Gaia Music Collective & Make Music New York are excited to be partnering to put on our first ever 24-HOUR 🌎 SING FOR THE EARTH 🌍. This joyous celebration of music, nature, and community will take place in NYC on the Summer Solstice, June 21st! Inspired by the tradition of Bobby McFerrin'sUnbroken Circle, the idea is to gather for 24 hours of nonstop music-making in honor of our planet, including circle singing, improvisation, participatory performances, music games, dancing, and whatever else we can think of to keep the song spinning.

This singing marathon is *FREE*, and along with this free registration, we are inviting you to participate in our "sing-a-thon" pledge system to raise money for the planet! This model allows your family, friends, and workplaces to raise pledge money and support you as you sing. (For example, you could ask your company to pledge $5 per hour that you sing, so that the longer you sing, the more money we raise! 💸) This will be the first experiment of its kind for us, but we're excited about the potential of making a real impact with this model.

100% of the proceeds from this event will go to support charities doing conservation and environmental justice work. These non-profit organizations, serving both the local and international scale, are working tirelessly to heal both our precious planet and & groups of marginalized humans who are being disproportionately affected by climate change. They are doing amazing work, and with funding being cut left and right, they need our help!

🌱 Grow NYC - providing underserved communities with access to fresh local produce and green space

🏡 The American Indian Community House - serving indigenous folks in the city and building an upstate education center to share American Indian wisdom

🌳 Rainforest Foundation US - empowering indigenous leaders to steward our rainforests and protect wildlife

Still, even more than raising funds, we believe that the true power of this event will be in the people we gather and the music we make. We are excited about gathering a community of singers from around the globe to sing in harmony for 24 hours straight, and to make it matter. And we would love you to be a part of it!

This event will be led by an incredible cohort of international song leaders & facilitating artists, bringing together musical traditions from around the world (including Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, Sweden, India, Haïti, Chile, Cuba, Ireland, Poland, Democratic Republic of Congo, The Philippines, Italy, Moldova, Palestine, Israel, China, Korea, Honduras, El Salvador, The United States, Hawai’i, Lebanon, and beyond).

The 10 Core Facilitating Artists holding down the fort for the circle will consist of Gaia's 6 core facilitators along with a handful of incredible international artists:

Along with this amazing lineup, we have invited a crew of 40+ Special Guests to step into the circle for surprise featured moments to help us keep the song spinning, including:

This amazing cohort of international guests keeps expanding, and so far includes:

Not to mention a very, very special guest: you, of course! We want your voice, your music in the circle, and there will be many opportunities for you to step into the circle and share your song - after all, we do have 24 hours to fill...

We hope you're able to join us for what is sure to be an unforgettable event. Let's celebrate the solstice in style!

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We are beyond grateful to the following partners for helping us put on this event:

Read below to learn more about the orgs presenting this ambitious event, and the charities we're supporting with this singing marathon!

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✨ Gaia Music Collective is a queer-led, NYC-based creative community seeking to foster a more connected world through collective music-making. Founded in June of 2021 by Matt Goldstein in a living room in Brooklyn, this project was born out of a desire to create accessible, inclusive, playful spaces for people to explore connection, expression, healing, and release through collaborative song - spaces where folks feel empowered to make music free of judgment or expectation, and to make new friends as our full, beautiful, authentic selves.

We believe that communal music-making is a fundamental human practice, and this project seeks to build spaces for folks to nurture this relationship to music, and in doing so, help people foster deeper connection to themselves, each other, and the world.

All are welcome in this community: all ages, races, genders, sexual orientations, classes, religions, abilities, national origins, languages, and musical experiences. All we ask is that you bring an open mind, a desire to connect, and a willingness to leave judgment of self and others at the door.

🎶 The Make Music Alliance, a nonprofit organization headquartered near the AllInOne church at 1801 Dorchester Road, coordinates free, public musical events across 160+ cities every year on June 21. These “Make Music Day” events are part of a global initiative that began in 1982 as France’s Fête de la Musique, and have since spread to over 2,000 cities around the world.

🎵 Make Music New York celebrates the musician in all of us, connects New Yorkers to their communities and with each other, brings bold new artistic creations to life and unites diverse communities in a spirit of celebration. Our flagship music holiday on June 21st empowers music makers of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to take center stage with hundreds of free live performances across all five boroughs.