Friday OCT 5 | Saturday OCT 6 | Sunday OCT 7

3:00 - 5:00 pm
SYMPOSIUM: "The Philosophy of Honk" at Tufts University
(Distler Performance Hall • Granoff Music Center)
Speakers include Charles Keil, Mark Harvey and Michele Hardesty
Moderated by Reebee Garofalo
Performance by the Original Big Seven Social Aid & Pleasure Society
9:00 pm - 1:00 am

Honk at the Abbey Lounge in Inman Square

Environmental Encroachment, Pink Puffers and Rude Mechanical Orchestra

 

Friday OCT 5 | Saturday OCT 6 | Sunday OCT 7

9:00 am

11th Annual Somerville Homeless Coalition Road Race

10:00-11:30 am

Workshop: The Quieter Challenges of Making a Racket in the Street

with Caka!ak Thunder in Dilboy Hall

11:30 am

Opening Ceremony in 7 Hills Park

with Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz

 

7 HILLS PARK

(behind T station)

STATUE PARK

(in front of JP Licks)

DAVIS SQUARE PLAZA

(Starbuck's courtyard)

REDBONES BBQ

(Chester Street)

VFW DILBOY HALL

(Main Entrance)

12:00 pm
Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band
Brass Liberation Orchestra
Black Bear Combo
Near & Now One-Man Band / Chaotic Insurrection
Loyd Family Players
1:00 pm
Himalayas with Lesser Panda
Environmental Encroachment
Pink Puffers
Bread & Puppet Circus Band
2:00 pm
Hungry March Band
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Leftist Marching Band
Emperor Norton Stationary Marching Band
Caka!ak Thunder
3:00 pm
Pink Puffers
What Cheer? Brigade
Original Big Seven
Black Bear Combo
Bread & Puppet Circus Band
4:00 pm
Emperor Norton Stationary Marching Band
Caka!ak Thunder
Himalayas with Lesser Panda  
Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band
Near & Now One-Man Band / Chaotic Insurrection
5:00 pm
MarchFourth Marching Band
Original Big Seven
Environmental Encroachment
Brass Liberation Orchestra
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
6:00 pm
MarchFourth Marching Band
Hungry March Band
What Cheer? Brigade
Leftist Marching Band

 

** ALL SATURDAY DAYTIME EVENTS ARE FREE! **

9:00 pm
OPEN HONK at Dilboy Hall
9:30 pm - 1:30 am
Black Bear Combo & Hungry March Band (Johnny D's)
11:30 pm
March Fourth Marching Band (Rocket Bar, Boston)

 

Friday OCT 5 | Saturday OCT 6 | Sunday, OCT 7

12:00 pm
HONK! PARADE: Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet
(Davis Square to Harvard Square via Elm St to Beech St to Mass Ave)
featuring all honk bands + Bread & Puppet, Open Air Circus and many others
with special guests "Click & Clack" the Tappet Brothers
 

ON THE HONK STAGE AT HARVARD SQUARE OKTOBERFEST

2:00 pm
Original Big Seven Social Aid & Pleasure Club
3:00 pm
Himalayas with Lesser Panda
4:00 pm
What Cheer? Brigade
5:00 pm

Brass Liberation Orchestra

March Fourth Marching Band (Main Stage)

 

(this schedule is tentative, so please check back to confirm times and places)

 

 
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