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Welcome to Make Music Big Bear 2025!

Come join our 5th Year of Live Music in the Village of Big Bear Lake. The line up is all local talent, the venues are our local businesses, and the audience is everyone who is in town.

Make Music Day is a live, free musical celebration on June 21, the longest day of the year – the Summer Solstice. Launched in France 1982 as Féte de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries.

Growing, you bet! This event is getting huge, and the town is loving this. With over eighteen (20) business locations participating, sixteen (18) in the Village and two (2) in the Moonridge Corridor, hosting over 100 musicians/bands on Village Drive, Pine Knot Avenue, and Moonridge Road. With more hours to fit in all the musicians and performers we have expanded our hours from 12:00 pm to 9 pm on Saturday, June 21 in Big Bear Lake. Along with timed performers at set locations, you will find Busking…. you mean street musicians, yes busking. Some of us like to just let it out no matter where we are. This is all for our community enjoyment and your listening ears, so come on into town, enjoy free music, and help us celebrate Make Music Big Bear!

Our hosting venues for 2025 are: The Elks Lodge, Old German Deli, Stillwells Restaurant, Stella Luna, Oakside Restaurant and Bar, Amangela’s Sandwich and Bagel House, Queen Bee Honey Shop, Whiskey Dave’s, Barrel 33, Muchacos Tortilla Bar, Village Sports Bar, La Pergola Trattoria, Copper Q, A Christmas Store N More, Sotheby’s Real Estate, SoCalResorts/Compass Real Estate, Alchemistic Workshop, Nottinghams Tavern Patio, Moonridge Room, and Moonridge Coffee.

And once again we will be presenting the popular Open Mic at the Copper Q outdoor patio stage, with varied musicians every 30 minutes. Hey, if you play, sing, humm a toon, come on down and get your name on the list. Share your talent with us all.

We invite all musicians and singers, circle drummers, bucket drummers, and instrumentalists of all kinds to collaborate on making June 21 a huge musical celebration. Singers, church choirs, jazz combos, rock bands, glee clubs, mariachis, marching bands, and every other kind of musician, of any age group or skill level, are all welcome. How about a percussion or horn group rocking out while walking down the streets? Come make it happen. Contact us and we will make sure you get on the schedule.

Special Notes:

We are cross promoting proudly with The Big Bear Theatre Project, as music and acting are so closely related in the realm of Performing Arts. Please explore https://www.BigBearTheatreProject.org for upcoming shows and to learn more about the Big Bear Theatre Project.

Make Music Big Bear is a chapter of the Make Music Alliance, who supports hundreds of cities in dozens of states across the U.S. and other countries. Through this support and partnership we have many of the tools we need to make this event successful and possible. Please explore https://www.MakeMusicDay.org and learn how the entire world is involved and celebrating this event, on this one day, every single year.

The Time Travel Madams gettin’ down at Nottinghams Tavern Patio Open Mic 2021.

The Current Lineup of Musicians…

Bob Middleton, Robbie Bos, and Tim Simms jam it out during sound check at the main stage in 2021, our very first year. Yes, we have grown!

Things can change, so keep your eyes open, but this is the current lineup.

Make Music Big Bear 2025 Lineup:

