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SUMMARY:POSTPONED A Change of Tone\, a Music Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:** This event is postponed until further notice. \nIn A Change of Tone\, musicians will “exhibit” new work in one venue while performing in another\, creating a non-traditional listening experience. \nThe goal of A Change of Tone is to invite artists to sonically and musically explore the varied interrelations between technical musical themes and humanity: what we experience\, observe\, believe\, and imagine within the realms of our intellectual capabilities. \nAdmission is free (but donations of any amount are suggested); please RSVP on Eventbrite\nDoors at 7 pm | Performances beginning each night at 7:30 pm \nLineup:\nSaturday\, April 18 – NICHOLAS MALONEY\nSaturday\, April 19 – GUNTER GAUPP\nMonday\, April 20 – THE ACHELOIS COLLECTIVE \n\nABOUT THE EVENT:\nDuring this event\, there will be two live-feed interconnections between The Green Room music venue at Crosstown Arts and Crosstown Theater. The first feed will be an audio feed for the audience in The Green Room\, as the musicians\, out of sight\, perform their original work in the empty Crosstown Theater. The second feed will video-capture The Green Room audience so the performing musicians in the Theater may virtually watch and technically perform for their audience on the screen. The audience in The Green Room will be informed in advance that they will be watched by the performing musicians in the theater\, creating an immersive environment in which the performers’ new music might achieve a vivid and seemingly living omnipresence. \nSimilar to the experience of being inside a haunted house or abandoned building\, this spectral approach to auditory perception will be\, among other things\, a sonic experiment in vulnerability. It will be an attempt to enhance and heighten the audio-sensory experience for the listener and perhaps will intensify the presence and impact that music can have when our fight-or-flight response is instinctively activated\, giving the sounds we hear the power to demand our full attention. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nNicholas Maloney:\nNicholas Maloney is a sound artist\, multi-instrumentalist\, performer\, and recording engineer from Jackson\, Mississippi. Working primarily in the areas of drone\, ambient\, musique concrète\, and electroacoustics\, Nicholas creates recordings that he feels can provoke emotion\, while at the same time offering a palette of sound that can be used to practice the rewarding act of deep listening. He looks to challenge the listeners’ focus and perception of sound. Much of his work explores the textural nature of sound within a framework of progressing and evolving compositions. He is interested in the interaction among texture\, sound\, and space. \nUnder his full name\, Nicholas Maloney creates and releases compositions using field recordings\, found sounds\, and a variety of processing and audio transformation techniques. He also records under the moniker\, Blanket Swimming\, exploring the more melodic and ambient side of experimental music using guitar\, synthesizers\, tape manipulation\, field recordings\, voice\, and other instrumentation. Maloney also records under the name Sleep Silver Lightning\, exploring compositions for the guitar and voice. In 2015\, Maloney co-founded the net-label Warm Milk Recordings with Whitson Ramsey. \nGunter Gaupp:\nGunter is a composer and teacher based in Memphis\, who’s work combines interests in noise composition and genre music. Born in Louisiana\, Gunter’s recent work maintains a connection to jazz and folk traditions in his approach to melody and harmony\, while exploring new possibilities through extended technique and graphic notation. His music has been premiered recently in Chicago and Green Bay\, as well as internationally in Vienna and Paris. Gunter completed his MM in 2019 at the University of Memphis\, where he studied composition under Kamran Ince and John Baur. More recently\, Gunter has begun teaching music to middle and high school students at Memphis Rise Academy. Gunter will be presenting his new work for A Change of Tone as a quintet\, featuring Aaron Phillips (saxophone)\, Anna Welden (voice)\, Bryan Pallotta (piano)\, Michael Todd (percussion)\, and Ben Walsh (double bass). \nThe Achelois Collective:\nThe Achelois Collective is a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to helping co-design opportunities to create healthier communities through the art of new music. The ensemble’s 10 members are featured as composers\, collaborators\, chambers musicians\, and soloists who hail from across the continental U.S. Established in the summer of 2019\, TAC seeks to elevate\, celebrate\, and embolden female/non-binary voices in modern music and to support projects by artists of under-acknowledged backgrounds and nationalities. \nIn an effort to assist the world of classical music to become more egalitarian\, TAC creates spaces for active participation and appreciation for audiences of all genders\, ages and musical knowledge. Equally important\, the Collective strives to represent within themselves a model of respect and appreciation for the unique abilities and perspectives of their members and collaborators.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/a-change-of-tone-a-music-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Crosstown Arthouse presents The Muthers
DESCRIPTION:** This event is postponed until further notice. \nWe can’t say it better than the incredible American Genre Film Archive\, who are lovingly saving films like this for folks like us to show again in all their glory on a giant screen! \nSays the American Genre Film Archive: “Sleaze ahoy! Directed by heroic smut merchant Cirio Santiago (TNT Jackson\, Vampire Hookers) and shot on-the-cheap in the Philippines\, The Muthers is like stepping into one of Martin Denny’s exotica LPs while it plays in Jess Franco’s living room. Filled with karate chops and epic psychedelic-funk jams\, this is the story of two pirates (Jeanne Bell and Rosanne Katon) who rob and loot on the China Seas\, get sent to a women’s prison presided over by a sadistic warden\, then revolt and turn the sky black with the smoke from their machine guns. In other words\, this is the only revolutionary-pirate-women-in-prison movie that you’ll ever need. Restored from the original negative for maximum savagery!” \nCirio Santiago/1976/93 minutes \nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nFilms begin at 7:30 pm sharp at Crosstown Theater\nTickets are $5 (at the door only)
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-the-muthers/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Morgan James: Memphis Magnetic Tour at Crosstown Arts
DESCRIPTION:** This event is postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents Morgan James’ Memphis Magnetic Tour in The Green Room. \nTickets: $20 General Admission | $50 VIP with artist meet & greet\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nMemphis Magnetic is the third studio album from soul singer Morgan James. This album is a love letter to one of the great American birthplaces of soul. Rooted in her love of Aretha Franklin\, Al Green\, and Otis Redding\, Morgan James delivers as only she can. The Memphis Magnetic Tour will be a feast for the ears and the heart\, from the soul of a great artist with a love for what is real and true in American music. \nLet’s start with the voice\, an instrument through which she can communicate anything. A gift bestowed upon her that she has expertly trained\, meticulously nurtured\, and passionately galvanized into action by an urgency to make real music. Next\, the stories\, and she has them in spades. They are full of truth and beauty\, heartache and thoughtfulness. They reveal colors we weren’t expecting to see. They make us close our eyes and relate. And finally\, the soul – the emotional and intellectual energy through which these parts are fueled. That special something that prompted The Wall Street Journal to herald