Bang on a Can

Come visit us at "Banglewood!" From twice daily recitals (free with museum admission) in the galleries to concerts in the community to our marquee concerts, there's more music than you can shake a stick at!

Some highlights: Sat July 24 we celebrate the music of George Crumb, Monday July 26 we premiere 8 new pieces by our festival composers, and Sat July 31 is our 6-hour finale blow out Marathon concert. You can see the performance schedule here Schedule and you can link to MASS MoCA's website here: MM. This year our 3 week residency/festival will feature musicians from all over the US, and from as far away as Uzbekistan, Colombia, Russia, Serbia, and Germany.

No car? no summer home in the Berkshires? No problem! There are 2 "Peter Pan" buses PPB daily to Willamstown (next town over) and a campground at "Windsor Lake" Camp in North Adams, and more hotels/motels listed here: Lodging

Bang on a Can's street band, the "wonderfully quirky" (Allan Kozinn) Asphalt Orchestra, returns to Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival on August 4th-8th for five jam packed nights of performances featuring new commissions by Yoko Ono, David Byrne, and Annie Clark (St. Vincent). Also on the bill is the world premiere of the Paul Taylor-Asphalt Orchestra collaboration of "3 Epitaphs," performed live with Taylor 2 dance company. See the full schedule here.

August also brings the release of Asphalt's debut album on Cantaloupe Music, featuring music written for the band by Tyondai Braxton (Battles), Stew and Heidi Rodewald (The Negro Problem and Spike Lee’s Passing Strange), and celebrated Balkan wedding band master Goran Bregovic.

This summer Bang on a Can/Cantaloupe Music and the Noguchi Museum are hosting an innovative music series on the second Sunday of every month from June to September. "Second Sundays" is free with museum admission. Florent Ghys played an excellent show on June 13th, and Talujon Percussion Quartet performed a powerful set on July 11th. Looking forward, Evan Ziporyn will be featured on August 8th, and Tristan Perich on September 12th. For more information, check out the Noguchi Museum's website.

Yes, you read that correctly... three pieces by Bang on a Can All-Stars are now available for Rock Band 2 on XBOX360, via the newly launched Rock Band Network! Click here to download "Cheating, Lying Stealing" by David Lang, click here to download "Yo Shakespeare" by Michael Gordon, and click here to download "Shadowbang" by Evan Ziporyn. Additional works by Julia Wolfe will be available via the Rock Band Network soon!

You can also check out the original Bang on a Can All-Stars recording of "Cheating, Lying Stealing" in the iTunes store here, as well as "Shadowbang" here, and Alarm Will Sound's recording of "Yo Shakespeare" here.

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Marathon Concert on Sunday, June 27th! We'll have photos, video and MORE available here soon! In the meantime, check out reviews from The New York Times and the NJ Star Ledger.

We would like to extend special thanks to our MARATHON WARRIORS, who stayed for all 12 hours: Thomas Gallagher, J. Ross Marshall, Warren Sirota, Marshall Greenberg, Kim Nucci, Alexandra Soltow, Will Robin, Justin Brierley, Julie Hill, Alex Weiser, Richard Scarpa, Stan Tymorek, Austin Dice, Myles Dakan, Samuel Wilson, Loretta Winter, William Weber, Mike Jolkovski, Chris Garrard, Evan Dice, Russell Horton, Bonnie Wright, Daryl Shawn, Deborah Dimasi and Richard Pettus Jr.

On Wednesday June 2nd at New York's Le Poisson Rouge, we honored John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck at our annual Benefit Bash. Thanks to everybody who attended, and everyone who donated! For those of you who couldn't make it, here's a video of the Bang on a Can All-Stars performing Brian Eno's "Burning Airlines" at the Benefit Concert: