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SUMMARY:Craig Brewer’s Secret Screening with special guests Lucky 7 Brass Band
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents CRAIG BREWER’S SECRET SCREENING\nwith special guests LUCKY 7 BRASS BAND at Crosstown Theater. \nDoors open at 7:30 PM | Screening begins at 8:00 PM\n$5 DOLLAR TICKETS AT THE DOOR \nJoin Crosstown Arts and filmmaker and Memphian Craig Brewer in the Crosstown Theater on Friday March 25th for a special\, mystery screening of one of Craig’s most favorite films! What is the film? You will have to come and find out as Craig will be on hand to introduce the film himself! GUARANTEED TO BE A GOOD TIME!! With music by LUCKY 7 BRASS BAND. $5 DOLLAR TICKETS\, CHEAP! 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/craig-brewers-secret-screening-with-special-guests-lucky-7-brass-band/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents BREATHLESS
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents BREATHLESS at Crosstown Theater.\n\nJean-Luc Godard / 1960 / 90 minutes / Rated M\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nSmall-time crook Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) steals a car and murders a policeman. While on the run\, he reconnects with Patricia (Jean Seberg)\, a journalism student living in Paris\, and tries to convince her to go on the lam with him. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-film-series-presents-breathless/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents MIRACLE IN MILAN
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents MIRACLE IN MILAN at Crosstown Theater.\n\nVittoria De Sica / 1951 / 96 minutes / Rated M\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nVittorio De Sica’s follow-up to his international triumph Bicycle Thieves is an enchanting neorealist fairy tale in which he combined his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan\, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil\, however\, it’s up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)—with some divine help—to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair\, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (adapting his own novel) craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people. Restored from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna and Compass Film\, in collaboration with Mediaset\, Infinity\, Arthur Cohn and Variety Communications at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-miracle-in-milan/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE BIG BIRD CAGE
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE BIG BIRD CAGE at Crosstown Theater.\n\nJack Hill / 1972 / 88 minutes / Rated R\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nIn the ’70s\, mad genius producer Roger Corman took his crew to the Philippines to create the most enduring women-in-prison films in cinematic history. Inside the hellish women’s prison called THE BIG BIRD CAGE\, inmates like Terry (Anitra Ford\, THE PRICE IS RIGHT) struggle to survive. They get their chance to escape when scheming revolutionary Blossom (Pam Grier\, COFFY; FOXY BROWN) engineers a prison break… from the outside in! “Half of you won’t get ten steps before you get a boobful of lead!” Also starring Carol Speed (ABBY THE BLACK EXORCIST) and directed by the legendary Jack Hill (SPIDER BABY; THE SWINGING CHEERLEADERS). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-the-big-bird-cage/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema/Shoot & Splice: An Evening with Hope Tucker
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present a special combined MicroCinema / Shoot & Splice screening of short films + discussion at Crosstown Theater.\n\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm | Screening & Discussion begin at 7:00pm\nFREE EVENT / Pay-What-You-Can at the door \n\n\n\nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card (or a photo of card) or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCrosstown Arts and Indie Memphis are thrilled to be hosting the first combined MicroCinema and Shoot & Splice experience: An Evening with Hope Tucker! Join us as we dive into the experimental documentary shorts and filmmaking practice of filmmaker and Memphian Hope Tucker – whose most recent short\, What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada Del Muerto\, screened at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and here in Memphis as part of our Sundance Satellite Screenings!\n\nTucker’s shorts\, or obituaries\, as part of her longitudinal project The Obituary Project\, contain a rigor that invites viewers to consider constructions of public memory\, the long lasting impacts of nuclear research on place and people\, and largely through text and materials\, illustrates the ways in which people interact and reframe the various sites she’s visited throughout the twenty-two year span of the Project.\n\nThe evening will begin with a screening of three of the filmmaker’s works\, and will be followed by a conversation centered on Hope’s approach and experiences with creating experimental documentary work.\n\n**This event will also be livestreamed here: https://bit.ly/3JM94CS
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-shoot-splice-an-evening-with-hope-tucker/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eighth Blackbird
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the dynamic GRAMMY Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird at Crosstown Theater. \nTICKETS: $20 ($10 student tickets with ID) plus fees\nDoors open at 7:00pm / Performance at 7:30pm \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required. \nEighth Blackbird\, hailed as “one of the smartest\, most dynamic ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune)\, began in 1996 as a group of six entrepreneurial Oberlin Conservatory students and continues today under the leadership of founding members Lisa Kaplan (executive director) and Matthew Duvall (artistic director). \nEighth Blackbird has won four Grammy Awards for Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance over its 23-year history and has become “a brand-name defined by adventure\, vibrancy and quality” (Detroit Free Press). It has commissioned and premiered hundreds of works by established and emerging composers\, including Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet and works by Andy Akiho\, Bryce Dessner\, Michael Gordon\, Jennifer Higdon\, Amy Beth Kirsten\, David Lang\, David T. Little\, Nico Muhly\, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez\, Julia Wolfe\, and Pamela Z. Through performances in its Chicago home base and at venues across the U.S. and around the world\, Eighth Blackbird has brought innovative presentations of works by living composers to tens of thousands of music lovers. \nThe ensemble’s extensive recording history\, primarily with Chicago’s Cedille Records\, encompasses more than a dozen acclaimed albums. Its most recent release on 37d03d/Secretly Canadian\, 2019’s When We Are Inhuman\, is a collaboration with The National’s Bryce Dessner and Will Oldham (aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) that features new arrangements by Lisa Kaplan\, who also co-produced the album with Dessner. Singing in the Dead of Night\, written for Eighth Blackbird by Michael Gordon and Pulitzer Prize winners David Lang and Julia Wolfe\, will be released on Cedille Records on June 12\, 2020. Other collaborations with some of today’s most well-regarded artists include heralded performers such as Dawn Upshaw and Jeremy Denk\, seminal composers such as Philip Glass and Nico Muhly\, and genre-fluid composers and performers Dessner\, Oldham\, Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry\, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver\, My Brightest Diamond frontwoman Shara Nova\, and Iarla Ó Lionáird of The Gloaming. \nIn addition to its Grammy Awards\, Eighth Blackbird’s many honors include winning the 1998 Concert Artists Guild Competition; pioneering a year-long residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art—Chicago in 2016\, during which the ensemble served as a living installation with open rehearsals\, performances\, guest artists\, and public talks; receiving the prestigious MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions and Chamber Music America’s inaugural Visionary Award; and being named Musical America’s 2017 Ensemble of the Year. \nThe members of Eighth Blackbird value their roles as curators\, educators\, and mentors. The ensemble was named music director of the 2009 Ojai Music Festival\, has held residencies at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the University of Chicago\, and serves as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Richmond. In 2017 and 2018\, Eighth Blackbird led its boldest initiative yet\, the Blackbird Creative Laboratory\, an inclusive\, two-week summer workshop and performance festival for performers and composers in Ojai\, California. During the 2018–19 season\, some of the Lab’s network of 60 alumni presented regional events and side-by-side concerts across the U.S. and in Melbourne\, Australia with members of Eighth Blackbird. In the 2019–2020 season\, Eighth Blackbird performs works by Lab alumni Fjóla Evans\, Nina Shekhar\, and Viet Cuong. In 2020\, it will give the world premiere of a new work for sextet and the U.S. Navy Band by Cuong in conjunction with Chicago’s Year of Music. \nThe name “Eighth Blackbird” derives from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens’s evocative\, imagistic poem\, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: “I know noble accents / And lucid\, inescapable rhythms; / But I know\, too\, / That the blackbird is involved / In what I know.” \nMatthew Duvall\, Artistic Director \nLisa Kaplan\, Executive Director \nLina Andonvoska\, flutes \nZach Good\, clarinets \nMaiani da Silva\, violin \nAshley Bathgate\, cello \nMatthew Duvall\, percussion \nLisa Kaplan\, piano \nEighth Blackbird is managed by David Lieberman Artists. Carol Fox & Associates is Eighth Blackbird’s Public Relations Agency.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/eighth-blackbird/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Iris at Crosstown: Celebrating the Upside
