Summer Concerts
This summer, live music returns to Storm King’s breathtaking landscape—a setting defined by scale, openness, and artistic ambition. From experimental rock to Afrofuturist jazz, these internationally recognized musicians will delight and inspire with open-air performances unlike anywhere else.
August 15—Sun Ra Arkestra with DJ Ephraim Asili
Sun Ra Arkestra with DJ Ephraim Asili
Co-Produced by Storm King Art Center & Chosen Family Presents
Doors: 5PM
Performance: 6:45PM
Sun Ra Arkestra, founded in Chicago in the mid-1950s by pioneering composer and bandleader Sun Ra, blends big-band swing, space-age jazz, singing, dancing, chanting, and Afro-pageantry. The ensemble has performed worldwide for more than 60 years. Since 1995 it has been led by alto saxophonist Marshall Allen—now 101—whose leadership continues as the Arkestra tours internationally. Their 2020 album Swirling was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
Ephraim Asili is an African American artist, filmmaker, DJ, and traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His childhood and adolescence were imbued with hip-hop music, Hollywood movies, and television. Often inspired by his day-to-day wanderings, Asili creates art that situates itself as a series of meditations of the everyday. Asili is currently the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program at Bard College, where he is also an associate professor teaching film production and film studies.
June 20—Kim Gordon with The Fiery Furnaces
Kim Gordon’s third solo album Play Me, processes, in Gordon’s impressionistic way, the collateral damage of the billionaire class: the demolition of democracy, technocratic end-times fascism, the A.I.-fueled chill-vibes flattening of culture.
The Fiery Furnaces is the long-running collaboration between siblings Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger.
June 21—Black Country, New Road with Horsegirl
Black Country, New Road are a British experimental rock collective known for their fearless reinvention and genre-defying sound.
Horsegirl is a Chicagoborn, New York–based indie rock trio whose music blends postpunk, shoegaze, and experimental pop with a playful, spirited edge.
July 11—Devonté Hynes Ensemble
Devonté Hynes Ensemble | Presented for the first time in the United States, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Devonté Hynes brings together an ensemble of glittering talent to perform new compositions.
Devonté Hynes started in the punk band Test Icicles before releasing two orchestral acoustic pop records as Lightspeed Champion. Since 2011, Hynes has released six solo albums under the name Blood Orange, has written and produced for pop music superstars, and is an accomplished composer who has made an impressive mark for himself within the classical music space.
Tariq Al-Sabir is an internationally distinguished interdisciplinary artist, composer and music director whose work spans performance, improvisation, sound design, movement, poetry, theatre and film, with a practice rooted in genre-fluid experimentation and collaboration.
Grammy-nominated pianist Adam Tendler is a pioneer of DIY culture in classical music who has been called ‘the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene’ (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
Cæcilie Trier is a critically acclaimed cellist, singer and composer whose classical training infuses her varied and boundary-pushing musical projects and collaborations.