent guest performer and clinician at percussion and jazz festivals throughout the midwest, including Texas, Iowa, and Nebraska Days of Percussion; Tallcorn, Kansas City, Cherokee, Hannover, and Iowa City Jazz Festivals. In 2013, John was a featured artist along with with TOCA artist Jamal Mohamed and Marimba One artist Matthew Coley at the PASIC convention. He is also an active composer and arranger, and his works have been featured by many award-winning music programs including the 2013 State Jazz champion Waukee High School Jazz Ensemble, Lake Central High School Band, several DCI Drum Corps, and the University of Texas percussion ensemble.
As an educator, John directed the 2017 Iowa All-State Jazz Ensemble, and has served on the faculties of Drake University, Grinnell College, and Northwest Missouri State University. John and his son Evan currently reside in Kansas City MO, where he is a member of the jazz studies faculty at UMKC.

Bob DeBoo was born in Fort Worth, Texas and has been involved in music since age 10. His musical life began as a drummer in school and grunge bands, but in his early teens he gravitated to electric bass – particularly after hearing Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Les Claypool. His journey towards playing Jazz really took hold when he heard Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come” in High School. He found a mentor in his first upright bass teacher, Michael Blanco. It wasn’t long before he was playing gigs all over the DFW area.
Bob’s formal music study began at the University of North Texas (1999-2001), where he studied with Lynn Seaton and Craig Butterfield. During this time he was playing with many great Jazz musicians in the Dallas area, such as Marchel Ivery, Shelley Carroll, Quamon Fowler, and Arlington Jones, to name a few. In 2001 he was awarded a substantial scholarship to study music at the New School in Manhattan (2002-2004). At the New School Bob was surrounded and influenced by many amazing young musicians. His primary bass teachers during his New School days were Ben Street, Michael Moore, Dennis Irwin, Cameron Browne, and Johannes Weidenmuller.
After graduating from the New School, Bob continued playing in the New York area with great musicians such as Frank Locrasto, Jeremy Pelt, Logan Richardson, Tommy Crane, and Manuel Valera. He also became more active in playing creative bands like Josh Mease’s Superioirty Complex, an experimental drum-n-bass group named Doctor Oscillator, and a hip-hop group named The Piranhas. – all of which have several albums released in the early/mid-2000s.
An engagement to the love of his life, Beth, brought him to Saint Louis in 2006, where he has resided ever since. Bob has been incredibly active in the Jazz scene, playing with every major artist in the area. In Saint Louis he has worked often with Willie Akins, Freddie Washington, Denise Thymes, Ptah Williams, Erin Bode, Dave Stone, Adam Maness, Peter Schlamb, and Montez Coleman. A regular fixture at Jazz at the Bistro, he has been involved with many great musicians as they travel through the area – Terrell Stafford, Bruce Barth, Keyon Harrold, Adam Larson, Allison Miller, Peter Martin, Matt Wilson, Emmanuel Harrold, Houston Person, Johnny O’Neal, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Geoff Keezer, among many more. Bob is also active in leading his own groups – including performances at LouFest, Chesterfield Jazz Festival, and at Jazz at the Bistro. He is also known for hosting a long-running Jazz jam session at the Kranzberg Arts Center in Grand Center.
Very involved in Jazz education as well Bob has taught for years with Jazz St. Louis’ “JazzU” program, with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People program, Peter Martin’s Open Studio Network, and is an adjunct bass professor at Missouri State University and Jefferson College. He has also taught private lessons to many young bassists over the years and keeps a full roster of students.

Ed Gerhard
2022-05-20 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents acoustic guitarist Ed Gerhard in the Green Room.

Doors at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 advance | $25 at the door

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

About Ed Gerhard:

Performing on 6-string, 12-string, slide guitar or Acoustic Hawaiian Lap Slide, Gerhard captivates his audiences with virtuosity, generosity and sly humor. Known for his gorgeous tone and compositional depth, Gerhard can move a listener with a single note. Scott Alalrik of the Boston Globe said it best when he wrote ‘Gerhard does not write instrumentals. He writes songs only a guitar can sing.

Gerhard’s relationship with the guitar began at age 10, when he happened upon classical guitar master Andrés Segovia on TV. “I’d heard all the pop music on the radio and maybe a little of that 60’s folk stuff, but this was the first time I’d ever heard the guitar all by itself and the sound just instantly got me,” he remembers. Ed finally got his first guitar at 14. His initial interest in classical guitar changed dramatically when he heard the music of bluesman Mississippi John Hurt. He quit lessons after the third one. He took some informal lessons with friends and learned by ear, slowing down LPs to half-speed to pick out the tricky parts. At fifteen, Ed was already beginning to perform in local church basement coffeehouses, playing solo and jamming with friends.

In 1977 Gerhard moved to New Hampshire where he has resided ever since. Joining a thriving folk and acoustic music scene proved invaluable for the young guitarist. “There seemed to be no limitation on places to play back then, or more importantly, what you could play” says Ed. “You could play anything you wanted as long as people stayed around and drank.” When Gerhard was not performing solo he could often be seen sitting in with other musicians. “I loved to play, it didn’t matter if I was solo or sideman.” During this period Ed began composing and arranging music for solo guitar, using a staggering array of alternative guitar tunings.

