BAM Next Wave Festival
Twenty Years and Counting...

Back in the late 1970s, when everything was "new," --the age, the music, the wave--BAM was preparing for what was next: specifically, an opera by Philip Glass about Mahatma Gandhi.

Making Waves is an interactive chronicle of the BAM programming initiative that came to be known as Next Wave. What began as a subscription gimmick in 1981, evolved into a festival in 1983, and soon after that, a phenomenon, an international crossroads where audiences seek challenge, where artists find nurture, and where the critics and writers find out what's next.

The pages that follow contain sound and video clips, as well as complete listings of every Next Wave event presented to date. We will be adding to the site all of the time and we welcome your suggestions and input. Click the Next Wave Skeptic button to move on to the next page.

Credits
This Web site was created by the BAM Marketing Department in celebration of the 20th Next Wave Festival.
Special thanks go to:
Robert Boyd—Words and Pictures
Entropy8Zuper!—Web Design