Upcoming shows
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Event: Burnt Sugar Freaks The James Brown Songbook
- 10/08/10 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Harlem, NYC at The Apollo Theater
- 10/09/10 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Harlem, NYC at The Apollo Theater
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Event: Burnt Sugar Freaks The James Brown Songbook
Author Archives: Burnt Sugar
Undead JazzFest
On June 12th and 13th 2010 boomBOOM Presents and Search & Restore unleash the Undead Jazz Festival on New York City. Hot off the success of Winter Jazzfest, these like-minded, ambitious concert presenters have revived the same two-day, many-artist, multi-venue formula. For two Summer nights, one ticket will give jazz fans access to Le Poisson [...]
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“Serralves em Festa” in Oporto Portugal
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber will be making our first trip Portugal performing on the closing night of the 2010 edition of “Serralves em Festa” in Oporto. The festival directors expect around 10,000 people to gather around the main stage in the park and the Sugar will hit them with JB’s FUNKY DIVAS VERSUS THE [...]
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JB’s Funky Divas vs The Revolution of The Mind
You most likely can’t travel to Porto, Portugal and witness Burnt Sugar’s performance on June 6th at the 2010 edition of Serralves em Festa. More likely you can come to the Blue Note’s Late Night Groove Series on Friday, May 28th and witness the Arkestra Chamber perform JB’s FUNKY DIVAS VERSUS THE REVOLUTION OF THE MIND, a musical mash-up of the albums, James Brown [...]
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May!
Ah… the Sweetback gift keeps on giving! We’d like to welcome Aman-Re Jack (congas), the husband of Tracy Jack (choreographer for the Sweet Sweetback production ), to the Sugar tribe. Speaking of Sweetback we’ve just heard from Mr. Melvin Van Peebles that a 52-minute documentary shot by Mr. Samuel Thiebaut and containing cast interviews, BRIC residency [...]
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The Rites of Thang. With Apollo Heights and Smoota!
8:30 Smoota 9:30 Apollo Heights 10:30 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber $10 in advance at Ticket Web or $12 at the door SMOOTA: “Each song is so sexy (instrumentals), yet weird (lyrics) at the same time…you almost feel wrong for digging it so much.” (DOWNTOWN DIARIES) http://www.myspace.com/smoota APOLLO HEIGHTS: “The best live band in New York.” [...]
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Funk You — Funky Soul Disco Dance Party
8:30pm : Dan Saks and The Funkdadeli All-Stars (feat Burnt Sugar’s Jared Nickerson on bass & ‘Moist’ Paula Henderson on bari-sax) 9:15pm: DeLEON (J-Dub Records) “From the same cultural blender that gave us Gogol Bordello and Dengue Fever comes the Spanish/Jewish/Brooklyn mash that is Daniel Saks’ visionary band DeLeon. At times rocking the Casbah (“La [...]
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Greg Tate on Mizik Pou Dwa Moun
“Like everyone else within reach of global media on the week January 12, 2010, the members of the Burnt Sugar collective were horrified and saddened by news of the massive earthquake which catastrophically struck the island of Haiti. In its disastrous wake came the loss of 250,000 lives and the ongoing terror, displacement, hunger and [...]
“Medicine Music” by Dowoti Désir
“Every society has their medicine men and women whose bag of juju is music. The universality of music in part defines our humanity. ‘Mizik Pou Dwa Moun’ (Music for Human Rights) covers the gamut of alternative sounds produced in the global North. The compilation of songs and instrumentals on this two CD set was designed to repair the spirits of the living and re-member the 300,000 dead as a result of the greatest single calamity nature has bestowed on humanity in modern times, the first epic disaster of the 21st Century: the 7.6 rector scale earthquake that devastated Central Haiti.
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“Mizik Pou Dwa Moun” A Burnt Sugar Collective Compilation for the People of Ayiti
Burnt Sugar is pleased to present: "Mizik Pou Dwa Moun" (Human Rights Music). 25 songs of lamentation, meditation and joy contributed by Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber and its Collective Members. Dedicated to the memory of the souls lost and to the survival and rebirth of Haiti and her people, the album is a free download offered in exchange for your donation to the Haitian aid organization Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health).Contributions by: Satch Hoyt, Micah Gaugh, The Perfect Man-Dave 'Smoota' Smith (feat. Secretary), Brazz Tree, Maya Azucena, Moist Paula Henderson, The Citizens, ISWHAT, Dayton Flic, Jeremiah, Will Martina, Bruce Mack, Meret Koehler, The Avram Fefer Trio, Ladell Mclin and Swiss Chris, Moisturizer, The Destruction of Black Civilization, BT3 and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber.
