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SUMMARY:Mahogany Chamber Music Series: “Mahogany Magic”
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the Mahogany Chamber Music Series: “Mahogany Magic” at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nSunday\, April 30\, 2023\nDoors at 5:30 pm | Concert at 6 pm\nTickets: $20 | $5 students \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Mahogany Chamber Music Series is a series of three chamber music concerts curated by Dr. Artina McCain\, spotlighting Black and other underrepresented composers and performers. \nFeaturing: \nTitus Underwood\, oboe \nCremaine Booker\, cello \nCaitlin Edwards\, violin \nArtina McCain\, piano \nTitus Underwood\, oboe  \nTitus Underwood is Principal Oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra\, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music associate professor\, Emmy Award winner\, and 2021 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence award. He received his Master of Music from The Juilliard School and bachelors from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Also\, he has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra\, Miami Symphony Orchestra\, Florida Orchestra\, Atlanta Symphony\, Puerto Rico Symphony\, and San Diego Symphony. Mr. Underwood has also played principal in Chineke!\, Gateways Music Festival\, and Bellingham Festival of Music. Underwood serves as teaching artist for Aspen Music Festival and the National Youth Orchestras program at Carnegie Hall. He also teaches and mentors for the National Alliance for Audition Support program maintained by the League of American Orchestras\, The Sphinx Organization\, and New World Symphony. His latest project was a short film he directed entitled “A Tale of Two Tails”. \nCaitlin Edwards\, violin \nViolinist Caitlin Edwards began her musical journey at the age of eight within a non-profit organization in her hometown of Birmingham\, Alabama. She later attended the University of Louisville (BM) and DePaul University (MM). Caitlin is a 2022 Esteemed Artist Award recipient from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events\, a 2021 3Arts/Walder Foundation awardee\, 2018 Gateways Music Festival Rising Star\, a co-curator with the Fulcrum Point New Music Project\, and a former fellow with the Chicago Sinfonietta. In addition\, she has received Grammy certificates for recordings on Disney’s “The Lion King” and for albums by John Legend and PJ Morton. She released her debut album\, “Exhale\,” in 2021. Caitlin is a classically trained violinist\, but she’s inspired by gospel\, jazz\, hip-hop\, and neo-soul. She composes original music and intentionally performs the works of Black composers to help ensure that these composers and their compositions are remembered and spotlighted for aspiring young BIPOC musicians and the world as a whole. Caitlin is a proud member of D-Composed and Ensemble Dal Niente. \nCremaine Booker\, cello \nNashville based cellist\, Cremaine Booker (also known as ThatCelloGuy)\, has performed extensively in the United States in addition to being a highly accomplished studio cellist. He currently serves as a cellist in the Iris Orchestra and is former principal cellist for the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra and The Jackson Symphony. He has also made appearances with the Trevecca Symphony\, the Sewanee Symphony\, Roy “Futureman” Wooten’s Black Mozart Ensemble\, and the Nashville Concerto Orchestra. He has performed with the likes of Hans Zimmer\, Carrie Underwood\, India.Arie\, Mickey Guyton\, Martina McBride\, Jewel\, Lindsey Stirling\, Michael W. Smith\, LeAnn Rhimes\, Mike Hicks\, and many others. In addition to his live performances he has recorded cello on projects such as Geostorm (2017)\, The Lion King (2019)\, and The Ruined King (2021). \nCremaine has performed masterclasses with teachers such as Natalia Koma\, YeonJin Kim\, Julia Tanner\, Eric Kutz\, Peter Sheppard\, and Yo-Yo Ma. Cremaine holds degrees from Middle Tennessee State University. \nCremaine plays on a modern cello gifted to him by William H. and Judith Scheide. \nArtina McCain\, piano \nDescribed as a pianist with “power and finesse”\, “beautiful and fiery” (KMFA Austin) and having a “sense of color\, balance and texture” (Austin Chamber Music Center) Artina McCain\, has built a three-fold career as a performer\, educator and speaker. As a recitalist\, her credits include performances at Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre in London\, Weill Hall at Carnegie and Merkin Hall in New York City and more. Other highlights include guest appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra\, Memphis Symphony Orchestra and Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra. \nDedicated to promoting the works of Black and other underrepresented composers\, McCain curates Underrepresented Composers Concerts for multiple arts organizations. She is an American Prize winner for her solo piano recordings of these works and won a Gold Global Music Award for her recent album project Heritage. In 2021\, Hal Leonard published her transcriptions of Twenty-Four Traditional African American Folk Songs. In 2022\, she was the mistress of ceremony for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. \nMcCain was a featured inspirational leader in the award-winning PBS documentary series Roadtrip Nation: Degree of Impact in an episode exploring the real-world impact of professionals with doctoral degrees in and outside of academia. \nMcCain’s performances have been heard on Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)\, Germany’s WDR and television appearances including features on CSPAN for the MLK 50 Commemoration. McCain is a three-time Global Music Awards winner including collaborative projects I\, Too (Naxos)\, with soprano Icy Monroe\, focused on African American Spirituals and Art Songs and Shades\, a collaboration with her husband and duo partner Martin McCain. \nAfter not performing for 6 years while battling a performance injury\, she now enjoys a prolific concert career with more than 10 years of full injury recovery. She uses her recovery to serve as an advocate of musicians’ wellness–curating articles\, lectures\, and forums to educate teachers and students. Her article on performance injury and Muscle Activation Techniques was published in the Piano Magazine. McCain has presented on wellness and other topics at Universities and the Music Teachers National Association Conference and the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy. \nMcCain graduated cum laude from Southern Methodist University. She received her Master of Music from Cleveland Institute of Music and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently\, she is Associate Professor of Piano and Coordinator of the Keyboard Area at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis and Co-Founder/Director of the Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition. \nIn her spare time\, Artina enjoys boutique shopping\, traveling internationally and is an avid tea aficionado. \nArtina McCain is a Yamaha Artist.
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SUMMARY:Gareth Pearson (SOLD OUT)
DESCRIPTION:The Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, April 29\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n“Gareth is fast becoming one of the world’s most renowned instrumental guitarists.” – Adam Walton (BBC Radio Wales) \n“I really respect Gareth’s abilities. He’s a great young man and a great ambassador for the acoustic guitar.” – Tommy Emmanuel  \nGareth Pearson is referred to as “The Welsh Tornado” which is particularly appropriate\, seeing as this special talent combines fingerstyle pyrotechnics\, with explosive lead runs making Pearson one of the most exciting acoustic musicians gigging today. \nGareth has a distinctive style that can be heard through his creative and innovative arrangements which cover a wide spectrum of genres\, including country/folk/classical/pop/rock/jazz/swing and bluegrass music\, along with his own beautiful and often intricate original compositions. \nDrawing his playing style initially from influences such as Chet Atkins\, Merle Travis\, Jerry Reed and Tommy Emmanuel\, he has developed a style that is both inspiring and entertaining. \nWithin a year of taking up the guitar\, Gareth was opening for Tommy Emmanuel on his 2005 UK tour. It was in Cardiff where Tommy invited Gareth to play at the CAAS convention (Chet Atkins Appreciation Society) in Nashville\, Tennessee. \nLater that year\, Gareth was performing and touring alongside Ray Davies (The Kinks)\, John Renbourne\, and Southside Johnny and the Ashbury Jukes. During the Southside Johnny tour\, Gareth was invited by Southside to be flown over to the USA to open for his annual New Years Eve concert at the Count Basie Theatre in New Jersey. \nThe following year Gareth was invited by Tommy Emmanuel to be the support act for his UK tour\, following extensive UK supports to Jan Akkerman\, Andy McKee and appearing at numerous Folk Festivals and Guitar workshops including the Montreal Jazz Festival. \nWith appearances throughout Europe and a growing reputation\, Gareth was invited to perform at the 2008 Canadian Guitar Festival where he came to the attention of Candyrat Records. This lay the seed for Gareth to be the first UK guitarist to be signed by the label. On its release\, Gareth’s debut album “Urban Echoes Vol 1” was selected by Acoustic Guitar editors and frequent contributors as one of the “Essential Acoustic Albums of 2010”. \nWith appearances at the 2009 Montreal Guitar Festival\, USA and worldwide tours and guitar workshops\, Gareth’s reputation as a performer and teacher is constantly growing.
