New Music on the Bayou | Free Contemporary Music Festival

HAPPENING NOW · APPLICATIONS OPEN

New Currents
Rising Artists Concert · Music of Our Time

NOVEMBER 15 · 2:00 PM · PRESENTED BY NMB

A fall showcase for emerging performers from ULM, Louisiana Tech, and Northwestern State highlighting the music of our time. Applications are open until November 1.

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THE SEASON

Follow the current through the season

NOVEMBER

New Currents concert

DECEMBER

Call for scores opens

MARCH

Selections announced

JUNE 2–5

The festival

Rising artists, music of our time.

ON NOW

FROM THE ARCHIVE

One decade of new music

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New Music on the Bayou is a contemporary-classical music festival held each summer across Ruston and Monroe, Louisiana. New works performed live, free and open to all.