Make Music Upper Perk

• March 2, 2021
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Make Music Upper Perk

In 2013, a group of volunteers from the Upper Perkiomen Valley put together the first ever Make Music Upper Perk. Now in our 9th year, Make Music Upper Perk takes place every year on June 21st, the first day of summer, throughout the Upper Perkiomen Valley. 

It has included free music concerts held indoors and outdoors; in local parks, green spaces, libraries, coffeehouses, local businesses, community centers, everywhere and anywhere musicians of all ages and abilities and instrumental preference would like to perform. One might stumble across a public performance on the sidewalk while getting some coffee, or a book at the library, or on the way to workout at the local YMCA. 

Make Music Upper Perk (MMUP) is ” a one day celebration of the role of music in our lives”. We are always pleased to feature local talent. Musicians come from the Upper Perk Valley and surrounding areas, and include amateurs and professionals, ranging in ages from 5 years old to 80+, playing and singing all types of music from folk to Celtic to punk; jazz to pops to Sousa. 

MMUP is part of a broader, international, picture. A national day of music was begun in Paris France in 1982 as Fete de la Musique. It is now a world-wide celebration of music held every year in over 108 countries on the summer solstice, June 21st. It is always free and open to the public. MMUP is an all-volunteer event. No one, not even the musicians, is paid. This event is co-sponsored by ValleyArtScene and Grace Notes Piano Studio. 

Due to the pandemic, Make Music Upper Perk went virtual on Sunday, June 21, 2020. Last year, unlike other years, folks from all over the country, and all over the world, we’re able to watch and hear the musicians at Virtual Make Music Upper Perk 2020! Musicians recorded selections and/or live streamed and the music was available all day on June 21st, and after. 

In 2021, Make Music Upper Perk will be held on Monday, June 21. We hope to be live and in-person this year, circumstances and best public health practices permitting, along with a virtual presence. The music will be spread across 5 towns of the Upper Perkiomen Valley. All are welcome.