Burnt SugarSmokehouse – Avant Neighbors
Friday, February 13, 2026 at 7:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center.
61 W 62nd St, New York, NY 10023
www.lincolncenter.org
The “never playing a song the same way once” scents drifting over Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber’s fence has drawn a like-minded crew of “Avant Neighbors” to the latest edition of the Burnt Sugar SmokeHouse.
Get ready for a high-heat feast of sound from:
Val Inc. aka Val Jeanty,
Mike Rivard’s Club d’Elf,
Michael Gregory Jackson,
Faith NYC,
Miss Olithea & J Bubble
with resident SmokeHouseMC LaRonda Davis setting the table.
Together, they’ll serve up a soul-soaked stew of molten, glacial, spacial, oceanic, mythic, antiphonal, and telepathic flavors—served sizzling hot to tickle your ears and move your feet.
To make things extra tasty, Lincoln Center is picking up the tab.
That’s right—this one’s on the house and Free for The People
The Burnt Sugar SmokeHouse at nublu
Sistas & Brothas … Every Other Tuesday
February 17 to March 31, 2026
Nublu
151 Avenue C (LES/NYC)
www.nublu.net
$20.00
21 +
February 17
BSAC conducted by Vernon Reid – NuBlu Conduction #1
Avram Fefer’s Juba Lee 4tet
On Ka’a Davis’s 3D Veve
DJ Sugafree BK & DJ Smoota
MC : LaRonda Davis
March 3
BSAC conducted by Bruce Mack – NuBlu Conduction #2
Shelley Nicole’s blaKbüshe
JMMR (Jordan McLean’s Musical Resistance)
DJ Sugafree BK ~ Pisces BirthDay Mix
MC : LaRonda Davis
March 17
BSAC conducted by LaFrae Sci – NuBlu Conduction #3
Ben Tyree’s Activator Trio
The Binky Griptite Orchestra
DJ Sugafree BK & DJ Smoota
MC : LaRonda Davis
March 31
BSAC conducted by Vernon Reid – NuBlu Conduction #4
The Tao of Abby Lincoln feat. Shelley Nicole & LaFrae Sci
Marque Gilmore tha’ inna•most (Stockholm/London)
DJ Sugafree BK & DJ Smoota
MC : LaRonda Davis
Greg Tate formed Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber in 1999 to be “A territory band, a neo-tribal thang, a community hang, a society music guild aspiring to the condition of all that is molten, glacial, racial, spacial, oceanic, mythic, antiphonal and telepathic.”
– The Burnt Sugar SmokeHouse at Nublu will be All of That!