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Healing Breathwork Meditation

Robin Bruce

Healing Breathwork Meditation

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Sunday, July 26th, 2026
Doors open at 5:30 pm | Show starts at 6:00 pm
$15 in advance (plus fees) | $25 at the door
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Healing breathwork meditation is a gentle approach to creating space around emotional blocks stored in the body using the breath. This practice is easy enough for beginners and a great add-on for those who have yoga, meditation, bodywork, and healing practices. Elements of sound healing will also be included to relax the nervous system on a cellular level. The workshop begins with a brief check-in, a movement practice, then breathwork while lying on the back. Please bring a blanket, a yoga mat, and an eye covering (a hand towel works well).

Robin Bruce teaches healing breathwork and meditation as an extension of her multidisciplinary arts practice. Her foray into the healing arts began as a yoga teacher and bloomed into the healing arts after studying healing breathwork with David Elliott in 2016. Since then, she’s become a 200hr ERYT, with over a thousand hours of yoga teaching experience and a mantra recording artist under the name Dharampal. She’s also earned an MA in religious studies with a focus on ritual and spiritual practices to fortify political movements. She completed her MFA in creative writing and translation at the University of Arkansas in 2025 and currently lives in Fayetteville where she works as a bookseller. She views healing work as personal and communal and breathwork as a vehicle to grieve together and collectively dream new futures.

Caroline Davis: Solo

Caroline Davis
Caroline Davis PC Desmond White
Caroline Davis: Solo

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts 

Friday, October 9th, 2026 

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

$20 in advance (plus fees) | $30 at the door

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Caroline Davis explores sonic textures offered by interactive technologies, sharing sounds from the saxophone that she considers to be distinctive and quirky. Her solo performances are chosen spontaneously, given the atmosphere of the room and the people present.

She makes use of Pure Data patches developed by the open sources community surrounding the Organelle (the technobear, shreeswifty, critterandguitari, tony j morton, nobuyasu sakonda, soxsa, varicela, nicky-system, samesimilar, and chrisk).

The music during this performance will pull from Caroline’s recent solo album, Fallows, created during a time of rest on land in Ucross, Wyoming. Bell hooks was a constant source of inspiration during this time, through the following ideas: love as a practice of freedom, radical openness, maintenance of commitment, using community as a means of escape, belief in one’s capacity to transform, what it means to listen, and eliminating elimination.

Caroline Davis is a Brooklyn-based saxophonist, composer, and activist, whose work is driven by a desire for connection and a belief in music’s capacity to expand listeners’ ears, minds, and hearts. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Composition, she is the recipient of the DownBeat Critics Poll Alto Saxophone Rising Star Award, as well as fellowships from NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her residencies include MacDowell, The Jazz Gallery, Civitella, and the Rockefeller Estate, and she has served as a mentor for New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy program.

Davis’s work spans a wide range of creative contexts, rooted in improvisation and social inquiry. She has released eight albums as a leader and collaborated with artists such as Allison Miller, Lee Konitz, John Zorn, Angelica Sanchez, The Femme Jam, Miles Okazaki, Nicole Mitchell, Rajna Swaminathan, and Matt Mitchell. Her most recent release, Portals, explores themes of grief and memory, and she is also a contributor to Terri Lyne Carrington’s New Standards, a landmark collection of jazz compositions by female-identifying composers.

In addition to her work as a performer and composer, Davis is a dedicated educator, teaching courses on gender in jazz at The New School and maintaining a private studio at the Manhattan School of Music. Her artistic practice is deeply intertwined with advocacy, including work for gender equity through This Is A Movement, and for current and formerly incarcerated individuals through initiatives such as Justice for Keith LaMar, Freer Records, Keys Beats Bars, and Creative Beyond Incarceration.

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.

Summer 2025 Resident Artist Talks

Crosstown Arts presents the Resident Artist Talks in The Green Room

Crosstown Arts is proud to present the summer residency cohort’s Resident Artist Talks! Join artists Kaylyn Webster, Desmond Beach, Eduardo Aguilar, and fosterfalls for an evening of discussion and knowledge surrounding the work of these four incredible resident artists.

This free event at The Green Room will feature presentations from various fields of visual arts and music, providing different perspectives into each artist’s creative journeys, inspirations, and artistic processes.

This is an amazing opportunity to connect with artists and hear from them about their own work and how different art forms interact. Whether you’re a long-time art enthusiast or new to the creative community, we invite you to experience the passion and creativity that drives these talented individuals.

Don’t miss this inspiring evening! Come meet the artists and dive into the world of the Crosstown Arts Residency!

Presenters will include:
Kaylyn Webster
Desmond Beach
Eduardo Aguilar
fosterfalls

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Time: 6-8 pm
Tickets: Free and open to the public

 

 

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.

Modern Masters: Joe Locke and the Ted Ludwig Trio

Joe Locke
Crosstown Arts presents Modern Masters: Joe Locke and the Ted Ludwig Trio
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Friday, june 13, 2025
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20 in advance (plus fees) | $25 at the door | $10 Student (with school ID)
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Joe Locke is an internationally recognized Modern Master of Jazz Vibrophone. Come for an evening of incredible music playing by Locke alongside some of Memphis’ finest jazz musicians.
“Not only has he mastered an instrument that has catapulted only a handful of players to the forefront of modern jazz – but he has done so in a way that transcends mere technique and establishes him as a unique and adventurous musical voice.”
— Derk Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“His lines have flash and pizzazz, but also an unforced lyricism, bubbling just under that force-of-nature enthusiasm”
— Chicago Jazz Music Examiner