Make Music Day at Memorial Park

Memorial Park is proud to be a venue for Make Music Day on Wednesday, June 21. This is a free celebration of all types of music from around the world. This year’s event will feature a diverse lineup of performers throughout the Clay Family Eastern Glades. Join us at Live Oak Court, sit back at Hines Lake, and enjoy music on the longest day of the year.

Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, Make Music Day is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries. More than 3.8K music-making events took place nationwide in 2022. Completely different from a typical music festival, Make Music is open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours onto streets, parks, plazas, and porches to share their music with friends, neighbors, and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public. Find out more on the Make Music Day website, here.

Line Up:

Groove Mantra 5-6pm

Vishnu R is an award-winning Carnatic & Fusion performer, composer, inventor and patent-holder of NAVTAR®, a unique 9-string instrument that highlights micro- nuances of Carnatic melody and Western harmony. His superlative command over Indian Classical, Western Classical & Jazz music have gained him international acclaim, with over 400+ performances & workshops across India, Europe & USA. Groove Mantra is the culminating performance of a creative music-making workshop facilitated and lead by Vishnu along with a team of singers, strummers and drummers, of various ages and experiences.

Cris Crochemore  6:30 – 7:30pm

Brazilian guitar player and singer, winner of 2021 HOUSTON BLUES CHALLENGE, honed his guitar skills in his native Brazil. The Rock and Blues styling quickly secured him a place in the Houston Blues scene and providing an opportunity to perform with Blues legend Diunna Greenleaf and 2018 IBC champion The Keeshea Pratt Band. He represented Houston in the 2020 IBC semifinals as part of Tweed Smith and the Internationals. Blues, rock blues and ballads, originals and revisited versions of classics are part of his repertoire. He adds to his credit 5 CDs (3 studio, 2 live) and 1 DVS. Cris Crochemore is one to watch.

Jalen Baker Trio  8 – 9pm

The Jalen Baker Trio, DACAMERA Young Artist Jazz Ensemble-in-Residence — Featuring Jalen Baker, vibraphone; Gavin Moolchan on drums and guest artist AJ Moyler on bass. The members of the trio are the first emerging Houston-based jazz musicians to join DACAMERA’s Young Artist Program, which seeks to encourage musicians to develop the skills necessary to become passionate, forward-thinking and community-focused “citizen artists.” Jalen Baker is a graduate of Kinder HSPVA. He studied at Columbia College Chicago and Florida State University before returning to Houston to compose and perform his unique blend of original modern jazz compositions and standards. Houston native Gavin Moolchan is an active drummer and artistic collaborator around the region.