Strange Beautiful Music 19

Join New Music Detroit as we celebrate 19 years of strange and beautiful music in the Motor City. This year's theme, 'AFTERIMAGE', traces the meaning that emerges through the resonance and reverberation of listening together.

The 2026 lineup is a convergence of radically different sonic spheres: a rare performance of Philip Glass's monumental 1971 work "Music With Changing Parts"; perspectives on disability and asymmetry as told through the body and voice; ambient dreamscapes; ancestral memory shaped by air into sound; beat-driven electronics, jazz-inflected and rooted in Detroit's own cultural soil; and even performance that removes the "instrument" altogether.

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Make sure to check out our IG page (@newmusicdetroit) for more info on the artists as we lead up to the festival!

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Thursday September 10:
Day 1 at VANDER DETROIT
626 Harper Ave, Detroit
doors at 7:00, show 7:30-9:30 PM

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Friday September 11:
Day 2 at DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS (RIVERA COURT)
5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit
Museum open all day, show 7-8:30PM
(FREE if Detroit metro resident or w/ museum admission if non-resident)

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Saturday September 12:
Day 3 at MOTOR CITY CAR CLUB (MC3)
2475 W Grand Blvd, Detroit
doors at 7, show 7:30-11 PM