Make Music Fairfield Returns on June 21 for 8th Year
Make Music Day 2025 returns to Fairfield on Saturday, June 21 from 8AM - 10PM (EDT).
Make Music Fairfield Is Music Performed By Anyone, Enjoyed By Everyone!
2025 marks the 8th year that Fairfield has celebrated Make Music Day. This year, there will be over 150 performers, 29 venues, and 95 performances over the course of the 14-hour festival day. Let’s ring in the summer solstice together, as a community, while enjoying superb music!
Make Music Day is the free, outdoor music festival celebrated worldwide on the Summer Solstice each year. This year, the solstice falls on Saturday, June 21. Created in Paris, France in 1982, Make Music Day, or “Fête de la Musique”, has grown to more than 2,000 cities, making it the globe’s largest music event. Make Music Day features music of all styles and is open to anyone who wishes to participate. Performances take place in parks, sidewalks, town squares, beaches, front porches and parking lots. Each performance throughout the day is completely free and open to the public. Everyone is invited to join the fun.
This is Make Music Fairfield’s 8th year and is Connecticut’s largest festival.
Since Make Music Fairfield’s inception, more than 100 venues and 350 performers have participated. Please follow us on Facebook and Instagram @MakeMusicFairfield to learn more about the event and this year’s participating musicians and venues.
In addition to all of the musical performances scheduled throughout the day, check out the other fun and interactive happenings around town during Make Music Fairfield:
Jennings Beach
8AM – 9AM: Free Yoga Class hosted by Yoga 4 Everybody
9AM – 10AM: Sound Bath hosted by Yoga 4 Everybody
Sherman Green Gazebo
11AM – 11:45AM: Participatory Drum Circle with Jim LoPresti – All are invited to join!
12PM – 12:15PM: Opening Ceremony with Fairfield resident, composer and multi-instrumentalist, Brian Torff! Brian is the Chair of the Fairfield University Music Department. In addition to speaking briefly on the importance of music in his life, he will wow the crowd with a solo performance.
Each year Make Music Fairfield highlights a local musician as a way of illustrating that music can be, and is, a way of life. This year, we are delighted to recognize Brian Torff for his life in music and the musical influence he has had over so many. We invite you to join us for the Opening Ceremonies, which will be officiated by Brian at 12PM at the Sherman Green Gazebo.
The LOT at Fairfield Theatre Company
4:00PM – 10PM: Family-friendly activities, samples of DownEast Cider
Fairfield University Pocket Park
Morning children’s activities and popsicle truck, a food truck in the afternoon as well as record sales care of Vinyl Street Records
The Studio Fairfield
3:30 – 7PM: In addition to music, there will be a member pottery sale and a food truck on-site
Make Music Fairfield 2025 is brought to the community through the support of the Town of Fairfield’s Office of Community and Economic Development, Fairfield Theatre Company a 501c(3) organization, the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Scott Vincent Photography, Gray Peaks images, Meals for Musicians, also a 501c(3) organization, YZR Music and generous donors and enthusiastic volunteers.
