April & May Shows
WoCo Fest 2022 AMAZE
Saturday May 28, 3:00PM
LEILA ADU
AMP by Strathmore welcomes WoCo Fest 2022 AMAZE, produced by Boulanger Initiative and co-presented by Strathmore. Boulanger Initiative advocates and provides opportunities for women composers and all gender marginalized composers through performance, education, and commissions. WoCo Fest 2022 will take place at AMP by Strathmore and tickets can be purchased for individual sessions or full day pass.
Info: https://www.strathmore.org/what-s-on/what-s-on-at-amp/woco-festival-2022-amaze/#bios
Standard Ticket: https://secure.strathmore.org/19974/19984
Full Festival Pass: https://secure.strathmore.org/19974/19975
Carnegie Hall Citywide: Asphalt Orchestra
Sunday May 22, 12:00pm
LEILA ADU-GILMORE CARNEGIE HALL COMMISSION COMPOSITION PREMIÈRE
Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Julia Wolfe caps her Carnegie Hall residency with a one-of-a-kind event in Manhattan’s Bryant Park, featuring new-music marching band Asphalt Orchestra, called “part parade spectacle, part halftime show, and part cutting-edge contemporary music concert … coolly brilliant and infectious” by The New York Times. Also featuring guest artists Pan In Motion, the program includes world premieres by first-time Carnegie Hall–commissioned composers Leila Adu, Jeffrey Brooks, and Kendall Williams, further highlighting Wolfe’s longtime reputation as a champion of innovative new works. Catch the beginning of the performance at the side of the park near the New York Public Library, or join the performers along the way as they march toward the main lawn!
Part of: Carnegie Hall Citywide and Julia Wolfe
Info: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/05/22/Carnegie-Hall-Citywide-Asphalt-Orchestra-1200PM
Bryant Park | Stage
Between 40th and 42nd streets and Fifth and Sixth avenues | Manhattan
New York
Bang on a Can‘s LONG PLAY festival
May 1st, 3:00pm
LEILA ADU
LONG PLAY is an explosion of mind-bending music of the moment.
Over the May Day weekend of 2022, LONG PLAY brings 60+ performances at 8 venues over 3 days to Downtown, Brooklyn NYC: Bang on a Can announces the launch of LONG PLAY, a new, three-day destination music festival. Originally scheduled for May of 2020… Featuring dozens of concerts, LONG PLAY also showcases a dense network of pioneering music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Roulette, Public Records, Littlefield, Mark Morris Dance Center, The Center for Fiction, outdoor events at The Plaza at 300 Ashland, and more. Bang on a Can’s Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, say of the new festival:
“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. 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!”
Fueled by more than three decades of Marathon concerts, the LOUD Weekend festival at MASS MoCA, countless world tours and staged productions, Bang on a Can’s LONG PLAY is a supercharged ride through right now – for musicians and audiences alike.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/long-play-festival-2022-tickets-255193971037
BAM – The Adam
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Sō Percussion’s Brooklyn Bound Jam
Thursday April 14, 8pm (in-person + online)
WITH LEILA ADU, SŌ PERCUSSION, SANDBOX PERCUSSION, BARD PERCUSSION
Our sixth Brooklyn Bound of the season features works by Leila Adu-Gilmore, Andy Akiho, and Kendall Williams, performed by Sō Percussion, Sandbox Percussion, Bard Percussion, and Leila Adu-Gilmore.
This event will be streamed here on FB and on YouTube. You may now attend this event in person!
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Read more about the performers here:
Sō Percussion: https://sopercussion.com/events/brooklyn-bound/
Leila Adu-Gilmore:
Website: http://www.leilaadu.com/about/
Sandbox Percussion:
https://sandboxpercussion.com/
Instagram: @sandbox_percussion
Facebook: @sandboxpercussion
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/sandboxpercussion
Bard Percussion: https://sopercussion.com/
Facebook: @bardpercussion
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Now in its ninth season, Brooklyn Bound is a popular series of concerts at Sō’s working studio in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. When social distance became a necessity, we decided to create a new version and transition to a fully virtual one. Casual and intimate, the concerts feature us and emerging ensembles from our local scene. The groups are encouraged to try out new material, premier new commissions, completely experiment, or just get another performance under their belt.
Brooklyn Bound is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
100% of contributions made during this event will go directly to the New Work Development Program to support commissions by Shodekeh Talifero, Claire Rousay, and Leilehua Lanzilotti!
Tickets: $10 suggested donation https://sopercussion.com/donate/
Online (or In-Person below): Facebook event & YouTube stream
20 Grand Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
