ONLINE: Make Music Madison
Madison: Everywhere!
A past Make Music Madison parade.
Make Music Madison is part of a global celebration taking place in more than 120 countries. There are a dizzying amount of events happening virtually, from lessons, livestreams, one-person marching bands, and lots of safely distanced mini-concerts. Find the global livestream here; a schedule of Madison performers is below (updates will be posted on makemusicmadison.org). Or, set up in your driveway or porch and let the creativity flow. It's all capped off from 8-9 pm with Drumming from Your Doorstep, where everyone is encouraged to make joyful noise with household members.
press release: Make Music Madison 2020: A Virtual Festival
Sunday, June 21
The Madison Arts Commission presents the 8th annual Make Music Madison. Make Music Day less than a month away and there are so many ways to celebrate! Join musicians in over 120 countries and in communities all across Wisconsin. This year, instead of gatherings and playing for live audiences, we invite individuals or members of the same household to check out the many fun ways to experience and share music virtually. From on-line lessons, to a front-porch city-wide drumming session, to a musical relay, there's something for everyone...
Live from Home Virtual shows, presented by Madison artists. Click the musician’s name to be redirected to their Facebook or Instagram livestream and enjoy the show! Audiences also can visit Facebook and Instagram and search #makemusicmadison, #makemusicday and #livefromhome to explore more performances.
9:30 AM: Dan Stier – Folk
9:30 AM: Michael McGrath – Fingerstyle guitar
10:00:00 AM: The Mood Family Band – Our six piece family band plays an eclectic mix of music from many genres and eras
11:00 AM: Angela Puerta Music – Latin Rock and Colombian folklore
11:00 AM: Nicole Saunders – A girl, a guitar, and covers of the Beatles, Ingrid Michaelson, Ben Harper, and more
11:00 AM: Lynn Gillitzer – Guitar covers and originals – FREE keyboard giveaway contest
12:00 PM: Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society – Chamber music with a Bang! Pre-recorded at our summer chamber music festival.
Instagram performance posted here, Facebook here
12:00 PM: Madison Flute Club – Various pieces from Madison Flute Club members
12:00 PM: Rex Loker, Emily Loker and Tom Sinclair – Topical acoustic folk
1:00 PM: Gloria Hays – Traditional Hammered Dulcimer music with vocals
1:00 PM: Justin Sattin – Novice classical guitar
1:00 PM: Matt Rodgers Music – Solo & looped bass
1:30 PM: Grant McAndrew – Dance for people that can’t dance: IDM, EBM, ETC.
1:30 PM: Wild Hog in the Woods Coffeehouse – One song each from 27 different performers from past appearances at the Wild Hog! Variety of singer/songwriter, folk and acoustic music.
2:00 PM: Nick Venturella Endeavors – Original folk/pop music about life’s ups and downs underscored by a spirit of hope
2:00 PM: Joe Kemmerling – A pre-mixed recording of an original funk song played on 24 instruments by one musician
3:00 PM: Jaime Guiscafre – Solo classical, Latin and original guitar music.
3:00 PM: Manwich B. – Solo singer/songwriter guitar/vocals covers/originals.
3:00 PM: Rhonda Chalone Music – Solo piano performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
3:30 PM: Kelsey Miles – Blues, rock, soul, country
4:00 PM: Juciee Monroe – HIP HOP
4:00 PM: Stephanie Rearick, Bucky Pope, together and separate piano based classical/cabaret/pop
5:00 PM: J. Marsden – Guitarist/singer/songwriter combining influences of Neil Young, John Frusciante, and Alice in Chains to create his own take on 90’s era acoustic grunge rock
5:00 PM: South Owen Drive Sax & Drums – A few songs, various styles
7:00 PM: Forward! Marching Band – Madison’s own activist street band, committed to social justice, to joy, and to fun. BLM!
7:00 PM: Seraphina Provenzano – Singer-songwriter with a knack for playing intricate fingerstyle guitar and writing lyrics that tell a story
7:00 PM: Lil Guillotine – Revolutionary Hip Hop
8:00 PM
Drumming from Your Doorstep
From 8:00-9:00 PM on June 21st, everyone is invited to join the city-wide drumming session from your front door. Individuals and members of the same household, head outside to your patio, stoop, or front porch to top off Make Music Day. Let’s hear drumming in all corners of Madison. In partnership with Make Music Australia and Make Music China, the Make Music Alliance invites everyone to record and post a musical performance from home on June 21. For safety, instead of gatherings or playing for audiences, individual musicians and members of the same household are invited to play from home. You can even tag a few friends to challenge them to do the same.
Global Livestream: On June 21, music rings out simultaneously across more than 120 countries. Whether you are beneath a skyscraper in Beijing or along the shore of a small Greek fishing village, you will find people making music.
