HONK! 2012

The HONK! Festival is a revolutionary street spectacle of
never-before-seen proportions that will converge for the seventh time in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, from Friday, October 5 through Monday, October 8, 2012!

Wondering what HONK! is all about?
Watch a great video! 

Thursday, October 4th

Pre-HONK! musical performance(s)
7:00 – 11:00pm, Union Square
7:00pm : Chaotic Noise Marching Corps
7:45pm : Dirty Water Brass Band
8:30pm : Church Marching Band
9:15pm : Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band
10:00pm : Environmental Encroachment

Friday, October 5th

3:00 to 5:00p: HONK! IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS
Bands play for community and after-school groups
4:00 to 7:00p: LANTERN MAKING WORKSHOPS
Learn how to make your own lantern in Hodgkins Park, which can be use in the night time lantern parades. A great family event!
7:00 to 9:00p: LANTERN PARADES
Sidewalk processions around Davis Square accompanied by bike lights, paper lanterns, flashlights, and other forms of
DIY lighting
7:30p to 1:00a: HONK! KICK-OFF
Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant & Music Club
17 Holland St, Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
617-776-2004
Friday Oct 5, 7:30pm, $12 door, 21+
7:30-8:30pm: Church Marching Band (Sonoma, CA)
8:30-9:30pm: Brass Messengers (Minneapolis, MN)
9:30-10:30pm: Veveritse (Brooklyn, NY)
10:30-11:30pm: Young Fellaz Brass Band (New Orleans, LA)
11:30pm-12:30am: Pink Puffers Brass Band (Rome, Italy)
12:30-12:45am: jam with all of the above (and maybe others)

Saturday, Oct 6th, 12:30 – 9:00p

12:30p: OPENING CEREMONIES
in 7 Hills Park (behind the Davis Sq. T stop)
HONK! ON DAVIS SQUARE
More than 30 activist street bands, from around the world, perform outdoors for free.

Sunday, Oct 7th

Noon – 2:00p: HONK! PARADE to “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet”
featuring HONK! bands and community groups, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration. The parade leaves Davis Square at 12 noon, travels down Elm Street, then Beech Street onto Massachusetts Ave to Harvard Square.
2:15 – 6:00: HARVARD SQUARE OKTOBERFEST
HONK! bands perform at the Harvard Square Oktoberfest (www.harvardsquare.com).
8:00p – 12:00a The HONK! Festival ALL-BAND BLOWOUT CONCERT
The final blowout concert will feature almost every band (over 30 of them!) raising sweet HONK! music up to the roof inside the spectacular Sanders Theatre in Harvard Square.
Location: Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 for students, available at the HONK! merchandise booth during the festival (cash only), and at the door (credit cards accepted).
Advance tickets can be purchased at the Harvard Box Office by calling 617.496.2222 (TTY 617.495.1642), online at www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online, or in person at the Holyoke Center: 1350 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 [hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12:00-6:00 pm]

Monday, October 8th 10:00a – 2:00p

HONK! Symposium
Harvard University School of Education, Gutman Library (lower level)
Appian Way – Cambridge, MA
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10:00 am – 12 noon: Plenary session “Inclusion and Quality: Contradictory or Complimentary?”
12:00 – 12:45: Lunch Break
12:45 – 2:00:  ”HONK! in Today’s Classroom”
12:45 – 2:00: “What makes a HONK! band HONK?”
12:45 – 2:00: “The Nuts and Bolts of HONK! Organizing”

We are extraordinarily pleased that these bands have said that they will join us for HONK! in 2012.

• AfroBrazil (Boston, MA)
• The Brass Balagan (Burlington, VT)
• Brass Liberation Orchestra (San Francisco, CA)
• Brass Messengers (Minneapolis, MN)
• The Bread & Puppet Circus Band (Glover, VT)
• Caka!ak Thunder (Greensboro, NC)
• The Carnival Band (Vancouver, BC)
• Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble (Montreal, QC)
• Chaotic Noise Marching Corps (Seattle, WA)
• Church Marching Band (Santa Rosa, CA)
• Detroit Party Marching Band (Detroit, MI)
• Dirty Water Brass Band (Somerville, MA)
• DJA-Rara (Brooklyn, NY)
• Environmental Encroachment (Chicago, IL)
• Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band (Somerville, MA)
• The Expandable Brass Band (Northampton, MA)
• Extraordinary Rendition Band (Providence, RI)
• Forward! Marching Band (Madison, WI)
• Gora Gora Orkestar (Boulder, CO)
• The Hill Stompers (Los Alamos, NM)
• Himalayas (New York City, NY)
• Hungry March Band (Brooklyn, NY)
• Leftist Marching Band (Portsmouth, NH)
• Loyd Family Players (Oakland, CA)
• Lungs Face Feet (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Minor Mishap Marching Band (Austin, TX)
• Pink Puffers Brass Band (Rome, Italy)
• The Primate Fiasco (Northampton, MA)
• Rude Mechanical Orchestra (New York City, NY)
• Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band (Somerville, MA)
• Seed & Feed Marching Abominable (Atlanta, GA)
• tint(A)nar (Quebec City, QC)
• Veveritse (Brooklyn, NY)
• What Cheer? Brigade (Providence, RI)
• Young Fellaz Brass Band (New Orleans, LA)

Contact Us

• Our site : http://honkfest.org/
• For updates on HONK! you can follow us on Twitter @honkfest or Facebook and sign up on our mailing list.
• Press and Media information can be found on our press page.
• Donations can be sent to:
  

  HONK! Festival
  100 Jackson Street
  Cambridge, MA 02140