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”In celebration of our fifth anniversary, National Sawdust is returning to our roots, turning the spotlight on the creative process and nurturing bold new music projects from exceptional new voices.”

Plus: Julia Wolfe's new work ’Fire in my mouth,’ and other Bang On a Can-related performances.

The 2019 edition runs from January 7 to March 21 at NYC's The Kaufman Center.

The free Bang On A Can Marathon moves back to Manhattan for its 31st year.

Kaki King played the pop/classical cross-pollination wonderland that is the Ecstatic Music Festival over the weekend, where she joined forces with another King (composer/guitarist/violist John King) and string quartet ETHEL...

Brooklyn composer/pianist Missy Mazzoli, who's responsible for the 2012 opera Song from the Uproar (among other works), is releasing a new album with her ensemble Victoire, Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, and three of the Roomful of Teeth vocalists (who she's worked with before) called Vespers for a New Dark Age on March 31 via New Amsterdam Records...

NYC's annual Ecstatic Music Festival returns to the Merkin Concert Hall this year with various shows happening from February through April, following the two free concerts at the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place in Janu...

River to River Festival 2013 (more by Ryan Muir) The free River to River Festival returns in 2014 to various outdoor NYC venues from June 19-29 and includes music, dance, theater, visual art, film and "unique participatory experiences...

BAM has announced the 2013 Next Wave Festival which runs from September 17 - December 22. The line-up features a diverse range of programming including opera, theater, music and dance...

William Basinski at Issue Project Room (more by Lori Baily) William Basinski's "The Disintegration Loops" will illuminate the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, as part of a FREE show "for the people of New York City on September 11"...