Check out this video with photos and feedback by participants at the 2024 Art of Improvisation workshop. And join us at Art of Improvisation 2025 from July 27th to August 1st, 2025!
Inspiration & Delight: Maori composer Dame Gillian Whitehead
MfP’s Bill of Musical Rights #7—The European tradition of music is only one sound. All other cultures and traditions around the world deserve equal attention. New Zealand composer Dame Gillian Whitehead, of Ngai Terangi and Tuhoe …
Playing in David Darling’s Sandbox: Attending Art of Improvisation for the First Time
The following was originally written in 2003. It recently emerged during an ‘archaeological dig’ through a stack of papers and notes. I THINK it was published in Music for People’s Connections newsletter, which we used …
New Streaming Tracks from Collab Lab
We are proud to announce that three additional tracks from our Collab Lab workshops are now streaming. Look for Music for People Collective on your favorite streaming platform, which includes YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon Music, …
Collab Lab Now Streaming
Updated: July 5, 2023 It has long been a goal for Music for People to get some MfP-style music up on streaming services.And now we’re excited to announce our first selections. Many thanks to the …
The Bundt Pan: The Unofficial Official MfP Instrument
The Official, Unofficial Story of How That Came to Be Ah, the Bundt pan. The word conjures images of deliciousness—lemon drizzle cake, chocolate swirl, cinnamon raisin cake, and, of course, coffee cake. I don’t bake …
Join Us for the First Annual World Play Your Bundt Pan Day – March 4
When: March 4, 2023, any time of the day Where: Wherever you are around the world What: Get your Bundt pan out, find a ‘mallet’ and play it, holding it in the center, tapping your …
Musical Madness and Mayhem at Molloy
After two years of online events, it was so wonderful to make music in person again. Participants gathered on March 19, 2022 at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, New York for a full day of …
Congratulations to Our Grads!
Congratulations! YOU DID IT! We want to celebrate the graduations and certifications in our Musicianship and Leadership Program that happened the weekend of October 16th-17th, 2021. We had five graduates from the program: Celine Daly, …
Sound Bites: A Q&A with Teaching Artist Betsy Bevan
Betsy Bevan was getting over a breakup in 1990, when she decided to attend a workshop by Music for People (MfP) co-founder David Darling at Upstate New York’s Omega Institute. “When I called, there was …