Make Music Buffalo

06/20/2025

The centerpiece of Make Music Day in Buffalo, the Alliance Française de Buffalo presents an evening of music at The Cave!

06/20/2025

Make Music Day Celebrates Free Live Music on the Summer Solstice, June 21
Buffalo is part of Worldwide Celebration

Buffalo will be joining cities across the world in celebrating Make Music Day on June 21. The event, started as Fête de la Musique in France in 1982, encourages people to attend free live music events, and musicians of all skill levels to get out there and play.

Featured events include:
• The Colored Musicians Club, The Dale Toliver Jazz Quartet, and Vibrant Strings at Island Park from noon-5pm, presented by the Village of Williamsville, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/juneteenth-village-of-williamsville-tickets-1388248501639
• Tom Stahl at Flying Bison Brewing Co. from 4pm-7pm, presented by the Buffalo Music Coalition, https://www.facebook.com/events/9753172521418111
• Sousaphunk ft. Joe Roscetti Jr. from 5pm-8pm at Delaware Park, presented by Resurgence Brewing and Pints in the Park, https://www.facebook.com/events/1329839171424014
• Fête de la Musique at The Cave from 7pm-11pm with Maggie Roston Quintette, Adel Chouchani, Marc et Marcy, Cousins Trio, Marcus Lolo, 5 Birds on a Wire, Buffalo String Works, and Ralph Walstrom, presented by Alliance Française de Buffalo, https://www.facebook.com/alliancefrancaisedebuffalo

In addition to the above events, Porchfests will be occurring in both South Buffalo and Lewiston, providing even more free music that day.

“Make Music Day is a great chance to get out there and hear some of Buffalo’s best musicians,” said event co-organizer Tod Kniazuk, “but it’s also a time to grab your guitar, horn, harmonica, or whatever you play, go out on your porch or out to a park, and make some music of your own.”

Held on the summer solstice (the longest day of the year), the world's largest annual music event celebrates the inquisitive spirit and natural music maker in everyone, regardless of age or skill level. In 2024, Make Music Day included 5,304 free public concerts in the U.S., at over 1,500 locations. This year, 31 new communities join the party, reimagining their cities and towns as stages where every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — fills streets, parks, plazas, porches, rooftops, gardens, and other public spaces to celebrate, create, and share their music.

06/07/2023

Celebrate Make Music Day with some great bands on June 21!

06/21/2021

While we unfortunately weren't able to bring any programming to WNY this year, let's celebrate Make Music Day today with some programming from around the world, now through 11pm EST.

11/19/2020

1) What is YOUR favorite Winter Sound/Instrument?

And

2)What is YOUR favorite Color(specific shade if you want) to go along with it?

Share and post as many times as you wish! Thank you.

09/23/2020

Happy Happy Fall !
Now is the perfect time to start brainstorming Make Music Winter. Would You like to learn more?

09/17/2020

this is an example of an Official Make Music Day 2020 Initiative!

Take a Look at this piece of Art that was created by over 50 different humans...

For Make Music Day 2020, 50 songwriters interviewed someone they never met before and wrote a song about them in a single day. One song each for all fifty st...

06/21/2020

It's a very different Make Music Day today. Catch the global live stream all day, check out Niagara Falls as it is lit orange for Make Music Buffalo tonight, and grab your instrument and make some music on your front porch, back yard, or wherever you are!

Make Music is a free celebration of music around the world on June 21st. Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day...

06/11/2020

This is only one of the Special Projects Make Music Day put together this year...please share if you are interested or know of someone who might be...

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06/09/2020

June 21st ,2020 is


Who is getting excited?

06/09/2020

Yes, Make Music Day is happening this year!

Make Music Day is an Essential Annual Celebration of Music and Music-Related goodness All Around the World.
And YOU are invited to participate.

For Today, Save the Date (June 21st, 2020):
Mark it on your calendar, tell your friends, your family anyone you feel might be interested...

Also, please remember to use helpful hashtags like and if you post anything awesome on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter worth sharing in honor of this International Celebration! Thanks.



Cheers!
Make Music Buffalo

Music on June 21 can come from anyone, anywhere, and anything – even flowerpots! 💐⁣
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Flowerpot Music, written by award-winning composer Elliot Cole and directed by percussionist Peter Ferry, is a composition for an unlikely but beautiful percussion instrument – the flowerpot! Bell-like tones are passed from performer to performer in improvised gestures called “blooms” that sweep through the group. The piece is written in simple prose, and can be performed by non-musicians and musicians alike.⁣
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Cole and Ferry have created a special online version of the composition for Make Music Day 2020. Performances of Flowerpot Music by over two dozen groups from around the world will be live-streamed continuously for over 8 hours on June 21st.⁣
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Several performance slots lead by Peter and Elliot are open to participants anywhere! Visit bit.ly/MMDFlowerpot to register! ⁣
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03/19/2020

Make Music Day is all about bringing local music to the masses. Well, right now our local musicians have been forced to move to virtual shows through Band Together Buffalo and we want to help. So, the Band Together live streams will be showing on our page too. Hope you like them, and hope all this good live music brings you some joy and peace during this crazy time.