PROJECTS Keeping you up to date with projects and programmes WHY TAKE PART IN MAKE MUSIC DAY?
Make Music Day 2020
Where and when are the local network meetings? Many places, in January and February! Sign up now at makemusicday.co.uk
What other inspiration is there? • Opportunities for members ccccto take part in flagship events ccccorganised by Making Music in ccccBirmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff ccccand Belfast: contact your local ccccmanager Sharon (England), ccccAlison (Scotland), John (Wales) ccccor Stephen (Northern Ireland) ccccvia info@makemusicday.co.uk • Join a mass percussion jam in ccccDudley. • Perform in museums and ccccgalleries. • Perform on bandstands and ccccin parks: it’s a Sunday and ccccthe longest day of the year AND ccccFather’s Day! • Perform the Make Music Day ccccanthem Bring Me Sunshine for ccccfree: use existing arrangements ccccor create your own. • Go international – watch out ccccfor more information. ... and more.
Is there a 2020 theme? Music in Unexpected Places – win a prize for the most unusual space to hold an event!
Check out makemusicday.co.uk and join the mailing list. For all queries contact: info@makemusicday.co.uk
Date: Always on 21 June, a Sunday this year When can I register? Now! You don’t need a totally ready plan, so get your name on the website and benefit from promotion through the Make Music Day team. What does the Make Music Day team do? The (tiny) team are there to make things easier: at UK level they facilitate network meetings, talk to the press, develop the branding, create toolkits, and spread the word about Make Music Day to new event organisers and audiences. But this is a grassroots festival – you are in the driving seat as creators, organisers and performers. Make Music Day is what YOU make of it.
Did you know? On Make Music Day 2019 there were: • 1,103 live performances in the UK • 132 digital performances • 29,353 performers • 56,486 audience (live) • 84,855 audience (digital)
We love that Make Music Day does something for members that nothing else can do: gives you a wider (national and international) public platform to showcase what you do, and to celebrate leisuretime music. It connects you, too, to people all across the world who are doing what you are doing, taking you from your very own village hall to a square in Kyoto, the Lagos music scene, a school in Argentina or Times Square in New York: in 2019, 125 countries celebrated Make Music Day. It is also a brilliant opportunity to connect to new people and new organisations in your community: Make Music Day is always a great ‘sell’, putting a smile on anyone’s face. And who knows how that may lead to other conversations throughout the year, as well as gaining you new members and new audiences. Ideally, use the day to bring your music into a public space, to where people already are, so they don’t have to seek you out – they’ll be stumbling across you. Capitalise on that: have leaflets ready telling audiences when your next event is, or how they can become part of your group. You don’t have to do something ‘big’ or special: have you just had a concert, or do you have one coming up? Repeat that programme or treat it as an additional rehearsal. Or do you want to recruit a particular type of person? Then make a careful effort to go where they hang out. makemusicday.org.uk
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