Crosstown Arts, The Green Room

Southern Comfort Jazz, featuring 901 Jazz and University of Memphis Jazz Singers, presents a showcase of music from jazz legends and newcomers. 901 Jazz ignites the evening’s performance with high-energy, melodic beats as they perform the music of be-bop legends Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Headlining the evening, Southern Comfort, featuring the University of Memphis Jazz Singers, spotlights homegrown talent with new student works, dueling trumpets with special guest David Spencer, and an exquisite solo performance by Shelby Sellers.

Crosstown Arts presents the Iris Artist Fellow Duo, featuring Pedro Maia on violin and Gabriel Hightower on cello, in The Green Room.

The Iris Artist Fellow Duo, featuring Pedro Maia on violin and Gabriel Hightower on cello, specialize in bringing an eclectic mix of music to the concert halls and beyond. Interweaving French avant-garde, Brazilian dances, and traditional classics, the sounds of the violin and cello are showcased in an unforgettable concert with something for everyone.

Crosstown Arts Fall 2021 resident artists Anthony Wilson, Tm. Prudhomme, Sharon Havelka, and Melissa Dunn will present artist talks. Free and open to the public. Masks are required at this event.

Frog Squad performs a special show featuring their interpretation of works by composer Erik Satie on November 4th at Crosstown Arts.
Frog Squad is an outlet for creative expression and sound exploration based in Memphis, TN. Their songs pull heavily on improvisation within loose structures, creating a psychedelic, avant-garde, jazz sound.

Crosstown Arts presents world-renowned jazz musicians Bobby Watson and Curtis Lundy and Umoja with Terreon Gully and Marc Payne.

Crosstown Arts presents Memphis-based guitarist/vocalist Steve Selvidge in The Green Room.
Co-founder of 1990s-era psychedelic-funk group Big Ass Truck, Steve is known for his virtuosity on the guitar, his voice, and his ability to fully engage an audience, whether he’s playing blistering rock guitar solos at sold-out concerts on big stages or singing folk blues favorites in a tiny, packed bar in Memphis. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and on late-night shows with David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Jools Holland. As a touring musician for the past 25 years, he’s played across the United States, Europe, and Australia. As a session musician, he’s played guitar on more than 60 albums.

He is currently a member of the Brooklyn based group The Hold Steady.

BlueTom Records, the student-run record label at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, is proud to present BlueTom Live on October 24. Join us at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts as we feature five artists from the label performing R&B, pop, and hip hop.

Crosstown Arts presents Spree Wilson in The Green Room in a special performance featuring a string quartet composed of musicians of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. MSO musicians Marisa Polesky, Yennifer Correia, Hannah Whitehouse, and Estefan Perez will join Spree on stage for several songs arranged just for this performance.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Spree Wilson’s approach to music has always been driven by his boundless creativity and vision. The singer-songwriter began his musical journey at home, with a father who sang and toured in a doo-wop group called The Blue Shirts and a mother who kept artists like Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Minnie Ripperton, and Whitney Houston in constant rotation. Those early influences would become his musical foundation, the bedrock for a career that would lead to him meeting and working with two giants of popular music: his mentor Dallas Austin and legendary rapper/producer Q-Tip.