Saturday in Davis Square (2026)

Saturday HONK! in Davis Square

Saturday, October 10, 2026

12:00PM, Opening Ceremony in 7 Hills Park

Come celebrate the official beginning of HONK! with the first horn blast, the HONK! Cantastoria, and the buzz and energy of nearly 30 brass bands converging on 7 Hills Park in Davis Square.

1:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Bands play all around Davis Square

Over 30 brass bands from all around the United States will fill the nooks and crannies of Davis Square.

Time	7 Hills Park	Statue Park	Day Street	Davis Sq Plaza	Chester Street	Elm @ Grove	Kenney Park	Holland @ Winter
1:00p	Good Trouble Brass Band	Forward! Marching Band	Band Together Pickup Band	Ideal Maine Social Aid and Sanctuary Band	The Party Band	The Brass Balagan	UNiTY Street Band	Leftist Marching Band
2:00p	Singing Resistance	8-Bit Brass Band	Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band	School of HONK	Funkrust Brass Band	Undertow Brass Band	May Day Marching Band	Unlawful Assembly
3:00p	DC Activist Street Band	aNova Brazil	Fly By Brass Band	Bread & Puppet Circus Band	Rude Mechanical Orchestra	The J.P. HONK Band	Detroit Party Marching Band	Rara Bel Poze
4:00p	Brassica and the Wild Sprouts	All for One Brass Band	Extraordinary Rendition Band	Brassterisk	Expandable Brass Band	Sass-a-Brass	Conical Cacophony	Yes Ma'am Brass Band
5:00p	Brass Solidarity	Brass Liberation Orchestra	Rude Mechanical Orchestra	Good Trouble Brass Band	UNiTY Street Band	Leftist Marching Band	Magnificent Danger	Forward! Marching Band
6:00p (45m)	Yes Ma'am Brass Band	Detroit Party Marching Band	Ideal Maine Social Aid and Sanctuary Band	May Day Marching Band	Sass-a-Brass	Fly By Brass Band	Rara Bel Poze	DC Activist Street Band
6:45p (45m)	The J.P. HONK Band	Funkrust Brass Band	Unlawful Assembly	Extraordinary Rendition Band	Brassica and the Wild Sprouts	8-Bit Brass Band	Expandable Brass Band	School of HONK
7:30p (45m)	The Brass Balagan	Undertow Brass Band	All for One Brass Band	Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band	Bread & Puppet Circus Band		Band Together Pickup Band
8:15p (45m)	Brass Liberation Orchestra	Brass Solidarity		The Party Band

See this schedule with maps of all of the locations…

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, ArtHONK!

Roll up your sleeves and participate in artmaking activity with a purpose.

We’re closing Elm Street to cars and turning it into a dynamic arena for interactive art making and activism. Please join in — work with our amazing HONK! artists to create something for yourself or for the Sunday Parade. Learn about some urgent issues with the grass roots volunteers and organizers working on community issues. Help amplify messages for positive change and activist causes with art!

Full details coming soon!

1:00pm – 6:00 pm, The HONK! Portal

To honor our international band comrades who cannot attend this year, there will be a screen set up on Elm Street with a livestream of bands from around the world. At HONK! the portal to the world is always open!

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Photo by Peter Lee