Based truly on the quality of his work, Ed built his considerable reputation, beginning with his debut album “Night Birds” in 1987. It garnered a spot in the Boston Globe Critics Poll Top 10 Albums of the Year.” Shortly after the album’s release, Windham Hill Records included Ed on its Guitar Sampler (Vol.1). One of the highlights of the three hundred thousand unit selling Sampler, “The Handing Down” introduced the world to the beauty of Ed Gerhard’s music. “That one piece made me a lot of friends around the world,” Ed says.

Ed has released his ninth CD “There and Gone.” He was awarded a GRAMMY® for his inclusion on the CD “Henry Mancini; Pink Guitar.” Warner Brothers, MelBay and Hal Leonard have all released Ed Gerhard’s music in books. His guitar work can be heard on recordings by Arlo Guthrie, Jorma Kaukonen, Bill Morrissey and in the Ken Burns films “Mark Twain” and “ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”

Ed’s CD “Luna” is featured in Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s 20th Anniversary list of the “240 Essential Albums.” “This soulful album of original compositions rich in melody, chordal complexity and stylistic variety proves why Gerhard is considered to have the most exquisite acoustic guitar tone on the planet.” -Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Along with players like Ben Harper and David Lindley, Gerhard’s unique approach to the Weissenborn (an acoustic Hawaiian lap slide guitar) is playing a significant role in reinvigorating interest in this somewhat esoteric but beautiful instrument. Ed’s style of Weissenborn playing is unique in that he composes and arranges music for solo Weissenborn with beautiful melodies, complex chords and moving basslines, unusual for an instrument that normally serves an accompaniment role. Ed is featured in the book “Lap Steel Guitar” alongside legendary players like Greg Leisz, David Lindley, Jerry Byrd and more.

In a true collaboration of guitarist and guitar maker, Breedlove Guitars released the “Ed Gerhard Signature Model” guitar. The guitar became one of Breedlove’s best selling guitars and won the “Player’s Choice Award” by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Breedlove has released a Gerhard Weissenborn copy in collaboration with Gerhard. Here they have combined traditional design with innovative features and contemporary wood combinations.

Ed tours in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, China and Korea.

Crosstown Arthouse presents Vagabond
2022-05-19 14:30 - 17:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents VAGABOND at Crosstown Theater.
Agnes Varda / 1985 / 105 minutes / Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of Vagabond. Agnès Varda pieces together Mona’s story through flashbacks told by those who encountered her (played by a largely nonprofessional cast), producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman. With its sparse, poetic imagery, VAGABOND is a stunner, and won Varda the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.

Sunken Cages: Digital Folk Music
2022-05-19 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Sunken Cages, the moniker of drummer/electronic music producer Ravish Momin, in The Green Room.
TICKETS: $15 plus fees
Doors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm
Sunken Cages is the moniker of drummer/electronic music producer Ravish Momin, who started out as an acoustic drummer and percussionist a couple of decades ago. He has worked as a sideman with a wide array of musicians, from pop-star Shakira to legendary avant-saxophonist Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (of the AACM). In addition, he has also leads his own groups on international stages.
As Sunken Cages, Momin is able to showcase his unique hybrid approach which splits the difference between live performance and production. He plays electronic and acoustic drums and triggers melodies and textures. He also layers loops while manipulating them in real-time to blur the lines between composition and improvisation. While rooted in Indian folk and Black Music traditions, he is also influenced by the street sounds of underground dance music from Sao Paolo to Durban to Mumbai and beyond.

Indie Memphis Screening presented with Memphis in May and Crosstown Arts - SANKOFA
2022-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Indie Memphis Screening presented with Memphis in May and Crosstown Arts – SANKOFA
WEDNESDAY MAY 18, 2022 AT 7 PM IN THE CROSSTOWN THEATER
ABOUT THE SANKOFA: On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past.
Tickets: $12 (Indie Memphis Members – $10 or FREE with Member Credit)
https://bit.ly/3Ma6g3K

Mahogany Chamber Performances: Dazzling Duos!
2022-05-15 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents the Mahogany Chamber Performances series, curated by Dr. Artina McCain at Crosstown Theater.

Doors open at 7pm | Concert begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 at the door ($5 student tickets available at the door)

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Crosstown Arts presents the Mahogany Chamber Performances series finale, featuring dazzling duo repertoire by Latin and Black composers at Crosstown Theater. Come hear the musical prowess of Memphis’ very own Adam Sadberry (flute), Frances Cobb (harp), and a rare chance to hear repertoire for two pianos featuring Artina McCain and Adrienne Park. Featuring works by Astor Piazzola, Aldo Lopez Gavilan, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Salzedo, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and more!
The Mahogany Chamber Performances is a series of three chamber music concerts curated by Dr. Artina McCain, spotlighting Black and other underrepresented composers and performers.
Artina McCain, piano
Described 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.
Dedicated 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.