12:00 pm The Production – 12:00-1:15 – Stillwells Restaurant – Lakeside Stage

Brian Johnson – 12:00-1:00 – Oakside Restaurant & Bar

Uriah Rojas – 12:00-1:00 – Queen Bee Honey Shop

Yucaipa Ukes – 12:00-1:00 – Village Sports Bar

Fran’s Fan – 12:00-1:00 – A Christmas Store N More

Area 91 – 12:00-1:00 – SoCal Resorts / Compass Real Estate

Connie Ybarra Grace – 12:00-1:30 – Moonridge Coffee

12:30 pm Grayson – 12:30-1:00 – Elks Lodge – West Stage

Mo Hollis – 12:30-1:30 – Amangela’s Sandwich & Bagel House – Breezeway

Boswell Project – 12:30-2:00 – Barrel 33

Dana Larson – 12:30-1:30 – Muchachos Tortilla Bar

1:00 pm Stella Rosenblatt – 1:00-2:00 – Old German Deli

David Graham – 1:00-2:00 – Stella Luna

Emily & Matt – 1:00-2:00 – La Pergola Trattoria & Lounge

Drew Plakos – 1:00-2:00 – Sotheby’s Real Estate

Plantain Rebel – 1:00-2:00 – Nottinghams Tavern Patio

1:15 pm Diane Kubeja Voice Studio – 1:15-2:45 – Village Sports Bar

1:30 pm Revolver – 1:30-2:45 – Elks Lodge – North Stage

Ian Seabolt – 1:30-2:30 – SoCal Resorts / Compass Real Estate

Spiritual Drum Circle – 1:30-3:00 – Alchemistic Workshop

1:45 pm The Blackbook – 1:45-3:00 – Stillwells Restaurant – Lakeside Stage

2:00 pm Dana Larson – 2:00-3:00 – Oakside Restaurant & Bar

Brad Riesau – 2:00-3:00 – Amangela’s Sandwich & Bagel House – Breezeway

Jeff Utley – 2:00-3:00 – Queen Bee Honey Shop

The Randy, Tony, Robbie Jam – 2:00-2:45 – Barrel 33

Mountain Top Strings – 2:00-3:00 – A Christmas Store N More

Bearly Famous – 2:00-3:30 – Moonridge Coffee

2:30 pm That Dam Band! – 2:30-4:00 – Whiskey Dave’s – Inside Stage

Dave Graham – 2:30-3:30 – Muchachos Tortilla Bar

Glenn Yarber – 2:30-3:30 – Sotheby’s Real Estate

Regina & Christina – 2:30-3:30 – Nottinghams Tavern Patio

3:00 pm Dog’s Breakfast – 3:00-4:15 – Elks Lodge – West Stage

Brian Johnson – 3:00-4:00 – Old German Deli

Louie Johnson and Marina Demarco – 3:00-4:00 – Stella Luna

RJ – 3:00-4:00 – La Pergola Trattoria & Lounge

Silicon Strawberry – 3:00-4:30 – Moonridge Room

3:30 pm Stella Rosenblatt – 3:30-4:30 – Oakside Restaurant & Bar

Jamin Flesch – 3:30-4:30 – Queen Bee Honey Shop

Roadkill Bluegrass Band – 3:30-4:30 – Village Sports Bar

Urijah Rojas – 3:30-4:30 – A Christmas Store N More

Dragonwolfe – 3:30-4:45 – SoCal Resorts / Compass Real Estate

3:45 pm Madam Nurse Medicine Show – 3:45-4:45 – Nottinghams Tavern Patio

4:00 pm Tierra sin Fronteras – 4:00-5:00 – Stillwells Restaurant – Lakeside Stage

Bob Middleton – 4:00-5:00 – Amangela’s Sandwich & Bagel House – Breezeway

Connie Ybarra Grace – 4:00-5:00 – Muchachos Tortilla Bar

Mountain Top Strings – 4:00-5:00 – Sotheby’s Real Estate

4:30 pm Social Habit – 4:30-5:45 – Elks Lodge – North Stage

4:45 pm Farley the Fiddler – 4:45-6:00 – Village Sports Bar

5:00 pm Drew Plakos – 5:00-6:00 – Old German Deli

RJ – 5:00-6:00 – Stella Luna

Alec Johnson – 5:00-6:00 – Oakside Restaurant & Bar

Scott & Amy – 5:00-6:00 – Queen Bee Honey Shop

Emily & Matt – 5:00-6:00 – La Pergola Tortilla & Lounge

Jill Coleman – 5:00-5:30 – Nottinghams Tavern Patio

5:30 pm Mo Hollis & Robbie Bos – 5:30-6:30 – Amangela’s Sandwich & Bagel House – Breezeway

Yucaipa Ukes – 5:30-6:30 – Sotheby’s Real Estate

Mike Storm – 5:30-6:30 – SoCal Resorts / Compass Real Estate

6:00 pm Camp Rock Road – 6:00-7:15 – Elks Lodge – West Stage

Tierra sin Fronteras – 6:00-7:00 – Stillwells Restaurant – Lakeside Stage

Dan O’Mara – 6:00-7:00 – Muchachos Tortilla Bar

Rich Spaulding – 6:00-7:00 – Nottinghams Tavern Patio

6:30 pm Tom Stauffer – 6:30-8:00 – Oakside Restaurant & Bar

6:45 pm Silicon Strawberry – 6:45-7:45 – Village Sports Bar

7:00 pm Loose Affiliates – 7:00-8:30 – SoCal Resorts / Compass Real Estate

7:30 pm Rukus – 7:30-9:00 – Elks Lodge – North Stage

Community Jam (all invited) – 7:30-9:00 – Stillwells Restaurant – Lakeside Stage

And of course, Open Mic at the “Copper Q” this year:

12:00 pm – Capt. John

12:30 pm –

1:00 pm –

1:30 pm –

2:00 pm – Ed Krause

2:30 pm – Todd Clanton

3:00 pm – Judy Russell

3:30 pm – Soul Stys

4:00 pm – BREAK

4:30 pm – BREAK

5:00 pm –

5:30 pm – Following The Stars

6:00 pm – Following The Stars

6:30 pm – The Electricians

7:00 pm –

7:30 pm –

8:00 pm –

8:30 pm –

Schedule at a Glance…

Updated June 12, 2025, 9:45 am

Participate…

You want to get in on some action?

Pull out your old tuba, trumpet, or whatever horn you have and grab some friends and create your own doo day marching band. Even it’s only two or three of you. Start that family kazoo band you have always thought about creating. Do you sing with your keyboard or accordion, or just play your accordion, we want to hear from you. This celebration is open to anyone, or any degree of talent. Got a comedy routine you can put to music in some form? Own a slide whistle? A flute? A bird whistle?

• Volunteers – Did you say volunteers? Yes, we need you this year. Hanging banners, setting up EZ-UPs for shade, running extensions chords around. Helping hands are needed. Set it up and tear it down. Contact us! Find our contact info at the very bottom of this website.

If you did not get in on the action this year by performing, contact us so we can include you in next year’s Make Music Event. Got a group of horn players, piano players, ukulele players, we want you. Would you like to parade up the street with a gang of kazoo players, come on out and let’s make this happen. We are open to all ideas and all levels of beginners to professional players. After all, this is a free day of music, all are welcome!