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Luke Winslow King and Roberto Luti have toured extensively in North America and Europe, appearing on notable stages such as Austin City Limits, New Orleans JazzFest, Azkena Rock Festival (Spain), Tønder Festival Paradiso (Netherlands), Glastonbury (UK), Byron Bay Blues Fest (AUS), and countless more. Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, Winslow-King’s seventh full-length album “If These Walls Could Talk” is to be released May 2022 on Ghost River Records, featuring Roberto Luti, Rev. Charles Hodges (Al Green), Fat Possum recording artists The Sensational Barnes Brothers, and was produced by Dominc John Davis (Jack White). |
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Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavors to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he delved into his Southern roots, following the thread of African-American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. |
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Anika — the project of Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson, who is also a founding member of Exploded View — announces Change, her first new album in over a decade. Her video for “Change” was directed by Sven Gutjahr, who also directed the video for her recent single, “Finger Pies.” The follow-up to cult favorite Anika (2010), Change is beautifully fraught. The intimacy of its creation and a palpable sense of global anxiety are seemingly baked into the album’s DNA. Spread across nine tracks, the central feeling of the record is one of heightened frustration buoyed by guarded optimism. The songs offer skittering, austere electronic backdrops reminiscent of classic Broadcast records or Hi Scores-era Boards of Canada, playing them against Anika’s remarkable voice — Nico-esque, beautifully plaintive, and — in regard to the record’s subject matter — totally resolute. |
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Exploring the beauty of science and the power of art: Local artists paired with medical research scientists and clinicians from across Memphis to introduce new audiences to science that is saving lives every day.
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Haley Fohr is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 10-year career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. Circuit des Yeux’s 2021 album -io was ranked on NPR's 50 Best Albums of 2021, Pitchfork's 100 Best Songs of 2021, and The Wire's Top 50 Releases of 2021, among other best of 2021 year-end lists. |
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Phillip Bond is a 25-year-old Tennessee native whose energy illuminates into the crowd and all the way to the back of the venue. His humble stage presence is so comforting that you can’t help but dance along with him as he sings about the most meaningful and trying moments of his life. When he performs, he pulls his audience in and unleashes every part of himself to them. Born in Jackson and raised in Memphis, his roots bleed music, imagination, and authenticity. Every experience has led him to create his own unique sound within the adult contemporary genre. His ballad-heavy, upbeat, and easy listening tunes leave his fans feeling uplifted and satisfied. His music embodies characteristics similar to Beyonce and Prince, that help him to envision and produce true works of art, which is reflected through his first EP, “Perfect Lover.” |
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While the chaotic world around him careers toward the madness and folly of World War II, Oskar pounds incessantly on his beloved tin drum and perfects his uncannily piercing shrieks. |
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Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a case study of the 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival “Best Hometowner Documentary Short”, FLOATING PILGRIMS.
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Peter Slavov is a New York-based bassist, composer, session musician, arranger, and educator. Since he started performing professionally in the mid-1990s, Peter has performed at some of the most prestigious venues and festivals in more than 40 countries on 5 continents. Peter has performed at numerous legendary performance venues, including Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC), Town Hall (NYC),The Village Vanguard (NYC),Birdland (NYC), Blue Note (New York, Milan, Tokyo, Beijing and Nagoya), The Fox Theater (Atlanta), Severance Hall (Cleveland) and many more. |
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"The future of Black film. Pure cinematic power."
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AzPen is from the rich musical tradition that is Memphis Music including blues, jazz, soul, gospel and classical music. Led by keyboardist Charles Pender, the band includes LaShawn Pender (vocals), Charles Pender Jr. (tenor sax), Vincent Oglesby (bass), and Reginald Taber (drums/percussion).
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Join us for some fun and fast moving Resident Artist talks Pecha Kucha-style! 20 slides for 20 seconds each by 8 residents will give you a flavorful window into each of their practices. Featuring Jave Yoshimoto, Kenneth Reveiz, Robert Goodman, Zoë Charlton, Fidencio Fifield-Perez, Arriel Vinson, Sugar Vendil and Phong Tran.
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Visiting a theme park always provides a bit of thrill and a feeling that you are a close to danger. Imagine visiting a theme park where instead of a rickety roller coaster or weird side show, you got to live a fantasy of time’s past but where everyone else around you is a robot you can either kill or have your way with. |
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After two milestone-laden decades in music, Garrison Starr is going back to where it all began to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her major label debut LP Eighteen Over Me with a tour and a highlighted show in Memphis, TN at the legendary Crosstown Theater, where she will be performing the record in it’s entirety and recording that performance to release as a live LP later this year.
