HONK NYC!
The New York HONK! Festival is here: Oct. 9 – 12
A bunch of New York City bands are bringing the BONK!* back to Gotham with HONK NYC!, the sixth gathering of radical street bands, 21st century style, in NYC! Four nights of splendid music await. See below for details.
OCT. 9: OPENING NIGHT AT THE PAPER BOX in EAST WILLIAMSBURG
Featuring Out of Towners:
Environmental Encroachment (Chicago)
Minor Mishap Marching Band (Austin)
Pink Puffers Brass Band (Rome, Italy)
and Local Favorites:
Underground Horns
Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars
$10 pre-sale tickets, $12 at door
Click here to purchase
$3 Radeberger beer before 10pm
Paper Box website here
OCT. 10: EAST VILLAGE CAVALCADE of POMP & PARTY
On Wednesday, six bands will set forth from six locations TBA on the Greater Lower East Side. Find the one you love! Dance and make merry in the streets of NYC as you follow them! Afterparty at The Delancey, starting at 8:30ish.
From New York:
Hungry March Band
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Batala NYC
From Out of Town:
Environmental Encroachment (Chicago)
Minor Mishap Marching Band (Austin)
Pink Puffers Brass Band (Rome, Italy)
Starting Locations:
Environmental Encroachment
Two Boots Avenue A – 42 Avenue A and Third Street
Stumblebum Brass Band
Two Boots Pizza – 74 Bleecker Street
Pink Puffers Brass Band
Bean Cafe – 147 1st Avenue at 9th street
Minor Mishap Marching Band
Bean Cafe – 54 2nd Ave at 3rd street
Hungry March Band
Lower East Side Girls Club – 56 E1st between 1st Ave and 2nd Ave
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Times Up / MORUS – 155 Ave C between 9th and 10th St
OCT. 11: JALOPY THEATRE & SCHOOL of MUSIC in BROOKLYN
Join Brooklyn’s own Veveritse as they welcome Pink Puffers Brass Band to their monthly gig at Jalopy Theatre.
Tickets: $10!
Doors: 9pm!
Show info here
Stay tuned for more details about the secret parade leading to the show led by Chicago’s Environmental Encroachment!
OCT. 12: CLOSING PARTY in GOWANUS
The final night of HONK NYC! at Gemini & Scorpio’s Gowanus loft. Hosted by SXIP, the biggest fan of radical marching bands and the craziest of mad scientist musicians!
Featuring out of town guests:
Environmental Encroachment (Chicago)
Pink Puffers Brass Band (Rome)
And NYC favorites:
Raya Brass Band
Hungry March Band
Djarara
Tickets are $15
Doors at 9pm
RSVP here for location
Stay tuned for more details!
*We’ve changed the name of the NYC festival from BONK! The Brooklyn HONK! Festival to HONK NYC! in honor of our parent festival in Somerville, MA: The HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands.
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HONK NYC! 2012 Festival Credits
Festival Producer: Sara Valentine (Hungry March Band)
Festival Publicity: Sara Valentine Adam Loudermilk (Hungry March Band)
Project Managers for East Village Cavalcade of Pomp: Ben Cerf & Samantha Tsistinas (Hungry March Band)
Stage Management: David Rogers-Berry (Hungry March Band)
Festival DJ: Kris Anton (Hungry March Band)
Housing Czar: Sandra Glazer (Hungry March Band)
HONK NYC! @ Jalopy Stage & Parade Management: Ellia Bisker, Josh Bisker
HONK NYC! 2012 Festival Logo and Poster Art: Samantha Tsistinas (Hungry March Band)
HONK NYC! 2012 Co-Presenters: Hungry March Band, The Paper Box, The Delancey, Veveritse Brass Band, Jalopy Theatre, Gemini & Scorpio
HONK NYC! Advisory Committee: Lily Maase (The Paper Box), Phil & Leon Hartman (Two Boots Pizza) Paul Bartlett (Art & Politics of the Greater Lower East Side), Nicolina Art (Free Art Society), Gemini & Scorpio, Kevin Leppmann, Trudi Cohen and David Blank-Edelman (HONK! Festival, Somerville), David Stern (HONK! Fest West), J.R. Hankins (Veveritse Brass Band), Greg Squared & Don Godwin (Raya Brass Band, Veveritse Brass Band), Mike Smith (Environmental Encroachment), Sari Rubinstein & Alita Edgar (Rubulad).
HONK NYC! 2012 Festival Sponsors: Radeberger Beer, Two Boots Pizza, The Bean, The Lower East Side Girls Club, The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MORUS)