[buckets drumming]
[applause]
[bright ukelele music]
- Leila Ramagopal Pertl: Participants that come
and want to watch one of the artists at the Mile
also have a chance to come and get involved
in 40 to 50 hands-on events
that Mile of Music does every year for the education portion.
Creating their own pieces of music,
which allow them to discover
their own birthright of music-making.
- Teacher: ? And the woodchuck laughed ?
? And the woodchuck chucked ?
? If a woodchuck could chuck wood ?
- Melissa Freeman: The music education team has been amazing.
You need to have young musicians
and inspire creatives, young and old.
- An education in music means really just a community
coming together around joy.
Whether you can just hit a drum one time,
that you've been a part of
how the soundscape of the Mile of Music
has played out for that year.
And that kind of gives people who attend the Mile
a little bit of a chance to understand, like,
why music-making might be important to the artists.
It's 'cause they felt what it was like to make music
and make music in community.
- Teacher: Okay, nice job.
Give yourself a huge round of applause on that.
Your first song.
And we're 20 minutes in...