Tag: The Green Room

Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by singer-songwriter Will Kimbrough.

Tickets: $10
Doors at 7pm | Performance 7:30pm

These days, former Memphian Will Kimbrough zig-zags the world singing songs and playing guitars, often solo, but also in many other collaborations.

Will Kimbrough’s guitar and multi-instrumental prowess makes him an in-demand producer and session musician. Some of his latest productions include Doug Seegers, Shemekia Copeland, Radney Foster, and Jimmy Buffett. During his years as a touring guitarist, Will toured with Todd Snider, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Mavis Staples, and Allen Toussaint, among other notable artists.

Will’s songs have been recorded by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Todd Snider, Little Feat, Hard Working Americans, Jack Ingram, and many others throughout the years.

Will is deeply rooted in classic rock-n-roll, old-school country, gospel, traditional blues, and folk music. This is a man who loves, and lives, real music.

Join us for a performance by KO & The Crew in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts.

Tickets: $10
Doors 7pm | Performance 7:30pm

KO & The Crew presents an eclectic blend of jazz, hip-hop, poetry, neo-soul, and rhythm & blues. The band, led by musician and poet Kori Wallace, is an ensemble of instrumentalists and vocalists whose goal is to redefine the way stories are told. Sing along with, dance to, and see for yourself what makes The Crew special.

Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by The Reba Russell Band.

Tickets: $10
Doors 7 pm | Performance 7:30 pm

Reba Russell’s name is synonymous with the Memphis music scene. She is a published songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, backing vocalist, bandleader, and producer, as well as a touring and recording artist. Reba Russell and her band tour throughout the United States and Europe and have released eight independent albums.

She is a highly respected Memphis studio/session vocalist, but she is perhaps more popularly known as a powerful live performer. The list of credits for recording artists that Reba has performed backing vocals in session for is vast. A few notable credits are: U2 (When Love Comes to Town, BB King/ Bono; Class of 55 Homecoming featuring Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins; and Huey Lewis and the News’ album Soulsville. Russell has also performed with local and regional acts, including Tracy Nelson, Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge, and Lucero.

The Memphis Chapter of NARAS awarded a Premier Player Award for vocals to Reba in both 1998 and 1999. She was also named an Emissary of Memphis Music by the Memphis Shelby County Music Commission in 2009. In 2011, Reba Russell was nominated for the Koko Taylor Vocal Award by the Blues Foundation during their annual Blues Music Awards Show in Memphis. For over 35 years, Reba Russell has performed in almost every venue, studio, and event around the Memphis area and continues to be a stalwart of the Memphis Music Scene.

In 2018, The Reba Russell Band was honored with a brass note on Beale Street.

Crosstown Arts presents the Brophy Sisters, featuring violinist Linnaea Brophy and pianist Maeve Brophy in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts.

The program will feature works for violin and piano by Eugene Ysaÿe, Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann, and William Grant Still.

Tickets: $10
Doors 7pm | Performance 7:30pm

About the artists:
Maeve Brophy gave her first solo recital at age 9 and made her orchestral debut at 15. She has given solo and collaborative performances in Wells, England; the Amalfi Coast; Kiev, Ukraine; New York; San Francisco; Seattle; Aspen; Nashville; and Memphis. She has performed for the Memphis Chamber Music Society and the Artist Ascending Series in Memphis and is a regular performer with the Luna Nova Ensemble. She is also the pianist for Nashville’s alt-classical group chatterbird.

Maeve has performed as soloist with the Chernygev Symphony in Kiev as well as the Paducah Symphony and the Central Florida Philharmonic. She has a BA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from Texas Christian University. She also studied at the Manhattan School of Music and at the New England Conservatory of Music with Russell Sherman. She is also a Licensed Massage Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher.

Maeve is former adjunct faculty of the Blair School of Music and Belmont University in Nashville, and she currently lives in Memphis where she works as a freelance pianist and piano teacher. She teaches at Brown Missionary Baptist Music Academy and is the Music Director of the Open Heart Spiritual Center. She has played for Opera Memphis and the Memphis Symphony and is a collaborative pianist at the University of Mississippi. She is passionate about musical advocacy and includes composers from marginalized groups on her programs.

