Make Music NY

Like AA batteries on the subway tracks and college kids in polo shirts trying to get you to sign some petition, music is pretty inescapable on NYC…

On June 21st 2011, Nick Franglen played the theremin under the Manhattan Bridge for 24 hours, starting and ending at midnight. “Sensors on the bridge above him registered the passing of each cyclist, creating a moment of silence for everyone who crossed the bridge throughout the day…

The annual ‘Make Music New York‘ takes over New York City on Tuesday, June 21.”From 11 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…

On June 21st, British artist and electronic musician Nick Franglen (of Lemon Jelly) will play a 24-hour piece of improvised music, starting and ending at midnight, in collaboration with the thousands of people who walk or bicycle across Manhattan Bridge during the course of the day…

Yoko Ono’s Secret Piece (1953) throughout Central Park from 5AM – 8AM on June 21, 2011. Celebrate the summer solstice with Yoko Ono’s meditative Secret Piece, at sunrise in Central Park…

tonight in NYC * Make Music NY * Mike Birbiglia @ UCB * Jim Campilongo @ the Living Room * Frog Eyes @ Sound Fix Records * Ben Perowsky Quartet @ Barbes * The Roots present The Jam @ Highline Ballroom * Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir @ Union Pool * Hailey Wojcik, Blair, Oh The Color, Shark…

NoBuny @ Bruar Falls Saturday night (marcus_in_ny) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Make Music NY * Beyonce @ MSG * Nobunny @ Death by Audio * Punk Island @ Governors Island * Your Nature @ Studio at Webster Hall * Roy Nathanson, Omega III, Sotto Voce @ Sycamore * DJ Green Lantern, Dead Prez @ Highline Ballroom * Absu, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Sothis @ BB King’s * The Weight, Dirty Sweet, Nikki Lane @ Bruar Falls * H2O, Stigma, Cruel Hand, Turn It Up @ Knitting Factory * Yannick Noah, Coralie Clement, Mayra Andrade @ Central Park Summerstage * Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus @ Kearny Irish American Association * Nullsleep, Machine Drum, Protman, Minusbaby, Glomag, Jerohme Spye, Futureboots, Yoshi, The Machinist, Mikrosopht @ Santos Today is the Seventh Heaven street fair in Park Slope…

Punk Island @ Make Music 2008 on Governors Island (makemusicnewyork) Make Music NY 2009 is happening around New York City on Sunday, June 21st…

From 11 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…

Why does the Mermaid Parade have to be the same day musicians are playing for free all over the city including punk bands on Governors Island and blog-approved bands in Brooklyn at the After the Jump Festival…