Accolades
We’ve received lots of great pre-festival coverage for this year’s HONK!:
- Arrive Magazine
- Art & Cultural Events List
- Boston.com: Mark Your Calendar
- Boston Phoenix: The PHLog
- The Improper Bostonian: The Omnivore’s Agenda
- National Radio Project: Marching to the Beat of their Own Drum (fabulous radio show)
- Ryan’s Smashing Life Blog: Honk-toberfest!
- Somerville Art Matters (with a great video!)
- Somerville Blog
- The Somerville News
- SomervillePatch
- WFMO: No U-Turn Radio (radio program, HONK! segment at ~1:13 in archived show)
- Weekly Dig
- Yelp
- Yes! Magazine
and some fabulous post-festival coverage for this year’s HONK!:
- A-Infos Radio Project: Activst Marching Bands take to Streets in MA. (audio program)
- Art Threat
- The Bell blog: HONK! If You Love Marching Bands & Ironies
- Boston.com: A look back at Honk! Fest and three days of activist street bands
- Boston Herald: The music goes ’round and around and it comes out Honk! (with photo gallery)
- Cambridge Community Television: Street Bands Strut in High-Spirited HONK! Parade
- Examiner.com: Fifth annual Honk Festival hits Davis Square
- The Harvard Crimson: Square Hosts Oktoberfest Celebration
- Open Media Boston: HONK! Fest 2010 Brings Activist Marching Bands To Somerville And Cambridge (with an audio feature)
- The Somerville News: HONK! if you like social activism, reflective tights (with photo slide show)
- Space is The Place blog: BOSTON HONK! FESTIVAL
- The Tufts Daily: Performers Honk! through Davis and Harvard and Honk! (photo gallery)
- Universal Hub: A honking good time (photos) and
- Wicked Local Somerville (photo gallery)
- The Wire: Honk if you love marching bands
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October 2010:
The organizers of the fifth HONK! Festival and Parade send their heartfelt thanks to everyone who is helping make the Festival a positive and successful event. We are grateful to all in Davis Square and beyond who support HONK! and help us realize the vision of a community brought together by the tapping of feet.
- John Bell, David Blank-Edelman, Trudi Cohen, Shaunalynn Duffy, Ken Field, Reebee Garofalo, Kevin Leppmann, Maury Martin, Helen Morgan, Dave Morgan, Kate Riegle-vanWest, Michael Romanyshyn, Michael Rome, Stu Siegel, Joanna Vouriotis & Rand Wilson