My wife and I booked a show! On May 28th, @lukefromnashville will be coming to First Congo to play his incredible ambient pedal steel music in the sanctuary. @fosterfalls (dream folk) and Dream Journal (hypnagogic poetry) are rounding out the bill, and the whole thing will be accompanied by @infinitystairs visuals. They’ll be projection mapping directly onto a banner and some of the church architecture directly behind the artists. Crazy!
I wrote about this in my newsletter, but bringing music like this to a church has been a dream of mine ever since I’ve started attending Big Ears. It’s really the best kind of place to appreciate this kind of music, a space where you can just let yourself be consumed by sound and be with your own thoughts for a bit. Thank you so much to @bucklestew and the whole First Congo crew for allowing this to happen in the sanctuary. We got married there and now we’re booking one of my favorite working artists there. What a life.
May 28th, $15, 7 pm. Flyer by Thomas Corbin (@general.labor )
‼️Show Update‼️
Opening for Mama’s Broke on February 5th is fosterfalls!
In their enchanting live performances Memphis-born bard fosterfalls guides the audience on a quest through a mythic forest of swelling harmonies and entrancing looper arrangements. Their lyrics plumb themes of the unconscious and ground into natural metaphor, inviting collective effervescence and shared introspection.
Foster (they/them) was a 2025 artist in residence at Crosstown Arts and has appeared on local stages including Memphis Concréte Festival, Raised by Sound Festival, Memphis Mushroom Festival and Goner’s Record Store Day gazebo. They have been featured in We Are Memphis Music and The Daily Memphian, and on local stations WYXR, Radio Memphis, and WREG. Their sophomore single “Ask the Cards” was selected as October 2023’s best new track by Out the Box magazine and recommended in Focus magazine’s “Queer Up Your Playlist.” Last fall they released their debut EP Somniscience to streaming and to cassette through Big Tobacco Records, supported by a regional tour. Most recently they designed, wrote, and released a choose your own adventure companion game to the EP, now available to play at fosterfallsmusic.com
You won’t want to miss Mama’s Broke and fosterfalls at the Green Room—get your tickets today!
📍The Green Room @ Crosstown Arts
🗓️Thursday, February 5, 2026
⏰Doors open at 7:00 | Show begins at 7:30
🎟️Tickets: $20 (plus fees) | $25 at the door
#crosstownarts #crosstownconcourse #memphismusic #choose901 #thegreenroom
Are you a lover of close listening? Do you wait all year for the cicada song to blanket the sun warmed earth? Does your brain need rinsing off? You may be entitled to musical compensation
Whatever ails you, you are cordially invited to the New Moon Garden Party, an evening of ethereal indie music revelry and sound bath meditation
Classically trained pianist Kathy Zhou will mesmerize with her imaginative and haunting folk pop
Nashville Americana songstress Liv Zemer will envelop you into her world of tender, healing melody
Fellow Nash based songwriter & audio engineer Abby Sullivan will sing you her stories earnestly exploring the beauty and chaos of existence
And fosterfalls will close with a renewing, meditative sound bath set opening to warm nylon string guitar and ending in crystal bowls under gossamer layers of improvised harmony
Meet us at sunset at 444 Malvern for a dreamy and ephemeral shared experience, bring your own blanket, beverage, etc*
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(Thanks to Crosstown Arts for hosting, *Crosstown is a nonsmoking campus)
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We’ll be in the musical neighborhood of Joni Michell, Haley Heynderickx, Julia Jacklin, Laura Marling and more
We’ll be in the physical neighborhood of Memphis making Memphis music, local music, things to do in Memphis, things to do in crosstown, crosstown concourse, indie folk, singer songwriter, group meditation, outdoor event, things to do this summer
Meet fosterfalls! A singer-songwriter originally from Memphis, they were introduced to the Crosstown Arts Residency program through Musician and Artist Services (check it out on our website: /music/).
Having been described as a “bard,” Foster began their creative journey as a child singing in choirs and doing musical theater. They describe singing as an “intrinsically human, physically regulating thing to do,” fundamental to their being in the world.
Foster has been in the ideating phase for the first few weeks of their residency–putting together piano riffs, creating raw materials, and conceptualizing projects. In addition to Residency Artist Talks on the 17th, they are preparing to host a New Moon Garden Party on July 25, which will feature an “infinite supply of vibes” in an Indie-ethereal lineup, concluding with a sound bath meditation.
When I asked if they see themself staying in Memphis, they replied with a chuckle, saying “I don’t show up in mirrors.” They appreciate that the creative community here presents a level of chill that doesn’t exist in other places, and that it allows them to pursue their ideas freely. For sounds you cannot hear anywhere else, head to their website: fosterfallsmusic.com.
We are glad you are here, fosterfalls, and we look forward to hearing more of your unique perspective at the Residency Artist Talks and beyond!
Join us in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts on July 17 at 6pm to hear more!
#crosstownarts #memphismusic #artistresidency
@fosterfalls is bringing the loops to Memphis Concrète on 6/7!
#experimentalmusic #electronicmusic #memphismusic #electroacousticmusic #meditativeloops #ambientmusic #dreamfolk #festival #looping
My thoughts so private and intimate and close to my heart have somehow found their way to you. There is no better gift than traveling and sharing songs I've been given. Hope you can share these experiences with me.
Ticket links in bio!
Announcements:
I’m embarking on a journey to @arniebrenn ‘s release show this week at Proud Larry’s I will be an artist in residence with @crosstownarts this summer
While residing in art I’ll join the @memphisconcretemusic festival lineup at the Green Room at crosstown
And more…
if approached on or near a new moon I may sing hauntingly of it to you, proceed at your own risk. watch upgraded to warning this Saturday (3/29) at DKDC and 4/23 at Proud Larry's in Oxford
