Long Play Festival 2025 – Brooklyn, NY

Current Long Play 2025 Lineup (with more to be announced). For complete schedule and up to date info, please visit the festival website, here.

Terry Riley 90th Birthday Tribute with Pete Townshend, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Gyan Riley, & Special Guests

Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 19 (For 100 Tubas)

Kim Gordon

andPlay/Catherine Lamb

American Opera Project plays Arvo Pärt

BarTog and Cecilia Lopez

Ben LaMar Gay Quartet

BlackBox Ensemble presents Embodying Eastman: Speculative Listening with Isaac Jean-François

Body / Head

Buke and Gase

Carl Stone / Akaihirume

Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg Duo

Cousin

David Lang Darker, performed by Ensemble Signal, with film by Bill Morrison

dragonchild presents Monument Eternal (for Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda)

Efraín Rozas

emptyset

Ensemble Offspring plays Iannis Xenakis

Fausto Romitelli, Professor Bad Trip, performed by Talea Ensemble

Foodman

Francis Harris (DJ)

Fred Frith

Gérard Grisey, Le Noir de l’Étoile, performed by Talujon

Happy Apple

Henry Threadgill Listen Ship (World Premiere)

Highsmith+ (Craig Taborn, Ikue Mori, Tomeka Reid)

Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids

JJJJJerome Ellis

John Cage Sonatas and Interludes, performed by Adam Tendler

Julia Wolfe Cruel Sister, performed by Ensemble Signal

Kate Moore Rose of Roses, Flowers of Flowers (World Premiere) plus selected works, performed by Ensemble Offspring

Loidis

Lorelei Ensemble plays Christopher Cerrone’s Beaufort Scales

Mary Halvorson & Bill Frisell duo

Max Richter with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble performing The Blue Notebooks and In A Landscape*

Michael Gordon Material, performed by Yarn/Wire

Meara O’Reilly’s Hockets For Two Voices performed by Mingjia Chen + Linnea Sablosky

Moritz Von Oswald

Nico Muhly The Street, performed by Stef Van Vynckt

Nicole Mitchell/Luke Stewart/Tcheser Holmes

Niecy Blues

Nour Harkati

Peter Evans’ Being & Becoming

Ringdown (Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan)

Salamanda

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, Roulette, Pioneer Works, Issue Project Room, Public Records, BRIC, The Space at Irondale, plus outdoor events and more.

3-day Festival and Supporter Passes include a 90th birthday spotlight-celebration of Terry Riley at Pioneer Works with guitar legend Pete Townshend performing the original ‘free fall solo version’ of his signature tribute Baba O’Riley, 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 Pete Townshend and special guests.

Some featured concerts in the 2025 lineup include NYC art-rock legend Kim Gordon, the world premiere of Henry Threadgill’s Listen Ship; Tim Hecker; Ensemble Signal playing David Lang and Julia Wolfe; Tomeka Reid Quartet; Nico Muhly’s The Street; Valentina Magaletti; 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.

Of Long Play 2025, Bang on a Can co-founders, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Michael Gordon say:

All we need is music, sweet music. There’ll be music everywhere

That is not just a quote from Martha and the Vandellas – it’s the truth!

COME JOIN US FOR OVER 50 CONCERTS in 10 VENUES, ACROSS 3 DAYS, MAY 2 to 4, in BROOKLYN.

Now more than ever, we need music that can reach out to us, bring us all together. Audacious courageous music that brings light into the world.

Callin’ out around the world: Are you ready for a brand new beat?

Come join us for this spectacular gathering of musical creatorsin Brooklyn this spring at LONG PLAY 2025.

p.s. lyrics by Songwriters: Ivy Hunter / Marvin Gaye / William StevensonDancing In The Street lyrics © Stone Agate Music, Nmg Music, Mgiii Music, Fcg Music, Jobete Music Co Inc, Concord Road

Fueled by more than three decades of Bang on a Can projects, including Marathon concerts, LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA, countless world tours and staged productions, Long Play is a Supercharged Musical Ride through Right Now – for musicians and audiences alike.