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Bill is a past winner of the National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition at The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Guitar Player Magazine has labeled this event the “U.S. Open of guitar competitions.” Bill received a GRAMMY Award for his collaboration with musician and storyteller David Holt on the recording Stellaluna, and has been featured on the popular guitar compilations “Windham Hill Guitar Sampler” by Windham Hill Records and “Masters of the Acoustic Guitar” by Narada Records. In 2009, Bill’s music appeared in the Ken Burns documentary “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” Mel Bay Productions transcribed Mize’s second CD, “Tender Explorations,” into a songbook, and his original compositions have been transcribed for Fingerstyle Guitar and Acoustic Guitar magazines. |
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“Matt Longo isn’t immune to the horrors of the world, but he knows how to wrap them up in gorgeous, lush, sophisticated songs … One can hear the wit of Randy Newman, the lush arrangements of Harry Nilsson, and the poetic flair of Leonard Cohen.” – PopMatters Matt Longo (aka Thin Lear) just finished recording the follow up to last year’s highly acclaimed debut Wooden Cave. The new record was produced, engineered & mixed by Memphis' own Matt Ross-Spang, and recorded lovingly to tape at Sam Phillips Recording Service with some of the finest studio musicians in Memphis. |
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Memphis’s very own Nygel “Champion Beatz” Yancey brings a musical experience that fuses a deep lineage of jazz culture with the new age hip hop and RnB sounds. Merging electronic sounds with live instrumentation is the foundation of the unique story told by Champion Beatz through his piano, drumming, and vocal talents. Champion Beatz has performed with many renowned artists such as Donald Brown, Ulysses Grant and more. |
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NicoTheGoddess is a singer/songwriter and classical violist from North Little Rock, AR. Classically trained in viola and voice, NicoTheGoddess has utilized those talents to ultimately create her own unique signature in alternative R&B music.
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Bassist, composer, and educator Jonathan Wires is originally from New Hampshire. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance from the University of Memphis. During the early 2000's he spent a lot of time developing his craft and recording with many of the local Memphis musicians including Mark Franklin, Ross Rice, Joyce Cobb, Chris Parker, Kelly Hurt, Paul Taylor, Art Edmaiston, Jim Spake, etc... In 2010, he pursued a Master's Degree in Jazz Studies from Middle Tennessee State University, which brought him to Nashville, TN. In addition to performing and composing, Jonathan has been an active educator at both Middle Tennessee State University and Nashville State Community College. Under Jeff Coffin's Ear Up label, Jonathan released his first recording entitled "Weaving" which features Jeff Coffin, Matt Endahl, and Joshua Hunt with guest appearances by Lindsey Miller, Don Aliquo, James Westfall, and Jamey Simmons.
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Officially INLAND EMPIRE is about “A woman in trouble”. David Lynch started shooting Inland Empire in the mid-aughts and made the CHOICE to film it himself with a Sony digital cam-corder. The movie was filmed over the course of a few years without a script. |
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Electro pioneers Kraftwerk present their 3-D Summer Concert Tour at Crosstown Theater. The 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. By the mid-1970s, Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic soundscapes 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. Their compositions, using innovative techniques, synthetic voices, and computerized rhythms, have had a major international influence across an entire range of music genres: from electro to hip hop, from techno to synth-pop. |
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JD Daltrey and Mike Maxis have been making music together for 10 years now. They have developed a chemistry in their musicianship that shines through on the stage with attitude and charisma. Their album Dancing Is Forbidden is a dance party project that takes you from the island to the disco with an air of sophisticated funk. |
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SAMBIZANGA is Based on a true story, the film follows young resistance leader Domingos Xavier (Domingos Oliveira) whose arrest by the Portuguese authorities helps ignite an anti-colonialist uprising and leads his determined wife Maria (Elisa Andrade) on an epic journey by foot to save him. |
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Each Thursday in June, Crosstown Arts presents a special Black Music Month pop-up series in the Central Atrium. All performances are free and open to the public. 5:30-7:30pm | Central Atrium Free and open to the public Born and raised in Memphis, TN, music has always been apart of C maJor’s life. As an infant, […]
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Years have gone by since Molly Stewart (Betsy Russell, SAW 3-7) worked as a teenage prostitute. Now a law student at UCLA, Molly is determined to leave her past behind. But after learning that Lieutenant Andrews, the detective who helped save her life, has been murdered as a result of witnessing a mob related hit, Molly decides its time to return to her old neighborhood to avenge his death. |
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