Frances Cobb, harp
Frances Grace Cobb, harpist extraordinaire, recently moved back home to Arkansas to become the Director & General Manager at the Conway Institute of Music. In addition to running the business side of things, Frances performs regularly with many groups in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Before moving home to Arkansas, she relocated to Northern Colorado in 2014 after accepting the position for Principal Harp with the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to playing in various orchestras, she served on Faculty at the University of Northern Colorado, and as the Director of the Loveland Academy of Music, and performed regularly with her chamber group, Synesthesia. She achieved her Masters of Music from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where she received a full scholarship and graduate assistantship for the harp department and assisted her teacher Gillian Benet Sella. While living in Cincinnati, Frances played principal harp with the Kentucky Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Queen City Chamber Opera, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and also had the opportunity to perform as principal harpist with the Cincinnati Symphony on several occasions. Prior to Cincinnati, Frances attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Blair School of Music with a Bachelor of Music in harp performance and minor in piano primarily studying with Marian Shaffer. Frances spent 15 summers at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival where she played and taught alongside Mrs. Shaffer. She began playing the harp at age six with members of her own family at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas. The love of the harp has been passed down through three generations of the Cobb family beginning with her grandmother, Ruth Moore Cobb, who studied and toured with Carlos Salzedo.

Adam Sadberry, flute
Memphis 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.
Adam 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.
Along 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.
Adam’s education includes receiving a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and being a fellow 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 coachings from Keith Underwood. In his spare time, Adam enjoys roller skating, being in nature, and eating as much food as his body can handle.
Adam can be heard playing on the soundtrack of Disney’s The Lion King (2019).

Adrienne Park, piano
Adrienne Park has a wide breadth of experience performing as a pianist in chamber music and symphonic settings. She has been Principal Piano with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra since 2004. She was the faculty collaborative pianist for six years at the Banff Centre for the Arts and has performed with the Memphis Chamber Music Society for fifteen seasons. She has appeared with many renowned artists in recital, including violinists Joshua Bell and Andrew Dawes, cellists Shauna Rolston and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, bassist Edgar Meyer, flutists Paul Edmund Davies, Timothy Hutchins and Tara Helen O’Connor, bassoonist Frank Morelli, saxophonist Nikita Zimin, horn player Frøydis Ree Wekre, and the percussion group NEXUS.
Adrienne is Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano and the Curriculum Coordinator of Keyboard Musicianship at the University of Mississippi. She is also the Artistic Director of the Sonic Explorations Chamber Series at UM and enjoys playing a wide range of chamber music and contemporary music on the piano, celeste, harpsichord, and toy piano.
She studied with Abbey Simon and Ruth Tomfohrde at the University of Houston and with Robert Silverman at the University of British Columbia. While at the Banff Centre, she had the privilege of working closely with Isobel Moore Rolston and Tom Rolston.

SHOOT & SPLICE: MUSIC SUPERVISING
2022-05-15 11:00 - 12:30 | Crosstown Arts The Green Room
SHOOT & SPLICE: MUSIC SUPERVISING
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Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to announce our next Shoot & Splice: Music Supervising! The panelists – which include some of the top music supervisors in film & TV – will discuss everything from the process of artful curation of preexisting songs and recordings to tips on licensing and legal requirements. This is a can’t-miss panel for all Memphis filmmakers and musicians. This special guest panel discussion has been curated by Crosstown Sync.

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Shoot & 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.

Makaya McCraven at Crosstown Theater
2022-05-14 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven at Crosstown Theater on May 14, 2022.

Doors open at 6:30pm | Performance begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $30 in advance | $35 day of the show

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Crosstown Arts is currently requiring proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours of the event. At-home and rapid tests are accepted. Masks encouraged.

Makaya McCraven is a beat scientist. The bleeding edge drummer, producer, and sonic collagist is one of Chicago’s savviest cultural players and a multi-talented force whose inventive process & intuitive, cinematic style defy categorization.

Called “a sound visionary” (jazzinchicago.org) who is “not your everyday jazz drummer”(thewordisbond.com), McCraven brilliantly moves between genres and pushes the boundaries of jazz and rhythm to create forms of his own.

French-born but raised in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts by expatriate musician parents, McCraven studied Jazz at the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the mentorship of jazz luminaries Archie Shepp, Marion Brown, and Yusef Lateef, and eventually went on to develop his chops in Chicago’s burgeoning scene.

His breakthrough album In the Moment was released with International Anthem RecordingCo. (IARC) in 2015 and subsequently hailed by Turntable Lab as “one of the most important recordings to date in the modern Jazz world.” In The Moment was a dramatic statement byMcCraven, where he debuted a unique brand of “organic beat music” that quickly launched him into the vanguard of not only Internationally-known jazz artists, but also a niche genre of next-wave composer-producers blurring the boundaries of jazz & electronic music.

His recent album releases, the DJ-style mixtape Highly Rare (IARC, 2017) as well as an internationally recorded Where We Come From (CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape) (IARC, 2018)have been well received by music affectionados all over the world.“ Makaya McCraven is a Chicago staple, owing some of his rise to the city’s fervent jazz community, but with Where We Come From, McCraven and his band have transcended locale. Jazz belongs to the world, it exists wherever we come from.” (Will Schube, Passion of the Weiss)

McCraven has shared stages with artists such as Corey Wilkes, Bobby (Baabe) Irving (MilesDavis), Ari Brown, and Bernie Worrell and played in some of the world’s best clubs, festivals and arenas. Yet despite the accolades and fervent touring, McCraven’s focus remains on both creating music and moving the culture forward.

