Word Music Day

HOW DID THE DAY GO?

I will begin by saying that it was the most fantastical day ever!!

My vision of getting people to come and play music with us was fulfilled!  The sun was shining after a week of rain...

When we were setting up. a woman came up to us and told us that she was looking for music on World Music Day. She said that she was from France, and that in France everyone gets out in their neighbourhood and plays music.  And she found US !!!

How lucky we were to have an extra set of hands to play ukulele while I was very terrible on guitar. Of course, people were curious and I invited them to play the shaker, or the drum, tambourine, or guitar... and we got a guitar player !!

A little girl played the drum, and when I was delegated to the tamborine, I felt that it was my instruments. Hey, I play African Drums, and I keep the beat with my bass... so it came naturally.

Then, our puppeteer came and he danced to our music while mouthing the words...

  This was truely a POP UP MUSIC day.

A couple of people said that we made their day!!  It certainly made mine! 

Thanks to my friend Moira Hofsteede, and Del and Lisa from France for making my dream of just setting up shop, play music, invite people, and just play.

Of course, next year will be bigger, more people, more organised, and hey, maybe I can funding for some simple instruments that people can play.

Do you want to join the community music journey!!

Reference: World Music Day 2024: History, significance, theme, quotes and more

The theme for World Music Day 2024 is yet to be disclosed. However, last year's 2023 theme was ‘Music on the intersections”.

World Music Day 2024: Top 20 quotes to inspire the musician within you

• "Where words fail, music speaks." – Hans Christian Andersen

• "Music can change the world because it can change people." – Bono

• "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." – Bob Marley

• "Music is the universal language of mankind." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• "Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart." – Pablo Casals

• "Without music, life would be a mistake." – Friedrich Nietzsche

• "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." – Plato

• "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." – Victor Hugo

• "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory." – Oscar Wilde

• "The only truth is music." – Jack Kerouac

• "Music is the soundtrack of your life." – Dick Clark

• "Music is the strongest form of magic." – Marilyn Manson

• "Where words leave off, music begins." – Heinrich Heine

• "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." – Maya Angelou

• "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without." – Confucius

• "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between." – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• "Music is a world within itself, it is a language we all understand." – Stevie Wonder

• "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." – Berthold Auerbach

• "Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music." – Ronald Reagan

• "Music brings people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit." – Paul Simon