Long Play Festival 2026

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Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30th through Sunday, May 3, 2026. 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!

Full festival and Supporter Passes are on sale now, including the 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. A Long Play pass also includes access to Oneohtrix Point Never live at Pioneer Works on Thursday, April 30th.

Additional featured concerts in the 2026 lineup include John Luther Adams’ Crossing Open Ground for 40 percussion, winds, and brass in Fort Greene Park; There’s a Yearning (Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Oliver Nelson) including a premiere of recently discovered (and never before played) music by Eric Dolphy, performed by the Wildebeest Wind Quintet with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose; Stockhausen’s Kontakte performed by Steven Schick and Cory Smythe; BlankFor.ms with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore; Michael Gordon’s pulsating and unstoppable Trance with Ensemble Signal, a 100th birthday salute to Morton Feldman with Quatuor Bozzini performing String Quartet No. 1 and Charlotte Mundy performing Three Voices; Matthew Shipp’s The Cosmic Piano; Secret Chiefs 3 featuring Mr. Bungle’s Trey Spruance; Gavin Bryars’ gritty ambient Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet performed by Contemporaneous; David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors), and much more. Complete lineup below!

Amina Claudine Myers
Anzû Quartet and Friends play Ken Thomson
Billy Hart Quartet 
BlankFor.ms with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore
Brandon Ross and Stomu Takeishi For Living Lovers
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Byron Westbrook
Chris Ryan Williams Vibration Trio
Colleen
Contemporaneous plays Gavin Bryars
David Lang mystery sonatas with Emma Meinrenken
David Longstreth
David Murray, Dezron Douglas, Nasheet Waits 
Dirty Projectors (Supporter Pass Only) 
Dither and Friends play James Tenney 
Eli Keszler
Elori Saxl and Henry Solomon
Exceptet performs Vangelis L'Apocalypse des animaux
Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou
Florent Ghys with Mantra Percussion 
Gaby D'Annunzio
GEORGE
goat (jp) (Supporter Pass Only)
Ha-Yang Kim
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and Rena Anakwe
John Luther Adams Crossing Open Ground 
Julia Santoli
Julia Wolfe Anthracite Fields with Bang on a Can All-Stars and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street 
Julius Hemphill Music for Six Saxophones led by Marty Ehrlich
Kali Malone Does Spring Hide Its Joy ft. Lucy Railton & Stephen O’Malley
Kalia Vandever 
KatzPascale
Kwami Winfield and C. Spencer Yeh
Lara Jones
Matmos 
Matthew Shipp The Cosmic Piano 
Melaine Dalibert The Vermilion Hours
Michael Brook Cobalt Blue
Michael Gordon Trance with Ensemble Signal 
Michael Harrison, Ina Filip and Raga Cycle Project
Miles Okazaki plays Thelonious Monk
Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 1 with Quatuor Bozzini 
Morton Feldman Three Voices with Charlotte Mundy 
Oneohtrix Point Never
Orlas 
Philip Glass Glassworks with Bang on a Can All-Stars 
Quatuor Bozzini plays Éliane Radigue 
Sam Prekop
Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause
Saha Gnawa 
Sarah Davachi
Secret Chiefs 3
Shelley Burgon
Shoko Nagai and Satoshi Takeishi VORTEX
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton
Steve Reich 90th Birthday Marathon with Sō Percussion, Dither, and Friends
Steven Schick and Cory Smythe perform Stockhausen Kontakte
Suzanne Bocanegra Rerememberer (Supporter Pass Only)
Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio 
The Kris Davis Trio
The Percussion Collective performs Mauricio Kagel Dressur 
There’s a Yearnin’: Wildebeest Wind Quintet with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose
Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart

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Of Long Play 2026, Bang on a Can co-founders, Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe say:

“What we do at Bang on a Can, this time of year, is astral project ourselves into the sunny, warm, life-affirming month of May. April 30th to May 3rd, to be exact. We conjure up an image of ourselves, in short sleeves, strolling through beautiful, bustling, downtown Brooklyn, surrounded by enthusiastic throngs of joyous music lovers, people we already know and people we are about to know, people who represent a community brought together by their shared love of wild music, in all of its forms. Dreaming about Bang on a Can’s LONG PLAY festival always gets us through.”

More information about the festival and the artists is at www.longplayfestival.org

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