her as “the most promising young vocalist to come along so far this century.” That young vocalist is Morgan James. And Morgan James is a soul singer. \nArmed with her dedication to create authentic soul music\, James and her husband Doug Wamble\, her producer\, co-writer\, and arranger\, spent months writing twelve new songs in New York City. “Doug and I have always wanted to make a classic record like this\,” she says. “Doug is originally from Memphis and we are both so inspired by the roots of classic soul music. Being entrenched in a place like that really informs everything you make there.” So\, instead of recording in New York\, she aimed straight for the source and booked a week at a new music studio in Memphis\, at the recommendation of drummer George Sluppick. \nShe immediately connected with the space: Memphis Magnetic\, a renovated old bank transformed into a classic recording studio\, decked out with a collection of vintage Nashville gear by owner Scott McEwen. The space exemplified exactly what James wanted her album to be: something new through the prism of something old. She and Wamble assembled a group of local musicians\, including Sluppick\, organist Al Gamble\, bassist Landon Moore\, and pianist Alvie Givhan. They tapped legendary Memphis musicians Reverend Charles Hodges and Leroy Hodges\, who were the backbone of the Hi Records rhythm section\, which played with Al Green and Ann Peebles\, to contribute to two tracks. And finally\, the team was rounded out with a classic Memphis horn section\, plus the amazing Memphis String Quartet. \n“What I’ve learned over the years is to hire great people and let them do what they do best\,” says James. “We came in with all the music charted and ready and left space for people to be themselves and infuse it with their own magic. I really wanted every single person involved in the album to be from Memphis and to channel the great albums I admire so much. From every end of the spectrum\, in every department\, it felt like the right people.” \nThe entire album was recorded to analog tape\, a first for James. She wanted to be less precious about the process overall and to capture the same invigorated feeling as her live performances. Much of the album comes from single\, complete takes\, giving it a vibrant\, in-the-moment sensibility. The songs on the album range in tone\, but there’s a hopeful\, life-affirming feeling that threads through the tracks. The playful “I Wish You Would” takes its cues from “Mr. Big Stuff\,” while “All I Ever Gave You” looks back on losing someone after endless sacrifices. The album also features two duets\, another first for James\, with Marc Broussard and three-time Grammy nominee Ryan Shaw. The collaboration with Shaw\, “I Don’t Mind Waking Up (To A Love This Good)” is the first single and a song James calls one of her favorites she’s ever written. And a standout moment comes on the closing track “Who’s Going to Listen To You? (When You’re Crying Now)\,” a song James and Wamble wrote with lyrics from a poem by Spin Doctors’ lead singer Chris Barron. It creates a poignant and heart-wrenching final note for the album\, a collection of genuine\, satisfying songs that embrace the best of American songwriting. The experience was so inspiring and affirming that James ended up titling the album Memphis Magnetic after the studio where it was made (an homage to Jimi Hendrix and his Electric Ladyland). \nFor James\, Memphis Magnetic is the culmination of a life-long love affair with music. She grew up listening to everyone from Joni Mitchell to Paul Simon to Prince to Aretha Franklin\, cultivating an insatiable love for strong songwriters. After graduating from The Juilliard School with a classical music degree\, and performing in the original companies of four Broadway productions\, James began writing and recording her own music. Meeting her mentor Berry Gordy\, Jr. led to a record deal at Epic Records\, where she recorded and released her solo album Hunter in 2014. In addition to her studio albums\, James recorded and released a full album cover of Joni Mitchell’s seminal Blue as well as The Beatles’ White Album in 2018 to celebrate the 50th anniversary. Through her unique and varied career\, there have been many ups and downs\, but James cites her failures as more important than her successes in shaping the artist she is today. \nAfter her tenure with Epic Records\, she took charge of her career from the business side as well. She cultivated a new world of fans with her viral YouTube videos\, and while connecting with them on social media and at her live shows\, she found the support and strength to go out on her own as an independent artist. Over the last several years\, James has built her own empire and established herself as a touring powerhouse\, allowing her to raise the funds to create her albums and make every decision from the ground up. \n“This album feels so unburdened by anybody or anything. All of the songs were written for this project. They were recorded in the same way\, in the same room. It’s a moment in time captured. I felt like I was a part of the lineage of soul music. My guiding force throughout the record was ‘What would Aretha say? What would Otis say?’ It’s not a retro album or a throwback by any means. This album is me: classic elements\, timeless melodies\, and lyrics from my soul and experience. We need that right now. We need real music now more than ever.”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/morgan-james-memphis-magnetic-tour-at-crosstown-arts/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Ruthie Foster at Crosstown Theater
DESCRIPTION:** This event is postponed until further notice. \nJoin us for a performance by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster at Crosstown Theater. \nTickets: $40\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 8 pm \nRuthie Foster’s latest album\, “Joy Comes Back\,” described as “some folk\, some blues\, some soul\, some rock\, some gospel\,” illustrates Ruthie’s genre-spanning talent. Ruthie has been nominated for three Grammys and has won multiple Blues Music and Austin Music Awards\, plus the Grand Prix du Disque from Académie Charles-Cros in France. \nHailing from the tightly knit musical community of Austin\, Texas\, award-winning singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster has found herself duetting with Bonnie Raitt\, standing on stage with the Allman Brothers at New York’s Beacon Theater\, and trading verses with Susan Tedeschi. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/ruthie-foster-at-crosstown-theater/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED A Night with BLVCK Hippie
DESCRIPTION:** This event is postponed until further notice. \nMusical performance by BLVCK Hippie\, Surfwax\, Anon the Mouse\, Cinder Eyes\, and Bigger Fish \nDoors at 8 pm | Show at 8:30 pm \nOrganized by the artists
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/a-night-with-blvck-hippie/
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Crosstown Arthouse presents Walking Tall
DESCRIPTION:** This event is postponed until further notice. \nThe legends surrounding Buford Pusser loom large over both Memphis and McNairy County\, where he was sheriff from 1964 to 1970. Buford was a professional wrestler who became a sheriff in an area overrun by the Dixie Mafia. He went to war with and killed Louise Hathcock\, the operator of The Shamrock Motel\, where the Babushka lady was supposedly seen hanging out a week or so before JFK got popped. \nBuford’s star really started to shine when his friend\, country and rockabilly singer Eddie Bond started singing about him. Legend has it\, when Buford got ambushed by the Dixie Mafia (and his wife was killed and his face was shot off)\, he hid out in Memphis at a nightclub on Madison that Eddie Bond owned with “The Fabulous One” Jackie Fargo. \nBuford’s legend and story was interesting enough that they made THREE movies about him\, and the first is Walking Tall. The film fictionalizes Buford’s journey from bear wrestler to one-man crime crusader. Walking Tall stars character actor Jo Don Baker (Joysticks and Fletch) as Buford Pusser and Elizabeth Hartman (A Patch of Blue and The Secret of NIMH) as his wife Pauline\, plus Lief Garrett (Macon Count Line\, Walking Tall Part II\, Final Chapter: Walking Tall\, Tiger Beat Cover Model) and Lief’s real-life sister Dawn Lyn as the Pusser kids! \n1973/Phil Karlson/1973/125 minutes \nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nFilms begin at 7:30 pm sharp at Crosstown Theater\nTickets are $5 (at the door only)