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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadaass Song — Recorded Live in Paris!!
Thanks to the efforts of our amazing French hosts at Sons D’Hiver & Arte Live Web — we’re happy to share the performance of the second night of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadaass Song: A Hood Opera”
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Sweetback Caught in the Act on Brooklyn Independent Television
Many thanks and a HUGE shout out to Brooklyn Independent Television, a community media program of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn ! Check them out here
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Ben Sisario profiles Melvin Van Peebles at The NY Times
“ASK Melvin Van Peebles about his legacy, and you get a snort, a grimace, a wave of the hand, a game-show error buzz and a finely punctuated “come on.” “I didn’t even know I had a legacy,” he said between rehearsals for his latest project, a musical-theater adaptation of his 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss [...]
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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (the Hood Opera)
The unforgettable Melvin Van Peebles’ movie Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) is an iconic work of Afro-American cinema and the beginnings of Blaxploitation. It was one the biggest successes in the independent film-making and still has a huge influence over the hip-hop culture. Melvin Van Peebles’ own compositions really determine the action by inventing something [...]
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Late Night at Joe’s Pub, with special guest, Melvin Van Peebles
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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“Sweet Sweetback’s Baddass Song: A Hood Opera” Open Rehearsals at BRICstudio
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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THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONTINUES!
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber brings our genre-bending live show to York College’s Performing Art Center in Queens on Friday, November 13th & The World Famous Blue Note in Manhattan on Monday, November 16th. Witness the next step in the evolution of The Arkestra Chamber as “Pass the Baton” makes its NYC area debut at York [...]
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York College Performing Arts Center on 11/13/09
Witness the next step in the evolution of The Arkestra Chamber as “Pass the Baton” makes its NYC area debut at York College’s Performing Art Center on Friday, November 13. Road tested in Chicago, Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware; “Pass the Baton” is Greg Tate’s latest brain-child. With the pass of a baton, conduction duties are shared [...]
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Brooklyn and beyond!
What’s up y’all, it’s fall and as the squirrels know, have to have those chestnuts poppin. Burnt Sugar has been blessed with upcoming hits at the Dywer Cultural Center in Harlem; York College in Queens; the Blue Note in Manhattan, whew! The new year blazes in with a January Joe’s Pub hit with a Sweetback [...]
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Interactive Cell-Structure Sessions feat Marque Gilmore, Mikel Banks, Greg Tate, Burnt Sugar
PRESENTED BY Marque Gilmore & DRUM FM From the Creator of the World’s 1st Interactive Live Jungle/DnB Club comes “Interactive Cell-Structure Sessions” featuring Marque Gilmore the inna-most (BK/UK) and Mikel Banks da “Spirit-Hood” (Dustbin Brothers). With special guests Greg Tate + members of Burnt Sugar & surprise 12th Planet Funkateers! A sonic exploration into the sub-atomic [...]
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Join us for A Bashir Project feat live performances by Jamila Raegan, Burnt Sugar, and DJ WAJEED
A Bashir Project is the launch of a FUNdraising campaign for Bashir Oliver, a child with multiple disabilities, including Autism. Spearheaded and supported by allied communities of artists and activists invested in the future of this beautiful boy. Proceeds from this event will be used to assist payment of Bashir’s education, medical necessities, and special [...]
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It got hot ‘up norf’
The swift blaze of a hot fire is a rare thing “up norf” on the shores of Lake Ontario. But it did get a little warm during Burnt Sugar’s visit to Harbour Front in Toronto… and not just from the combustible concoction the Suga’ people cooked up… but from bright-sunny days, upper 70’s weather-uncharacteristically still [...]
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Karma Mayet Johnson
Improvisation and synaesthesia guide Karma Mayet Johnson’s performance work. Recent stage work includes the OFF-BROADWAY production of FELA! directed by Bill T. Jones and the premier of Keith+Mendi Obadike’s FOUR ELECTRIC GHOSTS at The Kitchen. She is composer/director of the innovative blues opera, Indigo. Of Indigo’s 2007 Capitol Fringe Festival premier; one reviewer writes: This show [...]
