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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadaass Song — Streaming Live from Paris!!
Thanks to the efforts of our amazing French hosts at Sons D’Hiver & Arte Live Web — we’re happy to invite you to join us for the second night of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadaass Song: A Hood Opera” Saturday, February 20, 2010. 8:30 pm Paris time — 2:30pm Eastern Standard time!
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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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Happy 2010 to all the love warriors
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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 College’s [...]
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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 guest; followed [...]
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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 has [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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!! [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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Satch Hoyt’s making news again -
Here’s a couple stories on one of his recent works; “Oil on Sugar” commissioned [...]
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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 [...]
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For the Love Warriors
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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Burnt Sugar Salutes and re-imagines James Brown at The Apollo