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2008 April 2–5 Bang on a Can Bill Frisell Grizzly Bear The Dirty Projectors, Ben Verdery Andrew Bird Glenn Kotche Bryce Dessner |
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Sólrún, María, Edda and Hildur, four Icelandic women in their mid twenties collectively known as amiina first decided they wanted to write music together in 2004. They gathered together every last instrument they could find and piled them into their car. They then filled every available bit of space with food.
This, they maintain, was a […]
David Cossin is a specialist in new and experimental music, Cossin has managed to stretch the boundaries of percussion performance by incorporating new media across a broad spectrum of musical and artistic forms.
David Cossin has recorded and performed internationally with composers and ensembles including Bang on a Can All-Stars, Steve Reich and Musicians, Philip […]
My Brightest Diamond is a band fronted by Shara Worden, who has also performed as a vocalist with Sufjan Stevens’s band. The band’s first album, Bring Me the Workhorse, was released in 2006.Mixing elements of opera, cabaret, chamber music, and rock, My Brightest Diamond was the project of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden. The daughter of a […]
Clogs are a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Australia’s Padma Newsome, both men familiar from their membership in the acclaimed rock band, The National. Their existence predates The National, and Clogs have released four widely acclaimed albums on Brassland Records — Thom’s Night Out (2001), Lullaby For Sue (2003), Stick Music (2004), […]
Born in 1938, Pedro Soler began playing guitar with exiled refugees from Andalusia who came to Toulouse after the Spanish Civil War. He performed in flamenco companies, studied with masters, and later accompanied celebrated flamenco singers and dancers. As a recording artist of over 50 years, Soler is one of the most honored flamenco artists. […]
About
The MusicNOW festival began in 2006 to present musicians and music that takes risks and doesn’t fit neatly into any category.
The festival is curated by Bryce Dessner, who performs with Clogs and the National.
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Tickets are available for purchase online. All tickets are sold as WILL-CALL to be available for pickup at the shows.
Accolades
“Perhaps the single most important aspect of MusicNOW is its singularity. No other festival is colliding these musical worlds in quite the same way as Bryce Dessner's brainchild. It's a point that Worden drives home enthusiastically.”
– CityBeat
24 November 2005
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