LONG PLAY FESTIVAL 2022

LONG PLAY is an explosion of mind-bending music of the moment.

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Dozens of concerts throughout Brooklyn, New York

Bang on a Can announces the launch of LONG PLAY, a new, three-day destination music festival. Originally scheduled for May of 2020, Long Play will be presented for the first time from Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1, 2022. Featuring dozens of concerts, LONG PLAY also showcases a dense network of pioneering music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Roulette, Public Records, Littlefield, Mark Morris Dance Center, The Center for Fiction, outdoor events at The Plaza at 300 Ashland, and more. Festival passes and more venue information will be available February 8, 2022 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:

“Right now – this minute – is an amazing time to love music. Musicians and listeners 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, the LOUD Weekend festival 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.

Friday’s Performances:

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung performed by Ekmeles

Robert Ashley’s “The Backyard” from Perfect Lives performed by Matmos

Phong Tran

I-R

Jeff Tobias Recurring Dream Band

Michael Pisaro Ricefall performed by the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble

Sasha Waltz & Guests perform Terry Riley’s In C Featuring the live Bang on a Can All-Stars

Infinity Shred

The World of Captain Beefheart

performed by Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas

Deforrest Brown, Jr. (Speakermusic)

Innov Gnawa (FREE)

Zoë Keating

Dither

piece by Aeryn Santillan, Amirtha Kidambi, inti figgis-vizueta, and Nate Wooley

Julia Wolfe's String Quartets performed by Ethel

Matmos (DJ Set)

Saturday’s Performances:

Brian Eno’s Music for Airports performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street under Julian Wachner

Attacca Quartet plays Flying Lotus, Caroline Shaw, Philip Glass and more

Rumba de la MUSA (FREE)

Éliane Radigue’s L’ile re-sonante and OCCAM X

performed by Nate Wooley and Michael Pisaro

Arvo Pärt Kanon Pokajanen performed by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street under Julian Wachner

Craig Harris

Banda de los Muertos (FREE)

Titus Underwood plays music by Michael Dougherty and more

Ashley Bathgate plays ASH by Sleeping Giant composer collective

John Luther Adams’s Strange and Sacred Noise performed by Left Edge Percussion and the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble

Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars performed by Sandbox Ensemble

Marcus Rojas

FLUTTER - Nicole Mitchell and Fay Victor

Reggie Workman - Andrew Cyrille - Marc Cary

Maya Stone plays music by Molly Herron and more

Pan in Motion with Kendall K. Williams

Pamela Z

Sasha Waltz & Guests perform Terry Riley’s In C Featuring the live Bang on a Can All-Stars

Sun Ra Arkestra

Vijay Iyer - Linda May Han Oh - Tyshawn Sorey

Pan in Motion (FREE)

Kelly Moran

Quo Vadis Presents: Russell E.L. Butler, Cienfuegos, Via App

Matt Welch

Michael Gordon's Timber Performed by Mantra Percussion

Michael Riesman plays Philip Glass

Sunday's Performances

TAK Ensemble

Robert Black

Iva Casian-Lakos plays Joan La Barbara

Nick Dunston

Brooklyn Youth Chorus (FREE)

Works by Nathalie Joaquim, Tania León and more

James Moore & Alicia Hall Moran

Leila Adu (FREE)

David Lang’s death speaks featuring Shara Nova

with Timo Andres, Brendon Randall-Myers and Conrad Harris

Eddy Kwon

Brandon Lopez

Soo Yeon Lyuh (FREE)

Jenny Lin plays Galina Ustvolskaya

Tristan Perich

Balún (FREE)

JG Thirlwell + Ensemble

Kaki King

Kinds of ~Nois a/k/a ~Nois Saxophone Quartet plays the music of Kinds of Kings

The Shape of Jazz to Come

(read all about this extraordinary show at longplayfestival.org