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SUMMARY:Contingency Plan
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, Nov. 19 from 6-8 pm \nContingency Plan showcases the work of nine graduating seniors in Studio Art and Photography at the University of Memphis. Despite quarantine and classes taught on Zoom\, these students have persevered to make work exploring identity\, humor\, vulnerability\, resilience\, function\, intuition\, and memory. \nParticipating student artists: Tess Cleary\, Ethan James McVay\, Reanna Ruddick\, Matthew Shibata\, Erica Vanhaute\, Vlad Volkov\, Faith Waggener\, Ashley Whitt\, and Kristen Williams \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/contingency-plan/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, West Gallery\, Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Faculty: Connections
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, Nov. 19 from 6-8 pm \nIn the last five years\, the Department of Art at the University of Memphis has experienced a generational sea change with new faculty and an expanded curriculum. These new voices and fresh viewpoints complement the decades of rich experiences provided by veteran faculty to create a full learning environment for our diverse community of students. \nNew Faculty:  Connections presents the work of the most recent additions to the department\, including seven artists and two art historians. In conjunction with the exhibition\, programming will highlight collaborative curriculums\, insight into reading materials that inform their research as an educator\, artist\, or historian\, and opportunities to create bridges outside of the academic sphere. \nParticipating educators include: Dr. Lucienne Auz\, Hamlett Dobbins\, Kelsey Harrison\, Dr. Rebecca Howard\, Coe Lapossy\, Kate Roberts\, Ramona Sonin\, Ash Thayer\, and Lisa Williamson
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/new-faculty-connections/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, East Gallery\, Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anthony Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents current resident artist Anthony Wilson in The Green Room.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: $15 advance | $20 day of show | $10 student (with student ID) \nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nAnthony Wilson will perform music from his upcoming release “The Plan of Paris” and his current project-in-progress “Knowledge Tree.” Performing with Tom Lonardo (drums)\, Alvie Givhan (piano)\, and Liam O’Dell (bass). \nA 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. \nIn 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.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/anthony-wilson/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents Chungking Express
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Chungking Express at Crosstown Theater. Wong Kar-wai  / 1994 / 102 minutes / Rated PG-13 \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nFrom JANUS: The whiplash\, double-pronged Chungking Express  is one of the defining works of ’90s cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung)\, both jilted by ex-lovers\, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand\, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer\, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-chungking-express/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Sacred Soul with Elizabeth King and Elder Jack Ward
DESCRIPTION:A special evening showcasing Memphis sacred soul from the late 1960s to present day at Crosstown Theater. With an exclusive showing of The D-Vine Spirituals story documentary followed by performances by Elizabeth King and Elder Jack Ward\, supported by the Sacred Soul Sound Section.  A meet-and-greet/record signing with the artists will be held at Memphis Listening Lab at 6 pm\, prior to the show. \nTickets: $25 \nDoors at 6 pm | Show at 7 pm \nAbout Elizabeth King:\nMemphis soul gospel queen Elizabeth King recorded her first single in 1970\, and if all had gone as planned\, she would have made her first album a few years later. Instead\, it took another half century\, but Living In The Last Days\, the latest sacred soul long player from Memphis’ Bible and Tire imprint\, captures King at the height of her powers\, with the intervening decades only serving to stoke the flames of one of the most memorable voices in modern gospel music. \nBible and Tire’s third release\, 2019’s The D-Vine Spirituals