December 21 - Make Music Winter Day!

Posted on December 21, 2019

The shortest day of the year has been Make Music  Day Winter in New York City for almost a decade now. Get this: there are 12 different musical parades around the city, open to everyone who wants to participate! And of course people can create their own unique making-music event or parade, as well! How fun! 



Make Music Winter has been so great, it's spread nationwide and even a little bit worldwide. This year, there are open-to-anyone musical parades in Palm Desert (CA), Pasadena (CA), Philadelphia (PA), Pittsburgh (PA), Port Townsend (WA), and Provo (UT) - and that's just the U.S. cities starting with "P"! Also: Perth, Australia! Check out your own city at the Make Music Winter website

If there are no parades in your own hometown, start the custom!

Here are a few sorts of making music in public that have paraded down NYC streets:

  • electric guitarists
  • medieval singers
  • Puerto Rican Parranda percussionists
  • people playing music with iPhones (?)
  • handbell players
  • musicians on bicycles
  • trombone players
  • people playing music on boomboxes











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