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.
June 20—Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon
Saturday, June 20
Doors: 5PM
Performance: 7PM
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.
June 21—Black Country, New Road with Horsegirl
Black Country, New Road with Horsegirl
Co-Produced by Chosen Family Presents & Storm King Art Center
Sunday, June 21
Doors: 5PM
Performance: 7PM
Black Country, New Road are a British experimental rock collective known for their fearless reinvention and genre-defying sound. From their Mercury Prize–nominated debut For the First Time to Ants from Up There, the band has continuously pushed boundaries. Their latest album, Forever Howlong, marks a bold new chapter with shared vocal and songwriting duties, inventive instrumentation, and expansive arrangements, showcasing a fearless exploration of post-punk, chamber pop, folk, and prog influences that cements the group as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary rock.
Horsegirl is a Chicagoborn, New York–based indie rock trio whose music blends postpunk, shoegaze, and experimental pop with a playful, spirited edge. Since signing to Matador Records, they’ve released two acclaimed albums—Versions of Modern Performance and their second LP Phonetics On and On—exploring space, texture, and songwriting with clarity and inventive minimalism. Known for their chemistry and creative growth, the band continues to evolve with authentic energy and curiosity.
July 11—Devonté Hynes Ensemble
Devonté Hynes Ensemble
Co-Organized by Storm King Art Center & Eliza Ryan
Doors: 5PM
Performance: 7PM
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.
August 15—Sun Ra Arkestra
Sun Ra Arkestra
Co-Produced by Storm King Art Center & Chosen Family Presents
Doors: 5PM
Performance: 6:30PM
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.