We are delighted to announce this year’s lineup for Make Music Winter: 20 cities with free, participatory parades and performances on Saturday, December 21!
- Pete Wyer’s “Street Motets for New York City,” one of 10 winter parades in New York NY, will synchronize 25 pairs of choristers, who will sing while walking on separate hour-long routes through the streets of Greenwich Village, and delight bystanders with unexpected bursts of harmony as their paths cross.
- Montclair NJ‘s 8th annual Make Music Winter celebrates the season with six music-making events, including Phil Kline’s boombox parade Unsilent Night, and The World Turned Upside Down, a participatory jam with Appalachian, bluegrass, and zydeco songs of protest.
- The first Make Music Winter in Chattanooga TN brings interactive music to an outdoor market, a soup kitchen, a music museum, and many more spots around town.
- Slovenia’sFlight Ukulele joins this year’s Make Music Winter with a national program, donating 110 all-weather travel ukes for winter parades in Aberdeen and Gig Harbor (WA), Atlanta (GA), Germantown (TN), Milwaukee (WI), Montclair (NJ), and Surry County (NC).
- AndRhythm Band Instruments partners again to provide free hand percussion for events in twelve cities, including Kinston (NC), Land O’ Lakes (WI), Middleton (WI), Muskogee (OK), Ossining (NY), Salado (TX) and Salem (OR).
Of course, there is so much more, from caroling parties to parrandas. Visit makemusicday.org/winter for the complete schedule!