“As a person of mixed race, nationality, and ethnicity I want my identity and contributions to paint a world not bound by genre, race or national boundaries but unified through a love of music culture and community. Tethered by legacies of the past but looking towards a new, more universal future.”

Makaya McCraven continues the development of his “organic beat music” as well as the work of (what Schube described as) “transcending locale” on his most recent releaseUniversal Beings. A 2xLP album that was recorded at 4 sessions in New York, Chicago,London & Los Angeles, Universal Beings features an A-list of “new” jazz players from those hotbed cities: Brandee Younger, Tomeka Reid, Dezron Douglas, Joel Ross, Shabaka Hutchings, Junius Paul, Nubya Garcia, Daniel Casimir, Ashley Henry, Josh Johnson, Jeff Parker, Anna Butters, Carlos Niño and Miguel-Atwood Ferguson.

www.MakayaMcCraven.com

Brazil By Day
2022-05-14 06:00 - 10:00 | Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Concourse, 1350 Concourse Avenue, Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Get immersed in the rich and diverse cultures found throughout the regions of Brazil – from the Amazon’s to Bahia, Rio and beyond through fine art, live music, dance performances, Capoeira demonstrations, local cuisine and so much more!
This celebration of Brazilian culture is free, family friendly and open to everyone!
Presented by Collage Dance, Iris Orchestra, Crosstown Arts, & Carpenter Art Garden

Crosstown Arthouse presents FOXES
2022-05-12 14:30 - 17:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents FOXES at Crosstown Theater.
Adrian Lyne/1980/106 minutes/Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
The 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!!
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.
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.

Amber Rae Dunn and the Mulberries
2022-05-12 14:30 - 16:00 | TN
Crosstown Arts presents singer/songwriter Amber Rae Dunn in the Green Room.

Doors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $12 advance | $15 day of the show

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Nominated for both Female Vocalist of the Year and Entertainer of the Year for three years in a row by the Tennessee Music Awards Amber Rae Dunn and her band “Amber Rae Dunn and the Mulberries” have an infectious way of captivating their audiences and making them feel like part of the show. Since the release of her first original album “Arkansas Line” in 2017 recorded with two-time Grammy award winning producer Mark Goodman & Andrew Cabigao at MGP The Studio featuring Rex Wiseman of the Oak Ridge Boys amongst others, Dunn has performed fearlessly on every stage she’s set foot on. After winning NASH Next Top Regional artist for the Mid-South last year Jessica Northey a digital consultant with Finger Candy Media and one of Forbes Top 50 Power Influencer’s said, “I love how Pure Country [she is]. It’s one of the biggest things missing in country music these days. The country part!” She’s opened for big name country acts such as Gary Allen, Radio Romance, Jordan Davis, and the Rhodes Show. Through these experiences she’s learning more and more each day about the demand this industry can have, but if anyone is up for the challenge it’s Amber. She’s held title as Memphis Songwriters Associations Vice President for two years and Co-Hosts a songwriter showcase in Memphis each week called “Meet Me in Memphis” at South Main Sounds while working part-time as a visiting teacher with the Delta Arts since graduating Memphis College of art back in 2012 with a degree in Sculpture. Her latest releases are being recorded through Sound Kitchen Studios in Nashville by former White Heart guitarist and five-time Dove award winning producer, Billy Smiley. When asked why she moved from Nashville to pursue her music in Memphis she says “for one I feel more creative here, these are MY people and two, well who’s the King of Memphis Blues? B.B. King. Who’s the king of Memphis Rock n’ Roll? Elvis Presley. Now who’s the queen of Memphis country? …Amber Rae Dunn!” and that’s exactly who she plans to be!

Ambient Chaos: Out of Space Series
2022-05-11 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Ambient Chaos: Out of Space Series, feat. Pas Musique, Robert Traxler, Sci-Fi Industries, and Colour Sound Oblivion.

Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $18 at the door

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Pas Musique

Pas Musique emerged from Brooklyn, New York in 1995 as a solo project of founder Robert L. Pepper and has since gone through many variations of experimental, electronic iterations. In 2018, Pas Musique remain as a four piece consisting of Jon V Worthley, Michael Durek, Jesse Fairbairn, and Robert Pepper, pursuing the musical elements of electronic, experimental music with krautrock undertones. Pas Musique have collaborated with many great musicians which include Faust, Rapoon, ZEV, Philippe Petit, HATI, Chester Hawkins, Jim Tuite, and many more. Pas Musique have performed in 18 countries and all throughout the United States.
www.pasmusique.net

Robert Traxler

Robert Traxler makes music sometimes and sometimes runs the Memphis Concrète experimental music festival.
https://traxtronix.bandcamp.com/

Sci Fi Industries

Sci-Fi Industries is Luis van Seixas, an electronic music project, where only hardware machines are involved in the production process (No computers).
The musical influences lay on electro-industrial and Goth rock from the 80s and SFI’s sound could be defined as a personal blend of dark ambient, cutting edge drum programming with an ethnical flavor.
Professionally Luis van Seixas is art conservator of sculpture and gilded and polychrome objects.

