Bang on a Can Launches New 3-Day Music Festival - LONG PLAY - May 1-3, 2020 in Brooklyn
Bang on a Can announces the launch of LONG PLAY, a new, three-day destination music festival, presented for the first time from Friday, May 1 through Sunday, May 3, 2020. Featuring dozens of concerts, LONG PLAY also showcases a dense network of pioneering music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Roulette, Public Records, ShapeShifter Lab, Littlefield, Brooklyn Music School, BAM Lepercq Space, outdoor events at The Plaza at 300 Ashland, and more. Festival passes and special early bird offers will be available starting on December 16, 2019 at www.longplayfestival.org.
Bang on a Can’s Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, say of the new festival:
“For over 30 years, Bang on a Can has dedicated itself to working the frontier – bringing together the most innovative voices in music and building new audiences for new work. Right now – this minute – is an amazing time to be a musician. Musicians from every corner of the music world are pushing beyond their boundaries, questioning their roots, searching and stretching for the new. There has never been a time when music contained so much innovation and diversity, so much audacity and so much courage. And we want to show you all of it. With the creation of LONG PLAY we are presenting more kinds of musicians, playing more kinds of music, bending more kinds of minds. LONG PLAY expands and enlarges our scope and our reach, and puts more new faces on stages than ever before. It's a lot of music!”
Fueled by more than three decades of Marathon concerts, LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA, countless world tours and staged productions, Bang on a Can’s LONG PLAY is a supercharged ride through right now – for musicians and audiences alike.
LONG PLAY Highlights (additional artists and more details to be announced in January 2020):
Steve Reich: All Live
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Brian Eno: Music for Airports
Meredith Monk: Memory Game
Ashley Bathgate: Ash
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
The Ken Thomson Sextet
Bearthoven plays Scott Wollschleger
Horse Lords
Jenny Lin plays Galina Ustvolskaya
John Luther Adams: Strange and Sacred Noise
Arvo Pärt: Kanon Pokajanen
Vox Clamantis – Estonian Voices
Gerard Grisey: Vortex Temporum
Synaesthesis: Another Point of View
Tristan Perich
Zoë Keating
Michael Gordon: Timber
Attacca Quartet plays Caroline Shaw
The Glenn Branca Ensemble
David Lang and Julia Wolfe
Mediaqueer
Kinds of Kings: Afterimage
Mary Halvorson and John Dieterich
Ian Chang
Michael Pisaro: Ricefall
Kendall Williams – Pan in Motion
Matt Welch
Gabriella Smith
Asphalt Orchestra
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Tomeka Reid Quartet
Balún
National Sawdust Ensemble - Hildegard Competition Winners
Robert Ashley – Matmos performs “The Backyard” from Perfect Lives
Matmos
Éliane Radigue: L’ile re-sonante
Kris Davis and Craig Taborn
I-VT
Meara O’Reilly: Hockets for Two Voices
Reg Bloor
Laraaji: Ambient 3 – Day of Radiance
Found Sound Nation
Todd Reynolds, Frode Andersen, Ejnar Kanding
Shara Nova aka My Brightest Diamond
Suzanne Bocanegra: Rerememberer
Additional details and artists to be announced in January 2020.