In the summer of 2009, a series of Modern Art Music Movement™ (MAMM) Happenings were held in world famous venues and at music festivals from New York to Florida, including “The Stephen Talkhouse”, “Martha Clara Vineyards”, “Pindar Vineyards”, “Rock The Harvest” music festival, in New York’s wine country, near Southampton, and the “Miami Music Festival”, to raise money and awareness for Domestic Violence Services.
JOSH HORTON OF BIG SUGA ON STAGE WITH MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II AND MILES TO DAYTON AT THE “2009 ROCK THE HARVEST MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT HAPPENING” IN NEW YORK.
Big Suga has shared stages with Sonny Landreth, The Outlaws, Eddie Money and blues legend Kerry Kearney.
MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT PAINTING CREATED AT “ROCK THE HARVEST” MUSIC FESTIVAL BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN AMERICA.
Joshua Young Horton is the song writer, frontman & lead singer and rhythm guitar player for BIG SUGA. His grit, energy and soulful stage presence leads the band and fans into unforgettable performances.
THE STEPHEN TALKHOUSE MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT MAMM JAM HAPPENING MANIFESTED ARTWORK BY VICTOR-HUGO VACA II, CREATED ON CANVAS AND ON DISCARDED BUILDING PLANS, FOR A VETERANS HOSPITAL, THAT WAS NEVER BUILT, BECAUSE OF THE WALL STREET BANK BAILOUT.
Josh Horton with Big Suga and the Modern Art Music Movement™ (MAMM) Founder, Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr., performed together to raise money and awareness for, “The Retreat”, a safe-space center for battered women and children, offering domestic violence services.
MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II ON STAGE AT THE “ROCK THE HARVEST MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT HAPPENING” WITH JOSH HORTON AND BIG SUGA.
Big Suga rocks the house with Josh Horton as the Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo fuses the energy of the band, venue and audience on canvases in color.
MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT PAINTING CREATED AT “ROCK THE HARVEST”, LONG ISLAND’S ONLY INDEPENDENT MUSIC AND WINE FESTIVAL, AT PINDAR VINEYARDS, IN PECONIC, NEW YORK, BY VICTOR-HUGO VACA II.
As a solo artist, Josh Horton, has performed across the United States in bars, biker joints, honky-tonks, coffee houses, small theaters, on the decks of ships and in the streets. His life experience as a merchant seaman, Tugboat Captain, elected public official, Josh Horton took 4 years off from performing to run a town, father, former hard drinker, traveler and so on make him one of the most eclectic songwriters and performers in the New York music scene.
SOME OF THE ART CREATED IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 AT MAMM JAMS IN NEW YORK WITH JOSH HORTON’S BIG SUGA AND THE MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II.
“The Drummer” captures the energy culminated at the end of the Modern Art Music Movement™ coast-to-coast performances at music festivals from New York’s Wine Country Summer spectacular, “Rock The Harvest”, to the first-annual, “Miami Music Festival” with Josh Horton and Big Suga.
“THE DRUMMER” (42×52) BY VICTOR-HUGO VACA II WITH BIG SUGA AND JOSH HORTON.
“The Drummer”, was manifested live on stage by Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. with Josh Horton and Big Suga at the Inaugural Miami Music Festival Modern Art Music Movement™ MAMM Jam Happening on December 12, 2009.
THE KINKS, ROLLING STONES, COLDPLAY AND THE WHO ARE AMONG SOME OF THE LEGENDARY ARTISTS WHO HAVE PERFORMED ON THE SAME STEPHEN TALKHOUSE STAGE, WHERE MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II PRODUCED MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT PAINTINGS, AT MAMM JAM HAPPENINGS WITH JOSH HORTON AND BIG SUGA.
Modern Art Music Movement™ creations were manifested with the inspiration of some of the greatest artists in the world, who have left their spiritual energy imprinted on the Stephen Talkhouse stage, where legendary artists have performed, including the following musicians, who are all in the “Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame”: The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Platters, The Coasters, Bo Diddley, The Drifters, Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, The Byrds with Roger McGuinn, John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison, The Animals with Eric Burden, Jefferson Airplane, The Velvet Underground, Buffalo Springfield, Billy Joel, The Allman Brothers Band, The Band with Robbie Robertson, The Mama’s and The Papa’s, The Talking Heads, The Police, Traffic with Dave Mason, Percy Sledge, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Patti Smith, Jimmy Cliff, Leon Russell, Lynyrd Skynard, The Supremes, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT WORKS BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II CREATED ON THE HISTORIC, STEPHEN TALKHOUSE STAGE, IN AMAGANSETT, NEW YORK.
Big Suga drummer Jamie Schott co-founded the band with Josh Horton. They are life long friends.
Jamie Schott has performed and recorded with numerous acts in Los Angeles, kicked it with Bob Marley’s Original Wailers and founded the renowned New York Funk band, Golden Fists of Fury.
“THINK LOVE” DIPTYCH CREATED AT THE INAUGURAL MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II WITH JOSH HORTON AND BIG SUGA.
Phil Mastrangelo is the bassist for Big Suga. He is an original and current member of the widely known NY Indie Power Pop act, “Knockout Drops”, and has worked as a musician since the age of 14 performing throughout the U.S. and Europe, sharing the stage with some of Rock ‘N Roll’s biggest names.
MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT PAINTING CREATED BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II DURING 2009 MAMM JAM HAPPENINGS IN NEW YORK; MANIFESTED ON BUILDING PLANS, FOR A VETERANS HOSPITAL IN AMERICA, THAT WAS NEVER BUILT, BECAUSE OF THE U.S. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, THAT BIRTHED THE WALL STREET BANK BAILOUT.
Tom “Shecky” Davis plays lead guitar for BIG SUGA and is still a regular stand in and session man when “The Wailers” are performing and recording in New York.
Russell “Lee” Smith Jr. and Tonnie “Swann” Franklin are the big Gospel of Big Suga; they have performed, toured and recorded with a myriad of Gospel, Pop and Rock acts on the East Coast.
ARTWORK CREATED DURING 2009 MODERN ART MUSIC MOVEMENT MAMM JAM HAPPENINGS FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA WITH JOSH HORTON AND BIG SUGA BY VICTOR-HUGO VACA II.
“The fusion of art and music is the Modern Art Music Movement. “- Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II
