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Burnt Sugar

Founded by monster groove bassist Jared Michael Nickerson and Village Voice icon Greg "Ionman" Tate in 1999, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber is a sprawling band of musicians whose prodigious personnel allows to freely juggle a wide swath of the experimental soul-jazz-hip hop spectrum. This very accomplished crew has playing credits that range from Toshi Reagon, DJ Logic, Gary Lucas, TV On The Radio, Tamar Kali, Phish, William Parker, Liz Wright, The Holmes Brothers, Wadada Leo Smith, David Murray, Joseph Bowie. Arkestra Conductor Greg Tate says, "Burnt Sugar got the nerve to claim Sly Stone, Morton Feldman, Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix and Jean Luc Ponty as progenitiors Our player-ranks include known Irish fiddlers, AACM refugees, Afro-punk rejects, unrepentant beboppers, feminist rappers, jitterbugging doowoppers, frankly loud funk-a-teers and rodeo stars of the digital divide.".

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The Upper Anacostia – Lower Gold Coast Symphonic: <i>DRUMS ALONG THE POTOMAC–A Global Go-Go Fantasia</i> 5/20/13: The Upper Anacostia – Lower Gold Coast Symphonic: DRUMS ALONG THE POTOMAC–A Global Go-Go Fantasia

The collaborative ensemble featuring New York-based experimental jazz group Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber and D.C. Go-Go players Donnell Floyd, Go-Go Mickey, and Kenny “Kwick” Gross, offers a performance of DRUMS ALONG THE POTOMAC–A Global Go-Go Fantasia, a new polyrhythmic and romantic orchestral Go-Go suite. The evening will feature a post-show discussion with WPFW's Bobby Hill. Co-commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Millennium Stage and Lincoln Center for its Target® Free Thursdays series at the David Rubenstein Atrium.

The Upper Anacostia – Lower Gold Coast Symphonic: DRUMS ALONG THE POTOMAC–A Global Go-Go Fantasia

The collaborative ensemble featuring New York-based experimental jazz group Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber and D.C. Go-Go players Donnell Floyd, Go-Go Mickey, and Kenny “Kwick” Gross, offers a performance of DRUMS ALONG THE POTOMAC–A Global Go-Go Fantasia, a new polyrhythmic and romantic orchestral Go-Go suite. The evening will feature a post-show discussion with WPFW's Bobby Hill. Co-commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Millennium Stage and Lincoln Center for its Target® Free Thursdays series at the David Rubenstein Atrium.
Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber 10/6/06: Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber

Created by writer/guitarist/producer Greg Tate in 1999, Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber, explores the connective tissue binding jazz, rock, funk, 20th-century composition, and African music.

Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber

Created by writer/guitarist/producer Greg Tate in 1999, Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber, explores the connective tissue binding jazz, rock, funk, 20th-century composition, and African music.
Burnt Sugar 2/2/02: Burnt Sugar

With its three-guitar line-up, Burnt Sugar echoes the Miles Davis bands of Dark Magus, Agharta and Pangaea fame, and their mix of drums, basses, flutes, synthesizers, dulcimers, and trumpets make for some unforgettable performances.

Burnt Sugar

With its three-guitar line-up, Burnt Sugar echoes the Miles Davis bands of Dark Magus, Agharta and Pangaea fame, and their mix of drums, basses, flutes, synthesizers, dulcimers, and trumpets make for some unforgettable performances.

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