Tag: The Green Room

Iris Fellows at the Green Room

Iris Collective Fellows 25-25

Crosstown Arts presents Iris Fellows at The Green Room

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20 in advance (plus fees) | $20 at the door

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Join our Fellows, Roberta dos Santos, cello, and Alexandre Negrão, violin, for an eclectic night of music in this intimate setting. From the lyricism of Brazilian masters Osvaldo Lacerda and Chiquinha Gonzaga, to the intensity of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7, this program spans worlds of sound and emotion. The program also includes Tucker Fuller’s contemplative The Road Ahead inspired by Thomas Merton’s reflections on faith, and Clarice Assad’s Canções da América, bursting with color and rhythm. Featuring Iris artists Marisa Polesky, violin; Aaron Tubergen, viola and David Carlisle, percussion.About the Fellows:
Originally from Belem do Pará, Alexandre Negrão started his violin studies when he was 7 years old at the Fundação Amazônica de Música. Alexandre is a former member of the Theatro da Paz Symphony Orchestra and has served as acting concertmaster from 2014 to 2016.
Alexandre has studied in a special international string program in Southern Louisiana at Nicholls State University under the direction of Prof. James Alexander in Fall 2016. After completing the program, Alexandre auditioned and was admitted with full scholarship for his undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri – School of Music. He has graduated with master’s in music degree in violin performance in the class of Professor Eva Szekely this August 2025 and was the violin chair for the New Music Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Stefan Freund.
Currently he dedicates his time to discover and perform music from underrepresented composers from Brazil and the USA. While teaching and guiding young musicians in the community, Alexandre help students to find their on paths in music and in life.
Roberta dos Santos is an avid chamber musician and advocate for contemporary music. A Brazilian cellist, Roberta collaborates with some of the most diverse and renowned composers to elevate underrepresented voices in the music scene, both in Brazil and internationally.
As an educator, Roberta has dedicated over a decade to teaching at Associação Músicos do Futuro in Taboão da Serra, her alma mater. She is a Suzuki-certified instructor, trained under Dr. Tanya Carey, and she has mentored students at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Civic Youth Ensembles.
Roberta continues to influence the next generation of musicians through collaborations with the Memphis Youth Symphony Program, PRIZM Ensemble, and other initiatives, while also maintaining a private studio in the U.S. and Brazil. Roberta is a doctoral candidate in cello performance at the University of Memphis, where she also serves as a teaching assistant. Her doctoral research explores themes of social justice and race within Brazilian classical music. Her principal mentors include Ji Yon Shim Anderson, Felipe Avellar de Aquino, Dennis Parker, Brian Snow, and Kimberly Patterson.

The Blue Tom Records Revue

Crosstown Arts presents The Blue Tom Records Revue in The Green Room

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $1o | free for students

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The Blue Tom Records Revue showcases student performers from the University of Memphis’ Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music. Serving as the finale of the student-run record label’s live performance series, the Revue will feature music from all genres, including R&B, rock, folk, rap, and jazz.
Blue Tom Records is the student-run record label facilitated by music industry students at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis.
Students in our Record Operations (MUID 4850 & 4851) and Concerts & Touring (MUID 4301 & 4825) courses produce, market, manage, and display their original music throughout Memphis over the course of two semesters.
Blue Tom has performed at: Mempho Fest; WYXR’s Raised By Sound Fest; Overton Park Shell on Wheels; Health Sciences Park; and hosted festivals at Crosstown Theater.
Alumni of the label include: The Band Camino, Aaron James, PreauXX, Kid Maestro, Jordan Occasionally, Nick Black, Alexis Jade, and others.

Shadowlands

John & Sean, Shadowlands

Crosstown Arts presents Shadowlands in The Green Room

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $28 in advance (plus fees) | $33 at the door