https://scifiindustries.bandcamp.com/

Colour Sound Oblivion

Colour Sound Oblivion is Kiefer Gorena, a musican from the American south who loves strange, innovative music just as much as regular, safe music. He has created 10 primary DIY albums in various styles, reflecting his eclectic tastes, using whatever amateur or professional tools at his disposal. This includes a best-of compilation called Ignorant Wonderland on Thisco Records. Lately, he has focused on standard singer/songwriter guitar fare.
https://coloursoundoblivion.bandcamp.com/

Roseanna Vitro
2022-05-10 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents jazz singer Roseanna Vitro with the Ted Ludwig Quartet in the Green Room.
Doors open at 7pm | Show starts at 7:30pm

Tickets: $15 advance | $20 day of the show

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Roseanna Vitro began singing at an early age, drawing inspiration from gospel, rock, rhythm and blues, musical theatre, and classical music. During the 1950s, her father owned a night club in Hot Springs called The Flamingo. He loved Dean Martin‘s music and opera, and her mother’s family sang gospel. By the 1960s, she was determined to be a rock singer.
Vitro was exposed to jazz and it became her genre of choice after moving to Houston, Texas in the 1970s. Ray Sullenger discovered Vitro and presented her to the Houston jazz community where she sang frequently with Arnett Cobb. She worked for two years at the Green Room in Houston with her group Roseanna with Strings and Things and hosted a radio show on KUHF-FM. The band performed with Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Tommy Flanagan, and Keter Betts. Cobb, Peterson, and Sullenger encouraged her to dedicate herself to jazz.
In 1978, she moved to New York City with guitarist Scott Hardy and began to study with Gabor Carelli, a professor from the Manhattan School of Music, and began to perform with Kenny Werner and Fred Hersch. She sang with Lionel Hampton and toured with him. She appeared at The Blue Note, Iridium, Birdland, and Dizzy’s Jazz Club at Lincoln Center. She appeared with Steve Allen at The Town Hall at The Apollo Theater and recorded an album of Allen’s songs. In 2005 she performed and recorded with the Kenny Werner Trio at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
She has worked with Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, Elvin Jones, Gary Bartz, Kevin Mahogany, and David “Fathead” Newman, all of whom have appeared on her recordings. She was a guest on Marian McPartland’s radio program Piano Jazz. Her album The Music of Randy Newman received 4 1/2 stars in Down Beat magazine and a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2012.
Vitro taught vocal jazz at the State University of New York at Purchase and retired in 2017 as Vocal Jazz Chair at New Jersey City University and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. She holds workshops, concerts, and master classes. She has studied classical voice, ear-training, classical Indian vocal technique, Portuguese, piano, and jazz technique and concept.
https://roseannavitrojazz.squarespace.com/media

Folk All Y'all presents An Evening with Max Gomez
2022-05-07 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Doors at 5:30pm | Show begins at 6:00pm
Tickets: $20+ online or at the door
Tickets here: https://maxgomezmemphis.brownpapertickets.com/
Max Gomez apprenticed in the rarefied musical micro-climate of northern New Mexico, where troubadours like Michael Martin Murphey and Ray Wylie Hubbard helped foster a Western folk sound both cosmic and cowboy. Gomez has assumed stewardship of that lineage by producing the Red River Folk Festival, a boutique event held annually in late September in the musical mountain village of Red River, NM. Judging by the company he keeps, Gomez is positioned to emerge as a prominent voice of Americana’s next generation.
Although a native of Taos, it’s fair to say Max Gomez has some Memphis in him. The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter has collaborated with local legends like Keith Sykes and Mark Edgar Stuart, so we wouldn’t be surprised if some friends stop by and sit in.
About Folk All Y’all: Intimate, attentive performances by exceptional singer-songwriters, proudly presented in Memphis, Folk All Y’all is a public listening room series dedicated to providing artists and audiences with unforgettable music experiences.

Nate Smith + KINFOLK + strings at Crosstown Theater
2022-05-07 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Nate Smith + KINFOLK + strings at Crosstown Theater, featuring members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