DESCRIPTION:Join Iris Orchestra for a concert honoring the life of Peter Formanek at Crosstown Theater. \nTICKETS: $40 advance general admission | $45 day of show general admission\nDoors open at 2:30 pm | Show at 3 pm \nIris Orchestra honors the life of Memphis philanthropist Peter Formanek with a special concert featuring pianists Inon Barnatan and Alon Goldstein. These international concert artists\, welcomed as guests and friends in the home of Peter and Mary Lee Formanek during their visits to Memphis as Iris concerto soloists\, will each perform music for solo piano and then join forces in music for piano four-hands. The Sunday concert at Crosstown Theater completes a weekend honoring Peter that begins with the orchestral program featuring the two pianists at Germantown Performing Arts Center on Saturday\, March 5. \nProgram \nDebussy: Estampes\nBernstein: “The Masque” from Symphony No. 2\, Age of Anxiety\nAlon Goldstein\, piano \nGershwin: Prelude No. 2\nGershwin/Wild: I Got Rhythm\nChopin: Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante in E-flat Major\, Op. 22 \nInon Barnatan\, piano\nSchubert: Fantasia in F minor\, D.940 for piano four-hands\nInon Barnatan and Alon Goldstein\, piano \nMasks are strongly recommended. Read HERE about Iris Orchestra’s COVID season health and safety protocols. Presenting sponsor: nexAir \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/iris-at-crosstown-celebrating-the-upside/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:The Memphis Symphony Orchestra: Vaughan-Williams Fantasia
DESCRIPTION:The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents Vaughan-Williams Fantasia\, with works by Fela Sowande\, Ralph Vaughan-Williams\, and Camille Saint-Saëns. Featuring pianist Maxim Lando. \nCrosstown Theater | 6:30pm (doors open at 6:00pm)\nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event.  \nTickets: $35  \nRobert Moody\, conductor\nMaxim Lando\, piano \n  \nSOWANDE  African Suite\nVAUGHAN-WILLIAMS  Tallis Fantasia\nSAINT-SAËNS  Piano Concerto No. 2 \nThe young pianist\, Maxim Lando\, has been described as “individualistic with over-the-top charisma”. Nigerian composer Fela Sowanda’s music integrated musical ideas from his West African musical traditions with his love for the music of Bach and Handel. The Vaughan-Williams Fantasia is one of the most hauntingly beautiful string works ever composed. \nClassic Accents Series Sponsored by Paul and Linnea Bert. \n \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-memphis-symphony-orchestra-presents-vaughan-williams-fantasia/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents TO SIR\, WITH LOVE
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents TO SIR\, WITH LOVE at Crosstown Theater.\n\nJames Clavell / 1967 / 105 minutes / Rated M\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nIn memory of the great actor Sidney Poitier\, Crosstown Arts is excited to screen TO SIR\, WITH LOVE. Poitier plays Mark Thackeray\, an immigrant from British Guiana who wants to be an engineer but takes a job as a teacher in an inner city school in London. Without experience\, Thackeray (Poitier) powers through changing the lives of his young and troubled charges\, as well himself. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-to-sir-with-love/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Mahogany Chamber Performances: Vocal Juggernauts
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents an evening of show-stopping vocal music across multiple genres\, featuring works by HT Burleigh and María Grever\, musical theater pieces by Kurt Weill\, and famous arias by Puccini and Wagner. Featuring local artists Paulina Villareal (U of M vocal professor)\, Gavin Wigginson (PRIZM Executive Director)\, and guest artist dramatic soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas. They will be joined by pianists Jonathan Tsay and Artina McCain.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Mahogany Chamber Performances is a series of three chamber music concerts curated by Dr. Artina McCain\, spotlighting Black and other underrepresented composers and performers. \nTICKETS: $15 ($5 with student ID at the door)\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required. \n\nTakesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas\, soprano \nMultidisciplinary creative performing artist and founder of SWAP’ra North America\, Mrs. Takesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas is a vocally and visually stunning force on stage and screen. From leading roles with many storied institutions such as the Metropolitan Opera and Sydney Opera House\, to sharing the stage with the likes of Yo-Yo Ma and Wynton Marsalis\, to collaborating with Broadway in Chicago and HBO\, she also brings her global worldview to building community\, education\, and innovation. This is evidenced by her recent partnerships with Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra\, as well as her 15+ years of experience as a Master Vocal Technician\, Coach\, Songwriter\, and Arranger who specializes in holistically integrating and freeing the Mind\, Body\, and Spirit to effectively communicate one’s clarity and purpose. A performer since the age of two\, and counting music legends McKinley “Muddy Waters” Morganfield and Tina Turner among her relations\, she consistently propels her vision of uniting tradition with innovation in all she creates. In so doing\, Mrs. Kizart-Thomas recently launched “The Meshé Legacy” with her husband\, Dr. D. Vincent Thomas Jr. and infant daughter\, Little Miss Joëlle Meshé. As marriage and family advocates who believe in the immense power of partnership\, they are collectively driven by their mission to promote Love\, Life\, and Legacy initiatives for families and their children. \nPaulina Villarreal\, mezzo-soprano \nMexican mezzo-soprano Paulina Villarreal is a prominent recitalist\, cabaret\, operatic\, and musical theater singer around the United States and Mexico. A graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music\, Dr. Villarreal has been a soloist and resident artist in important companies and orchestras around the United States like Opera Saratoga\, Cincinnati opera\, Opera Fusion: New Works\, the Tanglewood Music Center\, the Boston Pops (Boston\, MA)\, Opera Memphis\, Opera Steamboat\, Princeton Symphony Orchestra\, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra\, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra\, Appalachian Symphony Orchestra\, and the Decatur Millikin Symphony Orchestra. Trained as a classical vocalist\, Villarreal is now additionally in demand for her singing versatility in musical theater\, and commercial music genres. \nIn the entrepreneurship and administrative world\, Dr. Villarreal is the founder and artistic director of the annual concert series Cantos para Hermanar al Mundo (Songs to Unite the world) devoted to the promotion of classical vocal genres hosted in Northern Mexico. She currently holds the rank of Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music and serves as the Young Singer Program Director at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival\, a prestigious summer training program in the United States. \nGavin Wigginson\, tenor \nGavin Wigginson has devoted his career to inspiring youth to explore their musical abilities and open their eyes – and ears – to the countless elements of music. \nWith a bachelor’s and master’s degree in music and in vocal performance from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville\, Gavin has fused his classical training to raise awareness and uplift victims of social injustice. Currently\, Gavin serves as executive director for PRIZM Ensemble and director of concert choir instructor of voice at LeMoyne-Owen College. Previously Gavin has served as a fellowship coach for Memphis Music Initiative\, where he partnered with dozens of local schools and managed a team of music fellows who taught more than 750 students each semester. \nAs PRIZM’s executive director\, Gavin oversees all operations and strategic direction for the nonprofit\, manages development\, drives programming\, recruits mentors\, and fosters community partnerships to support PRIZM’s vast youth outreach efforts. He also leads PRIZM’s largest program\, the Summer Music Camp and International Chamber Music Festival\, and the PRIZM in the Schools (PITS) program\, which provides high-level introductory music classes and orchestral instruction at various schools. \nArtina McCain\, piano \nDescribed as a pianist with “power and finesse” (Dallas Arts Society)\, “beautiful and fiery” (KMFA Austin)\, and having a “sense of color\, balance and texture” (Austin Chamber Music Center)\, Artina McCain has a built a three-fold career as a performer\, educator\, and speaker. Recent performance highlights include guest appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra\, Oregon East Symphony\, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist\, her credits include performances at the Mahidol University in Bangkok\, Hatch Recital Hall in Rochester\, and in 2022\, her debut at Wigmore Hall in London. \nDedicated to promoting the works of Black and other underrepresented composers\, McCain curates Black Composers Concerts for multiple arts organizations and is an American Prize winner for her solo piano recordings of these works. Recently\, she won a Gold Global Music Award for her recent solo album project Heritage. Currently\, she is Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the University of Memphis. Artina McCain is a Yamaha Artist. \nJonathan Tsay\, piano \nPrior to his appointment as Assistant Professor of Piano at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at The University of Memphis\, Jonathan Tsay served numerous roles in the music community including Head of Collaborative Piano at Conservatory Music in the Mountains\, Head of Piano at the Chloé Trevor Music Academy\, Presenter and Artist for Cliburn in the Classroom (which serves over 50k under-served 2nd-4th graders in the DFW area per year) and Artistic Director of Ensemble75\, a chamber music series based in the North Texas area. \nA sought-after collaborator\, Jonathan has also performed alongside some of the world’s premier musicians\, including Chee-Yun\, David Cooper (Principal Horn\, Chicago Symphony)\, Jing Wang (Concertmaster\, Hong Kong Philharmonic)\, dramatic soprano Alessandra Marc\, the Cézanne Quartet\, and Nathan Olson (Concertmaster\, Dallas Symphony Orchestra). As a solo recitalist\, Jonathan has performed throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Taiwan. \nJonathan earned a Bachelor’s of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Carol Leone at Southern Methodist University and his doctorate at l’Université de Montréal with Marc Durand. \nJonathan’s performances have been broadcast on WRR Classical\, KMFA Classical\, and are featured in the companion CD to “Brahms – A Listener’s Guide: Unlocking the Masters Series.” Jonathan’s album\, “Harmonic Allusions\,” was named in the “Top 5 Albums of 2017” by TheaterJones\, and his YouTube collaboration with Chloé Trevor performing “Danse Macabre” has garnered over 1.3 million views.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mahogany-chamber-performances-a-night-of-song/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220225T150000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
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SUMMARY:Hub New Music
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Boston-based contemporary chamber music trailblazers Hub New Music in Crosstown Theater. This performance is sponsored in part by Concerts International. \nTICKETS: $20 ($10 with student ID at the door)\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \nCalled “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe\, Hub New Music – composed of flute\, clarinet\, violin\, and cello – performs on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. The ensemble will perform works by Christopher Cerrone\, Takuma Itoh\, Christian Quiñones\, Du Yun\, and Eric Nathan. \nThis concert is presented in collaboration with Concerts International. \n\nAbout Hub New Music: \nCalled “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe\, Hub New Music – composed of flute\, clarinet\, violin\, and cello – is forging new pathways in 21st-century repertoire. The ensemble’s ambitious commissioning projects and “appealing programs” (New Yorker) celebrate the rich diversity of today’s classical music landscape. Its performances have been described as “gobsmacking” (Cleveland Classical)\, “innovative” (WBUR)\, and “the cutting edge of new classical music” (Taos News). \nHub’s 2021-22 highlights include concerts presented by the Morgan Library and Museum\, Celebrity Series of Boston\, Seattle Symphony\, Soka Performing Arts Center\, and Williams Center for the Performing Arts. Season residencies include visits to Baylor\, Portland State\, Illinois State\, and Georgetown universities. The coming season brings premieres of new works by Nathalie Joachim\, Laura Kaminsky\, and Nina C. Young. In fall 2021\, the Library of Congress presents the “virtual premiere” of Hub’s collaboration with composer Carlos Simon\, Requiem for the Enslaved\, which will tour in 2022-23. Simon’s large-scale work honors the lives of 272 slaves sold by Georgetown University (where Simon serves on the faculty) in 1838\, and features spoken-word artist Marco Pavé\, trumpeter Jared Bailey\, and Simon on piano. \nHub’s debut album\, Soul House\, released on New Amsterdam Records in 2020 was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” by the Boston Globe. The ensemble’s upcoming recording with Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi) and Asia-America New Music Institute (AANMI) will be released on Tōrō Records in 2022. Other upcoming recording projects include Carlos Simon’s Requiem for the Enslaved\, and Michael Ippolito’s abstract- expressionist inspired work\, Capriccio. The group will also be featured on Eric Nathan’s portrait album\, Missing Words\, to be released on New Focus Recordings. \nHub New Music is a group of passionate educators whose approach to teaching melds the artistic and entrepreneurial facets of modern musicianship. The ensemble was recently in residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program\, working with 10 outstanding high school aged composers. Other residency activities include those at New England Conservatory\, Princeton\, Harvard\, \nUniversity of Michigan\, University of Texas-Austin\, UC Irvine\, and University of Nebraska- Lincoln. In 2021-22\, the ensemble continues its K-12 program\, HubLab\, that uses graphic scores and improvisation to create group compositions with students of all levels. \nHub New Music owes thanks to its supporters including Chamber Music America\, the Cricket Foundation\, Boston Cultural Council\, the Florence & Joseph Mandel Family Foundation\, Johnstone Fund for New Music\, Amphion Foundation\, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation\, and Alice M. Ditson Fund for Contemporary Music at Columbia University. The ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston’s reputation as a hub of innovation. Hub New Music is exclusively represented by Unfinished Side.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hub-new-music/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220224T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220224T163000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20220120T215714Z
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents  WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA at Crosstown Theater. \nIn advance of the Memphis release of Sony Pictures Classics’ “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America\,” the focus of the documentary Jeffery Robinson and the directors (Emily and Sarah Kunstler) will be hosting an exclusive showing and Q&A at the Crosstown Theater on Thurs.\, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m.\n\nEmily & Sarah Kunstler / 2022 / 118 minutes / Rated PG-13\nTickets: $5 at the door (or purchase presale tickets HERE)\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \n\nInterweaving lecture\, personal anecdotes\, interviews\, and shocking revelations\, in WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA\, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States\, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-film-series-presents-who-we-are-a-chronicle-of-racism-in-america/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220219T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220219T150000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211109T184637Z
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SUMMARY:The Barnes Family at Crosstown Theater
DESCRIPTION:Gospel group The Barnes Family presents a special show at Crosstown Theater. \nTICKETS: $30 first-level seating | $20 balcony seating\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \n\nWith more than 30 years in the music industry\, The Barnes Family has been called “one of the most influential Gospel families in Memphis\, TN.” They’re reuniting on-stage after a five year hiatus. \nChris and Courtney of the Sensational Barnes Brothers released their critically acclaimed debut album Nobody’s Fault But My Own in 2019. The following year\, in 2020\, Calvin J. Barnes II and Carla Barnes-Anderson released James Anderson\, an album with more R&B influences centered around inspiration and motivation. The success of these projects were the missing piece in reuniting the family on stage and shifting their time and energy on the revival of the Barnes family. \nThis show gives the family an opportunity to have fun and create music on their terms. Since their time apart\, each member of the family has toured and performed with acts\, such as the Bar-Kays\, and in solo ventures in Las Vegas. However\, this time around they are looking forward to sharing their favorite songs in their own way. And more importantly\, they’ll be revisiting the moments that have gotten away from them over the years. \nThe Barnes family has deep ties to gospel\, often bridging the gap between soul and non-secular music. There is a familiarity in the way this family performs as it teeters the line of both fervid and faithful. Although the Barnes family got its start in gospel music\, this concert will be a melting pot of old and new. It will be a raw look at the life that each of them has experienced individually over the last couple of years and how that translates into the way they will perform together. \nThis holiday production will be an elevation of where the Barnes family left off in 2015 after the release of their family album\, Family Tree.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-barnes-family/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T154500
