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
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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
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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
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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.

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!
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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,
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The live music from BSAC and the BSAC Baby Bands will commence at 2pm and wrap up at 9 pm.  The lineup will be : Burnt Sugar Arkestra (RAW/Smokehouse Edition) : Greg Tate – conduction/ electric guitar/laptop Shelley Nicole – vocals/conduction Mikel Banks – vocals/conduction Karma Mayet Johnson – vocals Lewis “Flip” Barnes – trumpet
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Bazaar and Beverly Bond put this on for their neighborhood and then invite the world to come through and party! A neighborhood worldly get together thrown by one of the preeminent power couples on the planet … it doesn’t get any better than that!

BSAC gives tribute to our sonic Sensei, The Maestro Lawrence Butch Morris(1947-2013) for showing us THE WAY of Conducted Improvisation. Over the course of 18 albums we’ve covered a broad panopoly of styles and genres. Here’s just a Three Mixtape Taste … Volume One Volume Two Volume Three  VOLUME ONE THE CREPESCULARIUM (AT MIDNIGHT) 00:00
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Sugar Nation it’s good to be appreciated at “home”. After debuting our “caramelized” David Bowie songbook in 2011 at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium in Manhattan N.Y., seven years later BSAC is “doubling down” at The Brooklyn Museum, in, yes, you guessed correctly … Brooklyn N.Y.!   Timing being paramount … a well received and attended
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