Our 12th annual music holiday brought the city’s shared outdoor spaces to vibrant life, turning everything from public plazas and community gardens to library branches and the overpasses of Long Island City into a unified stage. Celebrating the talents of local New Yorkers across all ages and skill levels, the day showcased a musical palette as diverse as the five boroughs themselves, ranging from traditional French chansons and klezmer to experimental "blues rock theremin."

2018 Program Highlights Included: Swamped, Elliott Sharp leading a canoe flotilla down the Gowanus Canal for a floating guitar concert • The Mp3 Experiment Fifteen, an interactive audio adventure using drumsticks at Brooklyn Bridge Park • Twilight Chorus (for Humans), a 16-person choir replicating birdsong at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden • Harlem to Broadway!, a star-studded musical tribute at Marcus Garvey Park • Joe’s Pub Block Party, a six-hour global showcase at Astor Place celebrating international voices • The Mamma Mia Sing-Along Truck, a pickup truck hosting pop-up ABBA karaoke across Manhattan • WTC @ WTC, a three-hour Bach marathon on grand pianos at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza • Mass Appeal Vocals, an open-call performance of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor • Street Studios, sidewalk recording booths turning passersby into track producers • LIC Block Party, an Afrobeat, reggae, and brass festival under a Queens overpass • Mass Appeal Concerts, massive play-alongs for banjos, harmonicas, and bucket drumming • Punk Island & Porch Stomp!, huge weekend takeovers on Randall's Island and Governors Island.

Press: "A Music Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York" The New York Times, June 22, 2018.

View the full program here.