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
Category Archives: gigs
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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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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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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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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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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The Refuge Project II: Advocacy against Domestic Violence through Music, Yoga and Art