The Green Room

Crosstown Arts presents SpiralPhonics in The Green Room. Original compositions and improvisations woven together using the energy of the moment. The music made by this trio is ever-changing because that is the nature of the Universe. By closely listening to each other, these three musicians speak from their instruments as if from one mind.

Join Hermon Mehari, an award-winning jazz trumpeter based in Paris, France, and Kansas City-based vibraphonist and pianist Peter Schlamb for a special performance in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts.

Crosstown Arts presents Rachel Maxann live in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts. Rachel Maxann is a performer who loves to bend genres with her style. In the last decade, she has moved from Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and she's travelled around the world to perform.

Crosstown Arts presents makro live in the Green Room. makro is a duo of Filipino-American cousins based in Memphis, featuring producer/instrumentalist Eric Makapugay,and singer/songwriter Kristoffer Ruaro. Their sound is heavily influenced by R&B and soul but incorporates all types of genres. Find out more about the band at makromusicofficial.com, or follow them on social media @makromusicofficial.

Crosstown Arts presents blues musician R.L. Boyce with Ryan Lee Crosby and Shaun Marsh in The Green Room.

Crosstown Arts with Madjack Records presents a special record release show with Jed Zimmerman, Mark Edgar Stuart, and other special guests. Originally from Memphis, Jed began playing music and found his mentor, Keith Sykes. For a number of years, Zimmerman and Kelley Mickwee played music and toured together. Sykes was instrumental in recording their music, and the two released three records while they were the duo Jed and Kelley. Eventually he landed in Texas where he got to personally hear and meet the likes of Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Rodney Crowell, and John Prine, all of which are major influences on his songwriting to this day. Jed then spent a good period of time living in Taos and Red River, New Mexico, where his songwriting was heavily influenced from the people and landscape of the southwest.

Jed will celebrate the release of his new album "Below The Blooms" with an intimate acoustic set in his former hometown of Memphis.

Described by critic Howard Reich of The Chicago-Tribune as “a player for whom the word ‘prodigious’ was coined”, by Peter Hum of the Ottawa Citizen as “a saxophonist who brings Donny McCaslin and Mark Turner to mind”, and by Nate Chinen of The New York Times as “the sort of jazz musician who gets flagged early on as a promising talent and then hustles to meet every requirement for success”, Larson has garnered numerous awards that distinguish him as one of the most promising artists of his generation.

Crosstown Arts presents Garrison Starr and Matthew Mayfield in The Green Room.
Singer/songwriter Garrison Starr is an individualist with a streak of passion. Having spent her life growing up in the South, her work mixes up Nashville country twang with a hearty rock appeal.

Matthew Mayfield is an American singer-songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. Originally the lead singer in the group Moses Mayfield, which disbanded in 2008, Matthew has moved on to a solo career.

Crosstown Arts presents guitarist Marc Ribot in The Green Room.
Enigmatic guitarist Marc Ribot has released six very diverse solo guitar albums, including John Zorn’s Book of Heads, Plays the Works of Frantz Casseus, Saints, Don’t Blame Me, Exercises in Futility, and 2010's Silent Movies (Pi Recordings). Silent Movies has been described as a "down-in-mouth-near master piece" by the Village Voice and has landed on several "Best of 2010" lists, including in the LA Times. His live solo performances are unpredictable events which may draw upon a sonic matrix of memory, free improvisation, zeitgeist, extra-terrestrial radio signals, and much more — always leaving the listener on the edge of their seats.