The Los Angeles City Council support Make Music Los Angeles. Please have a look at this Public Service Announcement and you will see all of your favorite City Councilpersons join together in support of Make Music Los Angeles happening every year on June 21st. We would like you to be a part of the celebration by coming out and participating as a musician, participating as a venue, being a neighborhood organizer and arranging concerts in your neighborhood or just coming out to have fun on the first day of summer!
Join us on June 21st for Make Music Los Angeles!!!!!

Celebrate MMLA with a Carnival!

MMLA executive board members met with Marie Kellier, president of Caricabela the 15th Annual Los Angeles Carnival to discuss their newly formed collaboration to bring Carnival to LA neighborhoods.

The discussion focused on the work that Marie and the team of instructors, artists and performers have been doing for many years here in Los Angeles with their annual festival and celebrations.

Like MMLA Caricabela Los Angeles Carnival believes there is a tremendous need for the arts in schools.  The Arts and Diversity in Schools program presented by Caricabela is a standard –based arts education program that uses world carnival arts to expose students to traditions and cross cultural experiences not normally found in traditional curriculum.

Caricabela has an initiative that is synergistic with MMLA ‘c core values and it is Carnival Block Party.

Carnival Block Party is designed to bring the art of carnival into neighborhoods using the “block party” concept and utilizing available materials.

Preparing for Carnival is a lot of fun, selecting a theme, making costumes and researching music for the big day is something everyone can enjoy and participate in.  All you need are simple things you have around the house, a little imagination and you are off and running.

Well we would like to see neighborhoods across LA join in celebrating their particular heritage with neighborhood block parties.  Anyone can do it ...bring your neighbors together for a day of free family fun.

We encourage you and your neighbors to start thinking about having a “block party” on June 21^st for Make Music Los Angeles.

Just imagine your family, friends and neighbors celebrating MMLA with a carnival that you all put together.  What fun!

By the way you can experience The BIG Carnival on October 14^th in Westchester.  MMLA will be represented in the parade as well.  We will have on costumes and headdresses waving to the crowd.  Please make plans to attend the day’s festivities then take your inspiration home, gather your family friends and neighbors contact Marie to bring an expert to the neighborhood to show you how to select a theme, make costumes and headdresses, musical instruments that everyone can play.  Call her at this number (424) 248-4475.

Next all you have to do is register your event on the MMLA website at www.MakeMusicLA.org under Events.  That's all there is to it.

So come out on October 14th with friends and family to the Caricabela 15th Annual Los Angeles Carnival!  See you there--MMLA will be in the parade!

Los Angeles! Thank you so much for participating in our very first Make Music LA. We appreciate your enthusiasm and are so very thankful for all of the artists and venues who came together and shared their musical talents with the City of Los Angeles. Remember June 21st is a global day of celebration and we are connecting with cities and countries all over the universe on the Summer Solstice to bring peace, joy and music to the world!

Join us again next year for our 2nd Annual Make Music Day in Los Angeles! Get ready 2013 is going to be BIG!

Elson Trinidad, one of the board members here at Make Music LA was at the Central Library playing the "Play Me I'm Yours" piano provided by the LA Chamber Orchestra. He was joined by a number of folks who stopped by to play the wonderfully decorated piano. Later on in the evening, Chinatown was the place to be!

Multi-instrumentalist Joey Ector played and organized a few concerts in Topanga Canyon for Make Music LA.  We caught him here after he got off the stage playing flute with his son who is also a bass player. This is precious video!

Make Music LA was a great success! The City of Los Angeles has recognized our 1st Annual event by presenting us with two wonderful proclamations! Make Music LA will continue to become a bigger and broader as the years continue. Look for us again next year on June 21st! Music and Art will be visible all over the city and yes, you are welcome to participant!

Interview with Allison Ostrovsky, Cultural Affairs Supervisor for Santa Monica and one of the individuals instrumental in getting Santa Monica on board with Make Music LA

Mike the Director of the Chatsworth Library speaks about his experience with Make Music LA and how the afternoon of music went with two classical guitarist.

Elson Trinidad and another young budding pianist play the "Play Me I'm Your's" piano at the Downtown Central Library

LAUSD and Beyond the Bell's downtown Los Angeles concert for Make Music LA!!!

Al Cortez, Jose Di Raimondo and Tony White from LA Unified and Beyond the Bell did a superb job of holding one of the major events of the day kicking off the 1st Annual Make Music LA day here in Los Angeles.