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SUMMARY:Doug MacLeod
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Doug MacLeod in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nThursday\, April 27\, 2023\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 in advance | $20 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n“Like all great blues men\, MacLeod lives his music\, and the songs are not just on the tips of his fingers and tongue\, they are one with his being.” – Blues Music Magazine \n“One of the great blues artists……period!” – Jorma Kaukonen. \nMacLeod is known for his superb songwriting\, guitar wizardry\, warm soulful vocals\, wit\, and unforgettable live performances. At the heart of a Doug MacLeod performance is his knack for storytelling\, bringing characters-from the faceless to the legendary-to strikingly real life. \nDoug is a multiple Blues Music Award winner\, including the 2020 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Artist Of The Year and the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of The Year ‘Break The Chain’. He was recently nominated for the 2023 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Artist Of The Year. \nIn March of 2022 he co-authored with Debra Schiff the blues murder mystery book MURDER AT THE CROSSROADS. \nIn April of 2022 A SOUL TO CLAIM produced by Jim Gaines was released. \nDoug is an international touring artist who writes and sings original songs that are based on his own life and experiences. He learned from the old masters and carries forward a valuable tradition. As a youth\, Doug overcame abuse and a crippling stutter by turning to music. After picking up a guitar\, and singing – he found his voice. \nMacLeod’s playing landed him sideman gigs with George ‘Harmonica’ Smith\, Big Joe Turner\, Pee Wee Crayton\, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson\, Lowell Fulson\, and Big Mama Thornton. Over 30 years\, 22 studio albums\, several live records\, compilations\, a blues guitar instructional DVD\, and a live performance DVD\, MacLeod has consistently earned raves. His songs have been covered by many artists including Albert King\, Albert Collins\, Joe Louis Walker and Eva Cassidy. MacLeod’s songs have been featured in many TV movies and the hit show In the Heat of the Night. August Wilson requested his soulful slide guitar playing in the Los Angeles opening of “Gem of the Ocean”. \nFrom 1999 to 2004 Doug hosted Nothin’ But The Blues\, a very popular weekend blues show on Los Angeles’ KLON-KKJZ. He has also been the voice for The Blues Showcase on Continental Airlines. For ten years he penned “Doug’s Back Porch\,” a regular feature column in Blues Revue Magazine in which he shared his humorous and insightful stories with thousands of readers. He is one of the four featured artists in the movie “Resonate: A Guitar Story”\, the feature documentary on the making of National Guitars. \nLike the old masters who taught him\, MacLeod’s music expresses life and times through an intangible\, elusive quality that may simply be a keen sense of what matters most. Doug’s music\, stories\, and philosophy provide a healing that has helped others overcome the hardships of their lives. Doug says the most important lessons he learned as a young musician came from Ernest Banks\, a one-eyed country bluesman from Toano\, VA. \n“Never play a note you don’t believe” and “Never write or sing about what you don’t know about.” \nAs Blues Hall Of Fame artist Pee Wee Crayton’s widow Esther once told Doug\, “You have a message and you’ll send that message mainly to the people who don’t go to church.” Amen.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/doug-macleod-2/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Opening Night at Crosstown Theater. \nJohn Cassavetes / 1977 / 144 minutes / Rated PG-13\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nIn a role equally as fragile and mercurial as A Woman Under the Influence’s “Mabel”\, Gena Rowlands is Opening Night’s “Myrtle”: a successful actress going kind of crazy in a play about aging crazily. John Cassavetes’ hymn to that berserk business of performing\, Opening Night is enhanced by its intense “old Hollywood” pedigree as Ben Gazzara\, John Blondell\, Paul Stewart and Cassavetes himself are the backing band for Rowlands’ knife-edged soloing. From the first scene\, the narrative is peppered with turn-on-a-dime ambiguity. Whole swathes of action take place “onstage” in front of a real-life audience watching the in-character cast — with a permeable membrane between stage and “reality” so tangible it hurts. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
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SUMMARY:The University of Memphis Jazz Singers
DESCRIPTION:The Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nTuesday\, April 25\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $10 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe University of Memphis Jazz Singers is comprised of 10 to 15 male and female vocal students. This group performs a wide range of music from traditional arrangements of jazz standards to more contemporary fusion jazz.
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SUMMARY:Kafé Kirk with Kirk Whalum & Jazzmeia Horn (SOLD OUT)
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Kafé Kirk with Kirk Whalum and special guest Jazzmeia Horn in Crosstown Theater. \nSunday\, April 23\, 2023\nCrosstown Theater\nBox office opens at 5PM | Doors open at 5:30PM\nShow begins at 6PM\nTickets: General Admission $45 (plus fees) \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nJoin Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum for Kafé Kirk\, an ongoing jazz series in Crosstown Theater featuring musical and spiritual collaborations with special guest artists. This iteration’s performance will feature jazz singer Jazzmeia Horn. \nJAZZMEIA HORN\nJazzmeia Horn is an American jazz singer and songwriter. She won the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition in 2015. Horn’s repertoire includes jazz standards and covers of songs from other genres\, including by artists such as Stevie Wonder. She has been compared to jazz vocalists such as Betty Carter\, Sarah Vaughan\, and Nancy Wilson. \n“Horn is among the most exciting young vocalists in jazz\, with a proud traditionalism that keeps her tightly linked to the sound of classic figures like Nancy Wilson and Betty Carter\, but a vivacity of spirit and conviction that places her firmly in the present.” — The New York Times \nKIRK WHALUM\nSoulful\, passionate\, stirring…these are the words most often used to describe Kirk’s music. Forged from his Memphis\, Tennessee\, gospel roots and his 1980s initiation into the thriving Houston\, TX nightclub scene\, Kirk’s big\, rich tenor sound is unmistakably his. The ’80s were highlighted by Kirk’s stepping out of his blossoming sideman role and forming his own band. It was there that Kirk ultimately developed both his “voice” and songwriting in the crucible of the local club scene—especially at a rooftop club called Cody’s. It was also in Houston where jazz pianist Bob James “discovered” him and brought him on tour\, which led to five successful albums with Columbia Records\, including Cache\, Kirk’s first #1 album. As well\, Kirk and Bob received a Grammy nomination for their collaboration album\, Joined at the Hip. After moving to Los Angeles\, Kirk became an in demand session player for top artists like\, Barbara Streisand\, Al Jarreau\, Luther Vandross\, Larry Carlton\, Quincy Jones and most notably\, Whitney Houston\, amongst many others. It’s his sax heard on the mega-hit\, “I Will Always Love You.” Kirk soon followed that career high point with his phenomenal hit album released on Warner Bros. Records\, For You\, perhaps the most successful of over 25 solo recordings to date; others include his eclectic\, and much lauded\, Gospel According to Jazz series\, (Chapters 1\, 2\, 3 and 4). In addition to his many solo projects\, Kirk was also a member of the popular soul/jazz group\, BWB\, which features Kirk as the “W” of the group with Rick Braun (trumpet) and Norman Brown (guitar). \nKirk is the recipient of numerous awards and acknowledgements for his musical excellence including three Dove Award nominations\, an NAACP Image Award nomination and has won two Stellar Awards- Gospel music’s highest honor. A twelve time Grammy nominee\, Kirk won his first Grammy award (2011)for Best Gospel Song (“It’s What I Do”—featuring Lalah Hathaway) alongside life-long friend and gifted songwriter\, Jerry Peters.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/kafe-kirk-with-kirk-whalum-jazzmeia-horn/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Puppy Palooza 2023
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Concourse presents Puppy Palooza on the South Plaza. \nSouth Plaza\nSaturday\, April 22\, 2023\nTime: 12 – 3 pm\nTickets: Free and open to the public \nPuppy Palooza brings as many puppy-themed activities as paws-sible to the South Plaza at Crosstown Concourse. Before the dog days of summer begin\, it’s a chance to celebrate our furry friends. We’re fur real — it’s going to be paw-some! \nDogs (and their human companions) are invited to Puppy Palooza at the South Plaza. The event is free and open to the public. Come celebrate our canine companions with the community at Crosstown Concourse! \nAttractions Include:\n\n• a dog costume contest\n• yard games\n• dog nail clipping service by Dawg Team Apparel\n• dog adoptions by local rescue organizations\n• a magic show by Mr. Nick with Cranberry\, the chihuahua\n• Wonder Dog Training \n• Blessing of the Animals by Church Health\n• dog portraits \n• balloon pups \n• bacon bubbles \n• and more!