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-walking-tall/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED U.S. Girls in The Green Room
DESCRIPTION:** This event is postponed until further notice.  \nJoin us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by U.S. Girls. \nTickets: $10\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nThe highly anticipated seventh album by U.S. Girls\, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy\, is entitled Heavy Light. While Remy has been widely acclaimed for a panoply of closely observed character studies\, on Heavy Light she turns inward\, recounting personal narratives to create a deeply introspective about-face. \nThe songs are an inquest into the melancholy flavor of hindsight\, both personal and cultural. Heavy Light follows 2018’s internationally critically acclaimed breakout album\, In A Poem Unlimited. Recently named one of the best albums of the decade by Pitchfork\, it was lauded across the pond by the likes of The Guardian\, The Sunday Times\, and Crack and Q magazine for being Remy’s most accessible record in her then decade-long career. \nHeavy Light is produced by Remy and was recorded live with 20 session musicians – including E Street Band saxophonist Jake Clemons – in Montreal’s acclaimed Hotel 2 Tango studio. Heavy Light is a set of songs conceived as a balance between orchestral percussion (as richly arranged by percussionist Ed Squires) and the human voice (conducted by Kritty Uranowski). The resulting album finds Remy casting herself as lead voice among a harmonious multitude\, the singers of which lend not only their voices\, but also share reflections on childhood experiences that are collaged into moving spoken word interludes throughout the album. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/u-s-girls-in-the-green-room/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Willie Farmer with Tim Easton in The Green Room
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nJoin us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by Mississippi bluesman Willie Farmer\, with an opening set by Tim Easton. \nTickets: $15\nDoors at 7pm | Performance at 7:30pm \nWillie Farmer is living proof that Mississippi continues to produce deep blues. The 63-year-old guitarist is neither a soul modernist nor revivalist\, but simply a small-town auto mechanic who’s never shaken his love for old school legends like Muddy\, Wolf\, and Lightnin’. \nA lifelong resident of tiny Duck Hill\, located in the hills east of the Delta\, Farmer grew up on the family farm. He first took up the acoustic guitar in his early teens\, and through picking cotton\, soon saved up enough money to buy an electric instrument. \nHe played for audiences at home and at school events and learned about blues and R&B\, mostly through listening to a powerful station out of Nashville. “John R of WLAC\, that’s how I listened to Lightnin’ Hopkins\, Howlin’ Wolf. That’s how I got my first album by Lightnin’ [The Fire Records LP Mojo Hand]. I got the address off the radio\, and they sent it.” \n“I learned Lightin’ pretty good. I can play all the up-to-date stuff now — B.B.\, Little Milton — but I like the old stuff; that’s the real blues. The blues they’re singing today\, that ain’t blues to me; it just doesn’t have the feel.” \nWillie’s father Alex\, a harmonica player who helped young Willie tune his guitar\, had played as a young man with his brothers\, including Walter\, who was recognized as one of the best guitarists to come out of the area. \nIn the early ‘50s\, Walter played together with Leo “Bud” Welch\, who grew up in the region. Sadly\, Walter was killed in Chicago in 1964 — “a woman liked Walter\, and a man got jealous and killed him” — and Willie never heard him play. \nIn his early ‘20s\, Farmer joined a loos- knit band that played at juke joints across the area — in Duck Hill\, Grenada\, Kilmichael\, and down in the Delta in Greenwood and Charleston. He eventually tired\, though\, of the rough-and-tumble clubs where “people liked to fight like crazy. ” \nFor about fifteen years\, Farmer worked regularly with local semi-professional gospel groups\, including the Rising Sun Singers\, who appeared on TV and over the radio in Greenwood\, the Angelettes\, and\, for nine years\, the Grenada-based Silvertone Gospel Singers. In 2003\, he helped found the annual Grassroots Blues Festival\, staged in a meadow outside Duck Hill. Through the event\, he befriended down-home blues players from across the state\, including Willie King and Welch. \n“The Man From the Hill” marks the first time that he’s spent serious time in the studio. Recorded over multiple sessions at Producer Bruce Watson’s Memphis based Delta-Sonic Sound Studio. Farmer enjoyed working in a North Mississippi Hill Country vein with Jimbo Mathus and session drummer George Sluppick. He even dipped back into gospel\, singing harmony together with Memphis’ Barnes Brothers on [the Sensational Nightingales’] “At the Meeting.” \nFor the past 30 years\, Farmer has run his own auto repair shop and hopes that the release of this record and associated touring will allow him to retire. \n“I’m trying to get out of that shop. I’m tried of messing with those cars. It’s been a long time.” \nTo celebrate 30 years of traveling with and writing songs on his black Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar named ”Paco\,” Nashville-based songwriter Tim Easton recorded an entire album direct-to-lacquer at The Earnest Tube Studio in Bristol\, Virginia. This performance-based method of capturing songs leaves no room for manipulation or overdubbing\, therefore conjuring the roots of American Music. Each track was recorded via portable lathe\, which cuts a mono signal directly to a lacquer acetate disc\, much the way The Carter Family or Jimmie Rodgers would have made their first records in Bristol over 90 years ago. \nIn as much time as it takes to listen\, Easton recorded nine original songs and one cover using a single 1940s RCA 74B ribbon microphone\, alternating between the rapid fire flat-picking and steady\, Travis-style thumb-picking technique that he has been streamlining all these years\, coupled with his Country Blues style rack harmonica playing. The occasional foot stomp can be heard as well\, vibrating through the floors. Easton sings songs from the personal experiences and observations of man who has spent a few decades on the road. His folk music is not always the gentle kind. His authenticity is pervasive. This is what the tradition of the troubadour sounds like. \nThis LP serves as a love letter of sorts to Easton’s trusty Gibson acoustic guitar\, which he purchased in 1987 for $100\, plus two cheap electric guitars on trade. Leaving Ohio and exploring Europe on and off for seven years\, Easton traveled extensively by train\, bus\, and thumb\, learning to write songs along the way. Soon after a Deadhead in Paris named his guitar “Paco\,” Easton made his first recordings just a short walk away from the Charles Bridge in Prague\, where he had been busking in the Summer after Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution. \nAfter returning Stateside and signing with EMI Music Publishing\, he released several critically acclaimed albums with both New West Records and Thirty Tigers. His last album\, 2016’s American Fork (Last Change Records) reached #11 on the Americana Music Association Radio Charts. Easton continues to travel the world and perform while also delving into film score work done at his home studio in Nashville. He has scored two feature documentaries\, “The Power Of Two” (2012)\, and “The Bullish Farmer” (2017) and also placed original songs in film and television. The American South has left it’s emotional and sonic mark on many a traveler\, and it shows in Easton’s range of performances on this unique LP.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/willie-farmer-with-tim-easton-in-the-green-room/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: On Editing
