Stew & The Negro Problem sit down for a One On One Garden Session during The Underwater Sunshine Festival in City Winery New York on October 14th, 2018. For more info visit: https://www.stewandthenegroproblem.com & https://underwatersunshinefest.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin Audio Mixing by: Stew & The Negro Problem
Setlist:
Brave Suffering Beautiful
Western
Bleed
It all started in Los Angeles with a stack of psychedelic rock albums and a trip through the burgeoning punk rock scene. Then New York City to get stuck into the avant-garde noise-rock movement of the 80's. And, of course, the standard ten year transgression through Amsterdam and Berlin.
Stew and The Negro Problem have two Albums of the Year - "Guest Host" and "The Naked Dutch Painter," plus an existential search for The Real in their Tony-Award winning Broadway Show "Passing Strange," that was recorded for Sundance as a Spike Lee Joint.
STNP are dropping two new albums in 2018 - "Notes of a Native Song" and "Total Bent" full of ironic wit, soulful vocals, muscular hard rock and unabashed prettiness.
(Excepted from Ted.com) "Singer/raconteur Stew combines elements of cabaret, soul and subversive pop to create a unique style he's dubbed "Afro-baroque." Frequently likened to Cole Porter and Burt Bacharach, Stew spins songs with hook-filled melodies and taut poetic narratives: 'Sophisticated songs that are not likely to be heard on the radio,' writes the New Yorker."
"Entertainment Weekly twice awarded him 'Album of the Year,' and he and his collaborator Heidi Rodewald have been artists-in-residence two years running at the Sundance Theater Lab, developing their musical, Passing Strange, commissioned by New York's Public Theater; the show had an award-winning preview at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in 2006 and played at the Public in 2007 before beginning its current Tony Award-winning Broadway run."
