Taylor Mac and Matt Ray: Songs from Bark of Millions

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A powerhouse collective of artists ignites an electrifying collision of performance, live music, and drag spectacle. One of the great creative partnerships in contemporary American performance, MacArthur Award-winning icon Taylor Mac reunites with Obie Award-winning composer Matt Ray, ”the musical nexus of New York’s alt-cabaret scene” (NYTimes), for an evening that invites all to reflect on queer lineage and futures.

Following their much-heralded durational performance A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (subject of an HBO original documentary), Mac and Ray created the epic , that aims to create a new canon of original songs inspired by queer figures past and present.

Electrifying, provocative, and entirely disarming, this concert version of Bark of Millions is an open call to community and celebration. In Mac’s own words, if you’re not invited to the party, throw a better one!

“Bark of Millions provides a source for poetic contemplation, a queer terroir out of which new forms of life can grow.” (Vulture, NY Mag)

The Bark of Millions book will be published by Black Dog & Leventhal in Fall 2026.