Sunday, October 12, 2025

12 noon – 2 pm, from Davis Square to Harvard Square

Parades combining activist bands, community groups, and activist groups have been an important part of our Honk! Festival since it began in 2006. Our 2025 Honk! Parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square will include over 15 bands and 30 community groups. It starts at Herbert and Day Streets in Davis Square promptly at 12 noon, and begins to arrive at Harvard Square around 1:15. Our parade theme since the beginning has been “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet.”

Interested in joining the parade? See our Parade Resources page for information about how to create spectacular images for the street. If you’d like to join the parade, or have other questions, contact .

2025 Parade Route

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2025 HONK! Parade Order

(subject to change)

1 Good Trouble Brass Band
2 Honk Parade Banners
3 Mayor of Somerville
4 Mayor of Cambridge
5 Brass Liberation Orchestra
6 MIRA Coalition (Mass. Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition)
7 All For One Brass Band
8 Boston Hoop Troop
9 Hartford Hot Several Brass Band
10 Cambridge Wildlife
11 HONK Family Band
12 Save The Alewife Brook
13 Dirty Water Brass Band
14 Puppeteers Cooperative
15 Brasscals
16 Tibetan Association of Boston Sunday School
17 Rude Mechanical Orchestra
18 Somerville for Palestine
19 Brass Balagan
20 Wheelright’s One-Man Marching Band
22 Mortal Beasts and Deities
23 Black Sheep Ensemble
24 Bicycle Riding School
25 The Party Band
26 Harvard Square Philippine American Alliance
27 Expandable Brass Band
28 Bread & Puppet Theater
29 Bread & Puppet Circus Band
30 Boston Workers Circle
31 May Day Marching Band
32 Funeral for Fascism
33 Leftist Marching Band
34 Somerville Community Land Trust
35 L Train Brass Band
36 Tufts United for Immigrant Justice
37 BVOCAL! Boston Voices of Community and Labor
38 Climate Crisis Cabaret
39 Extinction Rebellion
40 Undertow Brass Band
41 Earth For All
42 Brass Solidarity
43 Mothers Out Front from Somerville and Cambridge and North Shore
44 Forward! Marching Band
44.3 Refuse Fascism
44.6 The Jamaica Plain Honk Band (JP Honk)
45 Circus Up!
46 Tufts BEATs
47 350 MA
48 Greenbelt Honk! Situation
49 DC Activist Street Band
50 Food Not Bombs
51 Ideal Maine Social Aid and Sanctuary Band
52 Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS)
53 Extraordinary Rendition Band
54 Indivisible Somerville
55 KANDJANWOU RARA
56 SCUL
57 School of Honk

Street Closings

Here is the list of streets in Somerville and Cambridge that will be closed during the parade (subject to change):

• Orchard
• Day
• Chester
• Milton
• Blake
• Beech
• Upland Road
• Mount Vernon
• Arlington
• Lancaster
• Linnaean
• Martin
• Hudson
• Shepard
• Langdon
• Chauncy
• Waterhouse
• Garden

Photo by Candice Imming