MMNY ’07
Make Music New York had its first festival on Thursday, June 21, 2007, with 560 free performances by 1,927 musicians.

MMNY performances in 2007 included:

• an 80-member orchestra performing Terry Riley's "In C" in the middle of a West Village street;

• forty local bands blanketing Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg;

• fourteen musical block parties, primarily in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and the Bronx, featuring gospel singers, steelband ensembles, jazz pianists, disco divas, and more;

• performances by teenage tap dancers, Tuvan throat singers, and a water-based electronic sound installation, within a few blocks of each other on the sidewalks of Chelsea;

• three stages of reggae, hip hop, jazz and funk in downtown Jamaica, Queens;

• a kazoo jam session in front of a Morningside Heights church, Goth rockers in an East Village cemetery, high school Christian rock bands on Sunset Park streets, and hundreds more.

Dozens of cultural organizations also participated with free, outdoor MMNY programs, including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, Rubin Museum, Jazz Gallery, Bowery Poetry Club, Afrikan Poetry Theater, BAM, and the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. And many, many more…