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/puppy-palooza-2023/
LOCATION:Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:NOHMADS
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents NOHMADS in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nFriday\, April 21\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $12 in advance | $15 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nArt rockers from Chicago\, NOHMADS weave layers of noir\, sludge\, and pop to create their unique sound\, combining songs\, spoken word\, and visual elements to tell stories. The band’s debut LP\, Chartreuse\, contains seven original tracks. Soaring guitars\, dynamic percussion\, and haunting vocal harmonies escort the listener on a ride through everyday silenced small town dramas\, into murky backwoods of past lives\, and along hopeful deserted dream landscapes. \nNOHMADS is currently writing and recording new music for their sophomore release. Their latest single\, “Cough/Cool” is streaming on Spotify and iTunes\, with accompanying music video on NohmadsTV. Mixed media music video debuting February 2023. \nPhil Hardman – percussion \nEva Victoria – vocals\, keys\, synths \nKen Becker III – guitar\, vocals \nUsha Rajbhandari – bass\, vocals
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LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Spring 2023 Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:The Galleries at Crosstown Arts\nFriday\, April 21\, 2023\nTimes: 6-8 pm\nTickets: Free and open to the public \nCrosstown Arts announces its spring 2023 arts programming — “Deceive the Heavens to Cross the Seas” by McLean Fahnestock\, “Edgewise: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm with Line” by Khara Woods\, “Entrances\, Exits and the Spaces Betwixt” by Tangela Mathis\, and “Color Thread” by Carl Fox. \nThe opening reception is scheduled for Friday\, April 21\, 6-8 p.m. The exhibitions run from Saturday\, April 22\, through Sunday\, August 6. \nScreening Room:\nMcLean Fahnestock — “Deceive the Heavens to Cross the Seas” \nThis exhibition is composed of videos from McLean Fahnestock’s Stratagem series\, where the sea and sky flip and merge to generate a new\, seductive yet false horizon. Stratagems are plans or schemes that are designed to deceive. Usually referring to warfare\, they are a well-executed artifice upon an enemy. Working with her interest in desire as it manifests in the landscape\, these works present the ways that our desires can open a door to our ultimate deception. \nIn a presentation unique to Crosstown Arts\, the videos have been loaded into a custom program that randomly chooses the video and the length of time the video will loop before the next one is randomly chosen to play. Viewers will have a shifting experience that will never repeat. \nThe title for the exhibition comes from the first of the 36 Stratagems – a 6th century Chinese text covering political\, military\, and social strategy written by an unknown scholar. \nMcLean Fahnestock works with the dynamically changing landscape. Her practice is centered on our desire for specific visual and physical landscapes as manifested through the concept of paradise. This has led to investigations into how this desire has been the catalyst for climate change\, colonialism\, and ecocide. She utilizes digital forms of collage\, video\, and new media. McLean received a BFA from Middle Tennessee State University and MFA from California State University Long Beach. Her work has been exhibited and screened across the United States and internationally. Her work was selected for Off the Screen at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival. She has been an artist in residence at Stove Works in Chattanooga\, Tennessee\, and The Lock-Up in Newcastle\, New South Wales\, Australia. McLean keeps her studio in Old Hickory\, Tennessee. \nEast Gallery: \nKhara Woods — “Edgewise: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm with Line” \n“Edgewise: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm with Line” presents a collection of paintings\, sculpture and creative devices developed since 2016. The works examine the creation of movement and texture focusing on a restricted set of grids\, bold colors and shapes inspired by basic geometry. Within these confines\, there are arrangements that intertwine\, shift and vibrate across canvas and wood. \nKhara Woods was born and raised in Memphis\, Tennessee. She comes from a family of artists and craftspeople. She continues the tradition with her geometric abstract paintings and sculpture. Woods began working as a public artist in 2015\, creating and installing murals. In 2016\, she began her studio practice. Woods works primarily with wood\, using it as a canvas or to make 3D art. Mural Arts Philadelphia commissioned Woods as a lead artist for its Art & Environment Initiative in 2019. She completed her first large-scale data visualization mural\, “Basin Portraits\,” in October of that year. She created paintings and mini sculptural studies for her first solo exhibition in October 2020 at the Beverly and Sam Ross Gallery at Christian Brothers University. Some of Woods’ latest op-art-inspired paintings and a layered wood sculpture were displayed in the Axis exhibition at Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette\, Louisiana in 2021. Since then\, Woods is continuing to develop her studio practice and making more 3D works. and State Fellowship Program\, and was the finalist for the Southern Prize. \nWest Gallery: \nTangela Mathis — “Entrances\, Exits and the Spaces Betwixt” \n“Entrances\, Exits and the Spaces Betwixt” presents contrasting aspects of personality\, showcasing the yin and yang of pneuma. The exhibit represents a mental\, emotional\, and spiritual transformation within a palpable dreamscape. Works presented depict and embrace ideas of transitory spaces visually\, mentally and physically. \n“Entrances\, Exits and the Spaces Betwixt” offers the public a glimpse into the unfiltered psyche of TANGELA. The exhibit presents contrasting aspects of her personality\, showcasing the yin and yang of her pneuma. TANGELA is undergoing a mental\, emotional\, and spiritual transformation\, and invites visitors to witness her journey as she ebbs and flows. \nArt Bar Bar Top: \nCarl Fox — “Color Thread” \n“Color Thread” by Carl Fox is a mixed-media installation featuring works in acrylic\, oil\, and watercolor paired with text. The installation invites the viewer to move along a tapestry of color and hold space for Carl’s thoughts on the nature of color and how an examination of that nature can be brought to other aspects of life. Do colors have identity? Can one re-create an experience of color? How do the richest colors — browns\, coppers\, maroons — seem to slide under us\, unnoticed\, as we move through everyday life?
