Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Julia Wolfe caps her Carnegie Hall residency with a one-of-a-kind event in Manhattan’s Bryant Park, Asphalt Orchestra. Also featuring guest artists Pan In Motion, the program includes world premieres by first-time Carnegie Hall–commissioned composers Leila Adu, Jeffrey Brooks, and Kendall Williams, further highlighting Wolfe’s longtime reputation as a champion of innovative new works. Catch the beginning of the performance at the side of the park near the New York Public Library, or join the performers along the way as they march toward the main lawn!

FREE event

Build and play instruments with Mark Stewart and then hear Bang on a Can’s street band Asphalt Orchestra on the plaza at 300 Ashland Place in downtown, Brooklyn (corner of Lafayette and Flatbush)!! It’s all part of the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival happening all weekend and it’s FREE!

3-4:30 Mark Stewart’s Orchestra of Original Instruments

4:30 Asphalt Orchestra

Bang on a Can’s street band Asphalt Orchestra plays two shows in Berlin as part of “Festival USA” at the Konzerthaus Berlin!

Feb 16 – pop up concerts tba

Feb 17 – Late night concert at 10pm in Werner-Otto Saal

Program:
Frank Zappa, Zomby Woof (arr Peter Hess)
Thomas Mapfumo,  Ngoma Yekwedu (arr Alex Hamlin)
Charles Mingus,  The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers (arr Jose Davila)
Ken Thomson, Turn Around
Meredith Monk, St Petersburg Waltz (arr Ken Thomson)
tUnE-yArDs/Merrill Garbus, Bizness (arr Ken Thomson)
Michael Gordon, Tree-oh (arr Ken Thomson)
Pixies/Kim Deal, Gigantic (arr Nathan Koci)
Ivo Papasov, Ivo’s Ruchenitsa (arr Peter Hess)

Asphalt Orchestra heads to Oklahoma State University performing selections from Asphalt Plays Pixies: Surfer Rosa, soon to be released on Cantaloupe Music this season, alongside classic band works.

Asphalt Orchestra journeys to Georgia’s Emory University to perform selections from Asphalt Plays Pixies: Surfer Rosa, soon to be released on Cantaloupe Music this season, alongside classic band works.

On June 21th Asphalt Orchestra joins Make Music New York for And Death Shall Have No Dominion. Conceived and composed by Pete M. Wyer, the piece is a participatory singing event for a synchronized headphone choir in honor of Dylan Thomas’s famous poem. The band begins at various locations in Lower Manhattan at 11am, converging on Rockefeller Park at 11:45am.

Asphalt Orchestra performs a special family concert at Queens College’s Colden Auditorium at Kupferberg Center for the Arts.

Asphalt Orchestra returns to Massachusetts, performing outdoors at Wellesley College.

Asphalt Orchestra brings its latest radical performance Asphalt Orchestra Plays the Pixies: Surfer Rosa (honoring the groundbreaking album’s 25th anniversary) to the Pixies’ tour itself!

Asphalt Orchestra brings its latest radical performance Asphalt Orchestra Plays the Pixies: Surfer Rosa (honoring the groundbreaking album’s 25th anniversary) to the Pixies’ tour itself!

Asphalt Orchestra brings its staged show Unpack the Elephant to Pennsylvania with surprise flash sets popping up along the way.

Asphalt Orchestra brings its staged show Unpack the Elephant to California with surprise flash sets popping up along the way.

Asphalt Orchestra brings its staged show Unpack the Elephant to New Hampshire with surprise flash sets popping up along the way.

Asphalt Orchestra brings its staged show Unpack the Elephant to Kansas with surprise flash sets popping up along the way.

Asphalt Orchestra returns to Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival on July 28, giving the world premiere of the new project ASPHALT ORCHESTRA PLAYS THE PIXIES: SURFER ROSA, honoring the ground breaking album’s 25th anniversary.

The Pixies released Surfer Rosa – the band’s first full-length record – in 1988. A cult hit then, the album’s influence has grown to mammoth proportions over the years; it is now considered one of the most important recordings of its time.   Asphalt Orchestra takes the originals both literally and inspirationally with new choreography by Jordana Che Toback, discovering a new direction for exhilarating acoustic music by paying tribute to a modern monument.

The band will perform a plaza parade set with Jacob Garchik’s “The Heavens” at 6pm. The program also includes performances by Kronos Quartet with special guests Dan Deacon and Jherek Bischoff, as part of a weeklong celebration KRONOS at 40, co-curated by Lincoln Center and Kronos Quartet.

Check out a sneak peek video here.

Asphalt Orchestra brings its signature outdoor extravaganzas to the Hudson River Valley.

Asphalt Orchestra heads down south springing jazz, prog-rock, and world music on the mobile masses of Arkansas with music by luminaries including David Byrne and Annie Clark, Goran Bregovic, Tatsuya Yoshida and more.

Asphalt Orchestra makes its Chicago-area debut, bringing its inventive and eclectic spirit to the stage with a unique show featuring music by Frank Zappa, David Byrne and Annie Clark, Tatsuya Yoshida, Björk, Goran Bregovic, and new music by members of the band.

Bang on a Can’s polymorphic avant-marching band brings its inventive and eclectic spirit to the stage with a unique show featuring music by Frank Zappa, David Byrne and Annie Clark, Tatsuya Yoshida, Björk, Goran Bregovic, and new music by members of the ensemble.

Asphalt Orchestra takes Unpack the Elephant to Maine.

Asphalt Orchestra brings its staged show Unpack the Elephant to California in its West Coast debut!

Asphalt Orchestra brings its staged show Unpack the Elephant to PA with surprise flash sets popping up along the way.

Asphalt kicks off the HOPFest with a brand new fanfare commission!

Asphalt Orchestra performs at the first ever TED Women conference in Washington, DC. Works by Stew & Heidi Rodewald, Goran Bregovic, Bjork, Frank Zappa and more.

Target Free Thursdays presents Asphalt Orchestra

David Rubenstein Atrium @ Lincoln Center (62nd Street & Broadway/Columbus).