DESCRIPTION:**RSVP to the S&S Zoom video chat here: https://bit.ly/35pebWV \nIndie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to put the “splice” in Shoot & Splice!\nJoin us for a virtual chat with film editors Eileen Meyer (CRIP CAMP) and Michael Taylor (THE FAREWELL)\, moderated by filmmaker Laura Jean Hocking. They will discuss several topics including: working with a director\, workflow preferences\, creative techniques\, and more. This is your chance to learn from some of the best independent editors in both narrative and documentary film. \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. \n— \n\n\nEileen Meyer is a film editor and producer based in Los Angeles\, CA. In 2016\, she was awarded the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and was nominated for the Cinema Eye Honors “Outstanding Achievement in Editing” Award for Best of Enemies (2015 Sundance Film Festival\, 2016 Academy Award shortlist\, and 2017 Emmy Award winner). \nEileen received her BA in Film from Hampshire College in 2004\, then began her career in New York City and Memphis\, TN. She produced and edited numerous award-winning shorts\, features\, and tv series\, including most recently “The Devil Next Door” (Netflix 2019) and “Crip Camp” (Sundance 2020). \n— \nMichael Taylor is a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE). He was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for Best Editing of a Feature Comedy\, for Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell\,” starring Awkwafina\, Tze Ma\, Diana Lin and Zhao Shuzhen\, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film won Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards\, and was nominated for best feature at the Gotham Awards and best international feature at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs. Awkwafina won Best Actress at the Golden Globes and Gothams. A24 released the film. \nTaylor’s most recent project\, Edson Oda’s “Nine Days\,” starring Winston Duke\, Zazie Beetz\, Benedict Wong\, Bill Skarsgård and Tony Hale\, won the Waldo Salt Award for Best Screenwriting at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics will release the film fall 2020.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-on-editing/
LOCATION:TN
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Modern Masters Jazz Series feat. Peter Bernstein
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents the Modern Masters Jazz Series\, a monthly series featuring jazz soloists from around the country performing with the series house band\, The Ted Ludwig Trio. May’s featured musician will be award-winning guitarist Peter Bernstein. \nTickets: $20\nDoors at 7pm | Performance 7:30pm \nThe jazz guitarist\, among the most sought after in the New York area\, has a feather-light touch\, an encyclopedic knowledge of chords and the ability to play standards like he’s inventing them on the spot. — The Los Angeles Daily News \nMr. Bernstein is a fluidly improvising guitarist in the post-bop tradition\, with control over harmony and a beautiful sound. — The New York Times \nPeter Bernstein produces a warm\, ringing\, muscular tone which echoes that of such giants as Wes Montgomery\, Jim Hall\, and Kenny Burrell. — Jazziz \nJazz guitarist Peter Bernstein has been a part of the jazz scene in New York and abroad since 1989. During that time he has participated in numerous recordings and performances with musicians from all generations. As a leader\, Peter has released nine albums and a DVD. As a sideman\, Peter has appeared in groups led by Sonny Rollins\, Bobby Hutcherson\, George Coleman\, Lou Donaldson\, Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Fathead Newman\, Joshua Redman\, Brad Mehldau\, Diana Krall\, Lee Konitz\, Jimmy Cobb\, and many more. Current projects include his album\, Monk\, with Doug Weiss and Bill Stewart\, a recently released solo record\, Solo Guitar – Live at Smalls\, and the highly acclaimed organ trio with organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart. \nThe Modern Masters Jazz Series is guest-curated by renowned two-decade New Orleans jazz guitarist Ted Ludwig\, who has received an ASCAP award\, the Louis Armstrong award\, and the Overture to the Cultural Season award and is a member of The Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame. Each month in 2020\, Crosstown Arts welcomes jazz artists from New Orleans\, NYC\, LA\, and beyond\, who will perform with the Ted Ludwig Trio. Highlights include Roseanna Vitro\, who has sung with Christian McBride\, Elvin Jones\, and Lionel Hampton; Ed Cherry\, of Dizzy Gillespie’s band; GRAMMY-winner Victor Atkins; and Dee Dee Bridgewater saxophonist Ed Peterson.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/modern-masters-jazz-series-feat-peter-bernstein/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200817
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Art of Science 2020
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts\, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital\, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) present the 7th annual Art of Science exhibition. \nLocal artists are paired up with medical research scientists and doctors from across Memphis. Together\, scientists and artists create work that introduces new audiences to the science that is saving children’s lives everyday in Memphis. \nResearchers at Le Bonheur and UTHSC not only strive to prevent and cure childhood illnesses\, but are also making discoveries that can improve the health and well-being of all Memphians. By making art inspired by their research\, Art of Science artists create unique portals that enable viewers to peer inside the laboratories of these renowned facilities.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/art-of-science-2020/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200521T150000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Bobby Lee's Girl
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nExhibition of new paintings by N.J. Woods\, inspired by the artist’s grandmother.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/bobby-lees-girl/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200522T163000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series: Sam Pacetti
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series\, a monthly concert series showcasing internationally acclaimed guitarists in partnership with the Little Rock-based Argenta Acoustic Music Series. May’s performance features guitarist Sam Pacetti in an intimate\, solo performance. \nTickets: $20\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nSam Pacetti is one who brings it all together. A fingerstyle guitar wizard. A deft songwriter\, capable of haunting depth and wry humor in the space of one song. An impassioned and ecstatic vocalist\, as well as a mesmerizing live performer\, seamlessly melding head-spinning guitar pyrotechnics and raw emotion into one breathtaking package. Pacetti represents a culmination of the best of the American and British traditions. His 1997 Waterbug debut\, Solitary Travel\, garnered critical raves. “This guy is very good\, indeed\,” deadpanned the highly respected (and highly critical) UK magazine Folk Roots. And Dirty Linen\, the influential US roots publication\, opined\, “Although the woods are full of young guitar virtuosos\, few have developed the style\, technique\, and artistic wisdom of Sam Pacetti. \nSolitary travel heralds the arrival of one of the most talented instrumentalists and composers to appear in acoustic music in a month of Sundays.” Sam Pacetti grew up in North Florida\, hardly known as a hotbed of either the folk tradition or musical innovation. At age 13\, he found