Tag: Americana

Folk All Y’all: Jessye DeSilva

Jessye DeSilva

Folk All Y’all Presents: Jessye DeSilva

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Doors open at 7:00 pm | Show starts at 7:30 pm
$20 (plus fees) Tickets
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Boston-based singer-songwriter Jessye DeSilva (she/her) has been releasing music and touring nationally since 2019, earning praise from No Depression, Rolling Stone, and The Boot. Known for blending Americana roots with expansive, genre-defying songwriting, she has shared stages with Lisa Loeb, Adeem the Artist, and Brian Dunne, performed at AmericanaFest, and collaborated with artists including Jake Blount and Butch Walker.

She infuses hope into songs about religious alienation, mental health struggles, and societal injustice to create a uniquely queer and unholy ruckus. Jessye’s latest album Glitter Up the Dark was produced by Aaron Lee Tasjan and incorporates Eighties pop and Nineties alternative flourishes to the Americana and country-rock sounds of 2023’s Renovations and her 2022 debut Landscapes, which earned her a nomination for Americana Artist of the Year at the 2022 Boston Music Awards.

No Depression says “Comparisons to Elton John and Brandi Carlile are easy — DeSilva clearly takes a page from these idols, anchoring [her] songs in pop melody juggernauts, gauzy textures, and vocal bravado.” Nashville Scene named her a 2023 Artist To Watch, saying “DeSilva could inject new life into a genre that could definitely use a little more pretzel logic.”

We’re so thrilled to welcome Jessye back after her first stunning series appearance. This is a live show experience not to be missed!

Dead Soldiers: CivilwarLand Record Release Show feat. Blvck Hippie

Dead Soldiers: CivilwarLand Record Release Show feat. Blvck Hippie

Crosstown Theatre

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Doors open at 7:00 pm | Show at 7:30 pm

$30 in advance (plus fees) | $37 at the door 

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After almost 15 years, two records, two eps, thousands of shows, 4 vans, 2 trailers and 20 plus tires the eclectic Memphis based Americana outfit Dead Soldiers are back with their third full length record and their most poised and mature effort to date. Here they continue to build on the influence of unique and irreverent American songwriters like Tom Waits, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon and (mostly Canadians) The Band while crafting something thoroughly modern and in conversation with this current moment in history.

DALLAS UGLY

Dallas Ugly
Crosstown Arts present DALLAS UGLY with Cyrena Wages in The Green Room
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Friday, JUNE 6, 2025
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20 (plus fees) | $25 at the door |
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Nashville’s Dallas Ugly (Libby Weitnauer, Owen Burton, and Eli Broxham) is a band of truly trusted friends who – after a decade of playing together – return with their best work yet.
Sitting somewhere between indie rock and Americana and beautifully produced in collaboration with Grammy-winning engineer Justin Francis, their sophomore album See Me Now is contemporary, crisp, and alive. It is a fiddle-filled entry in the current band-with-guitar renaissance that puts them in conversation with acts like MJ Lenderman, Big Thief, and Allegra Krieger while still channelling the sparkly sing-along heights of late 90s radio. The growth of heartache, finding footing in an unstable world, and modern anxiety resonate out in soaring harmony.

Folk All Y’all presents Lilli Lewis

Doors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20+

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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!

Minimum ticket price is $20 but you can name-your-own price above that if you’re feeling it. 100% of ticket revenue goes to our artists (you can see where any fees go in the check-out breakdown). Yep, all of it. Folk All Y’all is volunteer-run and subscriber-supported. Shows are presented in partnership with Crosstown Arts at The Green Room in Crosstown Concourse.

About Folk All Y’all: 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.