LONG PLAY FESTIVAL

Bang on a Can presents the 4th year of Long Play, a three-day destination music festival, presented from Friday, May 2 through Sunday, May 4, 2025. Featuring 50+ concerts, Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Roulette, Pioneer Works, Public Records, BRIC, The Space at Irondale, the Church of St Luke and St Matthew, ISSUE Project Room, and Fort Greene Park!

A Supercharged Musical Ride through Right Now. “Long Play…is already the most important classical music festival in New York City.” —The New York Times

The festival  includes a 90th birthday spotlight-celebration of Terry Riley with  the Bang on a Can All-Stars premiering a new version of Riley’s iconic and inspirational A Rainbow in Curved Air, arranged by Gyan Riley, plus Riley’s minimalist classic In C performed by an All-Star cast including special guests Krishna Bhatt, Valentina Magaletti, Nicole Mitchell, Suphala, and more.

Some featured concerts in the 2025 lineup include Kim Gordon; the world premiere of Henry Threadgill’s Listen Ship; Tim Hecker; Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 19 (For 100 Tubas), Moritz Von Oswald (2 concerts!), Ensemble Signal playing David Lang and Julia Wolfe; Tomeka Reid Quartet; Nico Muhly’s The Street; Valentina Magaletti; Idris Akamoor & the Pyramids; Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan aka Ringdown; Mary Halvorson + Bill Frisell duo; Australia’s Ensemble Offspring playing a world premiere by composer Kate Moore; and much more.