[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.

Leila: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…