Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth to perform with string quartet at New York's Met gallery

Dirty Projectors singer, guitarist and de-facto leader, Dave Longstreth is to premiere new music, plus altered arrangements of older tracks, for a special performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The musician will perform with the Calder Quartet at the Met on 1 November, also running through compositions of Béla Bartók.More information on the event can be found here.

Dirty Projectors released their most recent album, Swing Lo Magellan, in July of last year.

[via Pitchfork, Photo by Sonny Malhotra]