This joyful, collaborative program includes daily rehearsals and seminars, performances in the museum galleries, world music and improvisation workshops, technology and music entrepreneurship seminars, and concerts and events in the community. The Bang on a Can Summer Festival has been described as “utterly transformative” and “life-changing,” and it’s a place where musicians generate powerful connections with new life-long collaborators, friends, and colleagues.

The 2026 festival will take place at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).

More information, including daily schedule, full faculty listing, application info, and more, can be found here.