New Music Gathering

01/22/2026

Don’t forget to join us this Saturday, 3pm Eastern Time, for a Zoom to chat about venues for musicking and to make new music nerd friends! 🎉🎉🎉 Registration link on our site newmusicgathering.org 💓🎉💓

11/18/2025

NMG has two announcements for 2025!

Announcement #1: FAST FRIENDS online events!

FAST FRIENDS events will use the accessibility of Zoom to invite as many people as want to join to come and meet and share and scheme up new ways of musicking! We’ve always treasured the fact that people who meet at NMG go on to collaborate on all sorts of things: new commissions, new ensembles, new collectives - and just the general exchange of ideas and info. As awesome as the concerts and talks and panels have been at NMG events (and they are awesome), this basic community-building is what we’re in it for.

THE FIRST TWO FAST FRIENDS ZOOM EVENTS WILL BE:

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th at 3PM ET
Theme: VENUES FOR MUSICKING!
(free signup form on our website:
https://www.newmusicgathering.org/ )

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19th at 8PM ET
Theme: TBA!

Announcement #2: a DIY music productions NMG resource folder

To help as much as we can in a complicated 2025, we’re putting together a set of docs and tools that might help you (yes, you!) make your own music gatherings in your own communities. We NMG organizers have produced a lot of events and programs at this point for NMG (and other music organizations), and we’re going to try our best to put all our collective knowledge in one place for others to peruse as a potential resource. We’ve also created a free and simple community bulletin board so we can all get chatting! We’ve linked to it all on our website’s ABOUT PAGE.

Why are we making this change? In 2025, NMG finds itself still broke, still volunteer-run, and in the context of increasingly confusing times in the US. While travel is more uncertain and funding is scarcer now than when we started, we want to continue to support and promote music community antics! We are trying out this decentralized suggestion to see if our support can be spread wider and weirder and safer and funner than ever before. NMG may still happen in its more familiar form someday soon, but we wanted to think of other ways to keep helping to connect the communities we all love in the complicated meantime.

CHECK OUR WEBSITE ABOUT PAGE FOR ALL THE JUICY INFO!

08/20/2024

The five NMG organizers love the gathering and we want to see it thrive and grow and become better in every way! ✨…as such, we seek to hire… ✨

A PROJECT MANAGER!!

➡️ Are YOU interested in being the NMG Project Manager?

APPLY INFO HERE: https://www.newmusicgathering.org/about/opportunities

06/23/2023

We’re having a blast at !! Thank you and for launching Day 1’s celebration of PURPOSE ❤️

06/20/2023

Friends, we need your help! With NMG kicking off this week, and with less institutional support this year than others, we’re asking our dear community to donate if you have the means ❤️ We’re a volunteer org & all donations goes directly to supporting this year’s artists. Link in bio!

06/12/2023

Just hit 20 contributions to our 2023 Indiegogo Campaign! Wooooo!!! Giant thank yous to you wonderful folks for believing in NMG. Join them in helping NMG do its thing (link in comment below!) and join us in giving GIANT high-fives to Kevin C. Clark Alexis Bacon Shelly Dinan Jamie Klenetsky Fay, vocalist & composer Kevin Leomo Vid Smooke: Composer and Toy Piano Steve Layton Ruby Fulton, composer Jean Narveson Jennifer Choi Elisabeth Halliday-Quan Dan Trueman James Moore Philippa Thompson Jen Wang Kyra Davies Andie Tanning Danny Holt Lembit Beecher and superhero first donor Shaya Bendix Lyon!!

06/11/2023

Can't get enough of // BORA YOON? Us either!! Before she lights up the NMG stage at PSU on June 22nd, check out her awesome Listening Lab with the amazing Third Angle New Music in Portland this Thursday!! Then catch 3A at NMG's "Welcome to Portland" concert with Resonance Ensemble and fEARnoMUSIC on 6/21!

Korean-American composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon sits down with us to share music that has inspired her, talk about her creative process, and enjoy snacks and wine with a small audience.

04/12/2023

Live in or near Portland, OR? Up for hosting a fabulous NMG2023 participant coming from far far away? CHECK OUT THIS DOC - get in touch with these cool peeps!
BIG BIG BIG thank you's shall be yours, oh hosts...

THIS IS A COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD FOR NMG2023 LODGING NEEDS! Post here if you need a place to crash in Portland ⇒ Potential hosts will contact you We’re going to try to get this document spread far and wide within the music communities of Portland to potential hosts - hosts will email you w...

03/01/2023

It is with [HUGE] excitement that we share the [EXTREMELY SUBJECT TO TIMING CHANGES] schedule for the 2023 New Music Gathering hosted at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon! Take a look at the amazing artists who will be sharing their sounds and ideas with us!
https://www.newmusicgathering.org/nmg2023
All are invited to attend - fully free of charge! Huzzah!

02/27/2023

🎉Meet the newest folks to join us in working toward NMG awesomeness!
Toot a toot-tooting with some magical oboe skills and fresh off her time co-organizing zFestival…it’s Outreach-dreamer Shoshana Klein!
Doo a doo-dooing with next year’s Whiffenpoofs and composing up a gorgeous storm, it’s NMG2023 Intern Sarah Sotomayor!
Wanna read all about these rockstar superheroes? Check out our organizer page for their bios!
AAAAAAAAND get ready for us to announce our full NMG2023 Schedule Lineup THIS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1ST!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