the music of both Chet Atkins and Merle Travis\, profound influences on his early musical development. Then fate intervened shortly afterward in the person of Gamble Rogers\, the legendary picker and raconteur from St Augustine who took the young Pacetti under his wing. It was a time of astonishing musical and emotional growth. Pacetti and Rogers met and played weekly for a year\, until tragically Rogers died while trying to save a drowning tourist caught in an undertow at Flagler Beach\, Florida. \nThough brief in their time together\, Rogers was able to instill in Pacetti the importance of the folk process\, the passing of music and oral tradition from teacher to student. Pacetti still counts Rogers as his most influential mentor. Tradition and innovation neatly balance in Sam Pacetti’s music\, the whole infused by a relentless intelligence intent on musical and philosophical synthesis. Martin Simpson\, Richard Thompson\, Joni Mitchell and Merle Travis are touchstones to Pacetti\, and while there are strong elements of the American primitive school of guitar wizardry throughout his work\, there is a powerful raw emotionality evident as well – an earthy sensuality more reminiscent of a Greg Brown or a red-dirt blues master than of a musical academian. Word has started to spread about Sam Pacetti. And as with anything truly innovative\, it starts at the grassroots. You won’t see Pacetti written up in People or Us. You won’t hear his music on Top-40 radio. \nNo\, word is spreading about Sam Pacetti the way true innovation always does – through the grassroots\, through non-commercial radio and “specialty show” play\, from tapes and CDs passed from friend to friend\, At folk festivals and listening rooms\, and in the tradition stemming from the days of rent-raising parties in the Mississippi Delta (and now carried on by music aficionados unable to find music that interest them within the mainstream). \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-cutaway-acoustic-guitar-series-sam-pacetti/
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 Nutria in The Green Room
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nJoin us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a contemporary jazz performance by Nutria from New Orleans. \nTickets: $10\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nNamed after the infamous South Louisiana swamp rat\, Nutria performs original contemporary jazz music with an emphasis on collective improvisation. Their compositional and improvisational practice at once pushes at the boundaries of instrumental music in the 21st century and situates the music within the lineage of New Orleans jazz and groove traditions. \nThis concert at Crosstown Arts is a part of their 2020 album release tour\, celebrating their new album\, “Meeting In Progress\,” released in February 2020 on ears&eyes Records. \n“Showing a clear strategic intelligence and inventiveness and a substantial depth of artistic resourcefulness\,” according to No Depression magazine\, Nutria has toured throughout the United States playing art centers\, jazz clubs\, and dive bars. In 2017\, they performed on the Millennium Stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington\, DC. In 2016\, they were commissioned by the New Orleans-based Marigny Opera Ballet to compose “Wary Heat\,” a new ballet that was premiered in February 2017 and reprised in January 2018. In 2019\, Nutria began a weekly residency at one of New Orleans’ top venues for creative music\, Bacchanal Fine Wine. \nNutria was formed in New Orleans in 2014 as a composition workshop for its members\, who were active in different corners of the local music scene. Their sound reflects a diversity of influences yet with a deep commitment to the jazz idiom. \nThe members of Nutria have performed with a wide array of leading talents in New Orleans and around the world\, including Leyla McCalla\, James Singleton\, Johnny Vidocovich\, Ed Petersen\, Mahmoud Chouki\, Sarah Quintana\, the Revelers and local favorites Los Po-boy-citos. Nutria has performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center (Washington\, DC)\, the New Orleans Museum of Art\, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (NOLA)\, the New Orleans Jazz Museum\, Twins Jazz Club (DC)\, Chris’ Jazz Cafe (Philadelphia)\, the Jazz Gallery (Milwaukee)\, the Chatterbox Jazz Club (Indianapolis)\, and the California Clipper (Chicago).
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arts-presents-nutria-from-new-orleans/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200530T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200530T130000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Warriors at Peace
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nArtwork of veterans will be showcased in this therapeutic project. \nOrganized by the artists
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/warriors-at-peace/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200609T163000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Modern Masters Jazz Series feat. Roseanna Vitro
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents the Modern Masters Jazz Series\, a monthly series featuring jazz soloists from around the country. \nFor June’s performance\, acclaimed jazz vocalist Roseanna Vitro will be featured in an unforgettable performance with the series house band\, The Ted Ludwig Trio. \nTickets: $20\nDoors 7 pm | Performance at 7:30 pm \nAbout Roseanna Vitro:\n“[Roseanna has] a propensity for eclecticism\, drawing on a wide range of songs and sources from well beyond the jazz tradition.” — Will Friedwald\, City View\, New York \n”Tell Me the Truth is additional evidence that Roseanna Vitro is in the top tier of contemporary jazz vocalists.” — Joe Bebco\, The Syncopated Times \nVitro was born in Hot Springs\, Arkansas. She is the product of two distinct cultural strains: Her father\, who ran the Flamingo nightclub\, divided his music affinities between the pluck of Frank Sinatra and the homeland finery of Italian opera. Her mother sang country and gospel songs by way of the church. \nIn 1978\, Roseanna Vitro 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. \nAbout the series:\nThe Modern Masters Jazz Series is guest-curated by renowned two-decade New Orleans jazz guitarist Ted Ludwig\, who has received an ASCAP award\, the Louis Armstrong award\, and the Overture to the Cultural Season award\, and is a member of The Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame. Each month in 2020\, Crosstown Arts welcomes jazz artists from New Orleans\, NYC\, LA\, and beyond\, who will perform with The Ted Ludwig Trio. Highlights include Roseanna Vitro\, who has sung with Christian McBride\, Elvin Jones\, and Lionel Hampton; Ed Cherry\, of Dizzy Gillespie’s band; GRAMMY-winner Victor Atkins; and Dee Dee Bridgewater saxophonist Ed Peterson.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/modern-masters-jazz-series-feat-roseanna-vitro/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200619T163000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series: Pat Kirtley
