A wonderful Anson B. Nixon Park performance this past July was so nice the Burnt Sugar Arkestra has been invited back to Kennett Square PA to perform twice with an afternoon “Conduction” workshop at the Garage Community Youth Center at 4pm and starting at 8pm two-sets of BSAC originals and various Artist songbooks including Steely Dan at the Kennett Flash!
Author: Jared Michael Nickerson
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More About The AstroBlack Trapfish Row Variations”
If you’ve been paying attention to BSAC on FB & Instagram, you’ve witnessed a number of fly photos from our appearance at the Sardegna e Jazz Festival this past September. Well, you might ask … “What soulful sound was produced by the BSAC crew while those snaps were shot?” Folks, so you know, we’ll have a video from the Sardinia performance up soon so you’ll know it wise to come early next January 30th … Ya Heard!
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More About Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz
Ai confini tra Sardegna e Jazz (commonly called Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz) is a jazz festival born in 1985 in Sant’Anna Arresi in Sardinia, among the most important of its kind in Europe. The festival is organized by the Associazione Culturale Punta Giara and takes place in Piazza del Nuraghe in Sant’Anna Arresi, between the end of August and the first week of September. Every year during the festival the Rai radio program, Battiti, curated and conducted by Pino Saulo and Antonia Tessitore, transmits, strictly, live two concerts of the event. The festival “Ai confini tra Sardegna e Jazz” and the international seminars “Marcello Melis” are organized with the contribution of the European Union and the European Regional Development Fund, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (Directorate General for Live Entertainment), Autonomous Region of Sardinia (Department of entertainment and cultural activities, Department of tourism, crafts and commerce, Regional Government Agency Sardinia Promozione), Banco di Sardegna Foundation, Municipality of Sant’Anna Arresi, Province of South Sardinia (Department of Culture and Department of Education) environment), Caras, Rai Radio 3 and Bes.
“Follow the festival of Sant’Anna now becomes preparatory to the knowledge of contemporary jazz, an admission exam to identify the forces that move the contemporary musical universe and patience if sometimes the music is indigestible and too far out, knowledge can not escape to infiltrate even the most obscure and irreverent, dangerous and treacherous meanders.” (Claudio Loi from Sardinia jazz)
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Burnt Sugar Arkestra live at Amoeba Records SF
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber at Amoeba Records San Francisco on Saturday, July 13th to celebrate their 20th Anniversary Groiddest Schizznits’ Mixtape trilogy! Buy a mixtape, or two, or three to get in the signing line after BSAC’s 3pm live performance.
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Burnt Sugar Arkestra at Southampton Arts Center
Godfrey Palaia, our Lincoln Center David Rubenstien Atrium friend and associate since 2012, has a new position as as Director of Production and Venue Operations at the Southampton Arts Center. Who did Godfrey call to be a part of his first presenting season? Well it wasn’t Ghost Busters, it was Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber! Godfrey, we are honored and are planning a “dance the night away” Bowie tribute to be remembered!
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Brooklyn Museum’s “Art in the Age of Black Power” Exhibit & The BSAC “Age of Black Power” Edition Lineup
Burnt Sugar’s Groiddest Schizznits The Brooklyn Museum of Art’s “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” exhibit shines a light on a broad spectrum of Black artistic practice from 1963 to 1983, one of the most politically, socially, and aesthetically revolutionary periods in American history. Black artists across the country worked in communities, in collectives, and individually to create a range of art responsive to the moment—including figurative and abstract painting, prints, and photography; assemblage and sculpture; and performance.
Many of the over 150 artworks in the exhibition directly address the unjust social conditions facing Black Americans, such as Faith Ringgold’s painting featuring a “bleeding” flag and Emory Douglas’s graphic images of beleaguered Black city life. Additional works present oblique references to racial violence, such as Jack Whitten’s abstract tribute to Malcolm X, made in response to the activist’s assassination, or Melvin Edwards’s contorted metal sculptures. Working as a collective, members of the AfriCOBRA group presented images of uplift and empowerment. Barkley Hendricks, Emma Amos, and others painted everyday portraits of Black people with reverence and wit. All the artists embraced a spirit of aesthetic innovation, but some took this as their primary goal, often through experiments with color and paint application.
This exhibition will run from September 14th, 2018 to February 3rd, 2019 and bring together for the first time the excitingly disparate practices of more than sixty Black artists from this important moment, offering an unparalleled opportunity to see their extraordinary works side by side.
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power is organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, and The Broad, Los Angeles, and curated by Mark Godfrey, Senior Curator, International Art, and Zoe Whitley, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern. The Brooklyn Museum presentation is curated by Ashley James, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum.
Leadership support for this exhibition is provided by the Ford Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, Universal Music Group, and the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Brooklyn Museum’s Contemporary Art Committee, the Arnold Lehman Exhibition Fund, Christie’s, Raymond Learsy, Saundra Williams-Cornwell and W. Don Cornwell, Crystal McCrary and Raymond J. McGuire, Megan and Hunter Gray, the Hayden Family Foundation, Carol Sutton Lewis and William Lewis, Valerie Gerrard Browne, Hales Gallery, Tracey and Phillip Riese, Connie Rogers Tilton, and Jack Shainman Gallery.
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber (Brooklyn Museum of Art “Art in the Age of Black Power” Edition)
Greg Tate – conduction/guitar/laptop
Carl Hancock Rux – vocals/spoken word
Bazaar Royale – vocals
Mikel Banks – vocals/conduction
Shelley Nicole – vocals
V. Jeffery Smith – tenor sax & effects
Vijay Iyer- acoustic piano/electronics
Leon Gruenbaum – keyboards/samchillian
André Lassalle – guitar
Ben Tyree – guitar
Ronny “Head” Draytone – guitar
Jared Michael Nickerson – electric bass
James “Biscuit” Rouse – trap drums