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20220214T174854Z
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SUMMARY:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents A Tree Grows In Brooklyn at Crosstown Theater.\nElia Kazen / 1945 / 128 minutes / Rated PG \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nWe were originally going to show A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at Christmas as it is is one our favorite Christmas movies here at the Arthouse series!! It was postponed but it is still cold so come see this film and you won’t ever think about Christmas the same way again! A gut punch of a film\,  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn tells the story of an Irish immigrant family\, the Nolans\, living out their lives in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912. About 100 years before Williamsburg got to be the gentrified Hell hole it currently is\, this story takes place when the neighborhood was filled with thousands of first generation immigrants from all different parts of the world\, crammed together in tenements and hustling every day to put food on the table and maybe a little liquor down their gullet! With Dorthy McGuire (Old Yeller\, Swiss Family Robinson) as stern mom Katie Nolan! Joan Blondell (Glenda in Stay Away\, Joe) as sassy Aunt Sissy!! Come out and get in the spirit with us!!  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\, CAN’T MISS!!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-crosstown-arthouse-film-series-presents-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220215T150000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20220124T231045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T174224Z
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Case Study of 'The Devil Will Run' w/ Noah Glenn & IMAKEMADBEATS
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a case study of the 2021 Indie Memphis Film Festival Jury & Audience award-winning short film\, ‘The Devil Will Run.’ Join writer/director Noah Glenn and producer IMAKEMADBEATS as they share insights and stories from each stage of the production process — from receiving an IndieGrant in 2019 all the way through production and into festival distribution.\n\nThe case study will also feature a screening of the 10-minute film\, ‘The Devil Will Run’.\n\nDoors open 6:30 pm\nBegins at 7:00 pm\n\nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required.\n\nShoot & Splice is a FREE filmmaker forum presented by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis\, featuring a wide variety of technical\, educational\, and unique topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-case-study-of-the-devil-will-run-w-noah-glenn-imakemadbeats/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220211T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220211T143000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20220126T195850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T023006Z
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SUMMARY:The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
DESCRIPTION:The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents a program titled Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde\, featuring works by Wagner\, Joseph Boulogne de Chevalier de St. George\, Villa-Lobos\, and Haydn  at Crosstown Theater. Featuring cellist Brant Taylor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. \nTickets: $35  \nRobert Moody\, conductor\nBrant Taylor\, cello \n \nBOULOGNE  Symphony No. 1\nHAYDN  Cello Concerto No. 1\nVILLA-LOBOS Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1\nWAGNER  Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde (arranged for chamber orchestra) \nWagner changed the direction of love music forever with Tristan and Isolde. Joseph Boulogne de Chevalier de St. George was a black French contemporary of Mozart\, who was one of France’s most celebrated composers during his life. Brant Taylor\, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and an accomplished soloist\, performs Haydn’s First Cello Concerto.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-memphis-symphony-orchestra-presents-wagners-tristan-and-isolde/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220210T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220210T153000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211123T213647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220127T212552Z
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents The Apartment
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents The Apartment at Crosstown Theater.\nBilly Wilder / 1960 / 125 minutes / Rated M \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nRestored in 4K from the 35mm original picture negative and 35mm duplicate picture negative! Park Circus in collaboration with Metro Goldwyn Mayer presents The Apartment. From Park Circus: C.C. Baxter is an office clerk who courts favor with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small apartment for their extramarital flings. Among them is his callous boss\, J.D. Sheldrake\, who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik\, the sweet elevator operator the clerk has loved from afar. When Sheldrake coldly dumps the vulnerable young woman\, she tries to commit suicide in Baxter’s apartment\, giving the clerk the opportunity to save the woman of his dreams but possibly lose his job. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-the-apartment/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220204T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220205T160000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211209T223109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220202T183620Z
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SUMMARY:Mempho Presents Todd Snider at Crosstown Theater
DESCRIPTION:Mempho Presents Todd Snider on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater on Friday\, February 4\, 2022 and Saturday\, February 5\, 2022. Opening performance by Will Kimbrough. \nTICKETS: Tickets $38-$42 (plus fees)\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show at 7:30 pm (both nights) \nPurchase Tickets Here \n\n\n*Crosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.\n \n*Tickets for this event are non-refundable with less than 72 hours before the event.  \n\n\n\n\nYou don’t often hear about an artist reinventing their sound eighteen albums into a celebrated career. But for Todd Snider\, his latest release\, First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder\, isn’t so much a sudden change in direction as an arrival after years of searching. \n“After my last album\, Agnostic Hymns\, I felt like I was out of ideas\, and I just didn’t know where to go next\,” Snider says. “So I did a side project with the Hard Working Americans\, and I learned a ton. I tried to study music by other people and come to this record hoping that I’d have something new to say. I wanted to do what I was calling ‘funk in back and busking up front\, with White Album-y shit scattered about.’ I had done a lot of listening to Parliament and James Brown and lots of reggae music\, too. It’s embarrassing to admit\, but I’ve been trying to think of this sound all my life. This is the closest I’ve come to thinking\, ‘Man\, I don’t know that I’ve heard anything like this before.’” \nEspecially within the often too-purist context of Americana\, the record’s sound is refreshingly experimental. More funk than folk\, more Sly Stone than singer-songwriter\, it’s fatback-style grooves\, full of ghost notes and disparate syncopated elements\, slither and slide around Snider’s acoustic guitar with caduceus-like precision. The arrangements are given extra texture and atmosphere by ace mixer/multi-instrumentalist Tchad Blake (Tom Waits\, Elvis Costello). On songs like “Never Let A Day Go By\,” “Stoner Yodel Number One\,” and “The Get Together\,” there is a taut\, dry snap\, an intimacy that invites you inside and best of all\, opens up space for Snider’s husky voice and thought-provoking lyrics to breathe and connect. It’s music that makes you move\, smile and think all at once. \n“My main collaborator on all the grooves was Robbie Crowell\,” Snider says. “He’d played one show with [my band] the Bulldogs\, and he and I started hanging and listening to funk songs. He gave me an education on drummers. Most of the time\, I started with a basic kick and snare pattern\, and I’d sing. Then he would add more groove\, and I’d chisel more melody out of that. Robbie knew that I wanted to do something idiosyncratic\, without any reference to other records. So a snare might not go with the kick drum in a logical way. We were trying to get drum sounds and grooves that made their own kind of sense. We’d build it up\, add parts\, tear it apart\, build it back up. The songs went through a lot of different incarnations. But we had so much fun trying to find the grooves.” \nSince debuting in 1994\, Snider has gone through his own incarnations. His first single “Talking Seattle Blues” was a head fake that might’ve pointed