Recordings\, collected a handful of King’s singles\, beginning with her biggest hit\, 1972’s instantly infectious “I Heard The Voice\,” and served as an inspiration for the new album in more ways than one. “When we went in and did ‘I Heard The Voice\,’ we recorded sixteen songs\,” says King. But lack of sponsorship — often the lynchpin for commercial success in the gospel world — kept King and her group the Gospel Souls solidly in the singles field. \nIn 1973\, having made her name with “I Heard The Voice\,” as well as a pair of earlier singles on the Designer label\, King won the Gospel Gold Cup\, a prestigious award presented by the city’s gospel disc jockeys\, one of whom was D-Vine founder Juan D. Shipp. King and the Gospel Souls were soon headlining a concert at Memphis’ legendary Overton Park Shell that starred D-Vine label mates the Traveling Stars\, the Steptor Four\, and Willie Harris and the Sensational Six\, who would take the Cup five years later. \nThe Overton Park program was but a tiny testament to the incredible array of talent that Shipp had taken under his wing when he started the label in 1972\, in the wake of spinning one too many Style Wooten-produced Designer records. The problem wasn’t the spirit; it was the sub-standard sound. “When Reverend Shipp took over from Style Wooten\, everybody was coming to him\,” details King. The two producers contrasted not only in quality control but in production values. “With Style\, you’d do one or two takes and that was it. But Reverend Shipp would make you stay in there all night. If it was in you\, he was gonna get it.” \n“I want you to sing it like you’re making love to God!” Shipp once thunderously urged King. She did just that on her four D-Vine singles\, and the same spirit permeates Living In The Last Days\, co-produced by Shipp and Bible and Tire founder Bruce Watson. It’s the first in a series of albums spawned by the label’s exploration of the D-Vine Spirituals catalog and a rebirth not only for King but for Shipp as well. When he deactivated D-Vine\, Shipp explains\, it wasn’t because he no longer wanted to produce records. “It got from the point of singing for the Lord to singing for money. And I said\, ‘That’s too much for me.’ But Liz King wouldn’t go nowhere. Many companies tried to get her to sign with them\, but she wouldn’t budge.” \nShipp and King were of a piece\, she explains\, it was just that simple. “If he wasn’t gonna do nothing\, I wasn’t gonna do nothing. I just wasn’t gonna record with anybody else.” Shipp had been just begun to expand into the album world when he closed up shop in 1986\, and King’s LP would have been one of the first ones to be released. Twenty-five years later\, music historian Michael Hurtt was in the midst of writing liner notes for Watson’s ninety-nine track compilation\, The Soul Of Designer Records\, when he tracked down Shipp. Together\, the pair recovered the D-Vine master tapes from a moldering shed in Olive Branch\, Mississippi\, intent on bringing them to life again. \nWhile the Designer project had been a fulfilling four-disc set that finally brought the late Style Wooten’s activities into some focus\, Shipp was not only alive but active and ever-ready to spring back into action: an even more expansive approach to telling the D-Vine story seemed a foregone conclusion. Over the next few years\, as Watson built a new studio in Memphis\, he became increasingly interested in recording what he termed the “sacred soul” of the Mid-South. As one half of Fat Possum Records\, he’d brought the grit of the juke joint back into the Delta blues; perhaps he could bring the soul back to the forefront of the spiritual music of Memphis. \nIn 2019\, Watson threw down the gauntlet\, establishing the Bible and Tire imprint with the Sensational Barnes Brothers’ Nobody’s Fault But My Own\, a stirring blend of warm\, inspiring old-school singing delivered by two young siblings and backed skillfully by the Sacred Soul Sound Section\, a percolating trio anchored by guitarist Will Sexton. Meanwhile\, as Watson and Shipp began to transfer the D-Vine tape archive\, Shipp detailed the current status of the incredible voices that filled Watson’s Delta Sonic Sound Studio. Not only were many of his artists still around\, but Elizabeth King was still singing on the radio every week. A phone call later\, she was singing live in the studio. \nLiving In The Last Days is a triumph from the very first intimate vocal notes of the arresting opening track\, “No Ways Tired\,” to the similarly moving closer\, “You’ve