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Any World (That I’m Welcome to) Sex Race Hoodoo and The Steely Dan Conductions w/ special guest Melvin Van Peebles wid Laxative

Any World (That I’m Welcome to) Sex Race Hoodoo and The Steely Dan Conductions w/ special guest Melvin Van Peebles wid Laxative

By B. Sugar on April 18, 2012

The Burnt Sugar Reper­tory Arkestra presents: Any World (That I’m Wel­come to) Sex Race Hoodoo and The Steely Dan Con­duc­tions A Hip­ster Car­ni­va­lesque in Post Soul Ver­nac­u­lar w/ spe­cial guest Melvin Van Pee­bles wid Lax­a­tive.
Thurs­day, May 24 2012

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Vision Festival 17

By B. Sugar on April 9, 2012

Burnt Sugar is pleased to be tak­ing part in Vision Fes­ti­val 17.
Our per­for­mance is at 7pm on Sun­day, June 17.
The lineup is outstanding.

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Any World (That I’m Welcome to) Sex Race Hoodoo & The Steely Dan Conductions A Hipster Carnivalesque in Post Soul Vernacular at (Le) Poisson Rouge

Any World (That I’m Welcome to) Sex Race Hoodoo & The Steely Dan Conductions A Hipster Carnivalesque in Post Soul Vernacular at (Le) Poisson Rouge

By B. Sugar on March 21, 2012

(Le) Pois­son Rouge & The Burnt Sugar Reper­tory Arkestra presents: “Any World (That I’m Wel­come to) Sex Race Hoodoo & The Steely Dan Con­duc­tions A Hip­ster Car­ni­va­lesque in Post Soul Vernacular”.

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Any World That I’m Welcome To: The Steely Dan Conductions

Any World That I’m Welcome To: The Steely Dan Conductions

By B. Sugar on February 23, 2012

Burnt Sugar Plays Steely Dan, Thurs­day, March 1, 2012 at 8:30 Tar­get Free Thurs­days David Ruben­stein Atrium at Lin­coln Cen­ter
Any World That I’m Wel­come To: A Hip­ster Car­ni­va­lesque In Post Soul Ver­nac­u­lar. Sex Race HooDoo And The Steely Dan Con­duc­tions.
Cre­ative Direc­tion By Ver­non Reid.

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Burnt Sugar Residency at Brown University

Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber Residency at Brown University

By B. Sugar on February 14, 2012

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber is hon­ored to take part in a 2 day res­i­dency at Brown Uni­ver­sity. Spon­sored by Corey D. B. Walker, Ph.D & The Depart­ment of Africana Stud­ies. Thurs­day, March 15, 2012 and Fri­day, March 16, 2012 The Depart­ment of Africana Stud­ies presents Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber for a two-day artist res­i­dency that […]

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Tammany Societies: A Jazz Review — Marianne Pillsbury’s 40th Birthday Bash

Tammany Societies: A Jazz Review — Marianne Pillsbury’s 40th Birthday Bash

By B. Sugar on December 18, 2011

Tam­many Soci­eties: A Jazz Review — Mar­i­anne Pillsbury’s 40th Birth­day Bash
Jan­u­ary 4, 2012
7-11pm

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The Negrocity Follies

By B. Sugar on November 2, 2011

(In which The Ion­man aggres­sively mis-conducts him­self dur­ing another absurdly onanis­tic self-interview.…) So the new Burnt Sugar record is called ALL YA NEEDS THAT NEGROCITY. Any expla­na­tions of ‘Negroc­ity’ forth­com­ing? Naw, not really. Be kinda redun­dant. Self-explanatory in a world where Three Six Mafia is win­ning Oscars and Rick Ross is a sex god. Negrocity […]

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Jazz Foundation of America presents Tammany Societies: Jazz Review “Freedom our Rock”

Jazz Foundation of America presents Tammany Societies: Jazz Review “Freedom our Rock”

By B. Sugar on November 1, 2011

Burnt Sugar Arkestra mashes Bowie + James Brown Wednes­day, Novem­ber 9, 2011 in sup­port of the Jazz Foun­da­tion of Amer­ica       With:  Hamiet Blueitt Band, Greg Bandy’s Jam Ses­sion Time: 6:00pm –10:00pm Where: Tam­many Hall — 152 Orchard Street (between Stan­ton and Riv­ing­ton) tammanyhallny.com jazzfoundation.org Cost: $10 Pro­ceeds from this event will benefit […]

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“All Ya Needs That Negrocity” CD Release Feast

By B. Sugar on October 12, 2011

To cel­e­brate the release of “All Ya Needs That Negroc­ity” on Avant Groidd Musica, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber is per­form­ing & pre­sent­ing an eatin, dancin and card playin throw­down at The Vil­lage @ Gureje at Nova Bar and Gar­den Lounge on Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 5th.

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Burnt Sugar with Vernon Reid & Melvin VanPeebles Rocks Bryant Park!

Burnt Sugar with Vernon Reid & Melvin VanPeebles Rocks Bryant Park!

By B. Sugar on September 9, 2011

Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 16th @ 6p SHARP, The Black Rock Coali­tion, in con­junc­tion with the Bryant Park Fall Fes­ti­val, is proud to kick off the NYC Cul­tural Sea­son with a live per­for­mance by Burnt Sugar fea­tur­ing Spe­cial Guests Ver­non Reid & Melvin Van Pee­bles as they freak the song­books of James Brown, Ash­ford & Simp­son, Melvin […]

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Indomitable: James Brown at SummerStage

Indomitable: James Brown at SummerStage

By B. Sugar on June 6, 2011

Indomitable: James Brown is a tes­ta­ment to the musi­cal, polit­i­cal and entre­pre­neur­ial impact of James Brown’s indomitable spirit, cre­ativ­ity and busi­ness wiles on Amer­i­can cul­ture from the 1950s to the present. The for­mat of the show, mov­ing from hard hit­ting and pre­cise musi­cal homage to direct tes­ti­mony to inno­v­a­tive remixes of his biggest hits, provides […]

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Ziggy and the Berlin Trilogy

Ziggy and the Berlin Trilogy

By B. Sugar on March 7, 2011

For this pre­miere per­for­mance Burnt Sugar will trip on some inner glam and Ger­manic starchild roots and res­ur­rect the moment in musi­cal his­tory when space odd­ity David Bowie came under the cyber­netic sway of Tony Vis­conti, Brain Eno, Kraftwerk, and Robert Fripp. Albums to be exhumed for rean­i­ma­tion and fur­ther study include Hunky Dory, The […]

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DROP THE BOMB PARTY!

By B. Sugar on January 18, 2011

Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 21st start­ing at 7:30pm, The Black Rock Coali­tion — Cel­e­brat­ing 25 years (and still going strong) as the ONLY nation­wide non­profit ded­i­cated to sup­port­ing the COMPLETE and UNCOMPROMISED FREEDOM, RECOGNITION and EQUALITY of artists of color — will be have a PARTY at The Gibson/Baldwin ER Show­room to coin­cide with the eagerly awaited […]

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Indomitable: James Brown The Music and The Man

Indomitable: James Brown The Music and The Man

By B. Sugar on December 6, 2010

After a sold-out run at the Apollo Theater’s Salon Series, inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed Burnt Sugar Arkestra, Tony nom­i­nee Bran­don Vic­tor Dixon (Color Pur­ple, Lion King and Unchain My Heart) and Direc­tor Patri­cia McGre­gor (Fela) present a one-night only con­cert ver­sion of Indomitable: James Brown The Music and The Man on Fri­day, Decem­ber 17, 2010. Doors at 7 […]

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