This very special performance will be recorded and filmed for Jazz Night in America, a public radio program and video concert documentary series from NPR Music, WBGO, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Doors open at 6:30pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $35 advance | $40 day of show
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This special performance features Nate Smith (drums), Jon Cowherd (piano), Fima Ephron (bass), Jaleel Shaw (alto & soprano saxophones), Amma Whatt (vocals), Brad Allen Williams (guitar) with musicians of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
“On drums, Nate Smith is in the business of inspiring. Far from flashy, he’s an ebullient technician who keys into the subtleties of his bandmates’ playing and laces joie de vivre into his own.” – New York Times
2x GRAMMY® Award-nominated drummer/composer/producer Nate Smith has announced the release of his inspired new album, Kinfolk 2: See The Birds. The highly anticipated follow up to 2017’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere arrives via Edition Records on Friday, September 17.
To herald the release of Kinfolk 2: See The Birds, Smith is sharing the album’s first single, the hip-hop centric “Square Wheel,” which finds Smith juggling odd-meter beats in unison with rapper Kokayi’s intrepid rhythmic cadence along side singer Michael Mayo’s impassioned vocals as well as Brad Allen on guitar, bassist Fima Ephron, saxophonist Jaleel Shaw and Jon Cowherd on keys. A companion music video filmed in the recording studio is streaming on YouTube now.
Kinfolk 2: See the Birds affirms Nate Smith as one of the most dynamic drummers, insightful composers, and engaging bandleaders of his generation, adept across infinite genres and multiple styles. The album sees Smith joined by an array of diverse fellow artists, including singers Brittany Howard, Amma Whatt, legendary guitarist Vernon Reid, violinist Regina Carter, vibraphonist Joel Ross, rapper Kokayi, and, Michael Mayo, and Stokley Williams (of the pioneering R&B band Mint Condition).
Kinfolk 2: See the Birds marks the second installment in a remarkable trilogy charting Smith’s continuing evolution as a musician and composer. While Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere touched upon Smith’s childhood in Chesapeake, VA, and the sounds that he absorbed in his family home, the new album offers an impressionistic portrait of the artist as a young man considering his future in music. Those years saw Smith inspired by the diverse and eclectic riches of Prince and Michael Jackson, hip-hop and the emerging neo-soul movement, as well as music associated with the groundbreaking Black Rock Coalition such as Living Colour (whose trailblazing founder, Vernon Reid, appears on the new album’s menacing “Rambo”).
However, Kinfolk 2 is no throwback – Smith reconciles his teenaged influences with the modern jazz sensibilities that he’s demonstrated with not just his solo material but as a sideman with such jazz titans as guitarist Pat Metheny, bassist Dave Holland, and saxophonists Ravi Coltrane and Chris Potter. Recorded mostly in two band sessions – June 2019 at Sear Sound in New York City and February 2020 at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn – the album projects a dreamy, cinematic sensibility as the music ebbs and flows from wistful downtempo excursions to rugged hip-hop beats, hypnotic alt-rock leaning tunes to amorous laments. Kinfolk 2 boasts a slightly different lineup for its core ensemble than its predecessor. Saxophonist Jaleel Shaw and bassist Fima Ephron return, while Smith welcomes guitarist Brad Allen Williams and keyboardist Jon Cowherd to the combo.

Rachel Maxann with Louise Page
2022-05-06 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Rachel Maxann with Louise Page in the Green Room.

Doors at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 at the door

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Rachel Maxann is a performer who loves to bend genres with her style. In the last decade she has moved from Cincinnati, New Orleans, Los Angeles and travelled around the world performing. Each new space has allowed her to grow while experimenting with different styles of the culture. Rachel has been happy to create roots in Memphis and to share her love of Vintage Indie-Rock and Post-Modern Folklore music.

Crosstown Arthouse presents THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH
2022-05-05 14:30 - 17:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH at Crosstown Theater.
Fred Schepisi / 1978 / 120 minutes / Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
Fred Schepisi’s internationally-acclaimed 1978 period masterpiece is Australia’s canonical equivalent of 12 YEARS A SLAVE. Visually enthralling and emotionally resonant filmmaking, with a central violent eruption that still shakes audiences to their core. THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH is the shocking tale of an Aboriginal man driven to madness and revenge. Jimmie (Tommy Lewis) is a young half-caste raised in the early 20th century countryside — a boy initiated by his tribe but educated by a stern minister. Jimmy finds a white bride while performing back-breaking farm work, but cannot escape racist oppression. Fired without pay and discovering that he may not be the true father of his child, Jimmy cuts a bloody path of retribution through the society which forsook him.
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.
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.

Indie Memphis Screening presented with Crosstown Arts - MISSISSIPPI MASALA
2022-05-04 14:00 - 17:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Indie Memphis Screening presented with Crosstown Arts – MISSISSIPPI MASALA

ABOUT THE FILM: Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with a charming carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington) challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’s Indian and African American communities.

Tickets: $12 (Indie Memphis Members – $10 or FREE with Member Credit)
https://bit.ly/3EpkT0e

**Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative COVID-19 Test Required to attend. Masks are encouraged.

Metamorphosis: Third Coast Percussion + choreography by Movement Art Is, interpreted and performed by Cameron Murphy & Quentin Robinson
2022-05-03 14:30 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents Metamorphosis featuring Third Coast Percussion and choreography by Movement Art Is, interpreted and performed by Cameron Murphy & Quentin Robinson.

