About this festival
HONK!: the worthy craze sweeping the nation ? from Boston to Providence to Brooklyn to Austin to Seattle -- and every Fall back to Boston, with HONK! bands migrating from far and near, descending upon the HONK! epicenter, where festival participants (including the audience) can gaggle, gander, and generate the gregarious racket that signifies the HONK! experience. Complete info. at http://www.honkfest.org.
This year the following bands will be participating: AfroBrazil, Brass Balagan, Brass Messengers, Bread and Puppet Theater Circus Band, Caka!ak Thunder, Carnival Band, Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Forward!/Milwaukee Molotov Marchers, Hungry March Band, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Open Hand Orchestra, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominable, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, To Be Named Later Brass Band, What Cheer? Brigade, and Young Fellaz.
The HONK! phenomenon was born 6 years ago in Davis Square spurred on by a need of a certain species of street band to congregate and celebrate their social activist side. HONK! lets the good times roll while being ever mindful that some bad times need fixing. HONK! believes that street-wise music can be the agent of change for the better. HONK! is the universal tongue for hey-wake-up-and-pay-attention!