Bang on a Can has announced the full schedule for Long Play, a new three-day music festival. The event will begin on April 29 and run through May 1, and will take place at a variety of live music venues across Brooklyn, N.Y.
Long Play will feature over 60 concerts showcasing a network of talented musicians. Sets will be performed at BAM, Roulette, Public Records, Littlefield, Mark Morris Dance Center and The Center for Fiction. At the same time, Outdoor events will occur at The Plaza at 300 Ashland, among other locations.
The festival has shared the full schedule for the inaugural Long Play event. The latter will feature an ode to Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” featuring Denardo Coleman and the Ornette Expressions performing with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Jason Moran, Lee Odom, Wallace Rooney Jr., and special guest James “Blood” Ulmer. Additionally, the festival boasts a performance by Sun Ra Arkestra, Craig Harris, Kris Davis & Dave Holland, Reggie Workman and many more.
Bang on a Can’s co-founders and artistic directors, Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolf, shared, “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.” They continued, “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!”
View the complete Long Play schedule here.
