<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Don’t miss a beat.<SPAN> </SPAN>Grab your dancing shoes, and join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 9-11!</SPAN></B>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><A href="http://www.honkfest.org"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><U>Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2009</U></SPAN></B> </A>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Friday Neighborhood Honks!<BR>October 9</SPAN></B>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We’re taking to <I>your</I> street to start Honk this year!<SPAN> </SPAN>Join us Friday afternoon in Roxbury , Jamaica Plain, East Somerville, East Boston, and at Harvard Yard, and Boston Common.<SPAN> </SPAN>Details posted here – <A href="http://www.honkfest.org/schedule" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254752433_0>www.honkfest.org/schedule</SPAN></A></SPAN>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt">(and thanks to the MBTA, watch for Honk! posters this week on the T, and listen for the bands starting around 2pm on Friday as they go underground on the red and orange lines!)
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">7 stages for 8 hours on Saturday<BR>October 10</SPAN></B>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">All in Davis Square!<SPAN> </SPAN>Opening Ceremony at 12noon in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square; then music all day beginning at 1pm at 7 Hills, Statue Park, Davis Square Plaza, Chester Street, VFW Dilboy Hall, Kenney Park, and 406 Highland Street. <A href="http://www.honkfest.org/schedule" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254752433_0>www.honkfest.org/schedule</SPAN></A> </SPAN>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sunday down Mass Ave.<BR>October 11<BR></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>Anywhere you look from noon ‘till 2pm you’ll see (and hear!) Honkers in parade!<SPAN> </SPAN>Don’t forget to join us afterwards in Harvard Square as bands perform on the streets of Oktoberfest from 2-5pm.</SPAN> </DIV>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sunday night blow-out! </SPAN></B>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">More tubas than you’ve ever seen in one place!<SPAN> </SPAN>Plus trumpets, sousaphones, saxophones, and radical cheerleaders!</SPAN>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The beautiful Somerville Theater is hosting the Sunday night blow-out all-band show.<SPAN> </SPAN>Four hours, four hundred musicians, and twenty-four tubas.<SPAN> </SPAN>Don’t miss it!<SPAN> </SPAN><A href="http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Get your tix now</A>.<SPAN> </SPAN>We guarantee these bands won’t stay on the stage -- there won’t be a bad seat in the house!</SPAN>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Somerville</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php" target=_blank rel=nofollow> Theater<BR></A>55 Davis Square <BR>(right next to the T station)<BR>Doors open at 7:30pm.<SPAN> </SPAN>Show starts at 8pm.</SPAN>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Get your tickets at the box office in person, by phone at <SPAN style="COLOR: #1e1e1e">617-625-4088,</SPAN> or <A href="http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#800080><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254752433_1>online</SPAN></FONT></A>. </SPAN>
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<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Haven’t had a enough of Honk?<SPAN> </SPAN>Not ready to go home?</SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Take a Road Trip.</SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Trek on down to Providence, RI for PRONK! on Monday, October 12 for more!<SPAN> </SPAN><A href="http://providencehonkfest.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1254752433_2>http://providencehonkfest.org</SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Then to <A href="http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=brass+mayhem%21&init=quick#/event.php?eid=132194354437&ref=ss" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Brass Mayhem! </A>for more honking on Tuesday, October 13 at The Elevens in Northampton, MA with Pink Puffers Brass & Phunk Band from Rome + Yellow Hat Band from Seattle invade Western Mass with the help of Rusty Belle, the Downside Up Circus, and the Primate Fiasco. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Then on to the Big Apple for BONK! in Brooklyn, October 15 to 18!<BR><A href="http://www.bonknyc.info/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.bonknyc.info/</A></SPAN></DIV></td></tr></table>