On Make Music Day, you don’t have to have a band – or even an instrument – to be part of the music-making.
In a new program for June 21, we’re excited to launch a series of circle singing events across the country. A practice popularized by renowned Grammy Award-winning vocalist Bobby McFerrin, circle singing is an improvised vocal experience without sheet music or advance preparation. Participants create music in the moment, layering sounds and rhythms extemporaneously, and delighting in the beauty of their collective expression.
New York City will feature a 24-hour Sing For The Earth circle singing marathon from noon on June 21 to noon on June 22 in Brooklyn, organized by Make Music New York and the Gaia Music Collective. Song leaders from Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, India, and the US will join all who come and lend their voices for a few minutes, a few hours, or the full day.
Other experienced facilitators will lead circle singing events in the resonant Quincy Market Rotunda in Boston MA, under the glass dome of the Artsgarden in Indianapolis IN, and in a downtown alleyway in Fullerton CA. (Want to lead your own circle singing event? Email maddie@makemusicday.org.)