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MAKE MUSIC WINTER RETURNS DECEMBER 21
\n<\/strong>Free, Participatory Musical Celebration Welcomes All on the Winter Solstice
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Make Music Winter<\/strong>, a FREE outdoor musical celebration with exuberant and participatory parades, performances, and events throughout New York and in dozens of U.S. cities, will return on the Winter Solstice, TUESDAY, December 21<\/strong>.
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\nThe annual event welcomes people of all ages and musical abilities to celebrate the joy of making music with fellow community members. Since its start in 2011, Make Music Winter has provided a way for music enthusiasts to meet up, march and play through public spaces, and make music with bells, electric guitars, voices, percussion, and more unusual instruments.
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\nIn keeping with the gift-giving season, sound-making toys will make their Make Music Winter debut in The Mutant Toy Parade<\/strong>, a participatory composition by Argentina-based artist Laureano Cantarutti<\/strong>\u00a0premiering in six U.S. cities. Children and adults are invited to come and experiment with \u201ccircuit-bent\u201d toy steering wheels, recordable buzzers, and\u00a0disfigured talking dolls\u00a0designed by Cantarutti and assembled by local musicians in each city. Participants will then parade through the streets playing music using the toys and hand percussion instruments, which will be free to take home as a holiday gift for further music-making experimentation. Mutant Toy Parades will take to the streets in\u00a0New York (NY)<\/strong>,\u00a0Montclair (NJ), Salem (OR)<\/strong>,\u00a0Knoxville (TN), Toledo (OH),\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Altoona (PA).
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\n<\/strong>Back for the second year,\u00a0Rhythm Band Instruments (RBI)<\/strong>\u00a0is celebrating Make Music Winter across the country, providing over 300 instruments ranging from bells to Boomwhackers in eleven cities for participatory winter music. RBI\u2019s bells will star in\u00a0New York (NY)<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0\u201cBell by Bell,\u201d from 6:00-7:00 PM<\/strong>\u00a0in SoHo (at Elizabeth St., between Prince and Spring St.). This event has become a Make Music Winter tradition, with volunteers from Elizabeth Street Garden handing out color-coded bells to revelers who get a crash course in handbell basics, then play collectively with a team of conductors. Forty miles up the river in\u00a0Ossining\/Briarcliff (NY)<\/strong>,\u00a0RBI instruments will be part of\u00a0a Make Music Winter day of concerts, interactive music events, workshops and music lessons, offering something for everyone. In the small town of\u00a0Land O\u2019 Lakes (WI)<\/strong>, RBI will offer instruments for beginner ukulele and hand bell classes. Other RBI-supported events will take place in\u00a0Montgomery (AL)<\/strong>,\u00a0Toledo (OH)<\/strong>,\u00a0Salem (OR)<\/strong>,\u00a0Montclair (NJ)<\/strong>,\u00a0Altoona (PA)<\/strong>,\u00a0Federal Way<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Gig Harbor (WA)<\/strong>, and\u00a0Milwaukee (WI)<\/strong>.
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\nBut nothing compares to New York City, the birthplace of Make Music Winter, where nearly 20 musical gatherings and parades will enliven neighborhoods across the boroughs, from\u00a0Flatfoot Flatbush<\/strong>\u00a0in Brooklyn\u00a0to the<\/strong>\u00a0Melrose Parranda<\/strong>\u00a0in the Bronx. New York\u2019s events (in addition to Bell by Bell and the Mutant Toy Parade) will include:<\/p>\n