THE BAY AREA was alive with the sounds of music on Wednesday as thousands of people took part in free concerts and other activities to celebrate the start of summer on Make Music Day.

Started 41 years ago in France as a new kind of holiday where free music would be everywhere, Make Music Day is celebrated on the summer solstice and has now spread throughout the world with events in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries.

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Deidre Foley is an intern at Bay City News and an MA candidate at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she specializes in data journalism and health & science reporting. Previously she was managing editor for the San Francisco Foghorn and has bylines in the NYCity News Service, Byklner and the Nagazasshi. Deidre is interested in using data and visuals to tell social justice and human interest stories.

Prachi is a Dow Jones News Fund intern at Bay City News. She is a journalism graduate from University of Southern California. She previously worked at Annenberg Media as a Multimedia Journalist and the Managing Editor. Prachi has covered social justice, climate and human interest stories. She is interested in written and visual storytelling.