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series\, a monthly concert series showcasing internationally acclaimed guitarists in partnership with the Little Rock-based Argenta Acoustic Music Series. June’s performance features guitarist Pat Kirtley in an intimate\, solo performance. \nTickets: $20\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nCombining Kentucky tradition with contemporary style\, Pat Kirtley is a solo guitarist with a wide repertoire known for its honesty\, humor\, and depth. He has penned a virtual library of fresh lyrical compositions enjoyed by audiences of all ages and backgrounds. \nPat’s performing skills won him the title of U.S. National Fingerstyle Champion\, and in 2006\, he was inducted into the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame. His music has taken him around the world from quaint concert halls to large events\, such as headlining Japan’s National Fingerstyle Festival. As a featured performer\, Pat has toured across the USA and internationally in Asia\, France\, Germany\, Portugal\, Italy\, Netherlands and Austria. His warm\, personal stage presence garners smiles and praise wherever he goes. \nPat has produced numerous instructional videos and books. He co-produced and appears in the respected “World of Celtic Guitar” DVD series from Vestapol Videos\, which spawned accompanying books from Mel Bay and CDs from Rounder Records. Pat’s newest project is a two-volume instructional DVD on the vintage tunes of Chet Atkins. \nPat has produced five albums that are perennial staples of the acoustic guitar world. Among other projects\, he appears on Narada Records’ landmark CD “Guitar Fingerstyle\,” which has sold over a quarter million copies. \n“He is among the new trailblazers — the bold ones who will take the guitar into the next century.” —John Schroeter\, “Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine” \n“Kirtley is one of those all-too-rare musicians able to transcend his influences to create a distinctive\, natural sound all his own.” — David McCarty\, “Walnut Valley Record Reviews”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-cutaway-acoustic-guitar-series-pat-kirtley/
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 Yearning Horizons
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed until further notice. \nNew works by Savannah White \nThis will be White’s first solo show. White is an avid traveler\, and Yearning Horizons is a new body of work inspired by her travel experiences. The show is produced and curated by IntrepidArts. \nThe exhibition will open on Friday\, June 26 from 6-8 pm\, and the show will be on view Saturday\, June 27\, 10 am-1 pm. \nOrganized by the artist. \nEntitled Yearning Horizons\, the show reflects an overwhelming passion of the artist: travel. Amsterdam\, Cape Town\, Bangkok\, Milan\, Granada\, Osaka\, Dublin\, Singapore\, London\, Barcelona\, Mt. Fuji\, Paris. \nFrom Brazil to Croatia\, the travel bug is not simply adventure for White but inspiration. Her intellectual curiosity and cultural inhaling takes shape and is expressed in her paintings — some more abstract\, some more representational\, all breathing a spirit of irrepressible wonder in fluid color and motion. \nSelf-taught as a painter\, White’s forays into fashion and experience with photography help shape her ability to capture expression. Now in her third show in two years and her first solo show in a large space\, she stretches effortlessly with the works. \n“I see so much when I travel\, both beauty and despair; it shapes my perspective and who I am. Painting is the best way I know to share the experience of this kind of awakening. I am ever learning how much I don’t know about the world\, and it is an exhilarating thrill\,” said White.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/yearning-horizons/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Modern Masters Jazz Series feat. Ed Cherry
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents The Modern Masters Jazz Series\, a monthly series featuring jazz soloists from around the country. \nJuly’s concert will feature the extraordinary talents of jazz guitarist Ed Cherry in a captivating performance with the series house band\, The Ted Ludwig Trio. \nTickets: $20\nDoors 7pm | Performance at 7:30pm \nAbout Ed Cherry:\nBorn in New Haven\, Connecticut\, Ed Cherry moved to New York in 1978 to play guitar with Dizzy Gillespie from 1978 to 1992\, performing in Gillespie’s quartet\, big band\, and with The United Nation Orchestra which recorded the Grammy Award-winning Live at Royal Festival Hall (Enja). Gillespie died in 1993\, and Cherry released his first recording as a leader\, ‘First Take’ (Groovin’ High). That same year\, Ed recorded with Paquito D’Riveras’ small group\, which recorded “Havana Cafe” (Chesky Records). Ed also worked with composer/saxophonist Henry Threadgill for two years and recorded three CDs with Henry’s ‘Very Very Circus’ group. \nAbout the series:\nThe Modern Masters Jazz Series is guest-curated by renowned two-decade New Orleans jazz guitarist Ted Ludwig\, who has received an ASCAP award\, the Louis Armstrong award\, and the Overture to the Cultural Season award and is a member of The Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame. Each month in 2020\, Crosstown Arts welcomes jazz artists from New Orleans\, NYC\, LA\, and beyond\, who will perform with The Ted Ludwig Trio. Highlights include Roseanna Vitro\, who has sung with Christian McBride\, Elvin Jones\, and Lionel Hampton; Ed Cherry\, of Dizzy Gillespie’s band; GRAMMY-winner Victor Atkins; and Dee Dee Bridgewater saxophonist Ed Peterson.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/modern-masters-jazz-series-feat-ed-cherry/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200717T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200717T180000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Weroam4kulture
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed until further notice. \nAre you a dancer\, model\, or business owner and interested in having a video produced live in 4K UltraHigh Definition for only $12 for your talent or brand. This event is for you! \nNot only will you have time to dance\, model\, or promote your brand\, you can also experience the culture of Memphis with an art exhibition featuring images of the Memphis Bridge protest exclusively by photographer ROME.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/weroam4kulture/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series: Pierre Bensusan
DESCRIPTION:This event is postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series\, a monthly concert series showcasing internationally acclaimed guitarists in partnership with the Little Rock-based Argenta Acoustic Music Series. July’s performance features guitarist Pierre Bensusan in an intimate\, solo performance. \nTickets: $20\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \n“The way the guitar would want to sound if it played itself.” \n“Bensusan is very much his own animal. It’s like listening to a butterfly\, to dappled sunshine coming through quaking aspens. His music flits and darts around like fish in a pool. And his compositions manage to encompass both the calmness of the pool and the flashing of the fish. It’s an entrancing\, almost hypnotic thing to watch and hear\, as he seems eager to share his journey\, his light. I was struck by how the aim of each song was to be beautiful. Not witty\, not avant-garde\, not new\, necessarily\, but beautiful. A great craftsman plying his trade. A shepherd with his flock. As I left\, I felt all of a sudden that I’d been to temple after all. My own sort of temple\, and by the end of the service I felt purified\, cleansed\, and ready for the new year.” — Nyack News and Views (USA\, Dan Cohen\, Oct 4\, 2015) \nWinner of the Independent Music Award\, in the Live Performance Album category for his latest triple live album “Encore” (2014)\, “Rose d’Or” of the Montreux Festival for his first album\, “Près de Paris” (Switzerland\, 1976)\, “Best World Music Guitar Player ” by the readers of Guitar Player Magazine (USA\, 2008)\, Pierre Bensusan is recognized as one of the premier musicians of our time. \nIf “World Music” is music that pays tribute to the spirit of a collection of human beings through distinct rhythms\, traditional instruments\, and harmonic colors\, French-Algerian guitarist\, singer\, and composer Pierre Bensusan can be recognized as one of the most eloquent and world musicians today. \nBorn in Oran\, French-Algeria in 1957\, when France was decolonizing its Empire\, Pierre Bensusan’s family moved to Paris when he was four. He began formal studies on piano at the age of 7\, and\, at 11\, taught himself guitar. Influenced in those early days by the folk revival blooming in Britain\, France\, and North America\, Bensusan began first to explore his own diverse musical heritage and then moved to the horizons beyond. \nAt 17\, he signed his first recording contract\, and one year later\, his first album “Pres de Paris” won the Grand Prix du Disque upon his