Got To Move\,” dual studies in intensity that each build to a burning climax\, bookending a searing selection of songs burnished by the down-home grooves of the Sacred Soul Sound Section. Additionally\, the Sensational Barnes Brothers are on board for harmony vocals as are King’s old D-Vine Spirituals label mates the Vaughn Sisters and the D-Vine Spiritualettes. \nKing switches gears seamlessly between the moody\, almost minor key swing of “Mighty Good God” to the horn-heavy Stax-style “Call On Him” to the roof-raising gospel rocker “Reach Out And Touch Me.” In between\, she reimagines a trio of her Designer sides (“Testify\,” “A Long Journey\,” and “Walk With Me”) with D-Vine’s trademark wah-wah guitar\, lays down a tremelo-drenched treatment of the Shaw Singers’ trance-like “He Touched Me” and demonstrates how hauntingly apropos the eternally timely lyrics of the title track (originally adapted from an old hymnal spiritual by the Hewlett Sisters on D-Vine subsidiary JCR) are today. The entirely a cappella “Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord” comes straight “from the book of Job\,” says King. “The verses came strictly from the Bible.” \nShe couldn’t be happier with the way things turned out\, and that includes an unexpected tour of France in the midst of recording. “There was a lady in Corinth\, Mississippi\, Nannie Dammons\, who wrote a song called ‘It’s Amazing What God Can Do.’ It was about a tornado that came through Corinth and killed four people. She called Style Wooten\, and she wanted me to sing the song\, so she sent the song to Style\, and he called us in and I did the song. It just brought it back to my mind what the lady had wrote — ‘It’s Amazing What God Can Do.’ Because after all these years\, at my age\, I never thought I would have another chance. It gives me the chance to tell people it’s never too late. I never dreamed that I’d be able to go to Paris. Me? But you never know what God is gonna do for you. So just keep striving.” \n\nAbout Elder Jack Ward:\nMemphis gospel singer Elder Jack Ward was born in the land where the blues began\, the often mythologized Mississippi Delta\, but as his new Bible and Tire album Already Made aptly demonstrates\, the area’s gospel heritage is every bit as rich as its secular counterpart. “I was born in the country\, and I would hear Elmore James\, John Lee Hooker\, Lightnin’ Hopkins\, Howlin’ Wolf\, all of them guys\, and I used to patronize them\, and sing like them a little bit\, but I came back to my roots. I used to do a lot of blues singing but I broke from that and got into the gospel. \n“I grew up around Itta Bena\, Mississippi. That’s about six miles from Greenwood\, and I used to sing with a group there called the Kings Of The South. I did a lot of singing\, but I was a farm boy\, worked on the farm. I chopped cotton\, picked cotton\, drove mules with a one row planter. But music’s been in me since I was about seven or eight years old when I first tried to sing. My mother\, my father \,and my two sisters would be in the cotton field\, and I did a little song called ‘I Woke Up This Morning.’ I didn’t know how to put it together but my mother said\, ‘Hey\, boy! I don’t want you singin’ no blues.’” \nWhat she couldn’t have known then was that a journey to Memphis when Ward was a teenager would inadvertently ensure that he would take the right road. “My mom came up here to see her grandmother. I was sixteen at the time. And I said to myself\, ‘When I turn eighteen I’m coming back to Memphis and make me a hit record.’ And I did.” \nThat disc was 1964’s “Don’t Need No Doctor” by the Christian Harmonizers\, a group comprised of old friends from Ward’s hometown. “I knew the Brooks brothers\, who organized the Christian Harmonizers\, from Itta Bena\,” he explains. “And I had my mind set to come to Memphis to sing blues or rock ’n’ roll. But I found them and they said\, ‘Look\, man\, we need you to sing gospel.’ Ward got down to business with the brothers and even briefly replaced soul sensation O.V. Wright in the Sunset Travelers during one of Wright’s secular sabbaticals. Nicknamed Jumping Jack Ward for his in-the-anointing antics\, he soon came to the attention of Stax Records\, and the Christian Harmonizers christened Chalice\, Soulsville’s sacred subsidiary\, with its debut record. Isaac Hayes was on piano and Ward was on lead vocals. \n“Don’t Need No Doctor\,” in Ward’s words\, “went every whichaway. That record was on the chart for two years. Oris Mays was a producer in Memphis and he said\, ‘Jack\, I’m gonna put you on a big label.’ He told us to get a couple of songs together and we did a thing called ‘Another Day’s Journey\,’ then we did another record\, ‘God’s Going To Blow Out The Sun.’ The singles were released on Peacock Records’ Song Bird imprint. “We just went to bigger things\, higher exaltations.” \nIn 1968\, Ward and David Hart formed the Gospel Four\, whose haunting harmonies were bolstered by the grooving guitar and bass of brothers George and Robert Dean. Memphis disc jockey Juan D. Shipp soon approached them about recording for his newly-founded D-Vine Spirituals label. “I knew him from the broadcast\,” says Ward of Shipp\, “and he knew some of my former material. And so I went and we sat down and talked and he said\, ‘How would you like to record with D-Vine?’” The results\, as soulful as they were sacred\, were among the absolute highlights of Shipp’s ever-impressive catalog. The Gospel Four had an altogether different sound and style than the Christian Harmonizers\, as exemplified by the gripping testimonial “The Last Road” and the mid-tempo\, minor-keyed “A Change Is Gonna Come.” \nBreaking new ground\, it seems\, is a Ward hallmark and Already Made — which focuses on Ward front and center — is no exception. But like Elizabeth King’s critically acclaimed Living In The Last Days\, it’s a direct outgrowth of D-Vine’s heyday. Bible and Tire’s Bruce Watson was transferring Shipp’s tape archive for an ambitious D-Vine Spirituals reissue project when he asked Shipp how many of the artists from his old label were still around and active. Aside from King\, Elder Jack Ward was one of the first he named. King’s Living In The Last Days was the first result of that conversation; now Ward’s Already Made takes its rightful place as the second. Produced by Watson and Sacred Soul Sound Section leader Will Sexton at Memphis’s Delta-Sonic Sound Studio\, the ten-song program features the warmly recorded winning ingredients that are becoming a trademark of Bible and Tire’s patented Sacred Soul sound\, from Ward’s spirited vocals to the crack studio band laying down the grooves behind him. \nThe title track sets the mood with Ward’s daughters providing background harmony and — along with Bible and Tire label mates the Sensational Barnes Brothers — they make several encore appearances\, adding an inextricable magic to the proceedings. “I trained them starting when they were about six or seven years old\,” says Ward\, adding how much he enjoyed working with guitarists Will Sexton and Matt Ross-Spang\, who switch styles seamlessly from the distorted crunch of “He’s Got Great Things” to the splashy reverb of “Shout Trouble’s Over” to the shimmering vibrato of “God’s Love.” While the album has its share of pile-driving uptempo numbers\, its slow-burning ballads are particularly moving\, and a bridge seems crossed once Ward breaks into his quiet falsetto midway through “Someone Who Is Greater Than Me.” The songs’ Muscle Shoals-style country soul vibe sets up a remaining trio of ballads\, closing with Ward’s favorite\, the redemptively autobiographical “I Feel Better Since I Prayed.” \nWatson feels that Already Made is one of the best albums he’s ever produced\, and after re-defining the dismal blues scene of the ‘90s with the Delta juke joint sounds of R.L Burnside and Junior Kimbrough for Fat Possum Records\, that’s saying quite a bit. Ward might have been right there with them were it not for that trip to Memphis back in the late ’50s. “I have pretty good talent\, I can just about sing anything anyone else sings. I never bragged on myself but this was a gift from God and the Bible says\, ‘A gift comes without repentance.’ In other words\, you don’t have to be a Christian to be able to sing. If you’ve got that God-given gift you can do it — your choice if you want to sing rock ’n’ roll\, blues\, gospel — but I choose the right side.” And thank God he did. \nMichael Hurtt – March 2021
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/an-evening-of-sacred-soul-with-elizabeth-king-and-elder-jack-ward/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:QEMIST and NICOTHEGODDESS