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/opening-reception-for-spring-2023-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts
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SUMMARY:Adam Larson Trio
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the Adam Larson Trio in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nThursday\, April 20\, 2023\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 in advance | $20 at door | $10 student tickets available at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nOn the heels of two record releases in 2022 — With Love\, From Chicago and With Love\, From Kansas City — saxophonist Adam Larson brings his New York trio for the final installment of his ambitious trio trilogy project totThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts on Thursday\, April 20. \nLarson will be joined by Matt Clohesy on electric bass and Jimmy Macbride on drums. Together\, they will be celebrating the release of With Love\, From New York. The music for the evening will be familiar to fans of Larson — high octane and energetic — and will offer something for jazz and jazz-adjacent fans alike. Join the trio for the last hoorah of a nearly two-year project; you won’t want to miss it!
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/adam-larson-trio/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Little Richard: I Am Everything
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Little Richard: I Am Everything at Crosstown Theater. \nLisa Cortés / 2023 / 98 minutes / Not Rated\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nLike a quasar burning past the gaslight\, director Lisa Cortés’ eye-opening documentary explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music. Little Richard: I Am Everything shines a clarifying light on the Black\, queer origins of rock ’n’ roll\, and establishes the genre’s big bang: Richard Wayne Penniman. Testimonials from legendary musicians and cultural figures\, Black and queer scholars\, and interviews with the artist himself all exuberantly reclaim a history that was willfully appropriated by white artists and institutions. Cortés updates the canon with a treasure trove of rarely seen archival footage of Penniman. Among the gems are scenes with his Black and queer predecessors and contemporaries\, like Sister Rosetta Tharpe\, the mother of rock ’n’ roll who gave 14-year-old Penniman his first break. Cortés depicts Penniman’s complex journey as a conflicted revolutionary who careened between religion\, sex\, and rock ’n’ roll\, navigating the extreme tensions of race and sexuality of his time. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/little-richard-i-am-everything/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema: IF/Then Southern Shorts
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: IF/Then Southern Shorts.  \nCrosstown Theater\nWednesday\, April 19\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm\nTickets: Pay-What-You-Can \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nFor this month’s MicroCinema\, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are ecstatic to have partnered with IF/Then Shorts to present an array of incredible\, often touching documentary shorts from filmmakers throughout the South. We’re glad to be able to include in this program a preview screening of Zaire Love’s SLICE\, which was a part of the 2021 IF/Then + Hulu Short Documentary Lab and the recipient of the 2020 Black Creators Forum Short Film Grant! \nThese IF/Then-supported films cover a vast swath of the region\, from Memphis to western rural Texas\, to New Orleans and Central Florida. They intimately and thoughtfully foreground workers who are reeling from the effects of the oil industry (WHEN IT’S GOOD\, IT’S GOOD)\, the deep impact the work of Haitian immigrants in the U.S. have on their families back home (MADAME PIPI)\, and those who’ve beautifully mastered the art of slicing right here in Memphis (SLICE). \nThank you to IF/Then Shorts for their work and support in making this program possible!
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/microcinema-if-then-southern-shorts/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230414T210000
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arts Resident Artists Open Studio Night
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts\nFriday\, April 14\, 2023\nTime: 6-9 pm\nAdmission: Free \nCrosstown Arts is proud to invite the Memphis community to visit the artist studios. Artists in residence will have their studios open on Friday\, April 14\, from 6 to 9 p.m. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nSu-Yee Lin writes stories and poetry that grapple with issues of identity\, memory\, environment\, and mythology. Her work often lies on the border between the real and the strange\, and she is interested in the intersections between the surreal and the natural world. She was a Fulbright Fellow to China and has had work published in the Pushcart Prize anthology\, Tor.com\, Electric Literature\, Bennington Review\, Day One\, Nashville Review\, The Offing\, and other literary journals\, and short stories translated into Italian and Chinese. \nKeith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet and a Cave Canem fellow. He is a recipient of an NEA Fellowship\, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant\, and an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award\, and has received both a Kenyon Review Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship. His book\, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon)\, was recognized by the New York Times as a best new book of poetry. \nEdo Rosenblith (B. 1988 Tel Aviv\, Israel) received a BFA in painting in 2011 at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Visual Art at Washington University-St. Louis in 2017. Edo is a compulsive draftsman who works in a variety of mediums: murals\, painting\, drawing\, printmaking\, and book arts. \nKelsey Harrison’s sculptural work has been shown in institutions nationally including The Jewish Museum\, Abrons Art Center\, and The Knockdown Center in New York\, SOMArts in San Francisco\, The Sullivan Galleries in Chicago\, The College of William and Mary in Virginia\, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and the Utah Museum of Fine Art in Salt Lake City. Harrison received her BFA in Sculpture from Purchase College\, State University of New York and her MFA in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Memphis. \nApollo Mighty is a Memphis-born R&B/Soul artist. He uses his music to express his many selves\, embracing the extremes of his own personal ugliness and beauty — while also reflecting the world around him. He has worked extensively in the music scenes in Memphis and Chicago and his 2020 EP project Behavior amassed over 600k streams across platforms. \nJennifer Sargent makes intricate drawings and handwoven tapestries. As an artist weaver she considers herself both a contemporary practitioner and a part of a longer continuum that is thousands of years old. This idea is both a comfort and a challenge. One of two elements is always present in Sargent’s work\, either story telling or the natural world (whether wild or domesticated). Sargent creates an abstracted sense of these ideas or experiences through the layering of pattern and color.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/crosstown-arts-resident-artists-open-studio-night/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts
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SUMMARY:Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV at Crosstown Theater. \nAmanda Kim / 2023 / 109 minutes / Not Rated \nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nThe father of video art and coiner of the term “electronic superhighway\,” Nam June Paik was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Director Amanda Kim tells the remarkable story of Paik as a citizen of the world and trailblazing artist\, who both saw the present and predicted the future with astonishing clairvoyance. With Steven Yeun reading Paik’s own written words — showcasing the artist’s strategic playfulness and immense creativity — Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV is a celebration of perhaps the most modern artist of all time. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/nam-june-paik-moon-is-the-oldest-tv/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230412T220000
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SUMMARY:Xiu Xiu
