Make Music Day is a worldwide celebration which honors Fête de la Musique, a festival founded in France to celebrate the sounds of live music. The festival always lands on the summer solstice, June 21.
Appleton’s Make Music Day is from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will take place on the lawn of The History Museum at the Castle.
The free-to-attend event invites attendees to gather at 330 E. College Ave. for an afternoon of musical activities.
Starting at 12:30, guests will have access to an instrument petting zoo on the Drew Street side lawn, open to music lovers of all skill levels. Interact with an assortment of brass, string, woodwind and percussion instruments with Heid Music Sales specialists on hand to help guide through the basics.
Rondini’s Bombastic Bubbles can be seen from 12:35 to 1:05 p.m. on the College Avenue front lawn. The magician will demonstrate his skills with bouncing and catching bubbles, volcano bubbles, square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles and putting people inside bubbles.
Following his act will be bucket drumming from 1:10 to 1:40 p.m. on the College Avenue front lawn as well, led by percussionist Jonathan Leahy with supplies provided by Vic Firth.
Guests are then encouraged to gather from 1:45 to 2 p.m. on the College Avenue front lawn to sing Resistance Fox Cities, a movement which calls for unified voices singing for a cause. More information about Singing Resistance Fox Cities can be found online at commonrootsrising.org/singing-resistance-fox-cities.
The event wraps up at 2 to 2:30 p.m. with a guitar and percussion jam session with Childbloom Guitar Program in the same area. Students from the program will perform together and have a rhythm play along where the audience will have the chance to add their own percussion sounds to the music ensemble.
For more information visit makemusicday.org/appleton.
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