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents electronic artist Qemist and singer-songwriter NICOTHEGODDESS live in The Green Room. \nTICKETS: $10 \nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nQemist is a multi-faceted electronic artist from Memphis\, TN\, who has mastered a wide range of production and music creation techniques. Having toured and performed at festivals like Deep Tropics and SXSW\, Qemist has been met with outstanding reviews for his heady club mixes and melodic and refreshing lounge-style productions. \nNICOTHEGODDESS is a singer/songwriter and classical violist from North Little Rock\, AR. NICOTHEGODDESS was classically trained in viola and voice\, and she has utilized those talents to ultimately create her own unique signature in alternative R&B music. \nBoth artists are featured on the Crosstown Arts: Against The Grain platform. Together\, they create a fusion performance that explores a soundscape of deep\, lush melodies with crisp\, forward electronic implementation. They intertwine both electronic music and alternative R&B together for a truly unique sonic experience.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/qemist-and-nicothegoddess-at-crosstown-arts/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Aaron James: "I Don't Think About You Anymore"
DESCRIPTION:Join indie/folk artist Aaron James (of Memphis’ Unapologetic.) for his first live solo show since February 2020 at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. \nTICKETS: $15 advance | $20 day of show\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm< \nThis show\, entitled “I Don’t Think About You Anymore\,” will explore themes of letting go — from memories of a past love and the old versions of ourselves we can be afraid to grow away from to all the anxieties we’ve developed over this past year and a half of confusion and bewilderment. Aaron will be debuting several new songs\, including tracks from his upcoming three-song EP “Sunrise\,” set to release December 3. Come with something to leave behind. \nMasks must be worn at all times during the performance. The Green Room is located at Crosstown Arts (inside Crosstown Concourse) on the second floor at the top of the red spiral staircase.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/aaron-james-i-dont-think-about-you-anymore-at-crosstown-arts/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice Movie Trivia
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the year\, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts bring cinematographers\, directors\, editors\, writers\, actors\, and technicians to Shoot & Splice\, the monthly filmmaking forum. Come help us celebrate the end of another wild year with the return of the annual Shoot & Splice Movie Trivia extravaganza! \nTest your film knowledge against returning Trivia Masters John Beifuss of The Commercial Appeal and Chris McCoy of the Memphis Flyer. The trivia masters will take full advantage of the theater\, so be prepared for some fun video and audio rounds! \nPRIZES! HOLIDAY COCKTAILS! AND DID WE SAY\, FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? \nRules: \n\nNo more than 4 people per team\n5 rounds w/ 10 questions per round\nBonus questions between rounds for Indie Memphis swag prizes\nThe top 3 teams will win some fun\, film-related prizes!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-movie-trivia/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deborah Swiney with Special Guest Ra Kalam Bob Moses
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Deborah Swiney with Ed Finney\, Bob Buckley\, and special guest drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses in The Green Room. \nTICKETS: $10 advance | $15 day of the show\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nAbout Deborah Swiney:\nDeborah’s affinity for music started at an early age with piano lessons and being active in music\, whether in church or in school. Growing up in a musical family\, music had no borders. If the walls of her home could sing\, they’d reverberate the sounds of Nancy Wilson\, Aretha Franklin\, The Staple Singers\, The Carpenters\, and B.B. King\, all mixed together; not to mention classical music\, having a Memphis Symphony Orchestra bassoonist for a big brother. \nBeing on the local music scene\, Deborah\, a Memphian\, eventually landed a position as a backup vocalist for the legendary Al Green during the ‘90s\, which led to an international touring experience that included performances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show. \nThat was then and this is now. In a city that loves its blues\, rock\, jazz\, and gospel\, Deborah has carved out a niche uniquely her own. This is evident with her highly praised co-produced debut album\, I Remember Rio\, a Brazilian-inspired album with “Memphis-Soul seasoning” (All about Jazz). I Remember Rio is filled with classic Bossa Nova