Live From Home Challenge: On Make Music Day, performers all over the world will be joining the Live from Home Challenge. Play a live or pre-recorded show and post it to your Facebook, Instagram or Twitter on Sunday, June 21. You can even tag a few friends to encourage them to play a virtual show too. SIGN UP HERE by June 17. (Note: Madison Livestream is canceled)
This year's virtual event will be dedicated to raising funds for racial justice in music and to support local musicians who have lost income due to COVID. Half of the money raised will be donated to Urban Community Arts Network - UCAN which is dedicated to supporting sustainability in the Madison Hip-Hop community and advocating for equity in the local arts and entertainment. The other half will go directly to helping musicians economically impacted by the pandemic. Please use the following link which brings you to our Paypal. http://www.makemusicmadison.org/support/
Other international events:
25×12: Live Online Lessons: Make Music Day is the perfect opportunity to shake the dust off your instrument and start playing again, or to pick up an instrument for the first time.
Need a hand? This June 21, music teachers from around the world will offer 12 hours of free, online group lessons for 25 different instruments, at a range of levels from beginning to advanced. Jump around to sample a range of instruments, or binge on 12 straight hours of your favorite.
Hundreds of teachers and master musicians will participate, including Chelsea Starbuck Smith, Elise Ecklund, Andy Blanco, Kanako Shimasaki, and Caleigh Drane.
A full schedule will be posted on the Make Music Day website in early June – stay tuned!
And if you’re interested in teaching, e-mail maggie@makemusicny.org
#MySongIsYourSong: This Make Music Day, we invite you to join in a local music song swap, where you will learn a song by another local artist, and hear yours covered in return. Songwriters and composers of all styles and walks of life are invited to participate in #MySongIsYourSong.
Find a partner in your community or beyond, swap songs, and learn them for June 21st. Share your videos on social media with #MySongIsYourSong to be a part of the celebration!
Email jonah@makemusicday.org
Track Meet: This year for Make Music Day, join composers, producers and songwriters from around the world in a collaborative race against the clock.
Over the course of six hours, teams of four musicians will create brand new original tracks in a creative relay. Using the virtual audio workstation SoundTrap, each musician will get 90 minutes to add their contribution before the next teammate takes over. At the end of the day, we will bounce each team’s track and host them online for everyone to hear.
Interested in joining the Track Meet? Register to be matched with a creative team or sign up with your own group of four musicians by June 7.
How It Works
- If you are in North or South America, complete the registration form here. Registration for other parts of the world will be available soon.
- On June 14th, we will connect you with your teammates and assign your timeslot. Set up your SoundTrap account (a free version is available) and get familiar with it.
- When you start composing on June 21, you will have 90 minutes to work. Your contribution should use one instrument family, with your tracks marked with your assigned color. You must not edit any of your teammates’ tracks.
- After 90 minutes, the next team member will take over. Once your time is up, you cannot modify anything you’ve created.
- When everyone’s time is up, you have 30 minutes to revise your work together, and come up with a title. After 30 minutes, we will collect your work, in whatever state it’s in, and share it with the world!
World’s Smallest Marching Band: Since 2011, dozens of Make Music Day celebrations around the country have featured the “Sousapalooza” – an invitation for hundreds of brass, wind, and percussion players to come together and sightread the music of The March King, John Philip Sousa.
In 2020, in lieu of these massive gatherings, Make Music Day will explore the other end of the scale with The World’s Smallest Marching Band. Individual brass and wind players will parade through cities, by themselves, playing band repertoire to people listening from their homes or workplaces. These Pied Pipers (without rats or children) can bring musical joy in a year when parades are far and few between.
Interested in being a tiny marching band for Make Music Day? Contact Jonah Udall at jonah@makemusicday.org.
And check back soon to find a World’s Smallest Marching Band coming to you!
Bedroom Studios: For the past six years, open-air recording studios have appeared on sidewalks in cities around the world on June 21 to celebrate Make Music Day. In these Street Studio Cities, pioneered by Found Sound Nation and Harman, world-class DJs and producers invited passers-by to contribute to a spontaneous music production session, using only the audio recorded on the spot.
This year, while people around the world are staying safer at home, producers will continue this tradition with Bedroom Studios – live-streaming their production process from home, while creating a collaborative track with short audio clips sent in by viewers.
Bedroom Studios will offer a window into music production, and the challenge of producing with completely unknown inputs, bringing music makers together from bedroom to bedroom.
Work with producers from New York, Hungary, Austin, Pakistan and more. Check out the Make Music Day link here for more details.
Bash The Trash
This Make Music Day, join Bash the Trash Environmental Arts in raising awareness about trash pollution by building fun instruments from found objects!
The performers and educators of Bash the Trash are offering their innovative designs for wind, percussion and string instruments for an exciting new approach to building instruments from everyday refuse. These amazing instruments tackle issues of waste and offer us an opportunity to look at “trash” in a new way.
And thanks to D’Addario’s Playback String Recycling program, free used guitar strings will be sent to you upon request to use for the Diddley Bow – just tell us where to send them.
Once you’ve built your instruments, play “Ode to Joy” or “Baby Shark” and post it with the hashtags #BashTheTrash #MakeMusicHomeMade and #
Drumming from Your Doorstep: From 8:00-9:00 PM on June 21, everyone is invited to join the city-wide drumming session from your front door. Let's hear drumming in all corners of Madison. Individuals and members of the same household, head outside to your patio, stoop, or front porch to top off Make Music Day.
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