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Xiu Xiu in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nWednesday\, April 12\, 2023\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 GA early bird presale* | $25 General Admission \n*presale 01/12/23 – 02/12/23 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nXiu Xiu’s most recent work is a record of halves. \nAngela Seo sings on half of the record. Jamie Stewart sings on half of the record. \nHalf of the songs are experimental industrial. Half of the songs are experimental modern classical. Half of it is real. Half of it is imaginary. \nThe real songs attempt to turn the worst life has offered to five people the band is connected with into some kind of desperate shape that does something\, anything\, other than grind and brutalize their hearts and memory within these stunningly horrendous experiences. \nThe imaginary songs are an expansion and abstract exploration of the early rock and roll “Teen Tragedy” genre as jumping off point to decontaminate the band’s own overwhelming emotions in knowing and living with what has happened to these five people. \nWhat none of this record does and despite the oft repeated assertion\, what Xiu Xiu has never done\, is attempt to superficially shock the listener. Instead\, Xiu Xiu has spent twenty years grappling with how to process\, to be empathetic towards\, to disobey and to reorganize horror; there is no other word for it other than horror. \nThe motivation for writing Ignore Grief to be about a child who was sold into prostitution by his mother\, a junior high student who was kidnapped and murdered\, incessantly choosing alcohol and cocaine over one’s family\, becoming lost in the bleakest\, darkest aspects of cultish spirituality and committing suicide as means to escape and protest a life of violent sex work is because the members of Xiu Xiu themselves are deeply shocked. \nOld friend and new member David Kendrick (Sparks\, Devo\, Gleaming Spires) joins Angela Seo and Jamie Stewart through whatever this may be and whatever it may mean and why ever it may have occurred. The point of aesthetic examination is to see if there is any way to come out the other side or if there is even any reason. In either case there may not be but to simply turn away would be yet a further act of destruction. \n“I had now lost all confidence in myself\, doubted all men immeasurably\, and abandoned all hopes for the things of this world\, all joy\, all sympathy\, eternally. This was the truly decisive incident of my life. I had been split through the forehead between the eyebrows\, a wound that was to throb with pain whenever I came into contact with a human being.” – Osamu Dazai
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/xiu-xiu/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Greg Tardy with the Ted Ludwig Trio
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Modern Masters: Greg Tardy with the Ted Ludwig Trio in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nTuesday\, April 11\, 2023\nDoors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm\n$25 | $20 in advance ($10 student tickets at the door) \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nSaxophonist\, multi-reedist\, and composer Gregory Tardy is one of the most versatile jazz musicians of his generation\, equally comfortable in a variety of musical and improvisational situations. Born into a musical family\, he began his musical career studying classical clarinet. In his early 20s\, while preparing for a symphony career he discovered jazz saxophone and hasn’t looked back. \nIn 1992\, he started playing with the legendary drummer\, Elvin Jones\, and he recorded his first CD\, Crazy Love. As a sought after sideman he has played with many prominent jazz artists including: Andrew Hill\, Tom Harrell\, Dave Douglas\, Wynton Marsalis\, Jay McShann\, Nicholas Payton\, Roy Hargrove\, Steve Coleman\, Betty Carter\, Don Byron\, Bill Frisell\, Rashied Ali\, Ellis Marsalis\, Brian Lynch\, John Patitucci\, and many more. He has also performed and/or recorded along with many other notable saxophonists\, such as Joe Lovano\, Mark Turner\, Chris Potter\, Dewey Redman\, Ravi Coltrane\, and others. In more recent years\, Tardy has gone full circle\, by focusing on his clarinets more\, using them on recordings by Tom Harrell\, Ohad Talmor/Steve Swallow\, Stefan Harris\, Chris Potter and Andrew Hill. \nHis performance schedule has taken him all over the world\, playing at all of the major jazz festivals and on some of the biggest stages in jazz. As a sideman\, he has been featured on several Downbeat Albums of the Year and also several Grammy nominated recordings; including a Grammy winning CD with Brian Lynch in 2006. He also has recorded fourteen CDs under his own name featuring his unique compositions\, blending his love of traditional jazz with a more modern seeking style. His latest project\, If Time Could Stand Still\, was released in the fall of 2020 on WJ3 Records.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/greg-tardy-with-the-ted-ludwig-trio/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Intimacy on Set
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present Shoot & Splice: Intimacy On Set at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nTickets: Free\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Event begins at 7:00 p.m. \nIndie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a panel and conversation on Intimacy Coordinating. While not a new position\, intimacy coordination has recently become an on-set film industry expectation whenever actors are needed to perform vulnerable scenes that require high levels of trust and communication. \nOur panel of local coordinators have worked closely with many directors\, actors\, and crew\, while also furthering their knowledge through organizations such as Intimacy Choreographers of Color (ICOC) and the Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE). \nIntimacy Coordination covers a much broader range of cinematic scenes than one might realize – including stunt choreography – while assisting to create a safe\, trusting\, and creative set experience for all. To learn more about our panelists\, see their bios below. \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://crosstownconcourse.com/event/shoot-splice-intimacy-on-set/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230411T193000
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SUMMARY:Listening Session with Xiu Xiu
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents a Listening Session with Xiu Xiu in the Memphis Listening Lab. \nMemphis Listening Lab\nTuesday\, April 11\, 2023\nEvent begins at 6 pm\nTickets: Free \nREGISTER HERE \nXiu Xiu will play songs from their records on the incredible speaker system in the Memphis Listening Lab and then discuss those songs. There will be a brief Q&A after the listening session.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/listening-session-with-xiu-xiu/
LOCATION:Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230409T210000
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SUMMARY:Willi Carlisle with Rachel Maxann
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Willi Carlisle with Rachel Maxann in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSunday\, April 9\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n“Willi Carlisle speaks his truth.” – NPR Music \n“Willi Carlisle is just the kind of artist that Americana music needs.” – Paste Magazine \nWILLI CARLISLE is a poet and a folk singer for the people\, but his extraordinary gift for turning a phrase isn’t about high falutin’ pontificatin’; it’s about looking out for one another and connecting through our shared human condition. Born and raised on the Midwestern plains\, Carlisle is a product of the punk-to-folk music pipeline that’s long fueled frustrated young men looking to resist. \nAfter falling for the rich ballads and tunes of the Ozarks\, where he now lives\, he began examining the full spectrum of American musical history. This insatiable stylistic diversity is obvious in his wildly raucous live performances\, where songs range from sardonic trucker-ballads like “Vanlife” to the heartbreaking queer waltz “Life on the Fence\,” to an existential talkin’ blues about a panic attack in Walmart’s aisle five. \nWith guitar\, fiddle\, button-box\, banjo\, harmonicas\, rhythm-bones\, and Willi’s booming baritone\, this is bonafide populist folk music in the tradition of cowboys\, frontier fiddlers\, and tall-tale tellers. Carlisle recognizes that the only thing holding us back from greatness is each other. With a quick wit and big sing-alongs\, these folksongs bring us a step closer to breaking down our divides. \n“Willi Carlisle is an absolute force of nature. From the moment he walks on stage you can’t take your eyes off of him and the minute he opens his mouth you can’t help but hang on every word. Even if the songs weren’t there\, the showmanship alone would be worth the price of admission\, but the scary part is the songs are just as good as the stories.” — BJ Barham
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/willi-carlisle/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Roberta Lea presented by Folk All Y’all and Crosstown Arts
DESCRIPTION:The Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, April 8\, 2023\nDoors open at 7pm | Show begins at 7:30pm\nTickets: $20 (purchase tickets here) \nWith a voice like cinnamon and a pen like butter\, Roberta Lea is a rising artist\, ready to give the world a taste of what she’s made of. Fellow artists have called her Hampton Roads’ best kept secret. It’s as though she’s a family recipe\, kept hidden until now. \nFellow musicians have described her sound as “country-neo-pop.” As a Millennial\, it’s often quite difficult to pin her down to one particular genre. Her influences range from ’80s R&B legends like Roberta Flack\, Anita Baker\, and Sade\, to pop ’90s girl-power players like Alanis Morissette\, Sheryl Crow\, Shania Twain\, and everything in between.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/roberta-lea-presented-by-folk-all-yall-and-crosstown-arts/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230406T213000
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SUMMARY:Ami Dang
