Crosstown Arts, The Green Room

The City of Tomorrow is a wind quintet that is always more than a wind quintet. Live shows feature lighting, staging and set pieces, electronics, and the kind of ritualistic feel reminiscent of a Yoko Ono or Marina Abramović conceptual performance. The City of Tomorrow: Waves, Breaths, Dead Cities is no exception, featuring a custom set by Memphis carpenter Celeste Von Ahnen, video work by Breezy Lucia, also of Memphis, and choreography by the ensemble's horn player, Leander Star.

John Ellis' February 8th performance in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts has been postponed. Stay tuned to Crosstown Arts' socials for a new date. Thank you for understanding!

Prepare to be immersed in an atmosphere of artistic freedom that will take you on a journey through the striking melodies and uncharacteristic rhythms of jazz intertwined with spoken word. This platform will showcase a collaborative experience of the music, art, culture, heritage, and forms of jazz including renaissance jazz, be-bop, cool, and more. Experience the electrifying sounds of various legends such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakely, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, and others. Get ready to be caught up in the mix of Notez&Flow!

Crosstown Arts presents a night of original music by Bailey Bigger and her bluegrass band, featuring Mark Edgar Stuart, Eric Lewis, Andy Ratliff, and Wyly Bigger, plus special guest Rowdy Franks who will open. Bailey is promoting her new full-length album "Coyote Red," which will be released in the spring. Come out and support your local Memphis folk scene!

Due to the recent surge in Covid cases, Paul Taylor & The PRVLG's January 25th performance in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts has been postponed. Crosstown Arts is issuing full refunds to ticket holders. Thank you for understanding!

Possessing a wide color palette, the Joshua Espinoza Trio (Joshua Espinoza, Kris Monson, and Jaron Lamar Davis) explores shimmering harmonies and shifting orchestral contours with the aesthetic of a chamber ensemble as much as a jazz trio. Influenced by artists as disparate as Herbie Hancock, bassist Avishai Cohen, Gerald Clayton, and composer Maurice Ravel, the Joshua Espinoza Trio takes listeners on a journey for the ears and the mind. Through their genre-bending approach to songwriting, they've built a cross-generational audience of diverse backgrounds bound together by their love of good music. Their debut album "Journey Into Night" was released in June 2019.

Raneem Imam is a singer/songwriter and producer from Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated cum laude from Rhodes College with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Throughout college, she began to hone in on her songwriting, co-producing her first mixtape "DIALOGUE." in 2017 and, later, her solo debut "Wise Up" in 2018. Toward the end of 2018, she was awarded the prestigious Robert H. Buckman Fellowship to spend a semester abroad in England studying music production and performance at the University of Kent Medway. The Rhodes College Music Department also granted her the Jane Hyde Summer Fellowship award to fund her first solo project during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Reba Russell got her start in the early 1980s with bands Visions, Portrait, and Reba Russell and the Portables. These days, she's fronting The Reba Russell Band, and she's covered most bases in the music industry.

Reba is a published songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, backing vocalist, bandleader and producer, as well as a touring and recording artist. She and her band have toured throughout the United States and Europe and have released eight independent original blues albums. Reba and her band members have countless recording credits with a multitude of various artists.

Due to rising Covid cases, Peter Bernstein’s January 11th performance in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts has been postponed. Crosstown Arts is issuing full refunds to ticket holders. Thank you for understanding!

Fire up the prayer chain and clutch your pearls, because Christmas is coming and so are The (blank) Dicks! After a long medical hiatus (we're not saying who, but someone had an "incident" at the bathhouse that required a full restringing of their guitar, if you know what I mean), your favorite queer country band is back for their first show under a new name, to be revealed for the first time at the show! They'll ruin your favorite holiday songs, unload some special gifts and guests from Santa's big ole sack, and make the yuletide gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. So gather up the family, tell them all to leave you alone and stay home for at least one night for the love of God, and then skip on down to Crosstown for the holiday show you deserve!