HONK! Festival 2010

HONK! Festival 2010 - FIFTH ANNUAL 

STREETS BURGEONING 
WITH
 STREET BAND ACTIVISM

The HONK Festival will feature 25 activist street bands from around the country:

Sunday, Oct 10, 12-2 pm
“Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet” featuring all the bands plus Bread & Puppet Theater and many local arts and community organizations, 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. We need 123 volunteers for this parade–contact parade@honkfest.org  if you are interested! 

Sunday, Oct 10, 2 – 6 pm
HONK! bands perform at Harvard Square Oktoberfest

In 2006, the very first HONK! Festival was an experiment, a not so humble occasion created on Columbus Day weekend for 12 activist street bands to perform in Davis and Harvard Squares. By 2009, HONK! burst at the seams with over 29 bands [stopped counting for all the impromptu participants] — and by magic along the way, between 2006 and 2010, annual HONKS! have arisen in places as close as Providence (PRONK!) and Brooklyn (BONK!) and as far afield as Seattle (HONK! Fest West), with new ones being launched every day, such as in Austin (HONK! TX). 

The original HONK! Festival ended up being a good idea. A need had been identified, not only on the part of musicians — of a particular persuasion — who have a penchant for gathering to raise a righteous ruckus. But also a need is there on the part of the audience — not necessarily of any persuasion — to bask in the glow of this unusual phenomenon. 

A Wikipedia page has been developed to try and describe the nature of HONK! — but there's nothing like being there. As the ultimate activist Emma Goldman so wisely put it: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution." The operative word here is dance and the HONK! Festival sets the tone for grooving it to the streets.



Check out www.honkfest.org, twitter.com/honkfest/, and www.facebook.com/honkfestival. Further information can also be obtained by calling 617-383-HONK (4665).