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Ami Dang in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nThursday\, April 6\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $20 advance | $25 day of the show \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nAmrita “Ami” Kaur Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist\, sitarist\, composer and producer from Baltimore. Her sound blends elements of North Indian classical\, noise/ambient electronics\, beat-driven psych and experimental dance pop. The work references her hybrid identity as a first-generation South Asian-American\, Sikh upbringing\, musical education\, as well as the chaos and spirituality of the landscapes of both Baltimore and urban India. \nPicking up her first sitar when she was twelve years old\, Dang has studied North Indian classical music (voice and sitar) in both New Delhi and Maryland\, and she also holds a degree in music technology & composition from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Following in the footsteps of artists like Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass\, she seeks to advance the sound of contemporary experimental\, pop\, and electronic music with the sounds of South Asia — through vocals and sitar\, ragas\, and sampling. And vice versa\, she aims to bring a broader sound palette to the legacy of South Asian music. These goals are a lifelong mission. To that end\, she has collaborated with Animal Collective\, William Cashion (of Future Islands)\, James Acaster\, Thor Harris — to name a few. She has provided tour support for Beach House\, black midi\, Grimes\, Lower Dens\, Florist and more.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/ami-dang/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230402T210000
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SUMMARY:Tarta Relena
DESCRIPTION:The Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSunday\, April 2\, 2023\nDoors 7PM | Show 7:30PM\nTickets: $25 | $20 in advance \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nTarta Relena was born in 2016 as a project of two singers to explore a cappella the sonorities of different styles of vocal music. Far from wanting to create a stamp of the traditional and to define the Mediterranean\, Tarta Relena wants to make its own a repertoire that goes from music of oral tradition to songs of author that in one way or another are related to the geographical area of the Mediterranean. \nTarta Relena sings from the perspective that what we call folklore is a living and moving repertoire. Therefore\, this reality is mouldable and can be reinterpreted with the instruments and sonorities that we now have within our reach. A key tool is the electronics with which they re-signify the melodies without leaving aside their origins. The study and knowledge of the path and the contexts that have given rise to these musics opens the doors of experimentation towards new meanings. In Tarta Relena’s work there is also a desire to play at blurring the concept of authorship\, bringing together anonymous traditional melodies and newly created songs under the same umbrella\, treating them in the same way and placing oral transmission\, the central element of tradition\, at the centre. \nOne of the strong points of the project is the complexity in simplicity and the maximum expression with the minimum of elements. The repertoire work brings together the resources of different vocal techniques (flamenco\, lyrical\, traditional\, jazz…)\, allowing a vast exploration of the possibilities of the voice. \nIn January 2019 Tarta Relena released her first album entitled Ora Pro Nobis (The Indian Runners\, 2019)\, winner of the Enderrock Critics’ Prize for the best folk album of 2019\, which consists of eight a cappella songs with a subtle presence of electronics. In April 2020\, during their confinement\, they released their second work\, Intercede Pro Nobis (The Indian Runners\, 2020)\, recognised by Rockdelux as the best national EP of 2020\, which emphasises the importance of the dialogue between voice and electronics. \nFiat Lux is the first full-length album and is an exploration of the concept of cyclicality through memory\, nostalgia and the evocation of feelings. The love poems written by Sappho of Lesbos or traditional Sephardic songs deal with the same emotional problems we face as individuals in 2021. Whether in archaic Greece\, in medieval times or in the midst of a global pandemic\, the self goes through the same processes of joy and pain\, closes them and begins again\, unable to avoid the course of things. Each poetic “I” illuminates itself in the midst of all the others to say what it has to say. \nThrough the stories of powerful and time-transcendent characters\, such as the Vingen Mary\, Hildegard of Bingen or the Paixtu tribe of women in Afghanistan\, the timelessness and transcendence of these voices and their discourses are explored\, revisited and sung from today’s perspective. \nTarta Relena are: \nMarta Torrella\, voice and electronics. \nHelena Ros\, voice and electronics.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/tarta-relena/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Nubia Yasin: SHEENA
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Nubia Yasin: SHEENA in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, April 1\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 advance | $20 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nShow Description: \nSHEENA\, a show curated and performed by Nubia Yasin\, begs the question “What would make the pain of transformation desirable?” With a blend of original poetry and music\, Yasin tells the story of her own transition from girlhood to womanhood against a backdrop of deep rooted shame. By walking through her own shame\, she aims to allow the audience a chance to shine a light into their darkest corners\, and say to what lives there “I see you. I don’t hate you.” \nArtist Bio: \nNubia Yasin is a Memphis-born writer\, multidisciplinary artist\, and performer. She uses her experiences as a first generation Somali-American living in the South to tell stories about Black femmehood\, with an acute focus on themes related to shame. Her writing has been featured in projects for Netflix\, Apple Music\, and more. She’s performed in galleries and museums across the United states. \nHer first full collection of poetry\, The Blood and Body\, was published in August 2022 with HomieHousePress.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/nubia-yasin-sheena/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot and the Jazz Bins
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot and the Jazz Bins at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $35-45 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Bad Plus \nReid Anderson (bass)\, Dave King (drums)\, Ben Monder (guitar)\, Chris Speed (saxophone) \nThe Bad Plus are the ultimate originals. A democratic unit with a clear vision and a refusal to conform to convention. For the past two decades they have played with spirit and adventure\, made their own rules and done so with a bold sense of creativity and intent. Avoiding easy categorization\, The Bad Plus has won critical acclaim and a legion of fans worldwide with their unique sound and flair for live performance. \nNow in their 21st year\, The Bad Plus continues to push boundaries as founding members Reid Anderson (bass) and Dave King (drums) embark on a new piano-less incarnation of the band with Ben Monder (guitar) and Chris Speed (tenor saxophone) – instigating a new wave of excitement and anticipation within the band that is re-energizing their sound and inspiration. The Bad Plus have constantly searched to bridge genres and techniques while exploring the infinite possibilities of exceptional musicians working in perfect sync. \nThe Bad Plus is set to release their 15th studio recording and debut self-titled album as a dynamic new quartet via Edition Records on Friday\, September 30th. “Evolution is necessary for life and creativity\,” say Dave King and Reid Anderson. “We’ve evolved\, but we’re still The Bad Plus.” \nMarc Ribot & The Jazz Bins \nMarc Ribot (guitar)\, Greg Lewis (organ)\, Joe Dyson (drums) \nMarc Ribot’s four months with jazz organ legend Brother Jack McDuff were his first ever with an internationally touring artist. Their 1979 itinerary included Ribot’s first concerts in Europe\, and his only to date in Gary\, Indiana and Rochester\, NY. Although the two never recorded together (due to artistic differences that became apparent in Ribot’s later work…Brother Jack reportedly spent much of their stage time fixing Ribot with what side musicians referred to as his “death ray”)\, Ribot never lost his affection for McDuff’s music and the Hammond organ dominated Soul Jazz scene from which it emerged. Says Ribot: “McDuff’s US audiences—the so-called ‘Chitlin Circuit— were just the hippest in the world: sophisticated about the music\, definitely…but also demanding the deepest soul while rewarding restraint in its expression. What this brought out in the musicians was every bit as intense as the music taking shape at CBGBs at the time. In fact\, I always felt the two scenes had something in common\, and I’ve been trying to express exactly what ever since.” \nFellow Jazz-Bin\, Greg Lewis\, is not only one of the greatest virtuosos of the Hammond b3 organ alive\, but perhaps the only one willing and able to haul a real Hammond b3 and Leslie speaker cabinet to live gigs in NYC! Says Ribot: “Greg is NYC’s best kept secret. He can tell a story on the Hammond like nobody else.” Rounded out with a TBA guest drummer\, The Jazz-Bins use deep grooves and over the top improvisation to channel the spirits of Newark’s Key Club Sparky J’s Lounge\, and NYC’s CBGB’s c/a 1977 into a quest for punk/soul salvation. The Jazz-Bins go— not exactly ‘ancient’\, but ‘back’— to the future\, to tap into a scene that never really existed (but should have\, will\, and does whenever people drop their preconceptions about ‘genre’ long enough to feel the groove)\, and a vibe that never really stopped. Dig it! \nNew Orleans native Joe Dyson has certainly been one to watch. He started playing music in his family’s church at just two years old. After being noticed for his peculiar talent\, Joe was placed in the Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp where he was shadowed by the late\, great clarinetist Alvin Batiste\, and his longtime band leader and mentor\, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison. He went on to graduate from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)\, and earned a Presidential Scholarship to his alma mater Berklee College of Music. \nJoe has shared the stage with Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Ellis Marsalis\, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah\, Jon Batiste\, Leo Nocentelli\, Sullivan Fortner\, Dirty Dozen Brass Band\, Pedrito Martinez\, Grammy Award winners Nicholas Payton and Pat Metheny among others.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/the-bad-plus-marc-ribot-and-the-jazz-bins/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:SpiralPhonics