TICKETS: $25-$40
** student tickets are available for $10 at the door with student ID
Doors at 7:00 pm | Performance at 7:30 pm
Crosstown Arts is requests that guests are fully vaccinated or have taken a negative Covid test before attending this event. Masks are suggested.
Third Coast Percussion joins forces with the groundbreaking choreography of Movement Art Is, interpreted by Cameron Murphy & Quintet Robinson, for an intimate, evening-length program that explores the duality of human nature. At once intensely personal and fiercely virtuosic, two disparate styles of street dance blend seamlessly with new music by Jlin and Tyondai Braxton, as well as Third Coast Percussion’s critically-acclaimed arrangements of Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia.
This performance is made possible in part by an Arts Build Communities grant from Arts Memphis and the Tennessee Arts Commission with additional support from Concerts International.
About Third Coast Percussion:
Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet. For over fifteen years, the ensemble has created exciting and unexpected performances that constantly redefine the classical music experience. The ensemble has been praised for “commandingly elegant” (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington Post) of their recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune). Third Coast Percussion maintains a busy tour schedule, with past performances in 38 of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., plus international tour dates in Canada, Colombia, Hong Kong, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.
A direct connection with the audience is at the core of all of Third Coast Percussion’s work, whether the musicians are speaking from the stage about a new piece of music, inviting the audience to play along in a concert or educational performance, or inviting their fans around the world to create new music using one of their free mobile apps. The four members of Third Coast are also accomplished teachers, and make active participation by all students the cornerstone of all their educational offerings. The quartet’s curiosity and eclectic taste have led to a series of unlikely collaborations that have produced exciting new art. The ensemble has worked with engineers at the University of Notre Dame, architects at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, dancers at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and musicians from traditions ranging from the mbira music of Zimbabwe’s Shona people, to indie rockers and footwork producers, to some of the world’s leading concert musicians. Third Coast Percussion served as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center from 2013-2018, and currently serves as ensemble-in-residence at Denison University.
The four members of Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore) met while studying percussion music at Northwestern University with Michael Burritt and James Ross. Members of Third Coast also hold degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Rutgers University, the New England Conservatory, and the Yale School of Music.
About Movement Art Is:
Cofounded by Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, MAI (Movement Art Is) is an organization that uses movement artistry to inspire and change the world, while elevating the artistic, educational, and social impact of dance. Through movement art films, workshops, performances, and exhibitions, MAI is resetting the spectrum of what dance is.

Memphis Jazz Orchestra
2022-05-01 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents The Memphis Jazz Orchestra in the Green Room.
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Tickets: $12 in advance | $15 day of the show

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The Memphis Jazz Orchestra was founded in October, 1992 at Joyce Cobb’s night club on historic Beale Street. Since 1997 The MJO has been in residence at Alfred’s on Beale Street.
The M.J.O. has distinguished itself in a series of concerts featuring such national jazz artists as guitarist Herb Ellis, trumpeter Marvin Stamm and pianist James Williams.
A powerful and disciplined ensemble with virtuosic soloists and a command of many styles makes a concert by the Memphis Jazz Orchestra a truly memorable event.
Refund Policy:
Tickets may be refunded up to 72 hours in advance of the event.
Tickets for shows that are cancelled will be refunded.
In the case of a postponed show, tickets will be refunded upon request, otherwise tickets will automatically be transferred to the new date.

Jon Mueller: Afterlife Cartoons
2022-04-30 14:30 - 16:30 | TN
Crosstown Arts presents Jon Mueller: Afterlife Cartoons in the Green Room.

Doors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $12 in advance | $15 at the door (plus fees)

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Jon Mueller’s Afterlife Cartoons are solo acoustic percussion performances that use repetitive tom patterns and subtle shifts in grid-like pulsing to instigate overtones, phasing, and choir-like acoustic phenomena that transform the work from mere drum solo to the sonic illusion of a small orchestra. Rhythmic minimalism, contemporary phrasing, and energetic sustain drive Mueller’s improvisations into a space somewhere between modern electronic music and primal drumming, inspiring audiences toward movement and contemplation.
“It was simple & complex / minimal & maximal / it was like a one man orchestra of excited strings & when you went to the cymbals at the end I had the most intense overtone experience since MBV in 91!” – Tim Kinsella
Jon Mueller’s aim has been to move drums, percussion and rhythm from its anticipated backbeat to a central musical focus, something more intuitive and natural than usually imagined. Audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United Kingdom have experienced this idiosyncratic point of view as, paradoxically, both ‘cathartic’ and ‘meditative’. Notable solo performances have taken place at the Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Alverno Presents, SXSW, Big Ears Festival, Hopscotch Fest and Witching Hour Festival.
From 2013-15, Mueller created and directed the multi-disciplinary project Death Blues. The project issued four critically acclaimed recordings. Rolling Stone cited non-fiction as one of the ‘20 Best Avant Albums of 2014’. Ensemble, created with multi-instrumentalist William Ryan Fritch, was featured on NPR’s ‘First Listen’.
Outside of his solo work, Mueller has performed and recorded with Mind Over Mirrors, was a founding member of the bands Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Pele, and has worked in depth with artists Dawn Springer, Chris Hefner, Jason Kahn, Asmus Tietchens, Z’EV, Andrew McKenzie, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra. His solo work has been released by American Dreams, Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga Records, SIGE Records and his own imprint, Rhythmplex.

