Events
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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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Crosstown Arts presents Rushes Ensemble in the Central Atrium. |
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The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents GIRLFRIENDS at Crosstown Theater. |
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Shai Maestro (1987) is one of the most promising and talented pianists of his generation. Since his debut with his own trio in 2011, Shai has shaped a strong and unique personal identity and has portrayed an incredible musical fluidity, making him and his band one of the most powerful and harmonious groups in jazz today. |
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Crosstown Concourse presents Hotel Transylvania, in the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Crosstown Concourse presents The People Under the Stairs, in the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Memphis native She’Chinah’s love for music has roots deeper than she can remember. As a child, she sang with her church choir, and music has continued to soothe her throughout her life. “I have no idea how,” she says, “but when I sing the frustration I get with being misunderstood and unheard completely goes away and I am soothed. Music loved me first really, so I fell for it back.” |
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Memphis-based rock band Mama Honey will perform their album Out of Darkness and debut new songs in celebration of this special occasion. |
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The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents SPIDER BABY at Crosstown Theater.
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The Blackwater Trio is an Americana, folk, roots and rock band from Clarksdale, Mississippi. With over eight years of friendship, traveling and writing, their unique sound is crafted with influences ranging from Led Zeppelin to hot club jazz. No Blackwater Trio show is complete without Seth's charisma, Walt's chordal complexity, Alice's blazing fast fiddle and the band's trademark three-part harmonies. A favorite on tours, their original music and artful covers captivate audiences all over the country. |
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Amina Figarova is a quite phenomenal Azerbaijan-born, New York-based pianist and stunning composer. Her sextet is fast developing a huge reputation on the international scene. Amina has toured extensively, developing a tight-knit ensemble that, despite inevitable personnel changes, has attained a distinctive and inimitable voice by concentrating on all-original repertoire for almost 18 years. During that period, having collaborated with musicians residing in both the U.S. and Europe and having built up a circuit of welcoming venues, the Amina Figarova Sextet has triumphed at the main stage of the Newport Jazz Festival, been invited repeatedly to New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, won critical and audience acclaim in Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Amsterdam — and of course New York. |
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Crosstown Concourse presents Frankenstein, in the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Lilli Lewis has composed in every tradition that inspires her, including soul, Americana, hip hop, classical, folk, jazz, rock, gospel, blues, soul and R&B. She integrated elements of New Orleans funk while co-writing and co-producing “Mask Up” in the summer of 2020. After carving out space for herself as an African-American lesbian of size, Lewis has lent her voice to the inclusion and equity in the music industry by speaking in conferences and seminars for Americana Music Association and Folk Alliance International in her role as VP & Head of A&R at Louisiana Red Hot Records. And she’s further sharing her message in the music of her eagerly awaited “Americana” album, following 2019’s critically acclaimed “We Belong.” In all things, Lewis does her best to live by the creed she and her ensemble have become known for: Practice Radical Decency. That’s a belief system we can get behind! |
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William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 30 years in NYC and, most recently, California. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life and resound with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. |
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Tim Fitzgerald is a Chicago based guitarist and bandleader. He is also author of the book 625 Alive: the Wes Montgomery BBC Concert Transcribed, which has been hailed as the "Ultimate Study of Wes Montgomery's music" (Just Jazz Guitar Magazine) and “One of the 50 greatest guitar books of all time” (The 50 Greatest Guitar Books). He has written columns for Downbeat Magazine, Just Jazz Guitar Magazine and Chicago Jazz Magazine and performed clinics at the Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival. |
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The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE BLACK CAT at Crosstown Theater. |
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The Reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy was created by Omar, David, and Joseph Higgins in 2010, bringing hard-hitting originals and revamped covers that leave dance floors Irie all around. They released their first LP in 2013, The Firm Foundation, with the lead singles "Heavy Meditation" and "Tyrant". They’ve played festivals all over such as Beale Street Music Fest, Wakarusa, Grateful Fest, W.C. Handy Fest, and they’ve opened for such artists as T-Pain, Bone Thugs & Harmony, The Wailers, The Slackers, and Mephiskapheles. After the passing of their fellow band leader/brother Omar Higgins in 2019, Joseph and David are now leading the band to continue the legacy that was built on the foundation of unity. They took a newer Dacehall & Roots Reggae approach to their 2020 project Crew Vibez. |
