David Byrne details guest-filled ‘Contemporary Color’ shows

"'Contemporary Color is a perfect example of the kind of artistic partnership that has emerged out of the Brooklyn cultural district, enabling us to deliver extraordinary programming to our audiences in a way that would not have been possible even several years ago,' notes BAM Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo."

Why David Byrne is hijacking a high school tradition

"Can he increase the vibrancy of this American staple...maybe do for it what Glee did for glee clubs?"

Episode 603 - David Byrne

"For many people, including Marc, David Byrne has served as a tour guide through a new frontier of creativity."

Watch a mini-doc about David Byrne’s Contemporary Color with tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus

"Each artist will work with the team’s creative heads in creating a 'mind-blowing meld of original music and routine.'”

David Byrne announces Contemporary Color

"At least in my high school, colorguard wasn’t necessarily the coolest club to be a member of — and this is coming from a guy who was in marching band."

David Byrne Announces a Musical and Visual Art Experiment: “Contemporary Color”

"Devonté Hynes, How to Dress Well, St. Vincent, and more will provide live music for ten color guard teams this June in Brooklyn."

David Byrne to debut ‘Contemporary Color’ show at Toronto’s Luminato Festival

"In addition to the former Talking Heads frontman himself, Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus, Dev Hynes and How to Dress Well are among the artists who will participate."

Talking Head Has A New Hobby: David Byrne Pairs Superstars with Color Guards

"Nonsensical Talking Heads frontman and sex funk advocate David Byrne has just announced his new performance event "Contemporary Color," which will bring ten color guard teams and a Coachella-level cast of talent to the Barclays Center come June 27th and 28th."

What Is Contemporary Color?

"What is Contemporary Color? Put simply, it's a new event that David Byrne is putting on in Brooklyn and Toronto that combines live music with colour guards."

David Byrne to Stage Color Guard Show With St. Vincent, Dev Hynes, How to Dress Well, tUnE-yArDs…

"Nelly Furtado, Ira Glass, Nico Muhly have also written music for Byrne'sContemporary Color."

Watch David Byrne Prep for Groundbreaking ‘Contemporary Color’ Show

"Talking Heads frontman takes us inside what he calls 'a mash-up of a music festival, a sports event and an artistic event.'"

David Byrne Enlists St. Vincent, Kelis, Nelly Furtado for Colorguard Concerts

"Tune-Yards, How to Dress Well, Devonté Hynes and more will join Byrne and 10 of the nation's best colorguard teams onstage for a unique performance."

Watch A Mini-Doc About How To Dress Well’s Color Guard Piece For David Byrne’s Contemporary Color

"I was stunned at what I was seeing, and being a musician I naturally wondered to myself: what if these performances had really great live music? Wouldn’t that lift it to another level?"

Art, music and sport collide as colour guard comes to this year’s Luminato

"No footballs will be thrown, but there will be sequins."

David Byrne to stage colour guard shows with Kelis and St Vincent

"Byrne’s show, Contemporary Color, will feature flag-twirling performances set to live music in Toronto and New York."

David Byrne: flying the flag for colour guard

"When the Talking Heads legend saw a high school team twirling flags he felt that it was an undiscovered folk art – so he got a collection of musicians to perform with the teams in a rare, exciting performance."

After Here Lies Love, Talking Heads’ David Byrne Turns to High School Color Guards for Inspiration

"Contemporary Color will blend music and this phenomenon of Americana."

Luminato to premiere David Byrne’s Contemporary Color spectacle at ACC

"The two day event will pair musicians including Nelly Furtado, Kelis and St. Vincent with high school teams in the competitive dance medium called colour guard."

David Byrne Wrangles Stellar Lineup for His Next Project: Color Guard

"David Byrne is on to his next venture: Color guard. Yes, that color guard."

Review: David Byrne and Color Guard Blend Dance, Music and Athleticism

"Teenagers of all shapes and sizes swirl flags and toss sabers and rifles into the air with nimble grace and wide-open hearts."

David Byrne’s Changing of the Color Guard

"They were all here to prepare for something unprecedented: an arena spectacle combining color guard teams with live music by artists of Mr. Byrne’s choosing."

David Byrne, St. Vincent, Ad-Rock Blow Minds With Contemporary Color Show

For the better part of 40 years, the music of David Byrne has served as a gateway from the mainstream to outsider sounds: punk, African funk and sample-based collage, to name just a few. Now 63, Byrne still very much represents a conduit between worlds, only the conversation is moving in the other direction: he’s introducing urbane audiences to an age-old American tradition.

David Byrne Doc Ft. St. Vincent, Dev Hynes, Ad-Rock, More Coming to Theaters

Watch a trailer for Contemporary Color, which is getting its theatrical release on March 1.

‘Contemporary Color’: vivid if distant view of color guards

“Contemporary Color” is a concert documentary that celebrates the gathering of 10 color guards — flag-spinning, rifle-tossing squads that perform impressively choreographed routines to original songs from the likes of David Byrne and Nelly Furtado.

‘Contemporary Color’ shines a gleeful spotlight on flag-waving, rifle-twirling artists

As exhilarating and moving a concert film as you’re likely to see, “Contemporary Color” documents David Byrne’s giddy, passionate melding of hip composers and recording acts (St. Vincent, Lucius, the Tune-Yards) with what Byrne considers an underappreciated folk art: those flag-waving, plastic-rifle-twirling school dance squads known as color guards.

How David Byrne and ‘Contemporary Color’ Turned Color Guards Into Rock Stars

Contemporary Color is a correction of sorts; a wide platform for the marginalized that, to quote Lucius' Jess Wolfe in the film, "were never the prom queens."

Contemporary Color Is a Beautiful Portrait of the Deeply Queer Art of Color Guard

A great deal of queer art is like this: effusions of aesthetic brilliance that exist for a few nights at some club or that screen in someone’s apartment for an audience of 10. Kudos to David Byrne for recognizing such a precious flash in guard, and to the Ross brothers for catching the shimmer for all of us to see.

Otra más de David Byrne: conozcan su documental ‘Contemporary Color’

David Byrne, músico nacido en Escocia, nacionalizado estadounidense, en 2015 organizó una guerra de los mejores equipos Canadá y Estados Unidos de color guard.

Captured color

A ‘Contemporary’ discussion with documentarian Turner Ross

CONTEMPORARY COLOR

David Byrne loves color guard — that staple of the high-school spirit scene — so much that he produced a live show pairing color guard teams with unlikely indie musicians like Ad-Rock and St. Vincent.