Monthly Archives: December 2009

Late Night at Joe’s Pub, with special guest, Melvin Van Peebles

By Burnt Sugar | Published: December 30, 2009
As the story goes …from a hum­ble begin­ning of only two the­aters and a tor­rent of neg­a­tive reviews, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baasasssss Song” even­tu­ally mush­roomed to domes­tic box office receipts of $10,000,000.00 and landed on Daily Variety’s list of top-grossing films for the year 1971.  Inci­den­tally Sweet Sweet­back was the largest gross­ing inde­pen­dent film up to [...]
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Chelsea Adewunmi

By amygail | Published: December 18, 2009
Chelsea Adewunmi is a vocal­ist who has per­formed in dance music, gospel, and most notably, impro­vi­sa­tional jazz with Burnt Sugar and Anthony Braxton. She is a recent grad­u­ate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (2008) and is a Pres­i­den­tial Fel­low at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, where she researches the arts and sci­ences through funken­t­elechy, kines­thetic empa­thy, [...]
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“Sweet Sweetback’s Baddass Song: A Hood Opera” Open Rehearsals at BRICstudio

By Burnt Sugar | Published: December 18, 2009
Two Nights! Feb 3 & 4 Melvin Van Pee­bles & Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber in res­i­dence at BRICstudio 8:00 PM Work-In-Progress (rehearsal) View­ing 9:45 PM Dis­cus­sion w/ Melvin Van Pee­bles 10:00 PM Book Sign­ing & Mer­chan­dise Sales Doors Open @ 7:45 PM Tick­ets Details Com­ing Soon! Join us for an unfor­get­table evening with leg­endary artist and direc­tor [...]
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