by George Etheredge for the New York Times
Long Play 2026, April 30-May 3
Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. 4-day Festival and Supporter Passes are on sale now.
Featuring 70+ concerts, Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at BRIC, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn Music School, Roulette, Pioneer Works, Public Records, the Church of St Luke and St Matthew, ISSUE Project Room, Polonsky Shakespeare Center for Theatre for a New Audience, and Fort Greene Park – and more!
4-Day Festival and Supporter Passes are on sale now, including Oneohtrix Point Never, Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety, and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone’s Does Spring Hide Its Joy ft. Lucy Railton & Stephen O’Malley.
LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA July 30-Aug 1 tickets on sale now!
MASS MoCA and Bang on a Can announce the 2026 edition of their multi-day music festival LOUD Weekend, presented on Thursday, July 30 through Saturday, August 1, 2026, at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. LOUD Weekend features three days of immersive music experiences set within the context of MASS MoCA’s vast galleries, performing arts stages and outdoor spaces nestled among the Berkshires mountains. LOUD Weekend is the culminating event of the twenty-fourth annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a three-week artist residency for innovative composers and performers selected from an international applicant pool.
Coming up in April- Lost Objects (Rome) and Terry Riley 90th birthday Tribute (Amsterdam)
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Lost Objects
Music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe with Libretto by Deborah Artman
Parco della Musica Contemporanea, Rome
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Friday, April 17, 2026
Terry Riley 90th Birthday Tribute
Bang on a Can All-Stars and Special Guests
Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
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