Bang on a Can comes to Brooklyn with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world! The 2017 Bang on a Can Marathon will feature 8 hours of rare performances by some of the most innovative musicians of our time side-by-side with some of today’s most pioneering young artists.

2017 BANG ON A CAN MARATHON SCHEDULE (subject to change):

2pm

• Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars

3:30pm

• Innov Gnawa

4pm

• Caroline Shaw
• Joan La Barbara’s A Murmuration for Chibok performed by the Young People’s Chorus of NYC led by Francisco Nuñez
• Oliver Lake Crash Bang Trio with Bill McClellan and Reggie Nicholson, drums

5pm

• Rabbit Rabbit (Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi)
• The Pixies/Kim Deal’s Gigantic (arr. Nathan Koci) performed by Asphalt Orchestra
• Merrill Garbus/tUnE-yArDs’ Bizness (arr. Ken Thomson) performed by Asphalt Orchestra

6pm

• Louis Andriessen’s De Staat performed by the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Timothy Weiss
• Kaki King

7pm

• Michael Gordon’s No Anthem performed by the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
• Selections from Meredith Monk’s Cellular Songs performed by Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

8pm

• Amir ElSaffar’s Crisis performed by his Two Rivers Ensemble
• David Lang’s just (after song of songs) performed by the Just Ensemble

9pm

• Kendall Williams and Pan in Motion
• Ivo Papasov’s Ivo’s Ruchenitsa (arr. Peter Hess) performed by Asphalt Orchestra
• Women’s Raga Massive