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John Raymond x S. Carey “Shadowlands”
John Raymond and S. Carey have been playing music together for close to twenty years since their time studying music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. While they both received training in jazz and classical music, their careers would soon head in very different directions. Carey would become the right-hand man to Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver); collaborate as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer with the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Low, and Bruce Hornsby among others; and release four albums of his own to critical acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR, and more. Raymond, on the other hand, would become a Grammy-nominated trumpeter and composer “steering jazz in the right direction” (Downbeat); release eight albums garnering praise from the New York Times, Stereogum, and others; and teach on faculty at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, one of the most prestigious music conservatories in the world.
In 2019, the two reunited and began experimenting on what their artistic voices would sound like together. Raymond brought in a host of musical ideas, while Carey contributed lyrics and helped shape the ideas into songs. Producer Sun Chung (formerly with ECM Records) came on board shortly after, and together they enlisted a cast of A-list musicians to help flesh out the music including pianist Aaron Parks (Terri Lyne Carrington, Terence Blanchard), bassist Chris Morrissey (Norah Jones, Mark Guiliana), and guitarist Dave Devine (Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band).
The result is their new album, Shadowlands (Libellule Editions), a stunning, genre-bending collection of songs that combines the warmth and beauty of Carey’s aesthetic with the improvisational, spontaneous nature of Raymond’s. The music ranges from intimate and meditative to soaring and anthemic, with electric moments of musical interplay throughout. It’s the kind of collaboration that feels as if it were years in the making.

Dan & Peggy Reeder with Greg Cartwright Krista Wroten

Crosstown Arts presents a special performance from indie-folk legend Dan Reeder and his daughter Peggy with an opening performance from Memphis-based musos Greg Cartwright and Krista Wroten in The Green Room.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $25 in advance | $30 at the door

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Dan Reeder, Oh Boy Records’ longest signed artist besides John Prine, is a self-sufficient artist in every aspect of his work. The cover of each one of his albums bears artwork he created himself. He’s built a majority of the instruments you hear. From guitar pickups to microphones, preamps and mixers. He’s built steel string guitars, electric guitars, banjos, drums, basses, cellos, violins, clarinets, and even a saxophone (note from Dan: “I’ll never do that again”).

The bluntness of Reeder’s lyrics are softened by his crooning; yet, even with multi-layered harmonies, his voice maintains its iconic “wisp”. Reeder’s musical intelligence is as present as ever. You’re hearing every piece of a self-made artist and his multifaceted skill set — from the soulful, smoky vocal overlay to a singular, meticulous guitar sound, but best of all, you’re hearing the ingenuity that is Dan Reeder.

Bodywerk Presents: Takuya Nakamura

Crosstown Arts presents Bodywerk Presents: Takuya Nakamura in The Green Room.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20

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BODYWERK:
Inaugurated in The Green Room, upstairs from the freeform radio station WYXR, Bodywerk began as a fast-paced, inclusive, and adventurous platform for sharing dance music with Memphis. Rmzi, DJ Blingg and DJ Ross A; Ghoul have hosted residencies and brought the house down at venues around the city before exploring clubs in Washington DC, Baltimore, and abroad in Japan. Today Bodywerk splits time between New York City and Memphis.

Takuya Nakamura:
Producer/DJ, multi-instrumentalist Takuya Nakamura has been playing trumpet, keyboards, and various electronic instruments throughout the United States and the world with a diverse group of artists such as Quincy Jones(remix), The Street(remix), Billy Holiday /Remix&Reimagined(Sony), supported Lee scratch Perry, Gza(Wu Tang Clan), opened for DJ Shadow, toured with George Russell’s Living Time Orchestra, Cocorosie, Arto Lindsay, Jojo Mayer, Brazilian Girls, Organic Grooves.

With his diverse background of music, he has distinguished himself by composing and effectively fusing uncommon and exciting styles of music, leaving audiences and music critics alike ecstatic and excited for future performances. Takuya moved to NY from his native Tokyo and became an integral, sought-after part of NYC’s vibrant live/electronic scene: including the legendary D`n`B party “Prohibited Beats” with Jojo Mayer’s “Nerve”, weekly party “Organic Grooves”(Codek Records).

Folk All Y’all: Hayley Reardon

Crosstown Arts and Folk All Y’all present Hayley Reardon in The Green Room.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Doors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20

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Hayley Reardon (she/her) is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and a storyteller in the truest sense of the word. Her songs serve as postcards from an artist brave enough to take the road less traveled. Reardon dove head first into music at the young age of 15, and has spent much of the past decade writing, recording and performing music around the world.

Raised in a coastal Massachusetts town north of Boston, Reardon spent three years based in Nashville and much of the past six years carrying her songs and stories all over the globe — including a six-month artist-in-residency stay in Dachau, Germany — gathering experiences, inspiration and soulful connections. Her ever-deepening music carries a lyrical and melodic weight beyond her years, being described as “brilliantly moving folk/pop with a lyrical depth and soul” (Performer Magazine) and “a melancholy little masterpiece” (American Songwriter Magazine). No Depression writes “Reardon is truly a treasure.”