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Bang on a Can Summer Festival Fellows 2026!

We are thrilled to announce our 2026 Bang on a Can Summer Festival fellows! Coming from all around the world, these composers and performers will be in residence with us at MASS MoCA this July, creating music together, performing in MASS MoCA’s galleries throughout the Festival  – and also on LOUD Weekend: a fully loaded, 3-day, eclectic super-mix of creative, experimental, and unusual music. Join us for LOUD Weekend, July 30- Aug 1, to hear what our fellows get up to this summer!

2026 fellows

LOUD Weekend tickets

Long Play Festival 2026

Stephanie Berger

Thanks for coming to Long Play!

What a weekend! Thank you to all of the 2026 Long Play artists, audience, venues, and staff for bringing together over 10,000 people to 12 venues in Brooklyn over 5 days. We are so grateful to everyone involved.

More photos coming soon, and here is a feedback form, if you would like to share your experience.

And you are welcome to contribute to help keep Long Play strong for years to come!

(photo by Stephanie Berger)

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.

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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.

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Bass Quartet Performance at Jewish Museum, May 7

On Thur, May 7, in the spirit of that joining of forms, Bang on a Can and the Jewish Museum present a diverse suite of works for bass quartet that plumbs the depths of the low register, including Schuller’s own Quartet for Double Basses; Michael Gordon’s Low Quartet – a work for any four “low” instruments; Jacob Druckman’s Tromba Marina, in which the bass imitates the strange sound of a baroque trumpet; and Tom Johnson’s dada-esque masterpiece, Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for Solo String Bass, where a lone player tries to fail or not fail at a very difficult performance.

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.

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Julia Wolfe’s Her Story at Southern Mississippi

Julia Wolfe’s mesmerizing cantata Her Story dramatically explores the historic struggle for women to secure equal rights. Scored for large orchestra and women’s voices, with stage direction by Anne Kauffman, scenic design by Jeff Sugg, and production by Bang on a Can, you won’t want to miss one of the cultural events of the year in Mississippi.

March 25th: Talk with Julia Wolfe at 6:30pm

March 26th: Performance of Her Story 7:30pm

Mannoni Auditorium

Coming up in March – David Lang at the NYPhil and the All-Stars play Sakamoto at Univ. of Colorado

March 19-22: David Lang, the wealth of nations with the NYPhil, Gustavo Dudamel conductor (World Premiere)
Inspired by economist Adam Smith’s 1776 magnum opus, David Lang dramatizes this foundational work about economics as inspired by Handel’s treatment of Biblical texts in Messiah. “I want this work to be enjoyable and thought-provoking,” says Lang, “encouraging audiences to consider what we truly value.” The world premiere of the wealth of nations is March 19-22, 2026, performed by the NY Philharmonic and Music Director Designate, Gustavo Dudamel! Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic.
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March 28: Bang on a Can All-Stars play Ryuichi Sakamoto and University of Colorado, Boulder
Ryuichi Sakamoto “was arguably the best-known and most successful Japanese musician in the world.” (Peter Tasker, Nikkei Asia)  Now Bang on a Can All-Stars offer their realization of the album 1996 (arranged by the All-Stars’ multi-talented clarinetist-composer Ken Thomson) — which includes an incredible selection of many of Sakamoto’s greatest hits.
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Chorwerk Ruhr, Lang, Rosner, Helgath

before and after nature at Bucknell University, March 1

David Lang’s newest work – before and after nature – is a monumental meditation on how people might imagine the world, both before and after human existence. Featuring the electric Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Bucknell University Choir, conducted by Caleb Hopkins, and with stunning video/visual design by Tal Rosner, before and after nature explores how people interact with the natural world, concentrating particularly on the things we don’t really see or understand.

March 1 at Bucknell University
Weis Center Concert Hall