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  • Jake Blount presented by Folk All Y’all and Crosstown Arts

    Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Jake Blount’s music is rooted in care and confrontation. He is a scholar of Black American music, speaking ardently about the African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana. His 2020 album Spider Tales (named one of the year’s best albums by NPR and The New Yorker, earned a perfect 5-star review from The Guardian) highlighted the Black and Indigenous histories of popular American folk tunes, as well as revived songs unjustly forgotten in the whitewashing of the canon.

  • Shoot & Splice: Short Film Case Studies

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a case study of the 2022 Indie Memphis Film Festival Hometowner award-winning short films, “Nordo” (Best Narrative Short) and “What We’ll Never Know” (Best Documentary Short). Directors Kyle Taubken (Nordo) and Lauren Ready (What We’ll Never Know) will share insights and stories from each stage of the production process — from early development to production and into festival distribution.

  • Meet & Greet with Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang

    Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Hear from Randall and Zhu about their backgrounds, listen to a short performance, and ask questions to learn more about them.

  • Iris Collective: Intersections

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Crosstown Theater Thursday, February 9, 2023 Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $35 | $30 in advance PURCHASE TICKETS HERE In partnership with Iris Collective, Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Randall Goosby and New York Times “Best of 2021” pianist Zhu Wang will perform with Iris musicians celebrating music’s capacity […]

  • The Black Opry Revue

    Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Black Opry is a home for Black artists and Black fans of country, blues, folk, and Americana music. Country music has been made by and loved by Black people since its conception. For just as long, we have been overlooked and disregarded in the genre by fans and executives. Black Opry wants to change that. We invite you to discover, support and enjoy the Black artists that make magic in this space. One of the most valuable aspects of country music is its versatility and diversity in sound. Country, blues, folk, and Americana music often overlap or weave together — these artists explore all of those sounds and intersections. The Black Opry Revue showcases the diversity in sound and stories that Black artists offer to these genres.

  • Juilliard String Quartet

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring.

  • Modern Masters Jazz Series: Khari Allen Lee

    Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Khari Allen Lee has arisen as one of the most in-demand saxophonists, educators, composers, and multi-instrumentalists of his generation.

  • Microcinema: 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Shorts Tour

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are honored to start off Microcinema this year with a program of shorts from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America! This program of shorts features fascinating works from filmmakers from around the world who employ an array of approaches — an absurdist music video, a mediation on physical and mental spaces within the African Diaspora, and a video essay exploring the innocence and role of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema. 

  • The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents COOLEY HIGH

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high school seniors prepare for post-high-school life.

  • Leyla McCalla

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Leyla McCalla finds inspiration from her past and present, whether it is her Haitian heritage or her adopted home of New Orleans, she — a bilingual multi-instrumentalist, and alumna of Grammy award-winning African-American string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops — has risen to produce a distinctive sound that reflects the union of her roots and experience.