You’re flipping through your newsfeed while wondering, “Why are so many people posting videos of Kenny Chesney singing, ‘She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy’?” Then it hits you. It’s Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day—and you totally missed it! If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. With so many regular holidays, pet holidays, and more dotting the calendar, music holidays pretty much get lost in the mix. To help with that, here’s Royal City Studios’ big list of music holidays for 2020. We also tossed in some other fun holidays. Somehow, we think you’ll find a way to celebrate National Pizza Day or National Chocolate Ice Cream Day.

Call it intuition.

January

National Polka Music Month

Jan. 1: New Year’s Day | National Hangover Day

Jan. 4: Pop Music Chart Day

Jan. 5: National Whipped Cream Day

  • If you observed National Hangover Day on Jan. 21, having a four-day grace period before indulging in whipped cream obviously makes sense.

Jan. 5-11: Silent Record Week

Jan. 13: Make Your Dreams Come True Day

  • Success tip: Simply say, “Just be [insert your name here].”

Jan. 19: Popcorn Day

  • Sure, it’s a day to eat popcorn, but why not celebrate “Popcorn,” one of the first songs (by Hot Butter, naturally) to ever use the immortal Moog synthesizer.

Jan. 20: National Disc Jockey Day

Jan. 23: National Pie Day

  • Appropriate bands with food-related names to perhaps include in your celebrations: Humble Pie, Peaches (for peach pie) and Red Hot Chili Peppers (because pizza and toppings count as pie).

Jan. 28: National Kazoo Day

February

Feb. 2: Groundhog Day | Play Your Ukulele Day

Feb. 3: National The Day the Music Died Day

  • Remembering the untimely deaths of Buddy Holly (age 22) Richie Valens (age 17) and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa. (Trivia: Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets reputedly inspired John Lennon and his best friend at art college, Stu Sutcliffe, to consider various insect names for their band before deciding on the Beatles, stylized from “beetles.”)

Feb. 4: Liberace Day

Feb. 8: Opera Day

  • Celebrating the value and positive impact of opera.

Feb. 9: National Pizza Day

  • Any way you “slice it,” Pizza Day is an awesome day to celebrate any day.

Feb. 11: Get Out Your Guitar Day

  • Got a guitar that’s been sitting untouched for a while? Today’s a good day to tune it up and play.

Feb. 13: World Radio Day

  • Celebrating radio and how it helps shape and enrich our lives.

Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day

Feb. 17: Family Day

Feb. 25: Pancake Day

  • A few suitable songs to add to your Pancake Day playlist: “A Taste of Honey” (Herb Alpert), “Sugar” (Maroon 5) and “Green Onions” (Booker T. & the M.G.’s), if you’re into vegetable pancakes.

March

Music in Our Schools Month

Sing with Your Child Month

March 4: Marching Music Day

  • Held each year on this date to encourage people to “march forth” in celebration of their diverse musical styles and backgrounds.

March 6: National Oreo Cookie Day

March 8: International Women’s Day

March 12: Napping Day

  • Still recovering from all that marching on Marching Music Day? No worries. It’s nap day!

March 17: St. Patrick’s Day

March 20: International Day of Happiness

March 21: Play the Recorder Day

March 22: Sing Out Day

  • Sing loud and proud on this day, which celebrates the unique and diverse instrument that is the human voice.

March 26: Make Up Your Own Holiday Day

  • Miffed because there’s no Drum Solo Day or Ten-Minute Bass Solo While Cartwheeling Across a Stage Day? Today’s your day to claim it!

March 27: Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day

  • Whether you enjoy sailing with the “Redneck Yacht Club” (Craig Morgan) or doing the “Bow Chicka Wow Wow” (Meghan Patrick), today’s the day to celebrate all that’s cool and quirky in country music.

March 27: World Theatre Day

March 28: Piano Day

  • Celebrated annually on the 88th day of the year in honor of 88 piano keys.

April

International Guitar Month

Jazz Appreciation Month

April 1: April Fools’ Day | National Trombone Players Day

  • No “Foolin’.” It really is the day to celebrate trombone players everywhere.

April 7: World Health Day

  • Taking care of your health is an integral part of whatever musical aspirations you have (or even if you’re not into playing music).

April 10: Good Friday

April 11: Barbershop Quartet Day | International “Louie Louie” Day | Eight Track Tape Day

  • What were eight track tapes? Back in the mid-1960s when media companies were trying to compete with cassettes, someone invented a big cartridge-style tape format that was like shoving a brick into a VCR. And carrying around even a modest selection of eight tracks pretty much required a gym bag.

April 12: Easter Monday | National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day

April 16: World Voice Day

  • An all-encompassing celebration of the tremendous importance of the human voice in our daily lives, from singing and spoken word performance to simple connection through conversation.

April 17-26: National Dance Week

April 18: Record Store Day | International Amateur Radio Day

April 19-25: National Karaoke Week

April 22: Earth Day

  • Climate action is this year’s theme of Earth Day, which celebrates its 50th anniversary.

April 25: International Marconi Day

  • Celebrating the work of Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor credited with the ground-breaking work that paved the way for all future radio technology.

April 26: Poem in Your Pocket Day

  • Created to celebrate the joy of reading poetry and sharing it with others, this day is also a good day to remember lyricists that equally approach their work as poetry.

April 29: International Dance Day

  • If you missed Lady Gaga’s earlier recommendation for National Dance Week (April 17-26), here it is again. Just dance.

April 30: International Jazz Day

May

May 1: May Day | National Chocolate Parfait Day | International Tuba Day

May 3: National Public Radio Day

May 4: Dave Brubeck Day

  • Celebrating the jazz pianist and composer considered one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

May 5: Cinco de Mayo

May 8: National Coconut Cream Pie Day

May 9: World Belly Dance Day

May 10: Mother’s Day

  • Why not spend the day jamming with your mom? Show her some love for everything she’s done for you.