DESCRIPTION:The Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\nDoors open at 7 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $15 in advance | $20 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nSpiralPhonics is an instrumental music trio founded in 2021 by saxophonist Art Edmaiston\, guitarist Logan Hanna and percussionist Terence F. Clark. The musical direction of the group focuses on original compositions and improvisations woven together using the energy of the moment. October 2022 marked the release of their debut live album “The Argot Session” and the band is currently working on new music for an upcoming studio recording. \nMelodic twists and churning rhythms challenge the listener to open the lens of expectation and allow themselves to be transported through the air on surging spikes of energy freely flowing into funky cascades of textural grooves and harmonic surprises. \nInspiration – Vibrations – Reflections – Intention \nFor this concert in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts\, SpiralPhonics will give a rare performance as an expanded quartet. \nJoining Edmaiston and Hanna for this show is the phenomenal PeeWee Jackson on drums with fiery up-and-coming bassist Liam O’dell rounding out the quartet. SpiralPhonics is a musical group drawing from a deep well of influences and experiences. The members are always open to the unlimited possibilities of the moment and that is what makes each performance special and not to be missed! \n  \nBlurbs: \n“Extra\, extra! Read all about it! Irresistible force of Downtown Free Improv collides with immovable object of Memphis pocket!” – Charlie Hunter / Artist; Producer  \n“This shiet snuggly fye mane!” – MonoNeon / Bassist; Artist  \n“Bro\, this album ain’t an album. It is a soundbath. It’s a journey around the world. I meditate to it.” – Propaganda / HipHop Artist; Author; Writer \n“From fiery jazz to deep ambient beauty to the funkiest soul music\, this music captures the sound and essence of Memphis in a fashion only made possible by a group of some of its most respected and skilled artists from the past two decades. Deeply emotional\, raw\, and sometimes even danceable; inspiring sounds from the South.” – Chad Fowler / Mahakala Music
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/spiralphonics/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Makaya McCraven
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Makaya McCraven at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $25 advance | $30 day of the show \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nMakaya McCraven is a prolific drummer\, composer\, and producer. \nHis newest album\, In These Times\, is the triumphant finale of a project seven-plus years in the making. It’s a preeminent addition to his already-acclaimed and extensive discography\, and it’s the album he’s been trying to make since he started making records. \nMcCraven believes that the word “jazz” is “insufficient\, at best\, to describe the phenomenon we’re dealing with.” The artist\, who has been aptly called a “cultural synthesizer”\, has a unique gift for collapsing space\, destroying borders and blending past\, present\, and future into poly-textural arrangements of post-genre\, jazz-rooted 21st century folk music. Profiled in Vice\, Rolling Stone\, the Guardian\, and NPR\, among other publications\, he and the music he makes today are at the very vanguard of that phenomenon. According to the New York Times\, “McCraven has quietly become one of the best arguments for jazz’s vitality.” The artist explained to NPR in 2019\, “I don’t think what I’m doing is necessarily that far off of the legacy of jazz that I grew up in … I think one of the things that gives it strength is that people want to argue over it. That’s a good sign. That means there’s life here.” \nBorn in Paris in the Autumn of 1983 to Hungarian singer and flutist Ágnes Zsigmondi and African-American expat jazz drummer Stephen McCraven\, Makaya was raised in a vibrant\, creative community in the Northampton\, Massachusetts area\, where his father often played with artists like saxophonist and ethnomusicologist Marion Brown\, multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef\, and saxophonist Archie Shepp\, as well as a cadre of African Gnawa musicians. That scene\, with its enticing blend of cultures\, helped establish his philosophy around jazz as folk music. Meanwhile\, his mother’s music blended Eastern European folk traditions\, concurrently shaping his conceptions about the role of music in building and reflecting communities. \n“I’m really drawn to folk music. Music of aural tradition\, music that is of the people where it’s more of a collective experience of music and dance and culture that we all participate in and know as part of our being or as part of who we are.” He sees his work as a continuation of those traditions\, noting\, “I like to teach the music to musicians by ear\, and hope even when I bring in more challenging rhythms\, or difficult time signatures\, I am able to do it in a way that is of the body and of the people of the earth in a way that’s not necessarily some intellectual experiment\, but more something that’s dealing with people.” \nWhile immersed as a youth in global folk traditions\, he was also a child of the nineties\, deeply influenced by sample-based hip-hop. He observed that jazz was sometimes perceived by his peers as “something that was old\, corny\, white… going to get you beat up.” This directly countered his own experience with the music: “That was such a strange idea to me\, because the guys I grew up around were cool\, and [weren’t] buttoned up like that.” \nEventually he discovered bridges between jazz and hip-hop\, including classic jazz records being sampled by hip-hop producers such as Pete Rock\, and began to devote energy to “reappropriate this music to be what it is\, what it means to me\, and what it means for my people.” \nAfter cutting his teeth in the Western Massachusetts music scene\, co-founding a jazz-hip hop band called Cold Duck Complex that ultimately opened for The Pharcyde\, Digable Planets\, and the Wu-Tang Clan\, he and his partner (now wife\, comparative race studies scholar Nitasha Tamar Sharma) moved to Chicago in 2006. McCraven soon found himself immersed in both the creative and straight-ahead jazz scenes\, proving his versatility\, and along the way finding a community that mirrored the pulsating scene that birthed him artistically. Within five years’ time\, he’d established a name for himself\, gigging alongside scene stalwarts like Willie Pickens\, Marquis Hill and Jeff Parker. \nHe first connected with the founders of Chicago’s International Anthem label in late 2011\, and across 2012-2013 they hosted and recorded a series of improvised jazz nights featuring his combo at The Bedford\, a club situated in what was once an old basement bank vault. McCraven took 48 hours of recordings and sculpted beguiling hip-hop beats\, not unlike how Teo Macero looped and assembled Miles Davis’ On the Corner from improvised magic. At the time\, McCraven thought of the project\, which became the 2015 double LP release In The Moment\, as an opportunity to connect and to “find a young audience in this music. It just felt like the right time and a place where I could really connect with people.” That notion proved prophetic: JazzTimes called the album “one of the year’s most mesmerizing releases\,” the record was an “Album of the Week” pick by taste-making DJ Gilles Peterson on BBC 6 Music\, and it was chosen for “Best of 2015” lists by PopMatters\, NPR\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nMcCraven continued to hone his process of live improvisation and sampling with Highly Rare in 2017 (crafted from a live set recorded at Danny’s Tavern in Chicago)\, 2018’s Where We Come From(CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape)\, which was built from recordings of a showcase at London’s Total Refreshment Centre\, and Universal Beings (also released in 2018). Universal Beings\, consisting of augmented live sessions in Chicago and New York\, in addition to pop-up studio sessions in London and Los Angeles\, concretely reflects his borderless multi-national ethos. The work featured varying configurations of international