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Marisa Anderson with Cloudland Canyon

Marisa Anderson x Cloudland Canyon

Marisa Anderson with Cloudland Canyon

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts 

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Doors open at 7:00 PM | Show Starts at 7:30 PM

$20 in advance (plus fees) | $25 at the door 

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At the Green Room, Marisa Anderson brings her singular, transportive guitar work to the stage—music that feels at once timeless and strikingly new. Don’t miss this rare chance to experience one of today’s most compelling instrumental voices up close. Opening for Marisa will be Cloudland Canyon!

Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, and NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Anderson is the recipient of the 2025 Spark Award for Oregon Artists presented by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.

In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White was released May 2024 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of the feature film score ‘ A Perfect Day For Caribou’, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave. In addition to multiple solo releases, past projects include 2021’s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux, among others.

Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. Her current work is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union.

Cloudland Canyon is the long-running psychedelic project led by Memphis-based artist Kip Uhlhorn and Thomas Corbin known for blending kosmische music, drone, shoegaze, dub, ambient electronics, and experimental rock into immersive sound environments that feel equally influenced by German progressive music, DIY noise culture, and cinematic psychedelia. Across releases on labels including Holy Mountain, Cranky Records, and custom collaborations with artists such as Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3), Cloudland Canyon has developed a reputation for expansive live performances that move fluidly between hypnotic repetition, heavy atmosphere, and melodic dream states

For this special performance, Cloudland Canyon shares the bill with acclaimed guitarist and composer Marisa Anderson for an evening centered around immersive instrumental music, emotional resonance, and deep listening. The pairing brings together Anderson’s meditative, Americana-infused guitar work with Cloudland Canyon’s layered psychedelic soundscapes, creating a uniquely transportive live experience.

The group is currently finishing work on a new full-length album and developing new live material that expands further into dubbed-out psychedelia, ambient composition, and longform experimental arrangements. Recent collaborations and performances have included work connected to live film scoring, avant-garde composition, and cross-genre improvisation.

Memphis Flamenco Trio + opener Davy Ray Bennet

Memphis Flamenco Trio 

Saturday, July 26, 2025 | The Green Room 

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

$20 in advance (plus fees) | $25 at the door

 

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Roy Brewer presents a night of solo flamenco guitar works and arrangements for flamenco ensemble, joined by flautist Sam Jesuyemi and cellist Johnathan Kirkscey. Opening for the show is local Memphis musician Davy Ray Bennet.

 Roy Brewer was awarded a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Memphis in 1996. He is currently a part-time instructor at the University and is a freelance musician. Besides recording with many major label artists, his performance credits also include the Conan O’Brien Show; Austin City Limits; Later, with Jools Hollond (BBC); and his fiddle can be heard on the sound track for the motion picture Black Snake Moan. His research on Southern music has been published in the academic journals Popular Music, American Music, Popular Music and Society, and The Smithsonian Inst. Scholarly Press.

Davy Ray Bennet has been a local Memphis musician since 1996. He’s released three albums of his original songs. He graduated from the University of Memphis with a Bachelors of Music degree, with an emphasis on classical guitar performance. In his original instrumental works, Davy Ray imitates passages from musical genres that have always influenced him.

Bill Mize

Crosstown Arts presents GRAMMY-winning guitarist Bill Mize in the Green Room.

Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 advance | $20 day of the show

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Grammy-winning guitarist Bill Mize is a son of Tennessee, and a fitting representative of his state’s rich musical heritage. His critically lauded fingerstyle compositions are fluid and intricate, and their delivery masterful. One suspects an influential teacher, and one would be right. “I received most of my musical education from a cheap Zenith radio,” says Mize, who as a child drifted off to sleep to the decidedly non-sleepy lullabyes emanating from Nashville’s WLAC and WSM and Knoxville’s WNOX.

Maybe that’s why critics speak of his ability to “transport” the listener; the music itself has been transported. The links to his Tennessee roots are unmistakable, but so are the elements of the far wider musical realm he inhabits, and the mixture is as intoxicating as Tennessee moonshine. With a twist.

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.