Make Music Day @ Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts
Jun
21

Make Music Day @ Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts

The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts will be opening their doors to the public for Make Music Day Milwaukee on June 21st from 10a -10 pm at 926 E. Center Street. All ages, free.

Come and explore electronic and percussive instruments, music production, sequencing, have a chance to meet local Milwaukee electronic music vendors, demonstrations, beat-making, sampling, improv for live film and avant-garde techniques. The Out There Series will have a music production table set up outside to jam and will offer an outdoor group sound walk. All are welcome to stay for the evening concert programming. 

Ring in the Summer Solstice with a worldwide day of music making! 

Participants: Out There Series, Milwaukee Synth Meet, Golfshoe Music, Ableton Milwaukee User Group, Voltage & Company

Schedule

10am -12pm Free Improvisation Sessions (occurs every Saturday)

2-4 pm Play & Explore: Electronics, Sampling, Synths, Tape Loops

4-6 pm  Experiment & Learn: Improv to Film, Tape Loops

6-6:30 pm Outdoor Group Sound Walk

8-10 pm Concert

About Make Music Day Milwaukee

Make Music Milwaukee is part of Make Music Day, the worldwide music celebration held each June 21, the summer solstice. Featuring concerts, performances, music lessons, jam sessions and other musical events on streets, sidewalks, parks and public spaces in Milwaukee and across the U.S. Make Music Day encourages all people, of all musical abilities, to celebrate the joy of making music.

Over 1000 cities around the world have celebrated Make Music Day! It all started over 40 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, live music would be everywhere: street corners and parks, rooftops and gardens, store fronts and mountaintops.

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: France shuts down on the summer solstice and musicians take over. Almost 8% of the country (5 million people) have played an instrument or sung in public for the Fête de la Musique.

Four decades later, the holiday has spread throughout the world and is now celebrated in more than 120 countries. In the U.S., the presenting sponsor is the NAMM Foundation.

Check out highlights from Make Music Milwaukee HERE!

Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts

The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts (JGCA), located at 926 E. Center Street in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, is a nonprofit community arts space dedicated to supporting and connecting artists of all ages. Run by the Riverwest Artists Association, JGCA offers a diverse array of programming, including visual art exhibitions, live music performances, and community workshops. The center's intimate venue hosts a wide range of musical genres, from jazz and experimental music to hip-hop and spoken word, providing a platform for both emerging and established artists. 

The building itself has a rich history; originally constructed in 1887 as a tavern, it became the Milwaukee Jazz Gallery from 1978 to 1984, featuring performances by jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, Dexter Gordon, and Stan Getz. After a period of disrepair, the Riverwest Artists Association purchased the building in 2008, transforming it into the current community arts center. 

In addition to its musical offerings, JGCA presents rotating art exhibitions that often explore socially relevant themes, fostering collaborations across various artistic disciplines. Programs like the Older, Wiser, Local (OWL) initiative engage seniors in creative activities, while free improvisation sessions on Saturdays invite musicians of all backgrounds to collaborate in a welcoming environment. 

For more information on upcoming events and programs, visit the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts' official website: https://jazzgallerycenterforarts.org/

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Experimental Music/Poetry @ Washington Park
May
31

Experimental Music/Poetry @ Washington Park

This event is free/all ages located in Washington Park, at site #5. There will be some seating on picnic tables, but feel free to bring a picnic blanket/lawn chairs, and snacks/drinks. There will not be any vendors present.



It will feature the following performers:


Kelli Frances Corrado (Seattle) - Kelli Frances Corrado is an experimental singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a quilt of memories and mystical practice. Growing up in Chicago, she would sneak out during school nights to see shows and spend Sundays learning prayer rituals taught by a Bohemian Czech grandmother. This set a unique musical foundation leading her to pursue opera training, string arranger, beat making and classical poetry. Starting in the musical project Arkade before becoming a full developed solo vision. Giving voice to her spiritual beliefs, she has lived many lives before putting her heart in song; social worker, student, tap dancer, teacher, wanderer. Living in the Black Forest, London and by the sea, These patches of experience and experimentation bring together a musical broth of magical realism and urban life ripe of lucid dreams and superstition.

Using weird and wonderful places to record: a field of swans, seaplane port, boat house, tunnels with 12 second natural delay, and a haunted school from the 1900s. She has worked with a talented carousel of musicians and engineers: Jeffery McNulty, Shawn Hatfield, Bobby Wane, Lori Goldston, Brian Deck and more. Her music has been featured in The Wire , Bandcamp Daily, Astral Noize and White Light//White Heat and radio stations; NPR’s Radio One, BBC6, Dublab and The Wire presents Joseph Stannard Adventures in Sound playlist on Resonance FM. Receiving grants from The Grammy Foundation, Rauschenburg Foundation and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. Her latest full length album, Tuff Feathers on Grimalkin Record made ‘Top 7 Essential releases of November’ 2021 on Bandcamp Daily. Having tracks featured on compilations for Shoutyourabortion and Women of Noise For Palestine.

Adam Ossers - Adam White Ossers (oh-sirs) (b. 1993)  is a multimedia artist. He has spent the last nine years making and exhibiting works inspired by transness, home, body, technology, and community. 

Adam also serves on the board at Walker's Point Center for the Arts where he co-leads their Marketing Committee. From 2021 to 2024, Adam was the Creative Content Manager at the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network. In 2016 Adam launched docMyArt.  

*aya - *aya is a Milwaukee based, Palestinian singer/songwriter whose styling ranges from hyperpop to indie to neo-soul. their relatability is communicated with their jazzy voice. Their songs talk about themes like self-reflection, love, loss, mental health, and growing. Their musical inspiration comes from artists like Jill Scott, Ari Lennox, Faye Webster, and even Outkast. Check out their latest “slow burn,” here.

Victor Buell IV - Victor Buell IV is a Milwaukee musician who crafts hazy retro-future soundscapes with his own solo/studio project, VBIV. Buell released his debut EP, Control, way back in 2015; now, following 2021’s Fallen Angels, he’s back with the stellar Material Vessel.

Material Vessel has got it all: neon-drenched synth, soaring guitars, reverb-heavy vocals, and at least one Blade Runner reference (“Tears In The Rain”). “Mercury Eyes” is an instant Summer Playlist contender, and that subtle acoustic-electronic blend on “Fun Boy” hits just right. Material Vessel is being released by Milwaukee electronic imprint Formed By Glaciers. (via Milwaukee Record)

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