Make Music Milwaukee Returns on June 21

Milwaukee, 6/17/24 – Make Music Milwaukee will return for its 8th year of free musical events and activities across the greater Milwaukee area on Friday, June 21. Make Music Milwaukee is part of Make Music Day, a global music celebration that takes place on the summer solstice each year and brings people of all ages and skill levels together to make music. This year over 100 U.S. cities and 26 Wisconsin cities will host Make Music performances across the country as part of the world’s largest annual music event.

Make Music Day began in France in 1982 as Fête de la Musique and has spread to over 1,000 cities across 120 countries. Completely different from a typical musical festival, Make Music concerts are performed by anyone who wants to take part and enjoyed by everyone who wants to attend. From classical to folk, hip hop to opera, jazz to popular music, instrument petting zoos to professional performances, live music of all kinds resounds on streets, sidewalks, porches, plazas, parks, gardens, store fronts and other public spaces on the longest day of the year.

This year, Make Music Milwaukee will feature over 40 events ranging from performances to jam sessions. Highlights of Make Music Milwaukee will include:

• Music all afternoon at Hart Park, concluding with: Sousapalooza (instrumentalists of all ages welcome to sign up) – a concert band jam session at the Hart Park Rotary Stage
• 3 Instrument Petting Zoos with Brass Bell Music Store (at MPL Villard, Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, and Shorewood Library) where kids can try out instruments for fun and for free!
• A Bluegrass Jam session at the Beulah Brinton House in Bayview
• Performances all day, throughout the greater Milwaukee area, starting at 11am and concluding at 10pm!

The latest schedule of events can be found at http://www.makemusicday.org/milwaukee/.

There are a few performance spots still available at www.milwaukee.makemusicday.org and interested instrumentalists can sign up for the Sousapalooza at https://forms.gle/aLvwNpgkHNxaJiB8A. Interested Milwaukeeans can also get updates from Make Music Milwaukee on Facebook and Instagram.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.