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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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May!