Memphis’ take on the classic Bluebird Cafe format: a stripped-back evening of songs and storytelling featuring four artists in the round — both hometown favorites and visiting voices. Hosted by Cyrena Wages with special guest appearances.
Cyrena Wages fell in love with music on the country backroads between Millington and Shelby Forest, two small towns just north of Memphis. Her father, the hometown judge, drove her to school every day in a 1967 gold Cadillac with the license plate “ROBN HD” on the back, an homage to the underdog ideology, and a conceptual through line of her debut 2024 album, Vanity Project. Wages tapped producer Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, St. Paul & the Broken Bones) to helm Vanity Project, a heavy hearted country soul meets indie pop confessional, at his Southern Grooves Studio in Memphis. Upon it’s release, Cyrena toured in support of artists like Lilly Winwood, Hailey Whitters, Maggie Rose, Lucero, and Chaparelle, and debuted in spaces like the Troubadour, The Bluebird Cafe, SXSW, and Americana Fest.
Born and raised in Natchitoches, Louisiana, Caleb Elliott is far from your typical preacher’s son-turned-musician. With his father a pastor and his mother the church pianist, Elliott was immersed in traditional hymns from an early age, but it was his love for classical cello that would eventually jumpstart his musical career. As a session musician, Elliott began lending cello to all kinds of albums in the Lafayette music scene, culminating in a moment that would change his trajectory and finally move him out of Louisiana. In 2014, singer-songwriter Dylan LeBlanc met Elliott and encouraged him to relocate to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where he still resides today. Once settled in the Shoals, Elliott became the go-to cellist for an elite collective of collaborators such as Nicole Atkins, John Paul White, members of Alabama Shakes, Maggie Rose, and Cedric Burnside, whose 2021 record I Be Trying won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album.
As a singer-songwriter, Elliott released his debut record Forever to Fade in 2019, followed by Weed, Wine & Time in 2023 (both via Single Lock Records). He has opened for a variety of artists such as Alabama Shakes, Gaz Coombes (Supergrass), Sean McConnell, Penny and Sparrow, The White Buffalo, Fruition, and The Secret Sisters (who are featured on his recent single). In 2025, he followed up Weed, Wine & Time with two new singles, “I Don’t Believe You” and “Slow Burn,” in which sonic influences like Harry Nilsson and Louisiana’s own Bobby Charles can be heard woven throughout Elliott’s melodies and arrangements. This year, Elliott continues releasing singles with his new song, “Dead Ringer,” featuring Andy Baxter of Penny and Sparrow.
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