Ten hours of nonstop music at World Cafe Live! Part of the 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival / Philly Fringe

Buy one ticket, then come and go all day long as today's most adventurous players perform new works by modern composers. As artistically inclusive as it is audience-friendly, the Bang on a Can Marathon is a wild mix 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.

Performed by: Asphalt Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Uri Caine, The Crossing, Free Form Funky Freqs (Vernon Reid, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Calvin Weston), Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Matmos, Normal Love, Signal, So Percussion, Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, and more.


"There are other places to hear new contemporary music, but it is seldom offered with such a potent blend of intensity, authority, and abandon." Vanity Fair

Bang on a Can Marathon (Philadelphia) has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.

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For a complete schedule of the Band on a Can Marathon click here

Sunday, September 12, 2010 | 2:00pm until Midnight | Downstairs Live

General Admission Seating

Ticket Price:
$25.00* - Full Price
Discounts (available in person at the box office):
$15.00* - Student or buyer 25 and younger (with valid ID)
$20.00* - WXPN member (with valid ID), WHYY member (with valid member ID), DancePass holder (with valid DancePass)

*$2 per ticket processing fee applies to all purchases



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