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 that time with it’s suc­cess kick-starting what became known as the Blax­plota­tion film movement.

Not as well doc­u­mented is that Earth Wind and Fire per­formed the musi­cal sound­track on Sweet­back.  Here, thirty-nine years later, Mr. Melvin Van Pee­bles, the pro­ducer, writer, direc­tor, com­poser, edi­tor and star of Sweet Sweet­back has cho­sen Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber to be his 23rd-century Earth Wind and Fire.

The Arkestra Cham­ber will per­form the sound­track live, on-stage, for the the­atri­cal world pre­miere of  “Sweet Sweetback’s Bad­dass Song (The Hood Opera)” at the Sons d’hiver Fes­ti­val in Paris, France on Feb­ru­ary 19th and 20th, 2010.
Want a taste and can’t go to Paris in Feb­ru­ary?  Joe’s Pub has you covered!

On Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 10th, 2010, Joe’s Pub Late Night will present Burnt Sugar for a baadasssss time of tunes from the sound­track; an appear­ance by Mr. Melvin Van Pee­bles him­self; and of course the conducted-improvisational mash-ups con­duc­tor Greg Tate and the Burnt Sugar crew are world-famous for.

Get your tick­ets early as the last Burnt Sugar/Joe’s Pub per­for­mance in August stranded a bus-load of music lovers in the Pub­lic The­ater lobby. The time is now, Be a witness!

Related show

• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber
• Date: Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 10th 2010
• Time: 11:30pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber in New York City, NY
• Venue: Joe’s Pub at the Pub­lic The­ater
• Address: 425 Lafayette St, NY NY 10003
• Coun­try: United States
• Admis­sion: $15.00
• Age restric­tions: 21+
• Box office: 212.967.7555
• Notes: A baadasssss time with Burnt Sugar, an appear­ance by Mr. Melvin Van Pee­bles him­self; and of course the conducted-improvisational mash-ups con­duc­tor Greg Tate and the Burnt Sugar crew are world-famous for.
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