Play Music On The Porch Day, International Day of Common Ground Through Music

Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 7pm at Fiddler's Dream Coffeehouse, 1702 East Glendale Avenue, Phoenix AZ 85020, the love is free, admission is by donation at the door, KN95 masks required and are provided free at the venue, doors open 6:30pm. Several musicians are scheduled to join us on this fine evening, and you are also welcome to bring your music to the coffeehouse and share! We have a piano, and you are welcome to sing a capella or ask someone to accompany you. There will be a full night of music, of great variety and bunches of community and connection. Here is some more information about this annual event, now in it's 11th year, from the PMOTP website:
Play Music on The Porch Day started out as an idea… "What if for one day everything stopped... And we all just listened to the music?" Even though this seems like a simple idea, if it worked, it could produce profound results. So in 2014 we decided to share this idea with the world and to our surprise, the idea spread even faster than we could have ever imagined. In 2018 thousands of musicians from at least 70 countries and thousands of cities participated and the movement continues to grow every day.
Musicians from across the globe, regardless of their differences, are finding common ground through music.
Play Music On The Porch Day knows that music is powerful and universal. It doesn’t matter if you play an Oud, a Guitarrón, a Nyckelharpa, or a Guitar. When you pick up your instrument and start to play the world disappears and you get lost in the sounds.
Music goes beyond words. It can transcend the most difficult barriers. It ties us together like a thread through our hearts. Our skin is many colors but music is in our blood, our bones and our soul.
Join us on the last Saturday in August as we share our talents, our passions, and our music. Together let us show the world the power that music holds.
Who started PMOTP Day? Brian Mallman is a Milwaukee-born, Los Angeles-based artist. He was the founder and former director of Los Angeles arts organization, NELAart. He is the Gallery Director of the 50NYork Gallery in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. He has shown his figurative drawings at Long Beach Museum of Art, Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. See his artwork at bmallman.com
We will have beverage options galore! And you KNOW the coffee will be fabulous! Beverages available (coffee, teas, Boxed Water, sodas are $2), and KN95 and N95 masks are available at the venue at no charge.
We will have beverage options galore! And you KNOW the coffee will be fabulous! Beverages available (coffee, teas, Boxed Water, sodas are $2), and KN95 and N95 masks are available at the venue at no charge.