[act-ma] 10/10/2014-10/12/2014: HONK! 2014: 27 bands all set to perform during Columbus Day weekend

[Mary Curtin]

HONK! FESTIVAL
 
FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
 
NINTH ANNUAL
 
ROSTER OF BANDS
FROM ALL OVER
NOW SET
 
October 10 through 12, 2014
 
a wide variety of events scheduled
in Somerville, Cambridge, & Boston
 
ALL FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
 
 
There'll be dancing ... dancing in the streets ... a guaranteed ingredient
at HONK!, this year to include a total of 27 bands
(www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/bands-2014), all with social and/or
political activism as part of their charters, as well as individual local
players who are inevitably inspired to run home, grab their respective
unplugged sound makers, and dive right under the HONK! community umbrella.
 
The "official" participants for this year's HONK! will be travelling from as
far as Moscow, Paris, New Orleans, and Los Alamos, to as near as Somerville
and Boston. The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band
(www.secondlinebrassband.org), the band who got this world-wide phenomenon
rolling in the first place, will once again serve as the hometown HONK! host
band.
 
The overall HONK! schedule is available for perusal at
www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/schedule-2014, with many familiar aspects,
including the whimsical Lantern Parades and the spectacular "Reclaim the
Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet" Parade, by now well loved by the many
true-blue HONK! fans!
 
But there is also a new development this year that is important to note.
HONK! 2014 will be hosting a "Day of Action" to be held specifically on
Friday October 10th. The goal is to set the stage for a targeted weekend
long partnership between HONK! bands and local community organizations. More
info. on this new HONK! initiative can be
www.honkfest.org/2014-festival/friday-day-of-action-2014/, with updates
available as HONK! gets closer to the day.
 
Specific HONK! Festival performance schedules will be made available after
October 3, 2014. For more background information on HONK!'s origins and
purpose, visit www.honkfest.org/about/. HONK! is a rousing spectacle
featuring social activist street bands from all over who come together to
share their different approaches to merry making while also instigating
positive change in their communities. Born in Somerville in 2006, similar
HONK!s have since spread to Austin, Seattle, Detroit, Providence, and New
York City, with the first ever HONK! OZ (www.honkfest.org.au) to take place
in Australia in January 2015.
 
For almost a decade now, the original Somerville/Cambridge HONK! just keeps
on rolling and expanding! If you'd like to jump on the bandwagon, here's a
link as to how: www.honkfest.org/help. To get psyched, the HONK! Kickstarter
Campaign video, with an overview of this year's HONK!, can be found at
www.honkfest.org/kickstarter.  HONK! ON! 
 
 
 
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