Historic: BRC Orchestra Rocks Aretha (Restoration Rocks, Restoration Plaza, BK)
Historic: The BRC’s 1st Annual Purple Ball
We Celebrated 60 Years of Prince with a DANCE PARTY featuring CX KiDTRONiK, Greg Caz, Rimarkable, Ryan Bland, and Tamar-kali spinning their favorite Prince and Prince-related tracks. Militia Vox was our hostess with the mostest, at Littlefield.
Historic: BRC Orchestra performed Curtis Mayfield’s Sparkle soundtrack
MAY 20, 2018 Shout out to LaFrae Sci, our musical director, and the killer orchestra she assembled for this beautiful performance in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn—Shelley Nicole, Asa Lovechild, KiKi Hawkins, Jared Michael Nickerson, V. Jeffrey Smith, Marcus Machado, and Leon Gruenbaum. And thanks, too, to our outdoor connection, Letitia Guillory and NYC Parks who […]
Historic: BRC-LA 1ST ANNUAL HENDRIX CELEBRATION, DEC 8 @ TR!P, SANTA MONICA
Historic: BRC Get-Down Revue @ Earshot Jazz Festival
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017, 8pm We took our rip-roarin’ Black Rock Coalition Get-Down Revue out west for an encore performance of choice cuts from the Atlantic Records R&B box set. It was a celebration of the pioneers of early rock & roll who called the label home from 1947-1974 and the amazing artists who continue that legacy today. With Luqman […]
Historic: BRC Orchestra, It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night in Tribute to Prince
FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2017 Von King Park, Brooklyn, with New York City Parks Department photos by SeanJamar.com photos by LaRonda Davis Prince was one of us. A rocker. Black and musically outspoken with depths that plumbed generations. That’s why we celebrate him. For us, he is more than a symbol, more than Purple Rain, more […]
Historic: Santana Redux with the BRC Orchestra @ BAMcafe
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 BAMcafe Live The BRC Orchestra, the all-star repertory company of the Black Rock Coalition, performed a focused retrospective on the music of legend Carlos Santana for May 5 (Cinco De Mayo): “Santana Redux with The BRC Orchestra,” as a nod to the collaborations of Black and Latino rockers and to […]
Historic: BRC Get-Down Revue @ Winter Jazz Fest
In a rousing revival of our Black Rock Coalition Get-Down Revue, we kicked off our 32nd year of mission-oriented programming with an encore performance of choice cuts from the Atlantic Records R&B box set in celebration of the pioneers of early rock & roll who called the label home from 1947-1974. It was a certified dance party, featuring: Luqman […]
Love for the BRC (we love you back…)
A love letter from our good (and talented) friend Michael A. Gonzales for Red Bull Music Academy, Oct 2015 A history lesson long in the writing, Sun Singleton brought the historical realness on Ebony.com, Oct. 2015