to goofy novelty songs. But he quickly showed that his artistic quiver was much deeper and more interesting. A storyteller who works a similar creative soil to John Prine and Shel Silverstein\, Snider’s best songs are both sad and funny\, political and entertaining\, and always written with a poet’s eye and a stand-up comedian’s sensibility about the follies of human condition. While he’s made eighteen fine albums\, it’s on stage where Snider is even more potent\, with between-song banter that weaves subtle emotional threads through his sets. A road dog who loves the road\, Snider has toured with Emmylou Harris\, John Prine\, Jimmy Buffett\, and appeared at festivals like Farm Aid\, Newport Folk Fest\, Lockn’ and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. \n“I miss banging around America like it’s my yard\,” Snider says of the lost\, last year. “I like to play for people. Staying home\, I gardened\, I got a boat\, I played guitar a lot. But then I usually don’t make up ten songs in one year\, so that’s one good thing about the pandemic.” \nThe other key framing device for the new songs is the album’s colorful title. “If the gods of folk didn’t want no funk\, they shouldn’t have started none\,” Snider says with a chuckle. “2020 was a terrible year\, and it kept taking people that I loved. So I kept feeling funky\, and the church idea came out of that. I’ve always had the First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder in mind. Aren’t we always hoping for something and wondering ‘What the fuck?’ We hope there’s a God. We wonder if there is. We hope you’re coming. We wonder if you will.” \n“I started realizing because I had this church\, in my mind\, that I could make up different kinds of songs\,” he continues. “I don’t usually like bossy kinds of songs\, where someone tells you to breathe. Me and Neal Casal used to say\, ‘I don’t have to know when to fold ’em. I don’t have to live like I’m dying.’ I’m always telling the radio when I’m listening to it\, ‘No\, I don’t!’ But this is a reverend thing. I have a reverend license. I married Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires\, and my tour manager and his wife. So it just felt like this natural thing for it to be on Sunday mornings where I can do like these pseudo-sermons.” \nHe playfully undermines typical sermon themes like faith can move mountains – on “Turn Me Loose (I’ll Never Be the Same”)\, he reckons “Mountains can get around just fine on their own – and finding meaning on mystical sojourns – “Oh\, shit\, I quit my job\,” the truth seeker on “The Get Together” realizes in a panic. \n“The record is the story of a preacher who starts this church that is total bullshit\,” Todd says. “People start giving him money anyway\, but then they start asking him questions. So then he prays to God and God helps him. But the moral of the story is that God’s hilarious.” \nLike all preachers\, Snider manipulates language\, riffling and sleight-of-handing it like a deck of cards. “I love lyrics\, but I don’t think the alphabet is this magic thing that I thought it used to be\,” he says. “Mostly\, I think the alphabet was a bad idea. I know\, because I use it. It’s a shell game. It feels okay to use this jive language thing that I’ve been learning over the years on the Sunday shows. There are ways to not say stuff. You can go for a great long chunks of time without saying anything. Politicians do it all the time. I’ve been getting into that. I still like making up lyrics. I don’t know that I think there’s anything to say.” \nAmidst the groovier\, more playful songs are two somber centerpieces that have much to say about mortality – “Sail On\, My Friend” and “Handsome John” – the latter a gorgeous tribute to John Prine. Nobody was as important to Snider as a friend and mentor. \nSnider says. “I started singing that song about him almost right after he died. Nobody had ever been kinder to me\, more vulnerable with me. He’d take the time to sit down and generously explain something that he believed was not serving you. I was young when I met John\, so I’m embarrassed to tell you that the lecture that I got from him was a painful one\, but it saved my life. It changed my songs completely. I remember I was withdrawing on a plane\, and he said\, ‘You’re doing this wrong.’ And I had seventeen songs\, and he was the only who’d heard them\, and he said\, ‘You’ve got two songs here.’ And I said\, ‘What about the others? And he said\, ‘Yeah\, let’s talk about those.’ Those conversations changed everything about the way I approached my life. People don’t want to tell everybody what the therapist said\, so I’ll leave it there. But very compassionately\, he said\, ‘Here’s why you’re not happy.’ Of all the people I know who wrote songs and sang\, he was the happiest and the one who’d most dialed the troubadour life in and made peace with it. I loved him.” \nIt feels appropriate that with his latest album\, Snider may play a similar inspirational role for the parishioners in his church. “I’d like it to feel like a drum circle or a revival for listeners. I’d like it to feel like a hippie summer\, where you take acid and listen to the songs by a beautiful lake. There’s a thing called effervescence – that feeling that you’re present\, alive. I’d like for people to have a moment with this record. I think about records that will come into my life and they’ll help put a little more salt on the moment. That’s what I’m going for. But then\, who knows if anyone will like the record. I dig it. I know it’s a cliché for people to say\, ‘This is how I’ve been meaning to sound forever.’ But I swear\, that’s how it feels.”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mempho-presents-todd-snider/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220203T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220203T153000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211123T225919Z
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents Foxes
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Foxes at Crosstown Theater.\nAdrian Lyne / 1980 / 106 minutes / Rated R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nThe story of four teenage girls living in LA in 1980\, mostly doing what they hell they want\, anytime they want\, with hardly any supervision or input by any sensible adult. Foxes takes place in a world and a time when being a teenager was fun\, free\, and DANGEROUS. Directed by Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction\, Flashdance)!! With a cameo concert by Kiss proteges and fellow Casablanca Records artist Angel (Punky Meadows!!!). Also with Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver\, Bugsy Malone\, The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane\, Freaky Friday – and that was JUST WHAT SHE WAS IN THAT WAS RELEASED IN 1976!!!!!)\, Cherie Currie (THE RUNAWAYS LEAD SINGER YA’LL!!!)\, Randy Quaid (Midnight Express\, The Long Riders\, Independence Day) in an early\, super-creepy role and HOT LIPS Sally Kellerman (MASH\, A Little Romance)\, as Jodie Foster’s uptight but distant mother!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-foxes/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220130T150000
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SUMMARY:Sundance Satellite Screenings
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis is an official Sundance Satellite screen partner for 2022. In collaboration with Crosstown Arts\, they will be screening a specially curated selection of 2022 Sundance Film Festival Films during the festival’s closing weekend\, Friday\, January 28 – Sunday\, January 30\, 2022\,  at Crosstown Theater. \nLean more and check out the film lineup/schedule HERE.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/sundance-satellite-screenings/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220127T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220127T153000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211123T224947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T224947Z
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents The Holy Mountain
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents The Holy Mountain at Crosstown Theater.\nAlejandro Jodorowsky / 1973 / 114 minutes / Rated HARD R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nIf you know\, you know! Come see  The Holy Mountain on the Crosstown Theater’s giant screen in deep\, full color!!!! From ABKCO: The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival\, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept’s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-the-holy-mountain/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T153000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211123T220114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T220114Z
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents Mirror
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Mirror at Crosstown Theater.\nAndrei Tarkovsky / 1975 / 106 minutes / Rated R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \n2K Restoration! From Janus: A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory\, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images\, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage\, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes\, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood\, wartime\, and marriage\, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure\, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan director’s most renowned and influential works\, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-mirror/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220115T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220115T150000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211129T225913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T214804Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Musical Journalism: Continuing a Legacy through the Flute