players\, including Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings from London\, Junius Paul and Tomeka Reid of Chicago\, Anna Butterss and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson from Los Angeles\, and Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas from New York. \nThe title of the album was culled from a sampled passage on the track “Brighter Days Beginning\,” in which percussionist Carlos Niño offers\, “We’re universal beings\,” a theme of borderlessness that resonated deeply with McCraven\, who grew up in a multicultural household and community. “I’m not beholden to this border or this city\,” McCraven told Vice in 2018\, “What is a place? Other than the people. It’s just dirt\, you know?” The resulting album was called “radiant” and “hypnotic” by Pitchfork. \nIn 2019\, McCraven both delivered a triumphant Jazz Night in America performance at South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago\, and mounted a multimedia performance of an early iteration of what became his new album In These Times\, at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. \nIn the meantime\, he remixed Gil Scott-Heron’s final album (2010’s I’m New Here) for 2020’s We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven\, issued Universal Beings E+F Sides(also in 2020)\, and delved into the venerable Blue Note Records catalog in 2021 for Deciphering the Message\, each project also employing new improvisations and sampling\, helping to further cement his “beat scientist” moniker. Concurrently\, the seeds for 2022’sIn These Times were budding\, and their nurseries were stages around the globe. McCraven explains\, “As I’ve been touring\, I’ve been performing music off of the record In These Times… When In the Moment took off and I started touring a lot\, we would go on the road and 50% of the music was just my concept and my compositions.” \nIn These Times\, a collection of polytemporal compositions inspired as much by broader cultural struggles as McCraven’s personal experience as a product of a multinational\, working class musician community\, is the recording that McCraven has been trying to create for 7+ years\, as it’s been slowly cooking in the background while his other works were released. He began recording In These Times seven years ago\, but “for whatever reason\, Universal Beings just came to fruition much quicker. It just took more time for this to mature into everything it’s become. With the success of Universal Beings and the Universal Beings concerts that we did (with Red Bull) in Chicago at South Shore Cultural Center and le poisson rouge in New York\, I had an opportunity to realize the record not as a collection of four sides of trios and quartets\, but I turned that record as a performance into a 10 to 12-person concert\, and that experience ended up evolving my approach to In These Times.” \nIn These Times encompasses all he’s lived through\, as well as his lineage\, while also pushing the music forward. Music critic Passion of the Weiss suggested that “McCraven’s work\, both with younger players and the sounds of older recordings\, is part of a necessary conversation about the next evolution of the Black improvised music known colloquially as ‘jazz.’ He’s found the threads connecting the past with the present\, and is either wrapping them with new colors and textures\, or he’s plucking them gleefully like the strings of a grand instrument.” McCraven concurs: “To me\, that is the tradition that I want to try to take part in. Being well-rooted\, but walking into the future\, is really what all of the leaders in this music have done that I admire. And I think that resonates with people. Something that’s like how we know it\, but is evolving… It’s just where I am at\, where we’re at\, and the evolution of that\, and that’s what I’m trying to be.”
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/makaya-mccraven/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Nathan Graybeal Quintet
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\nShow begins at 6 pm\nTickets: Free \nNathan Graybeal is a product of his time\, growing up in the digital information age and utilizing his long history of videography by mixing it with his love for the saxophone. Within 4 years\, he has accumulated over 20 million views on his YouTube channel known as “Saxologic.” After acquiring his master’s degree in jazz performance at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami\, Nathan is currently pursuing a DMA in Classical Saxophone at the University of Memphis.\n\nNathan Graybeal\, alto saxophone\nEli Wyatt\, tenor saxophone\nJacob Loreant\, guitar\nLiam O’Dell\, bass\nZack Graybeal\, drums
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/nathan-graybeal-quintet/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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SUMMARY:Strictly Jazz: The Music of Bill Evans
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Strictly Jazz: The Music of Bill Evans in the Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSunday\, March 26\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show at 7 pm\nTickets: $15 in advance | $20 at the door \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Crosstown Strictly Jazz Series\, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts\, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends. \nThis show features Gerald Stephens (piano)\, Art Edmaiston (tenor saxophone)\, Marc Franklin (trumpet/flugelhorn)\, Neal Bowen (bass)\, and Mike Assad (drums) with a special live painting experience by RODAN. \nAbout Strictly Jazz: \nStrictly Jazz Entertainment is committed to cultivating a growing community in the knowledge and appreciation of jazz. Strictly Jazz Entertainment facilitates dialogue and collaboration between the devoted supporters of jazz and the brand new constituents — those new to the genre — for the furthering of the jazz community. Strictly Jazz provides a bridge between leading artists and a community that typically does not embrace jazz by promoting concerts in various venues to generate an atmosphere that is viable for the absorption of pure jazz.
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/strictly-jazz-the-music-of-bill-evans/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Morgan James (SOLD OUT!)
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Morgan James in The Green Room. \nThe Green Room at Crosstown Arts\nSaturday\, March 25\, 2023\nDoors: 7 pm | Show: 7:30 pm\nVIP Entry at 6:15 pm | VIP meet-and-greet and performance at 6:30 pm\nTickets: $25 | VIP package available with additional $35 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n“A phenomenal talent whose feel for classic soul music is bone deep…This woman is on fire.” — The New York Times \nMorgan James is a Juilliard trained singer\, actress\, songwriter and recording artist in New York City. \nMorgan recently co-produced and starred in an all-female concept recording of “Jesus Christ Superstar” entitled “She Is Risen”. She independently released her studio albums of original soul music\, entitled Memphis Magnetic\, and A Very Magnetic Christmas recorded to analog tape in Memphis\, Tennessee. Other albums include “Reckless Abandon”\, which prompted the Huffington Post to call MJ the “Brightest Breakout Artist of the Year”. Last year\, Morgan took on a full album cover of the Beatles’ iconic ‘White Album’ to celebrate the 50th anniversary; available on CD\, vinyl\, digital and full length concept video on her YouTube channel. She also took on Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” and covered it in its entirety. Morgan recorded two full-length albums with Epic Records: “Hunter”\, an album of original R&B\, and “Morgan James Live\, a celebration of Nina Simone”. All of her music can be found on all streaming platforms\, and hard copies on her website or at shows. \nOn Broadway\, Morgan was in five back-to-back original companies: The Addams Family (starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth)\, Wonderland\, Godspell and Motown: The Musical\, and as a guest at Kristin Chenoweth’s For The Girls. \nWith viral sensation Postmodern Jukebox and with her own YouTube channel\, Morgan’s music videos have accumulated more than 260 million views (and climbing). \nFor info\, tour tickets and new album updates\, please visit www.morganjamesonline.com. @morganajames
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/morgan-james/
LOCATION:The Green Room
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SUMMARY:Red Bull Dance Your Style
DESCRIPTION:The Central Atrium\nSaturday\, March 25\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $5 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nRed Bull Dance Your Style is returning to Memphis — challenging some of the best dancers in the US. Competitors will enter epic 1-on-1 battles\, bringing improvisation to a new level. Unpredictable tunes\, from mainstream hits to timeless classics\, fire up the dance floor\, allowing dancers to showcase their skills and wow the crowd! And here’s the catch — the crowd are the judge! Red Bull Dance Your Style Memphis is going down at Crosstown Concourse on March 25\, 2023. Save the date! \n\n\nThe winner of Red Bull Dance Your Style Memphis will compete in the National Finals May 20\, 2023\, in Chicago. \nIf you are interested in competing\, register for auditions near you here: https://win.gs/auditions
URL:https://crosstownconcourse.com/event/red-bull-dance-your-style/
LOCATION:Central Atrium
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