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Crosstown Concourse presents Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters, in the Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Crosstown Concourse presents The Shining, in the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Memphis-bred, GRAMMY-nominated, Echo Award-winning bassist/composer Stephan Crump is an active bandleader with twelve critically-acclaimed album releases in addition to numerous film scoring contributions. Known for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity of magnetic pull, his focus on creative instrumental music has led to collaborations with many of the leading lights of his generation, most notably Vijay Iyer, in whose trio and sextet Crump plays a dynamic, founding role. He can also be heard as long-standing member of Jen Chapin Trio, Ches Smith Trio, Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Liberty Ellman Sextet, Secret Keeper (duo with Mary Halvorson), his own Rosetta Trio (with Jamie Fox, Liberty Ellman), his Rhombal quartet (with Ellery Eskelin, Adam O’Farrill, Tyshawn Sorey), as well as co-led ensembles with Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe, Eric McPherson, Mat Maneri, and Okkyung Lee. |
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Join Kirk Whalum and special guest Dave Koz at Crosstown Theater for Kafé Kirk! In a recording career that spans nearly three decades, saxophonist Dave Koz has racked up an astoundingly impressive array of honors and achievements: nine GRAMMY® nominations, 11 No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, numerous world tours, 13 sold-out Dave Koz & Friends At Sea cruises, performances for multiple U.S. presidents, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and appearances on a multitude of television shows. |
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Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” the GRAMMY-nominated PUBLIQuartet’s modern interpretation of chamber music makes them one of the most dynamic artists of their generation. Dedicated to presenting new works for string quartet, PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild’s New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PQ’s genre-bending programs range from 20th century masterworks to newly commissioned pieces, alongside re-imaginations of classical works featuring open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet. |
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A remote and cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways, becomes a yawning, malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter. |
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The Vibrancy of Youth - Schubert’s “Great C Major” Symphony would not be heard for another ten years after the young 31 year old’s tragic death. The vibrant contemporary composer, Jessie Montgomery, brings her ecstatic work for string orchestra, “Strum”. Jonathan Oksenuik garnered 10 million views as a toddler conducting Beethoven Symphony. Now a young teenager, he joins MSO to perform Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto.
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Mike digs deep into the musical bag of American roots guitar, favoring the melodic Piedmont style of acoustic blues masters like Mississippi John Hurt and slide great Tampa Red. But Mike can’t be pigeonholed as a blues player, or even as a fingerstylist. He’s far too versatile for that. From bottleneck blues to vintage jazz and much more in between, Mike’s musicality, depth, and mastery of the instrument translates fluently to flattop, archtop, and resonator guitars alike. |
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Crosstown Concourse presents Rosemary’s Baby, in the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Memphis singer/songwriters Vicki Loveland and Van Duren return to the Green Room celebrating more than 10 years of collaboration through hundreds of live shows here and abroad. As recording artists, Vicki and Van have released 3 albums of original songs on their Edgewood Recordings imprint with the most recent, Any Such Thing, making The Memphis Flyer’s “10 Top Albums of 2021 list.” From rock & soul to power pop to orchestral to rhythm & blues to eclectic improvisation, Loveland Duren & Band conjure quite a soundscape to experience live—and the Green Room is the ultimate venue where you can surrender to it all. |
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Flutist and experimental musician Elise Blatchford will share works for flutes, electronics, and multimedia in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts on Tuesday, October 25th at 7:30 p.m. Composers will include Eve Beglarian, Du Yun, Raminta Serksnyte, and others, with music exploring the Me Too Movement, loss, and imagery. |
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When a girl named Sayuri is reunited with her family after years in an orphanage, she’s plagued with phantasmagorical visions involving a fanged demon, wild monsters, and murder by snakes.
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World-renowned and widely acclaimed jazz virtuoso Curtis Lundy (bass) performs with the genre-bending and border-crossing Umoja. |
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Crosstown Concourse presents Hocus Pocus, the next season of the annual Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Crosstown Concourse presents The Return of the Living Dead, in the Fright-tober film series, programmed by Crosstown Arts.
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Crosstown Arts Fall 2022 resident artists R Jason Rawlings, Nelson Gutierrez, and Angelo Madsen Minax will present artist talks.
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Hailed by Time Magazine as a “two hour act of imagination,” Slava Tsukerman’s LIQUID SKY is an underground masterpiece of avant-garde science-fiction filmmaking. |
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Crosstown Arts presents New York City-based Unheard-of//Ensemble as a part of the Chamber Music at Crosstown Arts series.
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Molly Nilsson’s biggest, boldest, and most vital album to date, Extreme is about power. Against the love of power and for the power of love. |
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