The outdoor sculpture park returns with four summer dates that pair its setting with an unusually sharp range of live music.
Storm King Art Center confirmed four concerts for the summer of 2026, lining up Kim Gordon, Black Country, New Road with Horsegirl, an ensemble led by Devonté Hynes, and the Sun Ra Arkestra. The outdoor New Windsor museum keeps the series lean. One show in June, two across July and August, each tied to after-hours admission to the grounds.
Gordon plays Saturday, June 20, well into a solo tour that rethinks her live presence without the noise-rock scaffolding of Sonic Youth. The next day, Black Country, New Road and Horsegirl share a bill during a joint tour that also touches down at a free SummerStage event in New York. On July 11, Hynes appears in a trio with vocalist Tariq Al-Sabir and pianist Adam Tendler, extending the composed, collaborative thread he has pulled at since stepping away from the Blood Orange name. The Sun Ra Arkestra closes it on August 15, still channeling a repertoire that refuses to recede into nostalgia.
The setting matters. Storm King’s expanse of steel and earth works by Calder, di Suvero and others rewards duration. A four-date series asks visitors to meet the music on those terms. The programming reads less like a festival’s genre spread and more like an argument for what can root itself in a place that already knows how to hold silence.
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