Free Outdoor Musical Celebration in West Village Wednesday

WEST VILLAGE, NY — Make Music Winter is a free, outdoor musical celebration each Dec. 21 — the longest day of the year — that "turns audiences into music makers." With a diverse selection of musicians and artists, Make Music Winter aims to "transform New York’s cityscape" with thirteen participatory musical parades across the five boroughs.

The West Village portion of the festival will begin at Washington Square Park at 2 p.m. Participants will be led by members of the percussion section of Brooklyn-based Afrobeat ensemble Antibalas through the streets of Greenwich Village, creating "a rhythmic fabric of interlocking parts and sounds."

Percussionists of every level are invited to bring shekeres, claves, agogo bells, cowbells, and any other handheld percussion that fit in with the rhythmic West African musical expressions that make up Afrobeat.

The parade will end at Two Boots pizza restaurant, 201 W 11th St, at 3 p.m.

Sign up here to reserve a free slice & soda provided by Two Boots!

And don't forget to BYOP (Bring your own percussion)!

Image via Make Music NY