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. Watch the full session here: https://youtu.be/6343ZRsI0-4 For more info visit: https://www.stewandthenegroproblem.com & https://underwatersunshinefest.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin Audio Mixing by: Stew & The Negro Problem<br /><br />Setlist:<br />Brave Suffering Beautiful<br />Western<br />Bleed<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />(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."<br /><br />"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."