DESCRIPTION:Due to rising Covid cases\, the artist has asked to postpone his planned January 15th Musical Journalism: Continuing a Legacy Through the Flute performance at Crosstown Theater. Crosstown Arts is issuing full refunds to ticket holders.  \nStay tuned to crosstownarts.org or our social media channels for an announcement about a new date. \nThank you for understanding! \nCrosstown Arts presents Memphis Symphony acting principal flutist Adam Sadberry with pianist Artina McCain and clarinetist Andre Dyachenko. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: $15 (students $5 with student ID at the door)\nDoors at 7 pm | Performance at 7:30 pm \n*The artist has requested proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. \nAdam Sadberry continues the legacy of his grandfather\, the late journalist L. Alex Wilson\, through “musical journalism\,” which he defines as “performing music that tells stories of the world.” This specific concert will feature pieces by composers of African descent that Adam is pairing with articles from L. Alex Wilson’s newspaper\, The Tri-State Defender. \nAdam will be joined on stage by pianist Dr. Artina McCain\, clarinetist Dr. Andre Dyachenko clarinetist\, and a guest narrator. \nMusic is always telling us something regardless of whether it is a specific message or not\, and in the case of this concert\, the music tells us stories that are rooted in the African diaspora and the legacy of the late journalist\, L. Alex Wilson. L. Alex Wilson was the general manager and editor of The Tri-State Defender here in Memphis during the Civil Rights Era\, and during 2019\, his grandson and flutist Adam Sadberry moved from Detroit to Memphis to join the Memphis Symphony Orchestra during “the modern Civil Rights Era.” \nAdam Sadberry is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and is represented by Concert Artists Guild. \n\nAbout Adam Sadberry:\nMemphis Symphony Orchestra acting principal flutist Adam Sadberry is known for his radiant\, lyrical playing\, and he’s committed to expanding the Black diaspora in the classical music world through promoting equity\, representation\, music education\, and commissioning music that tells stories of the Black diaspora – in other words\, creating musical journalism. Adam is motivated to continue the legacy of his late grandfather L. Alex Wilson\, an important journalist and unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement. \nAdam has performed with orchestras around the country\, including the St. Louis Symphony\, Minnesota Orchestra\, Detroit Symphony Orchestra\, Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra\, Albany Symphony Orchestra\, Omaha Symphony\, Sphinx Symphony Orchestra\, and the New World Symphony. As a concerto soloist\, he has performed with the Clear Lake Symphony\, Conroe Symphony Orchestra\, Cordancia Chamber Orchestra\, and the Detroit Chamber Orchestra\, and he has also made guest appearances at Oakland University\, University of Memphis\, University of South Florida\, National Flute Association\, and the New York Flute Club to give recitals\, masterclasses\, and presentations. Adam’s presentation\, Using Your Identity to Create a Relevant Voice in Music\, lays a foundation for using one’s experiences and perspectives as a catalyst for generating change through music. \nAlong with maintaining a private flute studio\, Adam teaches and mentors through non-profit organizations that provide free private lessons and resources to underserved communities including The Key Change and Raise the Bar. He is also proud to formerly teach through the Memphis Music Initiative\, an organization that “invest[s] in youth through transformative music engagement\, creating equitable opportunities for black and brown youth in Memphis.” Adam is on the boards of the Umoja Flute Institute and the International Society of Black Musicians\, organizations that provide resources to musicians of African descent. \nAdam’s education includes receiving a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and a fellowship with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He is indebted to all of his former teachers and mentors including Bonita Boyd\, Anne Harrow\, Jennifer Keeney\, Amanda Blaikie\, Sharon Sparrow\, and Jeff Zook. He currently receives coaching from Keith Underwood. In his spare time\, Adam enjoys roller skating\, being in nature\, and eating as much food as his body can handle. \nAdam can be heard playing on the soundtrack of Disney’s The Lion King (2019).
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/musical-journalism-continuing-a-legacy-through-the-flute/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T153000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents Walking Tall
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Walking Tall at Crosstown Theater.\nPhil Karlson / 1973 / 125 minutes / Rated R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nCrosstown Arts tried this before back in series 6\, but we got pandemic-ed before we could actually screen it\, so we are trying again! The legend(s) surrounding Buford Pusser loom large over both Memphis and McNairy County\, where he was sheriff from 1964 to 1970.  Buford was a professional wrestler who became a sheriff in an area overrun by the Dixie Mafia. He went to war with and killed Louise Hathcock\, the operator of The Shamrock Motel\, where the Babushka lady was supposedly seen hanging out a week or so before JFK got popped. \nBuford’s star really started to shine when his friend\, country and rockabilly singer Eddie Bond\, started singing about him. One story has it that when Buford got ambushed by the Dixie Mafia (and his wife was killed and his face was shot off)\, he hid out in Memphis at a nightclub on Madison that Eddie Bond owned with “The Fabulous One\,” Jackie Fargo.  Buford’s legend and story was interesting enough that they made THREE movies about him and the first is Walking Tall. Walking Tall fictionalizes Buford’s journey from bear wrestler to one man crime crusader. The movie stars character actor Jo Don Baker (Joysticks\, Fletch) as Buford Pusser and Elizabeth Hartman (A Patch of Blue\, The Secret of NIMH) as his wife Pauline. Lief Garrett (Macon Count Line\, Walking Tall Part II\, Final Chapter: Walking Tall\, Tiger Beat Cover Model) and Lief’s real-life sister Dawn Lyn as the Pusser kids!! Walking Tall is BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN IN MEMPHIS FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!! YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO SEE IT!!!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-walking-tall-2/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220111T150000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
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SUMMARY:Microcinema: Southern Foodways Alliance Shorts - Land\, Water\, and Sky
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance and Indie Memphis\, we are excited to be starting off Microcinema in the new year with a selection of films from Southern Foodways’ incredible catalog of films that document various Southern food cultures\, traditions\, and practices that have shaped the past\, present\, and future of the South. This program features short films that consider farmers’ (particularly Black farmers’) relationship to the land\, water\, and sky that they steward and the lineages that make it possible to consider the future in farming and food. \nThe Southern Foodways Alliance documents\, studies\, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South. Based at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture\, they share oral histories\, produce films and podcasts\, publish great writing\, sponsor scholarship\, mentor students\, and stage events that serve as progressive and inclusive catalysts for the greater South. SFA’s film program is led by Pihakis Documentary Filmmaker Zaire Love\, an award-winning filmmaker who aims to honor\, amplify\, and archive the stories and voices of the Black South. \nFree (or pay what you can) and open to the public \n*Due to Covid-19 safety precautions\, we are limiting theater capacity and implementing social distancing seating. Please be prepared to wear your mask at all times during the event. Food and drink will not be permitted.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-southern-foodways-alliance-shorts-land-water-and-sky/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220106T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220106T150000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211217T161848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211221T231840Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Citizen Cope