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Welcome to our new site
We’re just moving in — things may feel a bit rough around the edges — but we’re jumping in. Keep coming back over the next few days as we unpack. (Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed for updates)
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March 2009 “Making Love to the Dark Ages
Well it’s d-day y’all as the Sugar drops it’s first all-studio release in five years on LiveWired/TruGROID. It doesn’t seem that long but that’s what happens with a band that has twenty-minute segues. In other words… time flies by when your making extended-jammy music. Ya heard!! The reviews are starting to happen and we wanted to [...]
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January & February 2008
It’s 2008 and we feel blessed to get it started in a new way with Rashida Bumbray bringing us to The Kitchen for two nights on January 18th & 19th to re-create our More Than Posthuman — Rise of the Mojosexual Cottilion jammee. Sparlha Swa will also be in the house with her group and [...]
January 2009
It’s the new year and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber is in a celebratory mood!! We wish each of you a happy and healthy 2009. 2009 commences: – our tenth year in existence. – and a boss-banging bunch of events, some we can speak of now, and some we’ll speak of later. (like the release of our first full studio [...]
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October — November 2008
Burnt Sugar has accepted Charles Blass’s offer to keep it ghastly with a live sugary broadcast in the studios of WKCR. The music starts at 2am and will go till we drop or becoming sanctified or are kicked off the premises at 6am!! 89.9FM on your dial, turn it up and scare your neighbors!! If [...]
August 2008
As part of Harlem Day, the BRC Orchestra pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys
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March 2008
They say variety is the spice and we say that applies to Burnt Sugar. This month we have a visit to the world famous Blue Note in Manhattan on the 8th; then our first Canadian tour from the 26th to the 29th with stops in Toronto, Guelph and Hamilton Ontario; followed by a live WKCR [...]
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December 2007
Being a festive band, we are hitting early and on both sides of Christmas this month to close out 2007 and get ready for 2008. Starting with a Darryl McNeil-curated BRC fundraiser at the fab Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg with Don McKenzie’s Red Lights to Rio, Fishbone Angelo Moore’s Dr. Mad Vibe revue, Millsted [...]
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September & October 2007
Gluttons for Music, we are doing the double dip on the 20th with an early CMJ performance at Manhattan’s Crash Mansion and then a late night set at our home-away-from-home, Zebulon in Brooklyn. If there’s ever been an opportunity to test the theory that every Burnt Sugar show is a creature of it’s own.….this is [...]
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August 2007
Hey…haven’t heard from us in a minute, but we’re same as we ever where, and to start things off due to the bangin response “Chopped and Screwed — Volume 2″ has received from Burnt Sugar cd purchasers as a give-away item, B.S.I.llc has decided to re-issue this limited-edition release exclusively on CD Baby for purchase!! [...]
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July 2007
” When Fried Eggs Fly” the film featuring Bruce Mack is on rotation on the Starz network! Check your local listings for future showings. www.whenfriedeggsfly.com ** Satch Hoyt’s making news again - Here’s a couple stories on one of his recent works; “Oil on Sugar” commissioned for the Bicentennial commemoration of the abolition of the [...]
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May 2007
We’re jumping into May with two NYC shows and as we enjoy our seventh year as a family — a greatest hits release. — “Never Been Kissed: The Groidest Shiznits 1999–2006″ “Never Been Kissed is our version of a greatest hits album, even if you’ve never heard a lick from our seemingly bottomless well of [...]
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TruGROID Records proudly presents : “Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets”
TruGROID Records proudly presents Burnt Sugar’s brand new double CD “Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets”– their most diverse and opulent recording to date. Representing their sixth studio recording in four years, the collection features key contributions from Vernon Reid, Vijay Iyer, Butch Morris, Pete Cosey, Tamar Kali, DJ Mutamassik, Omega Moon and [...]
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Tricky Dilemma
TRICKY DILEMMA, led by multi-instrumentalist Bruce Mack (of Burnt Sugar) is a trio of abstract-expressionists that also features guitarists Muata25/Thomas Blast Murray (Eurhythmics, Terrence Trent D’Arby) and Marvin Sewell (formerly of Cassandra Wilson). The Howling Necessity, conceptualized by Bruce Mack, is an exploration in addressing human desire and ‘calling out’ when in need, using aural [...]
December 2008
Burnt Sugar has a santa-bag full of gigs this month starting with a performance for the Art for Arts Inc. benefit on Monday, December 15th. We”ll be joined by the noted acoustic bassist and violinist Henry Grimes . Then before you can say jingle, we feel fortunate to of been invited to perform by Sarah [...]
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The Refuge Project II: Advocacy against Domestic Violence through Music, Yoga and Art