Make Music New York (MMNY)

 

 

 

 

 

 

MMNY is based on France’s “Fête de la Musique,” a national musical holiday inaugurated in 1982. Ever since, the music festival has become an international phenomenon, celebrated on the same day in more than 726 cities in 108 countries, including Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia, Lebanon, Ivory Coast, Australia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada, and Japan.

Now in its ninth year, Make Music New York, “the largest music event ever to grace Gotham” (Metro New York), is a unique festival of 1,000+ free concerts, all on June 21st, the first day of summer. MMNY takes place simultaneously with similar festivities in more than 726 cities around the world — a global celebration of music making.

From 10 in the morning to 10 at night, musicians of all ages, creeds, and musical persuasions — from hip hop to opera, Latin jazz to punk rock — perform on streets, sidewalks, stoops, plazas, cemeteries, parks and gardens. From high school bands to marquee names, MMNY is open to anyone who wants to take part, enjoyed by everyone who wants to attend.

Over 1,000 MMNY concerts have taken place in each of the last five years.

 

MMNY Participating Cities:

 

North Africa and Middle East:

Algeria: Oran Egypt: Cairo Israel: Jerusalem Jordan: Amman Lebanon: Beirut Morroco: Tangiers Palestinian Territories: Gaza, Nablus, Ramallah Tunisia: El Kef, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis

 

Sub-Saharan Africa:

Benin: Cotonou Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou Burundi: Bujumbura Cameroon: Douala, Garoua Cape Verde: Assomada Chad: N’Djamena Comoros: Fomboni, Moroni, Mutsamudu Congo: Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Pointe-Noire Cote d’Ivoire: Abidjian, Aboisso, Biankuma, Daloa, Dimbokro, Facobly, Grand-Bassam, Grand-Lahou, Korhogo, Man, Tortya, Yamoussoukro Djibouti: Djibouti Equatorial Guinea: Malabo Gabon: Libreville Gambia: Banjul Guinea: Conakry Kenya: Nairobi Madagascar: Ambatondrazaka, Antananarivo, Fandriana, Mjunga/Mahajanga, Moramanga, Sambava, Tamatave, Tolagnaro Mozambique: Maputo Namibia: Oshakati, Keetmanshoop, Windhoek Niger: Niamey, Zinder São Tomé and Príncipe: São Tomé Senegal: Dakar, Kaolack, Saint-Louis Seychelles: Victoria South Sudan: Juba Tanzania: Dar es Salaam Togo: Lomé Uganda: Kampala Zambia: Lusaka

 

Americas:

Argentina: Bella Vista, Buenos Aires, Cordoba Barbados: Bridgetown Bolivia: La Paz Brazil: Belèm, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Santos Canada: Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Quebec City, Sainte Agathe des Monts, Toronto, Vancouver Chile: Puerto Montt Colombia: Barranquilla, Bogota, Cali, Cartagena, Manizales, Medellin, Pereira, Valledupar Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo Ecuador: Cuenca, Guayaquil, Loja, Portoviejo, Quito Guatemala: Guatemala City Haiti: Cap-Haïtien, Port-au-Prince Honduras: Tegucigalpa Jamaica: Kingston Mexico: Cabo San Lucas, Juarez, Mexico City, Puebla, Querétaro, San José del Cabo, San Luis Potosi, Toluca, Villahermosa, Xalapa Nicaragua: Leon, Managa, Matagalpa Panama: Panama City Paraguay: Asunción Peru: Ancash, Apurímac, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Callao, Cusco, Huancavelica, Ica, Iquitos, Junìn, La Libertad, Lambayeque, Lima, Loreto, Moquegua, Piura, Puno, San Martìn, Ucayali, Trujillo Saint Lucia: Castries Salvador: San Salvador Suriname: Paramaribo Trinidad and Tobago: Port d’Espagne United States: Austin, Boston, Cambridge (MA), Chicago, Denver, Downey (CA), Issaquah (WA), Kalamazoo (MI), Laguna Beach (CA), Los Angeles, Madison (WI), Miami, Montclair (NJ), Nashville, New York City, Normal (IL), Oakland, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Philadelphia, Plymouth (NH), Portland (ME), Portland (OR), Riverside (CA), Santa Fe, Syracuse (NY) Uruguay: Montevideo Venezuela: Barinas, Barquisimeto, Caracas, Maracaibo, Maracay, Mérida, Puerto La Cruz, Valencia

 

Asia and Pacific:

Australia: Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney Bangladesh: Dhaka China: Beijing, Foshan, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Jinan, Macau, Qingdao, Shanghai, Wuhan Fiji: Suva India: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pondicherry, Pune Indonesia: Bandung, Jakarta, Surabaya, Yogyakarta Japan: Himeji, Ibaraki, Kamakura, Kobe, Kyoto, Minoo, Moriyama, Nara, Nishinomiya, Ohtsu, Osaka, Sapporo, Shima, Suita, Takatsuki, Tokyo Malasia: Kuala Lumpur Nepal: Dharan, Kathmandu, Pokhara New Zealand: Christchurch, Wellington Pakistan: Karachi, Lahore Philippines: Manilla Singapore: Singapore South Korea  Sri Lanka: Colombo Taiwan: Taipei Uzbekistan: Tachkent Vanatu: Lowanatom, Luganville, Motalava, Norsup, Port-Vila Vietnam: Hanoi

 

Europe:

Albania: Tirana Andorra: Andorra la Vella Armenia: Erevan Austria: Innsbruck, Vienna Belgium: [Nationwide] Bosnia-Herzegovina: Banja Luka, Bijeljina, Doboj, Istocno Sarajevo, Prijedor, Zvornik Bulgaria: Varna Croatia: Split, Zagreb Cyprus: Limassol Czech Republic: Ceske Budejovice, Plzen, Prague, Trebic France: [Nationwide] Germany: Annaberg-Buchholz, Aschersleben, Bamberg, Berlin, Brême, Bühl, Burg, Cologne, Dessau, Dresde, Erfurt, Erlangen, Essen, Francfort-sur-le-Main, Görlitz, Greifswald, Halle, Hanovre, Hennigsdorf, Homburg, Hoyerswerda, Jena, Kamenz, Karlsruhe, Landau, Leipzig, Löbau, Magdeburg, Meiningen, Plaue, Potsdam, Quedlinburg, Rathenow, Recklinghausen, Rostock, Salzwedel, Sangerhausen, Sarrebruck, Weilburg, Weimar, Weingarten, Wolfsburg Great Britain: Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Warrington Greece: Agios Dimitrios, Agrinio, Amaliada, Athens, Didymoteicho, Domokos, Drama, Edessa, Filippiada, Heraklion, Kallithea, Kavala, Komotini, Kos, Kythera, Larissa, Levadia, Moschato-Tavros, Naxos, Paros, Preveza, Salamina, Santorini, Serres, Thessaloniki, Veria, Volos, Xanthi Ireland: [Nationwide]Italy: Abbiategrasso, Acquasparta, Albenga, Altamura, Arco, Ascoli Piceno, Asti, Bibbiena, Biella, Bitonto, Bologna, Brescia, Brunico, Caposele, Carapelle, Carloforte, Castellammare di Stabbia, Cogne, Colleferro, Filadelfia, Firenze, Forlì, Francavilla al Mare, Galatina, Gela, Ischia, Ispica, Lanuvio, Ledro, Lentini, Lucca, Maglie, Marino, Martina Franca, Mestre, Milano, Modena, Moncalieri, Montalcino, Moriondo Torinese, Nago Torbole, Napoli, Padova, Palermo, Pellizzano, Perugia, Pescara, Potenza, Ranco, Rome, Salerno, San Mauro Pascoli, San Pellegrino Terme, San Vito dei Normanni, Sant’Agata d’Esaro, Santa Teresa Gallura, Schio, Senigallia, Seregno, Siderno, Siena, Siracusa-Ortigia, Sona, Spello, Tortolì, Trieste, Udine Kosovo: Pristina Luxembourg: [Nationwide] Macedonia: Tetovo Netherlands: Amsterdam, The Hague, Roosendaal Poland: Bukowiec, Czestochowa, Olsztyn, Toruń, Warsaw Portugal: Lisbon, Santarem Romania: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Pitesti, Timisoara Russia: Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Rybinsk, Samara, Saratov, Tolyatti, Vladivostok, Voronezh Serbia: Belgrade Slovakia: Banska Bystrica Spain: Aguilar de Campoo, Burjassot, Cartagena, La Puebla de Alfindén, Logroño, Madrid, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tres Cantos, Valencia, Valladolid, Vilagarcia de Arousa Switzerland: Chaux-de-Fonds, Châtel-Saint-Denis, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Monthey, Morges, Neuchâtel, Nyon, Thun, Yverdon les Bains Turkey: Ismir Ukraine: Lviv

 

Establishment Date: 1989

Website: http://makemusicny.org/about/around-the-world/

Support Letter: https://music.us/letters/Make_Music_New_York.pdf