{"id":20952,"date":"2022-12-19T07:17:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=20952"},"modified":"2023-02-07T03:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:22:42","slug":"make-music-returns-on-winter-solstice-wednesday-december-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2022\/12\/make-music-returns-on-winter-solstice-wednesday-december-21\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKE MUSIC RETURNS ON WINTER SOLSTICE – WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAKE MUSIC WINTER RETURNS ON WINTER SOLSTICE\u2014WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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\nMake Music Winter<\/strong> (MMW), a free outdoor musical celebration with exuberant and participatory parades<\/strong>, performances<\/strong>, and events throughout<\/strong>\u00a0New York<\/strong>,\u00a0Los Angeles,\u00a0Chicago,<\/strong>\u00a0and dozens of U.S. cities<\/strong>, will return on the Winter Solstice<\/strong>, Wednesday<\/strong>, December 21<\/strong>, 2022.<\/p>\n

The annual event, happening on the shortest day (and longest night) of the year, 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 become a positive outlet for music enthusiasts and their neighbors to meet up, learn a new skill, and march through public spaces while making music with bells, electric guitars, their own voices, percussion, and more unusual instruments. The event has grown to include 35+ cities across the nation each year.<\/p>\n

Drummers Brian Chase<\/strong> of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs<\/strong> and Glenn Kotche<\/strong> of Wilco<\/strong> will be premiering new compositions, on December 21, using bells.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0New York City,<\/strong>\u00a0Make Music Winter events will ring in the holiday season across the five boroughs. In\u00a0Manhattan,\u00a0Patrick Grant<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars<\/strong>\u00a0will play with other mobile musicians in “Standing Still” at noon in Herald Square, followed by the evening procession “Winter Luminaria with Tilted Axes” through\u00a0Sasaki Garden\u00a0set aglow with lights in a special partnership with NYU Faculty Housing Happenings, while\u00a0Mobile Hallelujah<\/strong>\u00a0singers will pop up at seven midtown locations. In\u00a0Brooklyn,\u00a0Flatfoot Flatbush\u00a0<\/strong>will\u00a0feature\u00a0dancers, fiddlers, and pickers parading down Flatbush Avenue playing old-time tunes while flatfooting, a form of percussive dancing from Appalachia. In Queens, the second annual\u00a0Queensboro Music & Dance Festival<\/strong>\u00a0will showcase live music and dance from many of the borough’s cultures, teaching basic dance moves and providing handheld percussive instruments so that spectators can join in. And in the\u00a0Bronx, the\u00a0Melrose Parranda<\/strong>\u00a0will join Make Music Winter for the eighth consecutive year, bringing this Puerto Rican caroling tradition to different “casitas” and community gardens in the neighborhood, led by notable\u00a0Bronx\u00a0musicians including Jorge V\u00e1zquez,\u00a0Matthew Gonzalez, and\u00a0Bobby Sanabria. Many other\u00a0New York\u00a0events will be announced in early December.<\/p>\n

Make Music Winter’s signature\u00a0Bell by Bell<\/strong>\u00a0program also returns nationwide in 2022, featuring the world premieres of new compositions by\u00a0Brian Chase<\/strong>\u00a0(Grammy-nominated\u00a0Yeah Yeah Yeahs<\/strong>) and\u00a0Glenn Kotche<\/strong>\u00a0(Wilco<\/strong>), named one of the “Greatest Drummers of All Time” by\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>. In eight cities on\u00a0December 21\u00a0(Astoria, OR<\/strong>,\u00a0Auburn, CA<\/strong>,\u00a0Land O’ Lakes, WI<\/strong>,\u00a0Los Angeles, CA<\/strong>,\u00a0New London, CT<\/strong>,\u00a0New York, NY<\/strong>, and\u00a0Salem, OR<\/strong>) an event leader will distribute dozens of color-coded diatonic bells to the crowd, one color per note. At the front of the group, a team of conductors will wave corresponding colored flags to lead the group in slowly moving music by the composers, creating a sonorous, atmospheric soundscape. No one needs to be a musician in order to join in and play the pieces. At the\u00a0New York\u00a0performance,\u00a0Brian Chase\u00a0will perform as one of the conductors.<\/p>\n

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\nIn\u00a0California’s\u00a0Auburn<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Long Beach<\/strong>\u00a0cities, as well as\u00a0Boston, MA<\/strong>,\u00a0Chicago, IL<\/strong>,\u00a0Elgin, IL<\/strong>, and\u00a0Macon, GA<\/strong>, participants can allow\u00a0The Resonant Path\u00a0<\/strong>to melt away the past year’s frustrations.\u00a0Each city will present a path lined with gongs, continuously played over the course of an hour, that creates a natural crescendo and decrescendo as participants walk past, enveloped in waves of sound.<\/p>\n

Additional Make Music Winter events will take place in\u00a0Altoona, PA<\/strong>;\u00a0Clatsop County, OR;\u00a0Federal Way, WA;\u00a0La Crosse, WI;\u00a0Land O Lakes, WI;\u00a0Los Angeles, CA;\u00a0Macon, GA;\u00a0Montclair, NJ;\u00a0Mystic, CT;\u00a0Ossining, NY;\u00a0Polk County, OR;\u00a0Salem, OR;\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Tucson, AZ<\/strong>. From harmonica jams to yodeling workshops, unique Make Music Winter programs are being planned around the country. All information about events and participating cities will be posted as details are confirmed at\u00a0www.makemusicwinter.org<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n

Make Music Winter is presented by The NAMM Foundation and coordinated by the nonprofit Make Music Alliance.<\/p>\n

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Join the conversation: #MakeMusicWinter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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