Make Music Day Hebron
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2025 | MAIN STREET IN HEBRON
Make Music Day is a celebration of music around the world, held on the same day – the Summer Solstice – in more than 800 cities in 120 countries. How exciting is that?! We celebrate by lining Main Street with a “mile of music”. All are welcome and encouraged to participate. Kazoo parade for the young, the old, and the in between! We’re currently looking for musicians!
JOIN THE MAKE MUSIC DAY COMMITTEE!
For the first time in 7 years Make Music Day falls on a Saturday!
The Town Center Project is having the first of many meetings planning our Hebron's Make Music Day on June 21, 2025!
If you are a music lover, instructor, or composer, or love to be creative with music, The Town Center Project Make Music Day
Committee is looking for you and your great ideas to make this day very special.
Meet us at the Douglas Library on Wednesday 2/12 from 6-8 so we can get this band on the Tour!
Please contact us at TTCP@thetowncenterproject.org or MESSAGE Drew Gibson, chair, on facebook.
How did it start?
It all started 42 years ago in France.
In 1982, Jack Lang and his staff at the Ministry of Culture dreamed up an idea for a new kind of musical holiday. They imagined a day where free music would be everywhere, all around each city: street corners, parks, rooftops, gardens, and store fronts.
And, unlike a typical music festival, anyone and everyone would be invited to join and play music, or host performances. The event would take place on the summer solstice, June 21, and would be called Fête De La Musique. (In French, the name means both “festival of music” and “make music”.)
Amazingly enough, this dream has come true. The Fête has turned into a true national holiday: the country shuts down on the summer solstice and musicians take over. Almost 11% of French people (7 million people) have played an instrument or sung in public for the Fête de la Musique, and 64% of the country (43 million people) comes out each year to listen.
Four decades later, the holiday has spread throughout the world and is now celebrated in more than 2,000 cities across dozens of countries.
Special thanks to our Previous Make Music Day Musicians!
Maya Rogers Duo
Mike Dagon
Overrated
One Part Harmony
Al Raebuck
Bart Bryant Band
Split River Band
Clan Ross Pipe Band
Bonnie Jacobson Trio
November Sound
Rick Lovallo
Zoo Front Band
Carl Ivermore the Moonjoose
Meet at Colebrook Village
Modern Riffs
Narrow Gate Worship
Martin and Read Band
Dad Joke
Garrick Menditto
Ian Costello Trio
All photos taken by Walt Jedziniak and Christiane O’Brien.
Do not copy, edit, or replicate without permission from the photographers!
With the support of the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Funding also in part by our friends at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the Hebron Greater Together Community Fund