A scholarship student of Donald Weilerstein and Lucy Chapman at the New England Conservatory, Linnaea has performed repertoire ranging from solo Bach to duos with piano to chamber and orchestral music. She has participated in master-classes with Vadim Repin, Ivry Gitlis, Alexander Vinnitski, and Hagai Shaham at the Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourse and the Interharmony Music Festival.

From 2013-2014, she was a member of the Discovery Ensemble. In April of 2015, she won second place in the Bales Violin Competition at the New England Conservatory. In February 2014, she was featured as the conductor/soloist of NEC’s Chamber Symphony when she performed the concertino 1st violin part of the Handel Concerto Grosso in C Major. In addition, she was invited to participate in the NEC Chamber Gala Concert with her chamber group in a performance of the Brahms Horn Trio in May of 2015.

In 2005, she won first place in the Music Teachers National Association junior division and played the winner’s recital the next year in Toronto. She attended the Perlman Music Program from 2005-2007 and played a solo debut recital sponsored by the PMP at the Neue Galerie in New York. Also as a PMP member, she participated in orchestral and chamber music performances, including a tour with her TNT quartet to the Neue Galerie and West Palm Beach, Florida. Orchestras with which Linnaea has performed as soloist include the Nashville Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, and the Delta Symphony.

This event has sold out! Sorry for the inconvenience.

Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a special performance by D’Monet.

Tickets: $10
Doors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm

How an artist starts a journey can say a lot about their destination; belting out melodies from the womb is a divine beginning. Having received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Vocal Music Performance at LeMoyne Owen College, along with studying under some of opera’s greatest powerhouses such as Grace Bumbry, Vera Little, even abroad in Pisa, Italy under world-renowned Pilralba Sorga, the classically trained voice known as D’Monet cannot be defined as a Jazz, Rhythm, and Blues or a Pop singer, but she has redefined the meaning of the traditional soul artist in what she calls “Alkaline Music” (music that heals).

D’Monet allows you to travel on contorted twists of loves’ successes and failures; all while exercising her massive vocal prowess to the center stage. Nurturing her vocal gifts from the tender age of four, along with developing her ear for the piano by age seven, she now is a seasoned veteran. D’Monet has shared her soul from New York to Los Angeles, but it’s only natural she makes Memphis, Tennessee the home of her “Futuristic Soul.”

As D’Monet inspires those within her artistic circle, she soaks inspiration from classic triple threat artists such as: Anita Baker, Oleta Adams, Celine Dion, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, and Rachelle Ferrell. D’Monet has a gift for building bridges between a song and her audience, crossing cultural and musical genres. This elegant songstress approaches each note with a sophisticated passion, which leaves the listener wanting more.

D’Monet’s recordings can only be matched by her live performances in various venues around Memphis, TN. She has been featured on numerous stages and sets and her sound has allowed her to branch out across several genres. She was honored to perform as the special guest for Black Enterprise’s Women of Power Summit in 2012. Having shared the stage with Soul Crooner Eric Roberson, and also having a brief stint as a background singer for Blackstreet’s Dave Hollister, D’Monet has become a musical mainstay, particularly in the city of Memphis. In 2011, D’Monet was featured on Markevius Faulkner‘s hit single ‘Day One’, which received major radio airplay on WHAL-FM’S 95.7 Hallelujah FM. In the wake of Day One’s success, D’Monet released her debut single, Oooh Baby (Got Your Back)!

In 2013, D’Monet uprooted herself from her hometown and moved to Des Moines, IA, where she unsuspectedly became the Assistant Minister of Music and Vocal Director at a local church, the front woman and keyboard player for two funk/soul bands R.S.V.P. and The Tighten Up band, and also made two appearances on KCWI’s “Great Day” Morning Show performing her original music. After returning to Memphis a few years later, she began releasing more original music.

On February 28, 2019, D’Monet released her new single “Dry” which is now available on all major digital outlets and streams. Her next single “Trauma” soon followed on May 31, 2019, which talks about a physical assault that left her traumatized for a long time. On September 6, 2019, D’Monet released her Chrysalis EP, which signifies the evolution of her life and her music. Stay tuned for what’s next. Her quest to continue along her musical journey is just beginning.