Burnt Sugar Returns to Real Art Ways

Thursday, July 16, 6-10 PM (Part of Creative Cocktail Hour)
$10/$5 for members

Hartford, Connecticut – Real Art Ways presents Burnt Sugar on Thursday, July 16 during Creative Cocktail Hour. The group, formed in 1999, uses improvisation to explore the connective tissue binding jazz, rock, funk, twentieth-century composition, and African music. Creative Cocktail Hour is from 6-10 PM, and admission is $10/$5 for Real Art Ways members. Real Art Ways is located at 56 Arbor Street in Hartford's Parkville neighborhood. For more information, contact Real Art Ways: 860.232.1006 or realartways.org

About Burnt Sugar
Burnt Sugar, the creation of writer/guitarist/producer Greg Tate, presents a lyrical, seductive, and exploratory fusion of the foundations that tie together the music of today to the music of yesterday. Each performance is an original mutation in tune with the collective personality of the audience as well as the individual character and talents of the players. The group's influences range from Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix. This is the fourth time Burnt Sugar has performed at Real Art Ways.

Burnt Sugar performer Satch Hoyt is also a visual artist, and one of four artists who created new works of public art in Hartford's Parkville and Frog Hollow neighborhoods. The four projects, commisioned by Real Art Ways, are on display for the duration of summer 2009. Hoyt's piece is an interactive labyrinth in Pope Park.

Making Love to the Dark Ages gets Praise from the Press:
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber are celebrating their tenth anniversary as a solid fixture on New York's downtown avant garde scene. As part of this celebration, Burnt Sugar, on the new label LiveWired Music, has released Making Love to the Dark Ages, their first full-length studio recording in five years.

Nate Chinen from the New York Times - "This deliriously cross-disciplinary ensemble has a new album that strikes a characteristic balance between visionary funk, spoken-word ruination and searching improvisation."

Steve Greenlee for Jazz Times - "Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber conjures up everything from funk, jazz and rock to the avant-garde world of Sun Ra and the hard-hitting hip-hop of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)."

Burnt Sugar creator Greg Tate describes the group:
"A territory band, a neo-tribal thang, a community thang, a society music guild aspiring to the condition of all that is molten, glacial, racial, spatial, oceanic, mythic, antiphonal, and telepathic."


                       #                  #                         #