Burnt Sugar Arkestra. Photos by Shane Nelson

While We Are Still Here…

Burnt Sugar is honored to be a part of “The 5th Annual Sugar Hill Music Festival” (In Tribute to the Mizell Brothers and Gil Scott-Heron) presented by “While We Are Still Here” . Sat, Sep 25, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT. Sugar Hill Luminaries LawnHighbridge Park 155th Street and Edgecombe Avenue Harlem, NY 10032 While We Are Still
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Burnt Sugar Arkestra. Photos by Shane Nelson

B.S.A.C. returns to R.A.W. with special guests … The Veldt !

We’re happily heading back to one of our favorite venues in the whole wide world Real Art Ways with a very, very special guest … Raleigh N.C.’s The Veldt!Real Art Ways, in Hartford CT.Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 2pm.Website Daniel and Danny Chavis lifted their band’s name from a Ray Bradbury science fiction story. Their
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Burnt Sugar Arkestra. Photos by Shane Nelson

More on NOIR BIZARRE & The Imploding Black Inevitable

NOIR BIZARRE is the lifestyle brainchild of Daniel Chavis of the co-led with his brother Danny Chavis world famous The Veldt. The Imploding Inevitable is the start-up event to announce a full-blown NOIR BIZARRE festival in 2020. The Imploding Black Inevitable, along with evening performances by The Veldt (11pm), BSAC (10pm) and Last of the
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Burnt Sugar celebrates the opening of The Obama Portrait Exhibit at Brooklyn Museum

Obama Presidential Portrait Celebration & Exhibit Need to Knows

On Saturday, August 28th, 2021 BSAC’s “SUMMERY CARAMELIZED COMEBACK continues with two new conductions celebrating the Obama Presidential Portraits’ debut at the Brooklyn Museum. Our Obama-inspired conductions commence at 4pm & 5:30pm in the Biergarten, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden. In between our conductions Kyle Carrero Lopez, Nkosi Nkululeko and celeste doaks, presented in partnership with Cave
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Burnt Sugar Arkestra. Photos by Shane Nelson

Early Titles on Bandcamp

Folks, as it’s been awhile since you’ve heard from us, the BSAC Crew & Family hope this finds you and yours well and thriving, in spite of it all. With the one-year anniversary of our last live performance (at Harlem’s World Famous Apollo Theater) just passing, and with no live dates on the horizon, we’d
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flyer announcing Burnt Sugar in The Sonic Vault

Sonic Vault: Burnt Sugar’s Open Rehearsal in the 9th Ward

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber would like to thank Steve Baczkowski, Ed Cardoni, HALLWALLS Contemporary Art Center & The .9Mile Collaborative for presenting Nicole Mitchell, Mazz Swift, Charles Gayle, Henry Grimes and The Brotzmann/Parker/Drake Trio’s 2020 commissioned & archival digital performances for their “Sonic Vault” Series. We are thrilled to be included amongst this cadre
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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber Presents:Fourteen Dollars & Fifty Cents.

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber Presents Fourteen Dollars & Fifty CentsFeaturing Abby Dobson.From “Porgy and Bess: The Astro Black Trapfish Row Variations”Performed live at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on January 30, 2020. BSAC would especially like to thank our Biggest Fan in Italia Achille Silipo, the Associazione Culturale Punta Giara’s Basilio Antonio Sulis
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