standards and tunes written by the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim\, as well as Deborah Swiney’s “Bossa Nova Casanova” and guitarist Ed Finney’s title song\, “I Remember Rio.” Jazz Weekly describes her as bringing “ a strong and Sarah Vaughan-esque voice to deliver soulful reads of Brazilian…” Transcending the standard definition of a jazz songstress\, her melodic and sultry approach to bossa nova and other Brazilian stylings are natural without betraying her Bluff City roots. \nAbout Ra Kalam Bob Moses:\nBob Moses\, born January 28\, 1948 in New York City\, NY\, is an American jazz drummer. Bob Moses’ life has been a continuous quest for vision\, spirit\, compassion\, growth\, and mastery in a multiplicity of art forms. A partial list of stellar musicians Bob Moses has worked and/or recorded with both as a leader and a sideman includes: Charles Mingus\, Rahsaan Roland Kirk\, Jim Pepper\, Larry Coryell\, The Free Spirits\, Dave Liebman\, Gary Burton\, Keith Jarrett\, Steve Swallow\, Michael Gibbs\, Pat Metheny\, Lyle Mays\, Paul Bley\, Herbie Hancock\, Jack DeJohnette\, Jaco Pastorius\, Hal Galper\, Michael Brecker\, Randy Brecker\, Steve Kuhn\, Sheila Jordan\, Bobby McFerrin\, Dave Sanborn\, Bill Frisell\, Eddie Gomez\, Don Alias\, John Scofield\, Terumasa Hino\, Dave Holland\, Charlie Haden\, Hermeto Pascoal\, Jovinos Santos Neto\, Danillo Perez\, David Sanchez\, Chucho Valdes\, Jimmy Slyde\, Savion Glover\, Gregory Hines\, Stan Strickland\, Tiger Okoshi\, Nana Vasconcelos\, Obo Addy\, John Medeski\, Vernon Reid\, DJ Logic\, Badal Roy\, Ravikiran\, Master Anand\, Raqib Hassan\, Sam Rivers\, Pharoah Sanders\, Tisziji Muñoz\, and many others. \nAbout Ed Finney:\nWhen you think of Memphis\, you think of music\, and Ed Finney\, aka Jupiter-Skyfish\, personifies this concept. Born and raised in Memphis\, Finney started playing guitar in the early ’60s and immediately took to playing the blues. He soon discovered jazz\, which has been his passion ever since. \nEd Finney’s experience includes: recording with Stax legendaries such as Isaac Hayes\, Carla Thomas and David Porter; touring with Otis Redding; opening for Al Green\, Chick Corea\, The Doors\, Frank Zappa\, and many more. Finney’s most recent recording project was as music director for Deborah Swiney’s debut CD\, “I Remember Rio.” \nFinney has followed music around the world\, which is articulated in his compositions layered with rich styles and rhythms from Mexico\, Morocco\, Brazil \,and many other countries. When not writing music\, Finney teaches others to play guitar\, which is part of his dream “for all beings to have access to creativity.” \nAbout Bob Buckley:\nBob Buckley is a long-time Memphis sideman specializing in rhythm section work. He has backed such acts as the Drifters\, The Platters\, and the Coasters. Other rhythm and blues artists include Bobby Little and James Austin. These formative years included the opportunity to hang and sit in with heroes such as Little Milton\, James Williams\, Calvin Newborn\, and R.L. Burnside. “Being able to sit in and play or rehearse with these guys early on set an example I’m still building on today\,” says Buckley. Providing a pocket with some of the best drummers in the world is the Memphis tradition and Buckley holding down the fort. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/deborah-swiney-with-special-guest-ra-kalam-bob-moses/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents Blood and Black Lace
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Blood and Black Lace at Crosstown Theater. Mario Bava / 1965 / 86 minutes / Rated R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nIf you loved Last Night in Soho\, come to the Crosstown Theater to catch Blood and Black Lace! From AGFA: Before Dario Argento’s Deep Red\, there was Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace. At the Cristiana Haute Couture fashion house\, models and their boyfriends excel at the art of backstabbing\, blackmail\, and snorting cocaine. That is\, until a faceless maniac embarks on a mission of death! After the one-two punch of Black Sunday and Black Sabbath\, Mario Bava unleashed Blood and Black Lace — the movie that perfected the ultra-violent sub-genre that would come to be known as “giallo.” With a mood that mashes together the elegance of a quiet rain on a summer night with the luridness of a trashy paperback\, it’s no wonder why Martin Scorsese once referred to this movie as “an incredible moment for cinema.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-blood-and-black-lace/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Tm. Prudhomme’s “False starts\, Fake ending”
