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SUMMARY:“The Molasses Man & Other Delta Tales”
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents “The Molasses Man & Other Delta Tales” by Ahmad George in the West Gallery.\n \nThe West Gallery at Crosstown Arts\nOn view through Sunday\, January 21\, 2024\nTickets: Free and open to the public \nThe Molasses Man & Other Delta Tales serves as an anthology of stories based off of Ahmad George’s life and experiences with people they’ve encountered here and not. These works feature scenes with existing and non-existing figures from folklore and mythology sourced from the American South\, elsewhere\, and created. \nAhmad George is a painter and multimedia artist from Memphis\, Tennessee. They’ve shown at NADA Miami as well as national and international group and solo exhibitions.Through their work\, they explore the liminal space between reality\, mythology\, folklore\, and self. Their worldbuilding thins the veil of this world by mixing  imagery of the American South (mostly scenes from Tennessee and Mississippi) with local and sourced myths from different parts of the world. Oftentimes\, they use people from their own life to be the protagonists of these narratives. Major themes they explore in their paintings currently include generational history\,transformation\, consequence\, and spiritual alchemy.
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LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, West Gallery\, Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:“Days”
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents “Days” by Noah Thomas ​​Miller in the East Gallery\, South Pop-Out Wall\, and Art Bar Bar Top.\n \nThe East Gallery\, South Pop-Out Wall\, and Art Bar Bar Top at Crosstown Arts\nOn view through Sunday\, January 21\, 2024\nTickets: Free and open to the public \nDays follows the everyday observations of the structures we interact with. The houses become more than just a residence\, but become individuals themselves. The shadows start to blur the line of where the walls stop and where a presence might begin. \nHave you ever touched a door knob and thought it felt like shaking someone’s hand? Instead of treating it like a utilitarian tool? \nOne can start to feel their identity fuse with the walls around them day after day. This new presence\, which we often call “home”\, silently witnesses all of our joys and sorrows\, and the passage of time. They are the only ones who have a deep understanding of our solitude and shared narratives. \nThese pieces are carved wood\, masked in layers of house paint\, and nailed together in a similar fashion as the places that house them. This is done to connect the viewer to the physicality and craftsmanship inherent in the creation of homes.\n\nNoah Thomas ​​Miller is Illinois-born but finds his home in Memphis. He works in multivalent mediums\, whether that be woodworking\, film\, sound installation\, or a combination of materials\, to preserve memory and tell stories. \nHis work is constantly deconstructing and reconstructing a scene to find its essence. It’s easier to recall a feeling than the details of an image. One can find that in most of his work — stripping the image of detail (or color) and isolating the tone of a scene to tell the narrative itself. \nHe attended Memphis College of Art and has continued his practice through work with museums\, film programs\, art institutions\, and most importantly at home.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/days/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, East Gallery\, Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:“But Then\, Suddenly\, I Was Looking From the Inside Out”
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents “But Then\, Suddenly\, I Was Looking From the Inside Out” by Coe Lapossy on the East Pop-Out Walls.\n \nThe East Pop-Out Walls at Crosstown Arts\nOn view through Sunday\, January 21\, 2024\nTickets: Free and open to the public \nThe first time Coe Lapossy heard someone talk about compartmentalizing their life\, so they could make all the separate and demanding things work together\, theyI were a kid watching a television interview with Jodie Foster. It was the typical interview question\, “How do you handle such a busy life? How do you accomplish all this?” Foster very nonchalantly explained that she just compartmentalizes everything. Lapossy remembers realizing that this was a completely unfamiliar way of being. They did not understand what Jodie was talking about\, and they did not believe they could live that way. But Then\, Suddenly\, I Was Looking From the Inside Out is about “no compartments.” Everything is mashing together in life all the time — and while Lapossy longs for stability and order — it’s all happening at once and they love how that feels — what that allows for. Not to be confused with multitasking\, this is a kind of nurtured chaos. \nThrough a resistance to the tenants of modernism\, Coe Lapossy centers erased histories and marginalized labor. They create work that revels in the subversive\, how it sneaks in and makes change\, how it works undetected because it must. They revisit artifacts of queerness wedged within a seemingly straight world\, choosing these references\, linking narratives from various times throughout history\, things forgotten\, erased\, messages that “flew under the radar.” With the reuse of these artifacts they create a meditation on what bodies we value\, how we memorialize\, and what/who survives under the conditions we create.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/but-then-suddenly-i-was-looking-from-the-inside-out/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, East Atrium\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mahogany Chamber Music Series: MLK Freedom Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the Mahogany Chamber Music Series: MLK Freedom Celebration in Crosstown Theater.  \nCrosstown Theater at Crosstown Arts\nSunday\, January 14\, 2024\nDoors open at 2 pm | Show begins at 2:30 pm\nTickets: $20 | $5 student tickets available \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Crosstown Arts Mahogany Chamber Music Series presents a MLK Freedom concert celebrating unity in diversity. The program is inspired by concerts curated by Coretta Scott King in the 1960s illustrating the struggle and triumph of Black people in this country. Over two dozen musicians will join together to explore diverse choral repertoire while highlighting works from the Black vocal tradition: gospel\, spirituals\, and anthems.\n\n\n\nHailed by The New York Times as a “virtuoso pianist” and “steeped in Black Classical\,” the program is curated by series director Dr. Artina McCain\, a professor of piano at the University of Memphis. The concert will be led by two-time Grammy-nominated educator and University of Memphis director of choral activities\, Dr. Francis Cathlina\, and Grammy-nominated conductor-baritone and director of the New York Philharmonic Chorus\, Malcolm J. Merriweather. Collaborating artists include pianist\, David Cordoba\, the W. Crimm Singers of Nashville\, and local professional choral artists.\n\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Mahogany Chamber Music Series is a series of three chamber music concerts curated by Dr. Artina McCain and presented by Crosstown Arts\, spotlighting Black and other underrepresented composers and performers.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mahogany-chamber-music-series-soul-connection/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Modern Masters Jazz Series: Wes “Warmdaddy” Anderson and The Ted Ludwig Trio
