XPN Welcomes Bang on a Can Marathon: Philadelphia

XPN Welcomes Bang on a Can Marathon: Philadelphia  

Presented by Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe at World Cafe Live - Philadelphia

September 12, 2010


Ten hours of nonstop music. Buy one ticket and come and go all day long to this super-mix of music by today’s most adventurous players and composers from around the globe—and around the corner. As artistically inclusive as it is audience-friendly, the Marathon is a wild gathering of genres, styles, innovation, and radically new sounds, delivered as one open mega-concert. Music by Louis Andriessen, Björk, Goran Bregovic, David Byrne and Annie Clark, Uri Caine, Michael Gordon, Annie Gosfield, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Kamran Ince, David Lang, Paul Lansky, Thomas Mapfumo, Meshuggah, Charles Mingus, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono, Tarik O’Regan, Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho, Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Frank Zappa, Evan Ziporyn, and more. Performances by Asphalt Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Uri Caine, The Crossing, Free Form Funky Freqs (Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Calvin Weston), Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Matmos, Normal Love, Signal, So Percussion, Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, and more. The presentation of the Bang on a Can Marathon: Philadelphia is funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.



Admission Info

Tickets:

$25


Phone: 215-413-1318


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Dates & Times

Dates: September 12, 2010


Times:

2 pm

Venue Info

World Cafe Live - Philadelphia

3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104


Full map and directions

 

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