On June 12th and 13th 2010 boomBOOM Presents and Search & Restore unleash the Undead Jazz Festival on New York City.  Hot off the success of Winter Jazzfest,  these like-minded, ambitious concert presenters have revived the same two-day, many-artist, multi-venue formula.  For two Summer nights, one ticket will give jazz fans access to Le Poisson
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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber will be making our first trip Portugal performing on the closing night of the 2010 edition of “Serralves em Festa” in Oporto. The festival directors expect around 10,000 people to gather around the main stage in the park and the Sugar will hit them with JB’s FUNKY DIVAS VERSUS THE
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You most likely can’t travel to Porto, Portugal and witness Burnt Sugar’s performance on June 6th at the 2010 edition of Serralves em Festa.   More likely you can come to the Blue Note’s Late Night Groove Series on Friday, May 28th and witness the Arkestra Chamber perform  JB’s FUNKY DIVAS VERSUS THE REVOLUTION OF THE MIND, a musical mash-up of the albums, James Brown
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8:30 Smoota 9:30 Apollo Heights 10:30 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber $10 in advance at Ticket Web or $12 at the door SMOOTA: “Each song is so sexy (instrumentals), yet weird (lyrics) at the same time…you almost feel wrong for digging it so much.” (DOWNTOWN DIARIES) http://www.myspace.com/smoota APOLLO HEIGHTS: “The best live band in New
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8:30pm : Dan Saks and The Funkdadeli All-Stars (feat Burnt Sugar’s Jared Nickerson on bass & ‘Moist’ Paula Henderson on bari-sax) 9:15pm: DeLEON (J-Dub Records) “From the same cultural blender that gave us Gogol Bordello and Dengue Fever comes the Spanish/Jewish/Brooklyn mash that is Daniel Saks’ visionary band DeLeon. At times rocking the Casbah (“La
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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
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Two Nights! Feb 3 & 4 Melvin Van Peebles & Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in residence at BRICstudio 8:00 PM Work-In-Progress (rehearsal) View­ing 9:45 PM Dis­cus­sion w/ Melvin Van Pee­bles 10:00 PM Book Sign­ing & Mer­chan­dise Sales Doors Open @ 7:45 PM Tick­ets Details Com­ing Soon! Join us for an unfor­get­table evening with leg­endary
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Witness the next step in the evolution of The Arkestra Chamber as “Pass the Baton” makes its NYC area debut at York College’s Performing Art Center on Friday, November 13. Road tested in Chicago, Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware; “Pass the Baton” is Greg Tate’s latest brain-child. With the pass of a baton, conduction duties are
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PRESENTED BY Marque Gilmore & DRUM FM From the Creator of the World’s 1st Interactive Live Jungle/DnB Club comes “Interactive Cell-Structure Sessions” featuring Marque Gilmore the inna-most (BK/UK) and Mikel Banks da “Spirit-Hood” (Dustbin Brothers). With special guests Greg Tate + members of Burnt Sugar & surprise 12th Planet Funkateers! A sonic exploration into the
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A Bashir Project is the launch of a FUNdraising campaign for Bashir Oliver, a child with multiple disabilities, including Autism. Spearheaded and supported by allied communities of artists and activists invested in the future of this beautiful boy. Proceeds from this event will be used to assist payment of Bashir’s education, medical necessities, and special
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