DESCRIPTION:Tm. Prudhomme\, a Fall 2021 Crosstown Arts resident artist\, performs in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. \nTICKETS: $10 advance | $12 day of show\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nCome celebrate/mourn the final day of Tm. Prudhomme’s Crosstown Arts’ artist residency! A cavalcade of músicos* will present renditions of compositions old and new. Prepare to be confused and confounded by “songettes\,” visual mis-cues\, and happenstance! Masks required\, diapers optional. \n* Steve Shelley\, Tripp Lamkins\, Keith Cooper\, Dustin Cropps\, Andrew Geraci\, et al. \nTm. Prudhomme has steadily performed and recorded with a variety of musical acts around the country and abroad for the past 35+ years. While having experience as a record producer\, music publisher\, booking agent\, and label chief\, he primarily identifies as a songwriter\, credited with over 100 original compositions released on over 10 studio albums by various artists and labels. \n“Works are often informed by our experiences; by what we see\, hear\, and do. I like to attend art openings\, street festivals\, political rallies and other free events … especially when they have a band! And more so if i’m in that band.”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/tm-prudhommes-false-starts-fake-ending/
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:Folk All Y’all presents stars of The Black Opry Revue
DESCRIPTION:Folk All Y’all presents stars of The Black Opry Revue\, a collective celebrating Black artists in Americana/country\, featuring Lizzie No\, Jett Holden\, Roberta Lea\, Tylar Bryant\, and The Reverend Shawn Amos\, with special guest Toni Mack. This show is sponsored by Folk All Y’all patrons and presented in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. \nTICKETS: $20 (suggested ticket price)\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \n*Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test that was administered by or under the supervision of a healthcare provider within 48 hours of the concert date is required for entry. Masks must be worn throughout the show. \nBlack Opry amplifies Black artists and celebrates Black fans of country\, blues\, folk\, and Americana music. The online outlet and collective\, founded by country music journalist and activist Holly G\, will bring a stellar lineup to The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a one-night-only performance on December 16\, 2021. \nFeatured artists include Lizzie No\, Jett Holden\, Roberta Lea\, Tylar Bryant\, and Reverend Shawn Amos\, with special guest Toni Mack. A showcase of country and Americana’s greatest emerging voices\, the event shines a much-deserved and needed spotlight on Black artists within these genres. The concert follows The Black Opry’s historic presence at AmericanaFest 2021\, including their official panel Black Opry Presents: The Unbroken Black Circle\, and a recent feature by NPR Music. 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.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/folk-all-yall-presents-stars-of-the-black-opry-revue/
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 Crosstown Arthouse presents A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:Sorry for the inconvenience\, but this film is being postponed until further notice. \nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at Crosstown Theater. Elia Kazan / 1945 / 128 minutes / Rated M \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn  tells the story of an Irish immigrant family\, the Nolans\, living out their lives in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912\, about 100 years before Williamsburg got to be the gentrified hell-hole that it currently is. This story takes place when the neighborhood was filled with thousands of first-generation immigrants from all different parts of the world\, crammed together in tenements and hustling every day to put food on the table and maybe a little liquor down their gullet! With Dorthy McGuire (Old Yeller\, Swiss Family Robinson) as the perpetually pregnant Katie Nolan! Joan Blondell (Glenda in Stay Away\, Joe) as sassy Aunt Sissy!! Come out and get in the spirit with us!! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a CAN’T MISS!!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:The (blank) Dicks present "Come\, Christmas! Cumback!"