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the Modern Masters Jazz Series: Wes “Warmdaddy” Anderson and The Ted Ludwig Trio in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nWednesday\, January 24\, 2024\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 in advance | $25 at the door | $10 student tickets \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE\n \n\n\nJazz alto and sopranino saxophonist Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson played jazz early on at the urging of his father\, who was a drummer. He played in local clubs from his early teenage years\, and studied at the Jazzmobile workshops with Frank Wess\, Charles Davis\, and Frank Foster. He also met Branford Marsalis\, who convinced him to study with Alvin Batiste at Southern University in Louisiana. \n  \n\n\n\nSoon after this\, Anderson began touring with the Wynton Marsalis Septet\, and collaborated with Marsalis through the middle of the 1990s. He continued to play with Marsalis’s Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra beyond this. In 1994\, he released his debut album on Atlantic Records; pianist Eric Reed and bassist Ben Wolfe were among those who played as sidemen. His 1998 album Live at the Village Vanguard featured trumpeter Irvin Mayfield\, bassist Steve Kirby\, pianist Xavier Davis\, and drummer Jaz Sawyer.\n\n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/modern-masters-jazz-series-wes-warmdaddy-anderson-and-the-ted-ludwig-trio/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Lawrence Matthews in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nFriday\, January 26\, 2024\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $10 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nOn Friday\, January 26\, at 7:30 pm\, the multi-hyphenated artist Lawrence Matthews will perform for the first time since retiring his former stage name Don Lifted at the Overton Park Shell in 2022. Independent and sitting on an album and a half of new material\, this performance features all new compositions only heard by a select few at private listening events over the last year. \nKnown for his performances’ visual spectacle\, Matthews dials it back offering a undistracted and direct connection between himself and the audience while presenting a full-bodied reflection of the south and its unrelenting hold both spiritually and physically. The new material exists as a musical portal and a radical contemporary extension of the sampled blues\, soul\, and jazz artists for which Matthews finds himself kin. \n“When Robert Johnson went away and came back as everything history remembered him as\, people claimed he had sold his soul to the devil. They couldn’t fathom his jump in ability … I’ve had my own time away and now I’m back.” — Lawrence Matthews
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/lawrence-matthews/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, The Green Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Matthews: Second Show
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Lawrence Matthews in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts⁠\nFriday\, January 26\, 2024⁠\nDoors open at 9 pm | Show begins at 9:30 pm⁠\nTickets: $10⁠ \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nLawrence Matthews’ 7:30 pm concert this Friday has sold out\, but never fear! By popular demand\, a second show for Lawrence Matthews’ return to the stage has been added! ⁠\n⁠\nOn Friday\, January 26\, at 9:30 pm\, the multi-hyphenated artist Lawrence Matthews will perform for the first night since retiring his former stage name Don Lifted at the Overton Park Shell in 2022. Independent and sitting on an album and a half of new material\, this performance features all new compositions only heard by a select few at private listening events over the last year. Known for his performances’ visual spectacle\, Matthews dials it back offering a undistracted and direct connection between himself and the audience while presenting a full-bodied reflection of the south and its unrelenting hold both spiritually and physically. The new material exists as a musical portal and a radical contemporary extension of the sampled blues\, soul\, and jazz artists for which Matthews finds himself kin.⁠\n⁠\n“When Robert Johnson went away and came back as everything history remembered him as\, people claimed he had sold his soul to the devil. They couldn’t fathom his jump in ability … I’ve had my own time away and now I’m back.” — Lawrence Matthews⁠
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/lawrence-matthews-second-show/
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SUMMARY:Strictly Jazz: The Music of George Duke
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Strictly Jazz: The Music of George Duke in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, January 27\, 2024\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 in advance | $25 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Crosstown Strictly Jazz Series\, presented by Crosstown Arts in collaboration with Strictly Jazz Entertainment\, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends. \n\nGeorge Duke was a musical innovator\, creator\, and mentor to so many. His legacy as a recording artist is vast\, from Cannonball Adderly to Jean-Luc Ponty\, Frank Zappa to Michael Jackson\, to over 40 recordings as a solo artist. Simply put\, George forever changed the landscape of jazz\, R&B\, funk\, pop\, and classical music. \n\n\n\nThe performers:\nDarryl Sanford – Piano/Keys\n\n\nChris Patrick Bounds – Drums\n\n\nSteve Bethany – Lead Guitar\n\n\nDarryl Pruitt Jr. – Bass\n\n\nD’Angelo Davis – Vocalist\n\n\nJonte Mayon – Vocalist
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/strictly-jazz-the-music-of-george-duke/
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