We are thrilled to announce this year’s lineup of 40+ free, participatory parades and performances for Make Music Winter on Thursday, December 21.
Across the country, join a unique participatory event to celebrate the first day of Winter!
- In Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, pianist George Ko will ask people who they are shopping for, and what message they’d like to convey, and George will write a new, giftable song for them on the spot!
- Twenty gongs will ring in a parade in Auburn, CA, while nearly 40 gongs will form a Resonant Path at the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference in Chicago, IL.
- Music stores in Crystal Lake, IL, Duluth, GA, New York, NY, and Scottsdale, AZ will bring together local pianists for colossal Roomful of Pianos performances, including New York’s adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, performed simultaneously by students of all ages on multiple pianos (up to ten at a time!).
- Rhythm Band Instruments partners again with Make Music Winter to provide free Boomwhackers and other percussion for events in Land O’ Lakes, WI, Macon, GA, Muskogee, OK, Raleigh, NC, and more to be announced.
- Twelve independent music stores are hosting String Together, where beginning guitarists learn to change their guitar strings (with free strings donated by D’Addario), get a free lesson from a local teacher, and play together. String Together events will take place in Albuquerque, NM, Auburn, AL, Jeffersonville, IN, Louisville, KY, Milwaukee, WI, North Royalton, OH, Ossining, NY, Pittsburgh, PA, Salem, OR, State College, PA, Washington, DC, and Williamsport, PA.
Of course, there is so much more, from ukulele jams to caroling parties. Not to mention cities like Montclair, NJ, New York, NY, Ossining, NY and Salem, OR that go all-out with winter revelry all over town.
Visit www.makemusicwinter.org to see it all!
