December 21, 2011
12 funky winter parades planned for NYC
 Make Music New York tonight will host a dozen free, participatory winter parades throughout the city, bringing the likes of carolers, bell ringers, boomboxes and Bach to the city’s streets, parks and subway platforms.
Carolers with lanterns will walk from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for the Make Music Winter: Pilgrimage starting at 6 p.m. To participate, print out the scores to the medieval melodies.
”The Gaits: A High Line Soundwalk” will use a free iPhone app “that turns footsteps into electric guitar chords, car horns, and more.” The HIgh Line procession begins at 5:30 p.m. at Gansevoort and Washington streets.
Artist Tom Peyton will lead the Bell by Bell parade from Tompkins Square Park at 8 p.m. as marchers ring color-coded bells on command, “creating a sonorous, atmospheric soundscape throughout the East Village.”
In Soho, parade participants will be invited to use their hands to drum on the hollow cast iron buildings. The Gamelan Son of Lion ensemble will provide accompaniment on automobile hubcaps. The parade Soho parade begins at 7:30 p.m. at 6th Avenue and Spring Street.
F train riders tonight will be serenaded by The Knights as they continuously play the Prelude from J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major on each of the 44 Coney Island-bound subway platforms and in the subway cars from 7 p.m. The Thru-Line performance can best be heard by boarding near the middle of a Coney-bound F train.
The Village in Volume will lead participants in playing found instruments along the route, which begins at Union Square at 6:30 p.m.
All parades are rain-or-shine except for the Notation Parade of roving brass bands in Madison Square Park.
See the Make Music Winter site for the full list of parades.
Normally held in the summer as a one-day festival, Make Music New York this year is branching out to winter as well. The next regular Make Music New York day of concerts is scheduled for June 21, 2012.
Image source: Make Music New York/Notation Parade.
December 21, 2011 12:37 PM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Kids, Midtown, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Techology, Transportology, Upper West Side
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