debut at the Montreux Festival in Switzerland. \nDescribed by the L.A. Times as “one of the most unique and brilliant acoustic guitar veterans in the world music scene today\,” Pierre’s name became synonymous with contemporary acoustic guitar genius\, long before the terms New Age\, New Acoustic Music\, or World Music were invented. He has the ability to make a single guitar sound like an entire band as he brings the audience on a mesmerizing musical journey. And yet\, Bensusan is more than what any musician or music lover expects from a guitarist. He is a composer as well as a bilingual and a brave improvisational vocalist\, melding whistles and resonant low notes with something like his own scat technique. \nThere is a sense of something both playful and serious in his work\, an unparalleled sense of freedom in his compositions and his improvisations. His “manner” of playing defies classification – crossing world\, classical\, jazz\, traditional\, folk and more. None can be isolated as simply “Brazilian”\, “Arabic” or “French”; rather\, they represent our world in its current state\, a world sharing itself\, fusing cultures together in ways we have never experienced. A great ambassador of peace. Not to be missed!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-cutaway-acoustic-guitar-series-pierre-bensusan/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Kraftwerk 3-D at Crosstown Theater
DESCRIPTION:This tour has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. \nElectro pioneers Kraftwerk are bringing their 50th anniversary tour to the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. The performance will benefit Crosstown Arts\, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2020. \nSOLD OUT\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 8 pm \nKraftwerk celebrate 50th anniversary with a North American tour. Bringing together music and performance art\, Kraftwerk 3-D concerts are a true “Gesamtkunstwerk” – a total work of art. \nThe multi-media project Kraftwerk was started in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf\, Germany\, where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums. \nBy the mid 1970s\, Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic sound scapes and their musical experimentation with robotics and other technical innovations. With their visions of the future\, Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century. \nTheir compositions\, using innovative techniques\, synthetic voices\, and computerized rhythms\, have had a major international influence across an entire range of musical genres: from Electro to Hip Hop\, from Techno to SynthPop. \nIn their live performances\, Kraftwerk — Ralf Hütter\, Henning Schmitz\, Fritz Hilpert\, Falk Grieffenhagen — illustrate their belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine. \nStarting with the retrospective of their catalogue at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2012\, Kraftwerk have returned full circle back to their origins within the Düsseldorf art scene of the late Sixties. \nThe 3-D concert series at MoMA was followed by further presentations at Tate Modern Turbine Hall (London)\, Akasaka Blitz (Tokyo) Opera House (Sydney)\, Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles)\, Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris)\, Neue National Galerie (Berlin)\, and Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao). \nIn 2014\, Ralf Hütter and his former partner were honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/kraftwerk-3-d-at-crosstown-theater/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200730T153000
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: From Acting to Producing
DESCRIPTION:Join Phil Darius Wallace and moderator Jazmin Miller (actress\, playwright\, and Crosstown Theater Director) for a discussion on acting for film\, being an independent producer\, and the state of the industry during this catastrophic time. \nPhil Darius Wallace is an accomplished actor on both stage and screen\, a speaking coach\, and an independent film producer. His movie and TV credits include: “Nothing But The Truth\,” “Brian Banks\,” “The World We Make\,” ABC’s “Nashville\,” NBC’s “Bluff City Law\,” and “The Hallmark Channel’s Wedding At Graceland.” He also directed his own movie “100 Lives\,” which is available on Amazon. Darius’ production work includes most recently working with Sycamore Pictures and helping to raise money for the special effects for the film Greyhound starring Tom Hanks. \nThis is a virtual event. FREE RSVP to the S&S Zoom video chat here: https://bit.ly/3fJQ21D \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-from-acting-to-producing/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200807T170000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED The Sacred Nonconnah Crepuscular Society
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed until further notice. \nThe Sacred Nonconnah Crepuscular Society presents a Sonic Incantation performed by Stephen Chopek\, Zachary Corsa\, and Nathan Deyonker. Featuring visual and written accompaniment by Zachary Corsa.The Sacred Nonconnah Crepuscular Society presents a Sonic Incantation performed by Stephen Chopek\, Zachary Corsa\, and Nathan Deyonker. Featuring visual and written accompaniment by Zachary Corsa. \nAdmission is $5 \nOrganized by the artists
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-sacred-nonconnah-crepuscular-society/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T163000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Modern Masters Jazz Series feat. Geoff Clapp
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents The Modern Masters Jazz Series\, a monthly series featuring jazz soloists from around the country. \nAugust’s concert will feature award-winning drummer Geoff Clapp in a spectacular performance with the series house band\, The Ted Ludwig Trio. \nTickets: $20\nDoors 7pm | Performance at 7:30pm \nAbout Geoff Clapp:\nWhile Geoff Clapp was a high school student at the North Carolina School of the Arts (studying classical percussion and playing in the school’s jazz band)\, he had the opportunity to meet and hear New Orleanians\, including trumpeter Wynton Marsalis\, pianist Ellis Marsalis\, and drummer Herlin Riley (All-Star 1991). “I never knew drums could be played like that\,” exclaims Clapp of Riley’s style and talents. “That really sparked my true interest in jazz.” \nThese events ultimately resulted in Clapp attending the University of New Orleans in the fall of 1989. He was among the first talented group of musicians\, which included drummer Brian Blade (All-Star 1993)\, trumpeter Jeremy Davenport (All-Star 2000)\, and bassist Chris Thomas (All-Star 1999) in the new jazz studies program headed by Ellis Marsalis. “We were just a bunch of hoodlums trying to play jazz\,” says Clapp with a chuckle. \nAbout the series:\nThe Modern Masters Jazz Series is guest-curated by renowned two-decade New Orleans jazz guitarist Ted Ludwig\, who has received an ASCAP award\, the Louis Armstrong award\, and the Overture to the Cultural Season award and is a member of The Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame. Each month in 2020\, Crosstown Arts welcomes jazz artists from New Orleans\, NYC\, LA\, and beyond\, who will perform with the Ted Ludwig Trio. Highlights include Roseanna Vitro\, who has sung with Christian McBride\, Elvin Jones\, and Lionel Hampton; Ed Cherry\, of Dizzy Gillespie’s band; GRAMMY-winner Victor Atkins; and Dee Dee Bridgewater saxophonist Ed Peterson.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/modern-masters-jazz-series-feat-geoff-clapp/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200815T110000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED The Fearless Pursuit of Happiness Exploring Self & Identity
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed until further notice. \nArt exhibition by Mohamed Fofana \nOrganized by the artist
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-fearless-pursuit-of-happiness-exploring-self-identity/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200820T150000
