Long Play 2024! May 3-5
“Long Play has been around only since last year, but it is already the most important classical music festival in New York City.” [NYTimes]
We are so excited to present the 3rd year of Long Play, a three-day destination music festival, presented from Friday, May 3 through Sunday, May 5, 2024. Featuring 50+ concerts , Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Roulette, Public Records, BRIC, Murmrr, Irondale Center for the Arts, The Center for Fiction, plus outdoor events and more. A limited number of 3-day Early Bird Festival and Supporter Passes are on sale now at www.longplayfestival.org!
Some featured concerts in the 2024 lineup include Soundwalk Collective + Patti Smith, Jeff Mills’ Tomorrow Comes the Harvest, Steve Reich’s master-work Music for 18 Musicians, Deerhoof, BlankFor.ms + Jason Moran, Anna Meredith + Ligeti Quartet, Raw Poetic and Damu the Fudgemunk, Bang on a Can All-Stars performing Ryuichi Sakamoto 1996, and many others.
Bang on a Can’s Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, say of Long Play:
We don’t know about you, but personally, ourselves, we need to listen to a lot more music. Right now. People are tense, the world is a mess. We need music’s healing powers, stat. And just as much as the music, we need the community of people around the music – the performers, the composers, the people who come together to hear it all, the people who take the tickets and sell the beer and sweep up after. We need the whole thing, all of us, the whole universe of music lovers who share the same belief – that music has the power to make us whole. Because it does.
Lucky for us, this year’s LONG PLAY festival is overflowing with all different kinds of music and musicians – music that is loud and soft, music that is driving and meditative, music that is for winding up and for winding down. Music that challenges where we have come from and that charts where we are headed. 60 plus concerts of all of this great music, in one long weekend, in multiple venues in Brooklyn, all within walking distance of each other. Come see it all, on LONG PLAY.
Saturday May 4 at Long Play
Get the most out of Long Play festival’s Saturday lineup with a 1-day pass—on sale now!
A 1-day pass for May 4 gives you access to the thrumming sonic bliss of Jeff Mills: Tomorrow Comes the Harvest at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House—and more than 25 other concerts, including performances by BlankFor.ms, Jason Moran, Marcus Gilmore; Immanuel Wilkins + Jason Moran; Ligeti Quartet • Anna Meredith: Nuc; Mivos Quartet with the complete string quartets of Steve Reich; Fuji|||||||||||ta, Ekmeles performs David Lang’s the little match girl passion, Sō Percussion playing Julia Wolfe, and more!
Sunday May 5 at Long Play
Get the most out of Long Play’s Sunday lineup with a 1-day pass—on sale now! A 1-day pass for May 5 gives you access to Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians Featuring Bang on a Can All-Stars and Friends at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House—and more than 25 other concerts including performances by Deerhoof; Sam Prekop and John McEntire; Laurel Halo; claire rousay; Michael Gordon Rushes; Kuniko Kato plays Steve Reich Drumming; Rob Mazurek/Chad Taylor – Chicago Underground Duo; and others at venues throughout downtown Brooklyn.
Resonant Spaces, April 14 & 21
Over the course of 2 consecutive weekends (April 14 & 21), composer Michael Gordon and Mantra Percussion present 6 unique concerts performing Gordon’s epic, hour-long percussion sextet Timber (performed on planks of wood) across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens in unseen reverberant places that thousands of people pass by without ever thinking about.
Support Jeffrey Brooks’ Memory Palace!
Support the recording of Jeffrey Brooks’ Memory Palace! Premiered at Bang on a Can’s 2023 LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA, Brooks’ latest work features his own invention, the stein-o-caster. Jeffrey Brooks is an American composer living in Minneapolis, MN. He was the Artistic Director at the American Composers Forum and the NPR show Composers Voice. A long-time collaborator of Bang on a Can, we are looking forward to releasing his latest album on Cantaloupe Records.
Click here to view the premiere of Memory Palace and make a donation in support of Jeff’s music!
https://bangonacan.org/brooksrecording/