Music at Capital Brewery

Oxbow and Moor 5 – 6:30pm

About Oxbow & Moor: Indie-Folk Rock – Two Wisconsin transplants who met along the Fox River, lived next door to each other for a year, but didn’t start really playing music together until they lived hours apart. Drawing their musical styling from many sources, one song may provide intimate harmonies over finger-picking, while the next may overpower you with drums, screeching harmonica, and crunchy guitar, & some bring a bit of both.

Northside Heat 6:45 – 8:30pm

About Northside Heat: Pulling heavily from 60’s era Jamaican rocksteady, ska and reggae, we acknowledge the influence that Motown and Stax has on us while mixing in a good pop sensibility to produce a sound we’re proud to call Northside Heat.

About

Make Music Middleton is a part of the international Make Music Day movement which brings free, community-wide, musical celebrations to hundreds of cities worldwide. Every year, the celebration is held on June 21, the summer solstice, in more than 1,000 communities around the world.

Make Music Day events are organized with, for, and by the community.  Completely different from a typical music festival, Make Music is open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours onto streets, parks, plazas, and porches to share their music with friends, neighbors, and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public. All of Middleton is encouraged to participate.

Step into summer, reconnect with neighbors, and dive into your creativity!

It all started over 40 years ago in France…

In 1982, France’s Ministry of Culture dreamed up an idea for a new kind of musical holiday. They imagined a day where free, live music would be everywhere: street corners and parks, rooftops and gardens, storefronts and mountaintops.

Unlike a typical music festival, anyone and everyone would be invited to join and play music, or host performances. The event would take place on the summer solstice, June 21, and would be called Fête De La Musique. (In French, the name means both “festival of music” and “make music!”)

Amazingly enough, this dream has come true. The Fête has turned into a true national holiday: France shuts down on the summer solstice and musicians take over. Almost 8% of the country (5 million people) have played an instrument or sung in public for the Fête de la Musique.

Visit makemusicday.org for more information.