ew York City’s Merkin Concert Hall, in association with New Amsterdam Records, presents the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, a showcase of collaborative evenings between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the crossover of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres. The festival opens with a free seven-hour marathon on January 17th, 2011, featuring headliners Buke & Gass, and continues with 13 additional concerts until March 28, 2011.
Headliners
Festival lineup
- Buke & Gass
- Clogs & Brooklyn Youth Chorus
- Judd Greenstein (The Yehudim) & Olga Bell (Bell)
- Nadia Sirota & Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) with Owen Pallett
- Roomful of Teeth & tUnE-yArDs: The Music of William Brittelle, Caleb Burhans & Merrill Garbus
- So Percussion & Bobby Previte with Zeena Parkins, John Medeski, DJ Olive & Jen Shyu
- So Percussion & Dan Deacon
- The Chiara String Quartet and the Music of Nico Muhly & Valgeir Sigurdsson
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