Sunday, October 11, 2026

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 2026 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 .

2026 Parade Route

• View HONK! Parade Route in a larger map.
• Road closures for Sunday’s parade can be found here.

2026 HONK! Parade Order

(subject to change)

HONK! Parade Banners
Mayor of Somerville
Mayor of Cambridge
Hijinks Stilts
Brass Solidarity
Boston Hoop Troop
Extraordinary Rendition Band
Mass Peace Action (MAPA)
Forward! Marching Band
Cambridge Somerville Independent
Puppets Gulping Plastics
Good Trouble Brass Band
Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS)
Somerville Community Land Trust
Detroit Party Marching Band
Puppeteers Cooperative
May Day Marching Band
Extinction Rebellion
MA TPS Committee
Bread & Puppet Circus Band
Bread & Puppet Theater
Brass Liberation Orchestra
Circus Up!
Food Not Bombs
Dirty Water Brass Band
Save The Alewife Brook
Unlawful Assembly
Somerville for Palestine
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Tibetan Association of Boston Cultural School
Funkrust Brass Band
OPENAIR Circus
The Party Band
Earth For All
Carnival Society of Boston
All For One Brass Band
Atrium School
Ideal Maine Social Aid and Sanctuary Band
Boston Roller Derby
Boston Democratic Socialists of America
DC Activist Street Band
Somerville Stands Together
Sass-a-Brass
Harvard Square Philippine American Alliance
Unity Street Band
MIRA Coalition (Mass. Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition)
Expandable Brass Band
Veterans for Peace
The Jamaica Plain Honk Band (JP Honk)
Tufts United for Immigrant Justice
LUCE Immigrant Justice Network
Tufts BEATs
Somerville BBQ Coop
Wheelright’s One-Man Marching Band
Somerville Community Corp
8-Bit Brass Band
Fayerweather Street School
Brassica and the Wild Sprouts
350 Mass Better Futures Project
Leftist Marching Band
Protect Trans Futures
Mothers Out Front from Somerville and Cambridge and North Shore
Brass Balagan
Serendipity Stilt Dancers, The Anti-ICE Troopers
Undertow Brass Band
SCUL
School of Honk

Photo by Candice Imming