DESCRIPTION:Out of an abundance of caution\, with Covid cases on the rise\, Citizen Cope has made the tough decision to postpone the planned January 6 show at Crosstown Theater. We’re issuing full refunds to all who have purchased tickets. We’re so sorry for any inconvenience! \n\nCrosstown Arts presents Citizen Cope on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. \nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nCitizen Cope\, a.k.a. Clarence Greenwood\, is an American songwriter and producer. He has released seven studio LPs that have garnered him a loyal following despite never being fully embraced by mainstream media and commercial radio. \nDescribing his music is difficult; he’s been inspired by artists such as John Lennon and Stevie Wonder to Bob Marley and Outkast. Citizen Cope’s compositions have been recorded by Carlos Santana\, Dido\, and Richie Havens. In 20 years of touring\, he has built a devout following\, performing at sold-out theaters and ballrooms across the country. \nOver time\, Cope’s music has become the soundtrack to the lives of those who have embraced it\, and he continues to inspire audiences through what can only be described as deep personal connection.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/citizen-cope-2/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211216T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211216T153000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211123T212209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T154958Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Crosstown Arthouse presents A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:Sorry for the inconvenience\, but this film is being postponed until further notice. \nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at Crosstown Theater. Elia Kazan / 1945 / 128 minutes / Rated M \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn  tells the story of an Irish immigrant family\, the Nolans\, living out their lives in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912\, about 100 years before Williamsburg got to be the gentrified hell-hole that it currently is. This story takes place when the neighborhood was filled with thousands of first-generation immigrants from all different parts of the world\, crammed together in tenements and hustling every day to put food on the table and maybe a little liquor down their gullet! With Dorthy McGuire (Old Yeller\, Swiss Family Robinson) as the perpetually pregnant Katie Nolan! Joan Blondell (Glenda in Stay Away\, Joe) as sassy Aunt Sissy!! Come out and get in the spirit with us!! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a CAN’T MISS!!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211209T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211209T153000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211123T210928Z
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents Blood and Black Lace
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Blood and Black Lace at Crosstown Theater. Mario Bava / 1965 / 86 minutes / Rated R \nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nIf you loved Last Night in Soho\, come to the Crosstown Theater to catch Blood and Black Lace! From AGFA: Before Dario Argento’s Deep Red\, there was Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace. At the Cristiana Haute Couture fashion house\, models and their boyfriends excel at the art of backstabbing\, blackmail\, and snorting cocaine. That is\, until a faceless maniac embarks on a mission of death! After the one-two punch of Black Sunday and Black Sabbath\, Mario Bava unleashed Blood and Black Lace — the movie that perfected the ultra-violent sub-genre that would come to be known as “giallo.” With a mood that mashes together the elegance of a quiet rain on a summer night with the luridness of a trashy paperback\, it’s no wonder why Martin Scorsese once referred to this movie as “an incredible moment for cinema.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-blood-and-black-lace/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211207T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211207T150000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211201T200909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211201T200909Z
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice Movie Trivia
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the year\, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts bring cinematographers\, directors\, editors\, writers\, actors\, and technicians to Shoot & Splice\, the monthly filmmaking forum. Come help us celebrate the end of another wild year with the return of the annual Shoot & Splice Movie Trivia extravaganza! \nTest your film knowledge against returning Trivia Masters John Beifuss of The Commercial Appeal and Chris McCoy of the Memphis Flyer. The trivia masters will take full advantage of the theater\, so be prepared for some fun video and audio rounds! \nPRIZES! HOLIDAY COCKTAILS! AND DID WE SAY\, FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC? \nRules: \n\nNo more than 4 people per team\n5 rounds w/ 10 questions per round\nBonus questions between rounds for Indie Memphis swag prizes\nThe top 3 teams will win some fun\, film-related prizes!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-movie-trivia/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211203T143000
DTSTAMP:20260513T104258
CREATED:20211022T210648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T195009Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Sacred Soul with Elizabeth King and Elder Jack Ward
DESCRIPTION:A special evening showcasing Memphis sacred soul from the late 1960s to present day at Crosstown Theater. With an exclusive showing of The D-Vine Spirituals story documentary followed by performances by Elizabeth King and Elder Jack Ward\, supported by the Sacred Soul Sound Section.  A meet-and-greet/record signing with the artists will be held at Memphis Listening Lab at 6 pm\, prior to the show. \nTickets: $25 \nDoors at 6 pm | Show at 7 pm \nAbout Elizabeth King:\nMemphis soul gospel queen Elizabeth King recorded her first single in 1970\, and if all had gone as planned\, she would have made her first album a few years later. Instead\, it took another half century\, but Living In The Last Days\, the latest sacred soul long player from Memphis’ Bible and Tire imprint\, captures King at the height of her powers\, with the intervening decades only serving to stoke the flames of one of the most memorable voices in modern gospel music. \nBible and Tire’s third release\, 2019’s The D-Vine Spirituals Recordings\, collected a handful of King’s singles\, beginning with her biggest hit\, 1972’s instantly infectious “I Heard The Voice\,” and served as an inspiration for the new album in more ways than one. “When we went in and did ‘I Heard The Voice\,’ we recorded sixteen songs\,” says King. But lack of sponsorship — often the lynchpin for commercial success in the gospel world — kept King and her group the Gospel Souls solidly in the singles field. \nIn 1973\, having made her name with “I Heard The Voice\,” as well as a pair of earlier singles on the Designer label\, King won the Gospel Gold Cup\, a prestigious award presented by the city’s gospel disc jockeys\, one of whom was D-Vine founder Juan D. Shipp. King and the Gospel Souls were soon headlining a concert at Memphis’ legendary Overton Park Shell that starred D-Vine label mates the Traveling Stars\, the Steptor Four\, and Willie Harris and the Sensational Six\, who would take the Cup five years later. \nThe Overton Park program was but a tiny testament to the incredible array of talent that Shipp had taken under his wing when he started the label in 1972\, in the wake of spinning one too many Style Wooten-produced Designer records. The problem wasn’t the spirit; it was the sub-standard sound. “When Reverend Shipp took over from Style Wooten\, everybody was coming to him\,” details King. The two producers contrasted not only in quality control but in production values. “With Style\, you’d do one or two takes and that was it. But Reverend Shipp would make you stay in there all night. If it was in you\, he was gonna get it.” \n“I want you to sing it like you’re making love to God!” Shipp once thunderously urged King. She did just that on her four D-Vine singles\, and the same spirit permeates Living In The Last Days\, co-produced by Shipp and Bible and Tire founder Bruce Watson. It’s the first in a series of albums spawned by the label’s exploration of the D-Vine Spirituals catalog and a rebirth not only for King but for Shipp as well. When he deactivated D-Vine\, Shipp explains\, it wasn’t because he no longer wanted to produce records. “It got from the point of singing for the Lord to singing for money. And I said\, ‘That’s too much for me.’ But Liz King wouldn’t go nowhere. Many companies tried to get her to sign with them\, but she wouldn’t budge.” \nShipp and King were of a piece\, she explains\, it was just that simple. “If he wasn’t gonna do nothing\, I wasn’t gonna do nothing. I just wasn’t gonna record with anybody else.” Shipp had been just begun to expand into the album world when he closed up shop in 1986\, and King’s LP would have been one of the first ones to be released. Twenty-five years later\, music historian Michael Hurtt was in the midst of writing liner notes for Watson’s ninety-nine track compilation\, The Soul Of Designer Records\, when he tracked down Shipp. Together\, the pair recovered the D-Vine master tapes from a moldering shed in Olive Branch\, Mississippi\, intent on bringing them to life again. \nWhile the Designer project had been a fulfilling four-disc set that finally brought the late Style Wooten’s activities into some focus\, Shipp was not only alive but active and ever-ready to spring back into action: an even more expansive approach to telling the D-Vine story seemed a foregone conclusion. Over the next few years\, as Watson built a new studio in Memphis\, he became increasingly interested in recording what he termed the “sacred soul” of the Mid-South. As one half of Fat Possum Records\, he’d brought the grit of the juke joint back into the Delta blues; perhaps he could bring the soul back to the forefront of the spiritual music of Memphis. \nIn 2019\, Watson threw down the gauntlet\, establishing the Bible and Tire imprint with the Sensational Barnes Brothers’ Nobody’s Fault But My Own\, a stirring blend of warm\, inspiring old-school singing delivered by two young siblings and backed skillfully by the Sacred Soul Sound Section\, a percolating trio anchored by guitarist Will Sexton. Meanwhile\, as Watson and Shipp began to transfer the D-Vine tape archive\, Shipp detailed the current status of the incredible voices that filled Watson’s Delta Sonic Sound Studio. Not only were many of his artists still around\, but Elizabeth King was still singing on the radio every week. A phone call later\, she was singing live in the studio. \nLiving In The Last Days is a triumph from the very first intimate vocal notes of the arresting opening track\, “No Ways Tired\,” to the similarly moving closer\, “You’ve Got To Move\,” dual studies in intensity that each build to a burning climax\, bookending a searing selection of songs burnished by the down-home grooves of the Sacred Soul Sound Section. Additionally\, the Sensational Barnes Brothers are on board for harmony vocals as are King’s old D-Vine Spirituals label mates the Vaughn Sisters and the D-Vine Spiritualettes. \nKing switches gears seamlessly between the moody\, almost minor key swing of “Mighty Good God” to the horn-heavy Stax-style “Call On Him” to the roof-raising gospel rocker “Reach Out And Touch Me.” In between\, she reimagines a trio of her Designer sides (“Testify\,” “A Long Journey\,” and “Walk With Me”) with D-Vine’s trademark wah-wah guitar\, lays down a tremelo-drenched treatment of the Shaw Singers’ trance-like “He Touched Me” and demonstrates how hauntingly apropos the eternally timely lyrics of the title track (originally adapted from an old hymnal spiritual by the Hewlett Sisters on D-Vine subsidiary JCR) are today. The entirely a cappella “Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord” comes straight “from the book of Job\,” says King. “The verses came strictly from the Bible.” \nShe couldn’t be happier with the way things turned out\, and that includes an unexpected tour of France in the midst of recording. “There was a lady in Corinth\, Mississippi\, Nannie Dammons\, who wrote a song called ‘It’s Amazing What God Can Do.’ It was about a tornado that came through Corinth and killed four people. She called Style Wooten\, and she wanted me to sing the song\, so she sent the song to Style\, and he called us in and I did the song. It just brought it back to my mind what the lady had wrote — ‘It’s Amazing What God Can Do.’ Because after all these years\, at my age\, I never thought I would have another chance. It gives me the chance to tell people it’s never too late. I never dreamed that I’d be able to go to Paris. Me? But you never know what God is gonna do for you. So just keep striving.” \n\nAbout Elder Jack Ward:\nMemphis gospel singer Elder Jack Ward was born in the land where the blues began\, the often mythologized Mississippi Delta\, but as his new Bible and Tire album Already Made aptly demonstrates\, the area’s gospel heritage is every bit as rich as its secular counterpart. “I was born in the country\, and I would hear Elmore James\, John Lee Hooker\, Lightnin’ Hopkins\, Howlin’ Wolf\, all of them guys\, and I used to patronize them\, and sing like them a little bit\, but I came back to my roots. I used to do a lot of blues singing but I broke from that and got into the gospel. \n“I grew up around Itta Bena\, Mississippi. That’s about six miles from Greenwood\, and I used to sing with a group there called the Kings Of The South. I did a lot of singing\, but I was a farm boy\, worked on the farm. I chopped cotton\, picked cotton\, drove mules with a one row planter. But music’s been in me since I was about seven or eight years old when I first tried to sing. My mother\, my father \,and my two sisters would be in the cotton field\, and I did a little song called ‘I Woke Up This Morning.’ I didn’t know how to put it together but my mother said\, ‘Hey\, boy! I don’t want you singin’ no blues.’” \nWhat she couldn’t have known then was that a journey to Memphis when Ward was a teenager would inadvertently ensure that he would take the right road. “My mom came up here to see her grandmother. I was sixteen at the time. And I said to myself\, ‘When I turn eighteen I’m coming back to Memphis and make me a hit record.’ And I did.” \nThat disc was 1964’s “Don’t Need No Doctor” by the Christian Harmonizers\, a group comprised of old friends from Ward’s hometown. “I knew the Brooks brothers\, who organized the Christian Harmonizers\, from Itta Bena\,” he explains. “And I had my mind set to come to Memphis to sing blues or rock ’n’ roll. But I found them and they said\, ‘Look\, man\, we need you to sing gospel.’ Ward got down to business with the brothers and even briefly replaced soul sensation O.V. Wright in the Sunset Travelers during one of Wright’s secular sabbaticals. Nicknamed Jumping Jack Ward for his in-the-anointing antics\, he soon came to the attention of Stax Records\, and the Christian Harmonizers christened Chalice\, Soulsville’s sacred subsidiary\, with its debut record. Isaac Hayes was on piano and Ward was on lead vocals. \n“Don’t Need No Doctor\,” in Ward’s words\, “went every whichaway. That record was on the chart for two years. Oris Mays was a producer in Memphis and he said\, ‘Jack\, I’m gonna put you on a big label.’ He told us to get a couple of songs together and we did a thing called ‘Another Day’s Journey\,’ then we did another record\, ‘God’s Going To Blow Out The Sun.’ The singles were released on Peacock Records’ Song Bird imprint. “We just went to bigger things\, higher exaltations.” \nIn 1968\, Ward and David Hart formed the Gospel Four\, whose haunting harmonies were bolstered by the grooving guitar and bass of brothers George and Robert Dean. Memphis disc jockey Juan D. Shipp soon approached them about recording for his newly-founded D-Vine Spirituals label. “I knew him from the broadcast\,” says Ward of Shipp\, “and he knew some of my former material. And so I went and we sat down and talked and he said\, ‘How would you like to record with D-Vine?’” The results\, as soulful as they were sacred\, were among the absolute highlights of Shipp’s ever-impressive catalog. The Gospel Four had an altogether different sound and style than the Christian Harmonizers\, as exemplified by the gripping testimonial “The Last Road” and the mid-tempo\, minor-keyed “A Change Is Gonna Come.” \nBreaking new ground\, it seems\, is a Ward hallmark and Already Made — which focuses on Ward front and center — is no exception. But like Elizabeth King’s critically acclaimed Living In The Last Days\, it’s a direct outgrowth of D-Vine’s heyday. Bible and Tire’s Bruce Watson was transferring Shipp’s tape archive for an ambitious D-Vine Spirituals reissue project when he asked Shipp how many of the artists from his old label were still around and active. Aside from King\, Elder Jack Ward was one of the first he named. King’s Living In The Last Days was the first result of that conversation; now Ward’s Already Made takes its rightful place as the second. Produced by Watson and Sacred Soul Sound Section leader Will Sexton at Memphis’s Delta-Sonic Sound Studio\, the ten-song program features the warmly recorded winning ingredients that are becoming a trademark of Bible and Tire’s patented Sacred Soul sound\, from Ward’s spirited vocals to the crack studio band laying down the grooves behind him. \nThe title track sets the mood with Ward’s daughters providing background harmony and — along with Bible and Tire label mates the Sensational Barnes Brothers — they make several encore appearances\, adding an inextricable magic to the proceedings. “I trained them starting when they were about six or seven years old\,” says Ward\, adding how much he enjoyed working with guitarists Will Sexton and Matt Ross-Spang\, who switch styles seamlessly from the distorted crunch of “He’s Got Great Things” to the splashy reverb of “Shout Trouble’s Over” to the shimmering vibrato of “God’s Love.” While the album has its share of pile-driving uptempo numbers\, its slow-burning ballads are particularly moving\, and a bridge seems crossed once Ward breaks into his quiet falsetto midway through “Someone Who Is Greater Than Me.” The songs’ Muscle Shoals-style country soul vibe sets up a remaining trio of ballads\, closing with Ward’s favorite\, the redemptively autobiographical “I Feel Better Since I Prayed.” \nWatson feels that Already Made is one of the best albums he’s ever produced\, and after re-defining the dismal blues scene of the ‘90s with the Delta juke joint sounds of R.L Burnside and Junior Kimbrough for Fat Possum Records\, that’s saying quite a bit. Ward might have been right there with them were it not for that trip to Memphis back in the late ’50s. “I have pretty good talent\, I can just about sing anything anyone else sings. I never bragged on myself but this was a gift from God and the Bible says\, ‘A gift comes without repentance.’ In other words\, you don’t have to be a Christian to be able to sing. If you’ve got that God-given gift you can do it — your choice if you want to sing rock ’n’ roll\, blues\, gospel — but I choose the right side.” And thank God he did. \nMichael Hurtt – March 2021
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