This event, drawing on vocal traditions from Africa and its diaspora, calls for vocalists of all levels and will be co-led by Onome and Jascha Hoffman. Hoffman is a singer and journalist based in Brooklyn. His latest album, "The Afterneath", based on obituaries, was featured on NPR. A prolific improviser, Hoffman is the co-founder of the Society for Spontaneous Singing. Onome is a vocalist who uses writing, performance, music and other forms of creative expression as tools for consciousness expansion, self-discovery and empowerment. She is the artistic director for Lush Tongue, a project that uses vocal improvisation and an eclectic, globally multicultural repertoire of music from women composers. Starting time: 4:32 pm (sunset). Location: Old Fulton Plaza (in front of the Shake Shack) in DUMBO. From there, participants will embark upon a route that will ramble up Water Street, pass under the Manhattan Bridge Archway, and wind up at 68 Jay St. Bar for a happy hour reception.
Make Music Winter, first launched in 2011, is a free, outdoor musical event each December 21st that turns audiences into music makers. Inspired by Phil Kline’s annual Unsilent Night, a boombox parade that has become an international tradition, Make Music Winter transforms New York’s cityscape with participatory musical parades on the winter solstice, running the gamut of musical genres.
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