Burnt Sugar Arkestra. Photos by Shane Nelson

We Insist ! Freedom Now – M’Boom, M’Boom, M’Boom – All The Muses of the Drummer ~ Punta Giara Cultural Association Press Release

“On the borders between Sardinia and Jazz” Festival performs the XXXII edition it’s a yet another expression of love, towards the contemporary language of music and, in particular, of jazz. The Festival will have the intact strength and the attitude that has always characterized this event : “the curiosity”. It starts from the past, that
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Burnt Sugar Smokehouse March 23, 2017

Burnt Sugar Smokehouse March 23rd @ C’Mon Everybody BK

This being the tres Thursday in a row … you know the dealio … 6pm Doors with Happy Hour raging till 8pm 7-7:20 DJ Spirithood 7:20-7:50 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 8-8:50 – Avram Fefer’s Rivers On Mars featuring Greg Tate 9-9:50 – D Max’s Terrestrial Reset 10-11 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 11-11:30 – #Moist Paula
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Burnt Sugar Smokehouse March 16, 2017

Burnt Sugar Smokehouse March 16th @ C’Mon Everybody BK

6:30 PM Doors with Happy Hour going till 8pm 7-7:20 DJ Spirithood 7:20-7:50 Burnt Sugar Arkestra 8-8:50 –  JS Williams’ Altered Progression 9-9:50 – Brian Tate’s Shrine for the Black Madonna 10-11 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 11- Midnight – DJ Spirithood Any trouble staying toasty … head to the BSA “Smokehouse and we’ll roast ye!

Burnt Sugar Smokehouse March 9

Burnt Sugar Smokehouse March 9th @ C’Mon Everybody BK Performance Times

Doors @ 6:30pm ( Happy Hour goes till 8pm!!! ) 7-7:20 DJ Spirithood 7:20-7:50 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 8-8:50 – Digital Diaspora featuring Mikel Banks 9-9:50 – Luqman Brown’s Dope Sagittarius 10-11 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 11-11:30 – #Moist Paula & #J.Speck’s #The GPS 11:30- Midnight – DJ Spirithood Having trouble staying warm … head
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Burnt Sugar Arkestra. Photos by Shane Nelson

More about Gavin Brown Enterprise & “Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours” A Festival of Visionary Arts, Ideas & Activism

A bit about Gavin Brown Enterprise:  The gallery was established by Gavin Brown in 1994 on Broome Street, in the west Soho neighborhood of New York City.  The inaugural Broome street exhibition was by the British artist Steven Pippin. Pippin transformed the gallery space into a camera obscura, and in doing so quickly established the
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Burnt Sugar Arkestra. Photos by Shane Nelson

Burnt Sugar Smokehouse March 16th @ C’Mon Everybody BK

Burnt Sugar Smokehouse March 16th @ C’Mon Everybody BK 7pm-7:20 DJ Spirithood 7:20pm-7:50 Burnt Sugar Arkestra 8pm-8:50 –  JS Williams’ Altered Progression 9pm-9:50 – Brian Tate’s Shrine for the Black Madonna 10pm-11 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 11pm- Midnight – DJ Spirithood It’s icy and you don’t want to slip, come to the BSA Smokehouse for
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Burnt Sugar with Kwame Binea’s Shakedown & Judah Tribe at NYC's American Rose.

Kwame Binea Shakedown ~ Judah Tribe ~ American Beauty NYC

After a three-night run at Nublu 151, Lincoln Center’s David Rubinstein Atrium and Harlem’s Paris Blues to start the year, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber continues their 18th anniversary celebration thanks to an invite from Kwame Binea (who’s upcoming release is produced by BSA family member Vernon Reid) to join his band Kwame Binea Shakedown
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Groidest Schizznits Uno, Dos & Tres ~ A Three-Day Retrospective celebrating The Burnt Sugar Arkestra’s Fourteen Releases & Eighteenth Anniversary

Come celebrate 18 years of genre-exploding musical exploits with Village Voice icon Greg “Ironman” Tate, monster groove bassist Jared Michael Nickerson and Shelley Nicole, Mikel Banks, Lisala, Ben Tyree, Julie Brown, Micah Gaugh, LaFrae Sci, Lewis “Flip” Barnes, V. Jeffery Smith, Avram Fefer, “Moist” Paula Henderson, Leon Gruenbaum, JS Williams, Andre Lassalle and Chris Eddleton, the current crew of New York City’s Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber.

Uno ~ BLOOD ON THE LEAF OPUS 101 ~ Groidest Schizznits Uno Dos & Tres

For the first night of our eighteenth anniversary three-night celebration, the Burnt Sugar Arkestra will perform in its entirety … “Blood On The Leaf”, BSA’s debut & blueprint recording from 1999.   Being BSA’s “blueprint”, Nublu is the perfect venue to revisit BOTL as Ilhan Ersahin’s East Village establishment has developed and maintained a mad-fabulous reputation
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