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Case Study of CURVES with Skyy Blair
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present a virtual case study of CURVES\, the filmed-in-Memphis\, BET-produced television pilot\, with creator Skyy Blair. Skyy will share her story of winning the Script to Screen contest held by BET and Issa Rae’s Color Creative company. She will also discuss the process of writing and producing the pilot\, working within the television studio structure\, and much more. This case study will be moderated by actor and producer Princeton James. \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. \nZoom link
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-case-study-of-curves-with-skyy-blair/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200821T163000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series: Shane Hennessy
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series\, a monthly concert series showcasing internationally acclaimed guitarists in partnership with the Little Rock-based Argenta Acoustic Music Series. August’s performance features Irish virtuoso guitarist Shane Hennessy in an intimate\, solo performance. \nTickets: $20\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nIrish virtuoso guitarist Shane Hennessy has established himself as one of the leading guitarists on the world stage\, known widely for his fingerstyle\, flatpicking\, and percussive guitar-playing approaches. With a unique style of solo guitar playing that encompasses the range of a whole band – covering drums\, bass\, rhythm\, and lead lines – Shane builds a complete sonic world entirely on his own. \nBilled as “one of the most exciting live performers of his generation\, with an ability to move between styles and genres with ease” by Irish Music Magazine\, audiences can never be too sure what will come next during the exciting mix of jazz\, blues\, country\, soul\, traditional Irish music\, and world music he offers. With the addition of some smooth vocals\, genre-hopping improvisations\, and well-arranged covers\, it makes sense why music legend super-producer Nile Rodgers (CHIC) thinks that “his style is killer\, it’s really cool stuff\,” and why guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel says that Shane “is one of the most engaging musicians in the world today.” \nOver the course of a performance\, Hennessy brings the audience from elated highs to the depths of reflection\, delivering stories\, anecdotes\, and off-the-cuff remarks with the same passion he holds for the music he performs. He says that it is hard to describe in words what he does on stage without experiencing it in person\, but it becomes clear upon witnessing his performance why his tour schedule is so hectic. In 2019 alone\, he will visit much of mainland Europe\, Russia\, China\, and the United States\, the pinnacle of this world tour being a solo set at the prestigious MerleFest in North Carolina\, widely recognized as the mecca of Americana and Roots music in the USA. \nA musician from a young age\, he credits his background in Irish traditional music as the base on which he has built his genre-defying musical explorations. Initially a concertina player under the tuition of the renowned Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh\, Hennessy first turned to the guitar when he was inspired by the music of James Taylor. Becoming more interested in songwriting and in music in general\, it was when he discovered the styles of Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins that his interest in solo performance blossomed. From that point on\, he has toured the world\, with thousands of shows under his belt\, and a proven track record as a performer\, songwriter\, arranger\, accompanist\, and session musician. \nA highlight of his career to date has been a sold-out a solo show in The National Concert Hall in Dublin\, Ireland\, for the release of his latest CD ‘Marrakech’. Another milestone in 2018 was when Shane worked with Bill Whelan\, Grammy-award winning composer of Riverdance\, on a piece of music commissioned for guitar\, piano\, and string quartet. He has also given numerous lectures and guitar workshops all over the world for guitarists and musicians eager to learn more about his unique musical approach. \nStill\, given his successes to date\, he is always eager to keep pushing the boundaries of what he can do on one guitar. To quote RTÉ Radio host Marty Whelan: “There was part of me that didn’t really believe that he could do what he does on one guitar until he came into the studio\, sat down in front of me\, and played. I thought there had to be loops\, or extra tracks\, or recording tricks\, and there was none of that – my jaw dropped! What a talent!”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-cutaway-acoustic-guitar-series-shane-hennessy/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Meet the Residents
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to introduce the 2020 Indie Memphis Screenwriting Residents and Fellows to the Memphis film community. Screenwriters Damon Davis\, Seren Sensei\, and Zaire Love will spend the next two months writing their feature screenplays with the intent on producing them in Memphis. This is a great opportunity to hear from the writers about their lives as artists\, their new projects\, and what they are looking to learn about Memphis and our film community. \nThis is a virtual event. RSVP here. \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-meet-the-residents/
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Modern Masters Jazz Series feat. James Singleton
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed until further notice. \nCrosstown Arts presents The Modern Masters Jazz Series\, a monthly series featuring jazz soloists from around the country. \nFor September’s performance\, New Orleans-based bassist\, composer\, and producer James Singleton will be featured in an unforgettable performance with the series house band\, The Ted Ludwig Trio. \nTickets: $20\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nJames Singleton is an acoustic bassist\, composer\, and producer. He is a member of the New Orleans-based jazz group Astral Project with Johnny Vidacovich\, Tony Dagradi\, and Steve Masakowski. He has been described as one of the best and most sought-after bassists in New Orleans. \nHe has performed with John Scofield\, Stanton Moore\, and John Medeski\, as well as John Abercrombie\, Art Baron\, Ellis Marsalis\, Earl Turbinton\, Eddie Harris\, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown\, Lionel Hampton\, Arnett Cobb\, and Banu Gibson\, among others. He has recorded with Chet Baker\, Alvin “Red” Tyler\, James Booker\, Johnny “Tan Canary” Adams\, Charlie Rich\, and Zachary Richard\, among others. \nHe produced Astral Project’s Elvado which won OffBeat magazine’s 1998 Best Modern Jazz Album of the Year award. Although Elvado has been described as “straight-ahead bop-influenced jazz with a Crescent City ambiance\,” Astral Project’s live performances are also known for improvisation\, which Singleton has described as “composing in the groove.” \nHe has led projects such as “3 Now 4\,” “The James Singleton Orchestra\,” and “The James Singleton Trio.” Some of Singleton’s recent projects include playing as a member of the New Orleans saxophonist Robert Wagner Trio and the New Orleans keyboardist Robert Walter Trio. In early 2007\, he toured nationally with Skerik and Mike Dillon. \nIn 2008\, various projects included an experimental jazz string quartet composed of two former Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra members Dave Rebeck and Matt Rhody\, as well as cellist Helen Gillet. Singleton moved to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina but continued to perform frequently in New Orleans. In December 2008\, Singleton returned to New Orleans.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/modern-masters-jazz-series-feat-james-singleton/
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