May 13: National Apple Pie Day

May 14: Dance Like a Chicken Day

  • Honoring oom-pah music and the Chicken Dance craze that gave countless people at countless wedding receptions the chance to flap their arms, shake their tail feathers and generally feel happy about acting like chickens in formal wear.

May 15: National Pizza Party Day

May 18: Victoria Day

May 19: National Devil’s Food Cake Day

May 22: Buy a Musical Instrument Day

  • Had your eye on a new guitar or drums? Today’s the day to scratch that itch.

May 25: Memorial Day | National Tap Dance Day

May 28: National Hamburger Day

June

Audiobook Awareness Month

Black Music Month

International Surf Music Month

National Accordion Awareness Month

African-American Music Appreciation Month

June 5: National Donut Day

  • Mmmm… dooonuts.

June 7: National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

June 8: National Best Friends Day

June 21: Father’s Day | Make Music Day | World Music Day

Why not spend the day jamming with your dad? Give him a water cooler story that he’ll share for years.

July

July 1: Canada Day

July 4: Independence Day

July 14: National Mac and Cheese Day

July 19: National Ice Cream Day

July 25: National Hot Fudge Sundae Day | National Dance Day

  • Sure, the previous day was about ice cream. But today it includes hot fudge! Caution: Please allow an appropriate amount of time to pass before also celebrating National Dance Day. If hot fudge comes shooting out of your nose before you’ve had a chance to digest it properly and there are friends around with camera phones, you just may become the kind of YouTube star that you never wanted to become.

July 30: International Day of Friendship | National Cheesecake Day

  • Tell a friend how much they mean to you. And don’t worry if it sounds cheesy. It’s National Cheesecake Day!

July 31: Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day

August

Aug. 2: National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

  • Not just another ice cream holiday. It’s ice cream in sandwich form!

Aug. 8-16: Elvis Week

  • Caught in a musical trap? Can’t walk out? Call upon the power of the King during Elvis Week.

Aug. 10: National Lazy Day

  • Because you’ve earned it.

Aug. 10: National Duran Duran Appreciation Day

Aug. 12: National Vinyl Record Day

Aug. 15: National Relaxation Day

  • If you missed National Lazy Day, relax. Today’s your second chance.

Aug. 20: National Radio Day

Aug. 24: International Strange Music Day

  • Created to encourage people to expand their awareness and openness to new kinds of music previously viewed as “strange.”

September

Classical Music Month

International Square Dancing Month

Sept. 5: National Bacon Day (Canada)

  • Because everything is better with bacon.

Sept. 7: Labor Day

Sept. 17: International Country Music Day

Sept. 18: Rice Krispie Treat Day | National Cheeseburger Day

  • Today’s an optimal day to use any leftover bacon from Bacon Day.

Sept. 19: National Dance Day (U.S.)

Sept. 25: National One-Hit Wonder Day

Sept. 28: Ask a Stupid Question Day

  • Stuck for a stupid question? No worries. Ask yourself, “Am I good enough?” (Spoiler alert. You are.)

Rocktober (a.k.a. October)

Oct. 1: International Coffee Day

Oct. 2: Kids Music Day

  • Dedicated to the importance of musical education for children.

Oct. 4: World Smile Day

Oct. 5: National Do Something Nice Day

Oct. 10: Universal Music Day

  • Officially dedicated to encouraging and inspiring people everywhere to claim, reclaim, and rejoice in one’s ability to sing, play an instrument and make music.

Oct. 12: Canadian Thanksgiving

Oct. 21: World Opera Day

Oct. 28: National Chocolate Day

Oct. 31: Halloween

  • A day that will forever be a Thriller.

November

International Drum (Percussion) Month

Nov. 6: Saxophone Day

Nov. 11: Remembrance Day | Veterans Day

Nov. 13: World Kindness Day

Nov. 14: World Diabetes Day

Nov. 25: National Jukebox Day

  • Marking the anniversary of the first coin-operated jukebox.

Nov. 26: U.S. Thanksgiving | National Cake Day

  • Pumpkin pie and cake on the same day? Sweet!

December

Dec. 4: National Cookie Day

Dec. 13: National Cocoa Day | National Violin Day | World Choral Day | Ice Cream and Violins Day

There’s no real information about why the celebration of ice cream and violins were put together on the same day that also celebrates cocoa and choral music. The one thing that is certain: Playing a violin with a hot cup of cocoa or bowl of ice cream in hand is a bad idea. Instead, listen to some violin or choral music while enjoying ice cream and/or cocoa while seated in a comfortable chair. It’s better. (Trust us on this one.)

Dec. 17: National Maple Syrup Day

Dec. 18: National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day

Dec. 24: Christmas Eve

Dec. 25: Christmas Day

Dec. 26: Boxing Day (Canada)

Dec. 30: National Bacon Day (U.S.)

Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve (Happy New Year!)

New Year’s Resolution Tip: Sure, you can make a resolution to lose weight or get more fit, and those are certainly great goals. Yet you likely didn’t get into music for nutritional or fitness reasons. You got into music because it feels good, because that’s where your passion calls you, whether to perform live, record your music to share it with the world, or both.

So, make a resolution to play more music and reach more of your musical goals. And to help you get there, Royal City Studios provides highly affordable, fully equipped rehearsal spaces for solo artists and bands of all sizes. We also have a fully equipped, state-of-the-art recording studio for you to record your music.

See for yourself.

Book online today.

However you celebrate any of the music holidays for 2020, have a rockin’ good year.