Australia
The Australian Music Association founded Australia’s first nationwide Make Music Day celebration in 2018. In 2025, Make Music Australia marked its eighth year with musical events nationwide, including over 220 performers at 40+ venues in Adelaide, public piano and choir workshops in Wyndham City, a full “Make Music Month” with over 60 events in the City of Moreton Bay, musicians aged 7 to 90 playing at Guitars Plus in Sandringham, and many other events.
Brazil
Make Music Day was celebrated in more than 100 Brazilian cities in 2025 with performances, workshops, and jam sessions, coordinated by the Brazilian music industry organization Anafima, with composer Hermeto Pascoal serving as Ambassador. Approximately 600,000 public school students participated around the country, along with thousands more amateur and professional performers of all ages.
China
Led by the China Musical Instruments Association, Make Music China celebrated 10 years of Make Music Day in 2025, and their combined 88,000 performances by 2.5 million direct participants to date. Featured events in 2025 included an opening ceremony in Wuqiang County, events with Aiyun Musical Instruments and Swan Musical Instruments, a 100-person harmonica choir, and amateur string players joining from Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Japan, Indonesia, Cameroon, and Bangladesh.
Cyprus
Make Music Cyprus proudly celebrated its seventh year in 2025, with 59 events at 12 locations in the historic city of Nicosia, featuring over 300 talented participants. For the first time, the celebration also extended to a second city, Larnaca.
Germany
Germany’s Fête de la Musique is organized in 160 cities around the country, coordinated by a team based in Hannover, in partnership with the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat) and 16 national associations from the amateur music sector. The country’s first Fête de la Musique, and still the largest, is the celebration in Berlin where 987 events took place in 2025.
Ghana
Led by Phasers Acoustics, Make Music Ghana entered its fourth year in 2025. This year’s edition featured band performances throughout the Accra Mall and the global “Taking Flight” collaboration at the Alliance Française.
Italy
Italy’s Festa della Musica began in 1985, shortly after the founding of France’s Fête de la Musique, and became a national event in 1994. In the last few years it has grown enormously, encompassing 800 cities with 1,549 events across the country in 2025.
Kenya
Since its founding by Showbiz Info Ltd in 2022, Make Music Kenya has featured musical partnerships with restaurants, bars, Strathmore University, and cultural centers in Nairobi and other cities.
Mexico
Make Music Mexico thrived in 2025, with over 17,000 people attending performances by 150 artists at 37 venues around the country, coordinated by the Gonher Music Group. Events included clinics on music production, creation, and performance, led by Toño Ruiz (guitarist of Coda and QBO) and Mauricio Clavería (drummer of La Ley and Los Concorde).
Nigeria
Music retailer Showgear organizes dozens of events around Lagos for Make Music Day each year. In 2025, these included a music business conference, a “Battle of the Bands” presented with the French Embassy (with the winning band getting an Alliance Française gig), a “catalog revue” for amateur artists to get feedback from professional A&R people, and a “Shutdown” concert to close the evening of June 21 which attracted an audience of 4,000. Make Music Nigeria also coordinates the #MySongIsYourSong global song swap.
South Africa
The first Make Music South Africa in 2023 included a 12-hour music marathon in Johannesburg, a “kazoo-off”, musical playgrounds, sound walls and other participatory projects around the country.
Türkiye
The fourth Make Music Türkiye in 2025 featured two outdoor stages for artists near the Syrian Opera, along with a choir joining the global “Taking Flight” event.
Ukraine
Since 2013, Make Music Day has flourished in Lviv, Ukraine, with over 100 musical groups each year, amateurs and professionals, performing on June 21 in a wide variety of outdoor locations throughout the city – and sometimes beyond, reaching the cities of Ternopil and Odessa. Despite Russia’s invasion in 2022, Make Music Day has continued in Lviv, uninterrupted and stronger than ever. In 2025, there were 167 performances at 66 venues all over the city.
United Kingdom
Established by the UK nonprofits Music For All and Making Music, Make Music Day UK became an independent organization in 2022. Highlights in 2025 included the “Big Summer Wind Orchestra” with hundreds of players in London, 22 performing ensembles in seven towns and cities in Wales, and celebrations in four cities in Scotland and one in Northern Ireland.