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra: Kalena Bovell Conducts Beethoven
2022-04-29 13:30 - 15:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents Kalena Bovell Conducts Beethoven, with works by Clarice Assad, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Featuring Scott Moore, the Principal Trumpeter of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
Crosstown Theater | 6:30pm (doors open at 6:00pm)
Tickets: $35
Kalena Bovell, conductor
Scott Moore, trumpet
ASSAD Impressions
HUMMEL Trumpet Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2
Assistant Conductor Kalena Bovell returns to the podium to lead the MSO. The light and vitality of Beethoven’s Second Symphony masked some of his darkest days as he came to grips with his impending hearing loss. Clarice Assad’s Impressions was written “to showcase the orchestra’s performers’ diversity and uniqueness”. Written as a showpiece for a virtuoso, the MSO’s Scott Moore performs Hummel’s brilliant Trumpet Concerto.
Classic Accents Series Sponsored by Paul and Linnea Bert.

Crosstown Arthouse Film Series Presents LOVE JONES
2022-04-28 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents LOVE JONES at Crosstown Theater.
Theodore Witcher / 1997 / 108 minutes / Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
LOVE JONES is an unconventional love story between a young poet and a photographer. Larenz Tate and Nia Long play these passionate young artists who both definitely feel the pull of love but are too afraid to commit to it. With Nia Long (BOYZ N THE HOOD! BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE 1 AND 2!!!! ARE WE THERE YET!!!), Larenz Tate (MENACE II SOCIETY! DEAD PRESIDENTS!!)
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.
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.

Joel Harrison and Free Country
2022-04-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts presents guitarist/composer Joel Harrison with his groundbreaking jazz group Free Country in the Green Room.

Doors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm

Tickets: $20 in advance | $25 at the door

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Guitarist / composer Joel Harrison reunites his groundbreaking jazz group Free Country to tour the mid-Atlantic and Southern regions of the U.S. in April 2022. The concept for the band started two decades ago in 2002 with the release of two Free Country records on the Act label. In visionary arrangements of country and Appalachian tunes, Harrison gave new width and depth to the word Americana. The success of the first record, which included a then barely known singer named Norah Jones, brought Harrison acclaim throughout Europe and the U.S. In 2018 Harrison recorded the 3rd Free Country record with luminaries such as David Binney (his longtime ally), Brian Blade, and Jon Cowherd.
The touring band includes a powerful cast, all of whom Harrison has worked with on and off for two decades: David Binney (saxophone), Stephan Crump (bass), and Jordan Perlson (drums). The group will perform music from all three of their Free Country records. The timeless, haunting melodies of this music anchor the flights of improvisation that the band creates anew every night. The tour is funded in part by South Arts through the auspices of the Doris Duke Fund and the Jazz Road initiative.
Joel Harrison
Guitarist, composer, arranger, lyricist, writer, educator, and vocalist Joel Harrison has “created a new blueprint for jazz” (New Orleans Times-Picayune). A Guggenheim Fellow (2010) Harrison’s compositions have been commissioned by Chamber MusicAmerica, Meet the Composer, New Music USA, and many more. A native of Washington D.C., the guitarist has released twenty-two records and composed works for orchestra, string quartet, solo cello, and percussion. Notable releases include three editions of Free Country; Spirit House with Brian Blade; the recent America at War for jazz orchestra; and String Choir: The Music of Paul Motian. Harrison’s body of work connects multiple American traditions; it’s founded in jazz but veers into classical, rock, country, and all manner of American roots music. Succinctly described by the New York Times as “protean… brilliant,” he is the founder and director of the Alternative Guitar Summit, a yearly festival devoted to new and unusual guitar music. He is also the author of Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Guitarists (Terranova Press.)
David Binney
Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today. Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, David was recently singled out by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “players who have created an alternative jazz-scene… all of whom are playing adventurous, original music.” David has recorded 20+ albums as leader or co-leader and recorded on more than 300 other albums. He is known for his performances and recordings with such prestigious groups as Louis Cole, the big bands of Gil Evans and Maria Schneider, as well as with Jim Hall, Uri Caine, and Vinicius Cantuaria, and Chris Potter.
Stephan Crump
Transcending barriers of genre, Crump has performed and recorded with a diverse range of musicians, including Jim Campilongo, Jorma Kaukonen, Vijay Iyer, and Mary Halvorson. He frequently tours with his own group Rosetta Trio. Crump is a first call bassist residing in Brooklyn, New York.
Jordan Perlson
A longtime resident of New York City, Jordan now lives in Nashville and keeps a busy touring and recording schedule through the U.S., Canada, Central America, Europe, and the Far East. With both great taste and technique he is equally at home in jazz, rock, funk, and country. Jordan has shared the stage with such musicians as Kaki King, Trevor Hall, Becca Stevens, Hiromi, David Liebman, Gary Burton, Chris Potter, Greg Osby, Cuong Vu, Adrian Belew, and many others.

MicroCinema: Expressions of Language
2022-04-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
This encore of shorts from the 2021 Indie Memphis Film Festival features films that in their distinct visual languages survey the possibilities of connection through expressions of language. These expressions come through in varying manners: playful exploration of what it means to know but also be distant from your mother tongue, films centered outside of the English language, and how we embody deeper communication outside of our abilities with the spoken word. These highlights of the festival beautifully examine the expansive and the limiting experiences of sharing with another and one’s self.
Pay-What-You-Can screening of short films presented Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Theater.
Doors open at 6:30PM // Screening begins at 7:00PM
NOTE: *COVID-19 vaccination or negative covid-19 test is required to attend. Masks are encouraged.
