Bang On a Can: 2026 Long Play

Sat 02 May, 2026, 2pm
Sun 03 May, 2026, 1pm
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22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater May 2–3. 

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Featuring 70+ concerts, Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – including performances at ISSUE Project Room, BRIC, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn Music School, Roulette, Pioneer Works, Public Records, the Church of St Luke and St Matthew, Polonsky Shakespeare Center for Theatre for a New Audience, and Fort Greene Park – and more!

Full 4-day 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,  Oneohtrix Point Never, and the US premiere of Kali Malone’s Does Spring Hide Its Joy ft. Lucy Railton & Stephen O’Malley.

ISSUE Project Room celebrates the 20th Anniversary of its Artists-In-Residence (AIR) program throughout 2026 with performances by current residents and returning alumni. In honor of this milestone, all Long Play performances taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater will feature past ISSUE AIRs. This anniversary season highlights the ongoing evolution of a much broader community of experimental artists who have helped shape ISSUE for over twenty years. Past presentations of these artists are available for free in ISSUE’s online archive.

LONG PLAY AT 22 BOERUM PL.

SATURDAY, MAY 2

2:30pm - Shelley Burgon

4:30pm - Byron Westbrook

6:30pm - Julia Santoli

8:30pm - Eli Keszler

SUNDAY, MAY 3

1:00pm - Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & Rena Anakwe

3:00pm - Ha-Yang Kim

5:00pm - Kwami Winfield & C. Spencer Yeh 

Learn more at longplayfestival.org.

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.

ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering nonprofit performance center, presenting projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. ISSUE serves as a leading cultural incubator, facilitating the commission and premiere of innovative new works.  

ISSUE Project Room programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 

ISSUE Project Room’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater is ADA accessible by lift and a ramp funded through the Accessibility Project of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative Placemaking Fund.

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