DESCRIPTION:Your favorite queer country band\, The (blank) Dicks\, present “Come\, Christmas! Cumback!” in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: $10 advance | $15 day of show \nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nFire up the prayer chain and clutch your pearls\, because Christmas is coming and so are The (blank) Dicks! After a long medical hiatus (we’re not saying who\, but someone had an “incident” at the bathhouse that required a full restringing of their guitar\, if you know what I mean)\, your favorite queer country band is back for their first show under a new name\, to be revealed for the first time at the show! They’ll ruin your favorite holiday songs\, unload some special gifts and guests from Santa’s big ole sack\, and make the yuletide gay\, gay\, gay\, gay\, gay. So gather up the family\, tell them all to leave you alone and stay home for at least one night for the love of God\, and then skip on down to Crosstown for the holiday show you deserve! \nRegionally notorious\, five-time Grammy ineligible\, and generally just filthy\, The (blank) Dicks are the queer country band your whole youth group is praying about. Formerly known as the D*xie Dicks and currently known as a big disappointment to all their families\, they’re Charlotte Watson\, Brandon Ticer\, Brandon Pugh\, and Joel Parsons\, and they love each other very much.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-blank-dicks-present-come-christmas-cumback/
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:Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night in Memphis
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts invites you to join us for Boombox Holiday Caroling with Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night! \nRSVP for FREE \nPhil Kline’s Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts\, recorded on cassettes\, CDs\, and mp3s\, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boomboxes (phones with Bluetooth speakers are fine\, too!) and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound\, which is different from every listener’s perspective. Since 1992\, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations. This is the first time for the event to take place in Memphis! \nWith your help\, we will create this roving sound installation\, where boomboxes replace voices in a holiday caroling event like no other! You bring a boombox\, cassette tape player\, iPod/iPhone/iPad with speakers\, or any other media-playing device you wish\, and Crosstown Arts will supply a CD or digital download of one of the four parts of the piece. We all press play together and walk around the Concourse campus and through the neighborhood\, creating a cacophony of bells\, voices\, and reverberant joy that will make heads turn on every corner. \nAll ages are welcome to participate! We do ask that all participants who are able to carry a boombox or other sound-making device bring one. \nHow to participate: \n1. Sign up for free on Eventbrite. Participants are also welcome to arrive without signing up\, but registering in advance helps us have an idea of how many carolers to expect! \n2. Go to http://unsilentnight.com/participate.html to learn more about the piece and download the free App if you want to use an electronic device. \n3. We will meet at 7 pm at Crosstown Brewery. We will get organized\, then walk at 7:30\, ending at Art Bar at Crosstown Arts! \n4. Join our Facebook event\, share it with your friends\, and help spread the word! \nNote: The success of the piece very much depends on having quality speakers (either line-connected to your device or battery-powered devices). Please do not plan to simply play the audio off of your iPhone/iPad/laptop speakers. Thanks! \n\nBOOMBOXES & PORTABLE SPEAKERS\n\nUnsilent Night sounds best with boomboxes or powerful speakers. As more and more participants are using smartphones\, we strongly recommend the use of external or bluetooth speakers to enhance the phone’s fairly weak sound output. Many powerful bluetooth speakers are available online for quite cheap. The louder the better. Be creative— anything goes! We’ve seen speakers mounted on a wagon\, golf cart\, backpack\, custom-made as helmets\, covered in sparkling lights … Austin does their Unsilent Night on bicycles! \n\n\n\n\nIMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT USING THE APP\nBecause the iOS or Android mobile apps include downloaded copies of all four tracks\, the size of the apps is fairly substantial. For this reason\, the app may only be downloaded using a WiFi connection. This means that your participants must download the app before coming to the event! For those who haven’t downloaded the app\, they can stream or download individual tracks by visiting unsilentnight.com/participate. 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/phil-klines-unsilent-night-in-memphis/
LOCATION:Crosstown Brewing Co.\, 1264 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis TN 38104
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