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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2024 HONK! Parade Order

(subject to change)

Good Trouble Brass Band
Mayors of Somerville and Cambridge
All For One Brass Band
MIRA Coalition (Mass. Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition)
Brass Liberation Orchestra
Boston Hoop Troop
Hartford Hot Several Brass Band
Cambridge Wildlife
HONK Family Band
Save The Alewife Brook
Dirty Water Brass Band
Puppeteers Cooperative
Brasscals
Tibetan Association of Boston Sunday School
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Funeral for Fascism
Leftist Marching Band
Wheelright’s One-Man Marching Band
Mortal Beasts and Deities
Black Sheep Ensemble
Bicycle Riding School
The Party Band
Harvard Square Philippine American Alliance
Expandable Brass Band
Bread & Puppet Theater
Bread & Puppet Circus Band
Boston Workers Circle
May Day Marching Band
Somerville for Palestine
Brass Balagan
Somerville Community Land Trust
L Train Brass Band
Tufts United for Immigrant Justice
BVOCAL! Boston Voices of Community and Labor
Climate Crisis Cabaret
Extinction Rebellion
Undertow Brass Band
Earth For All
Brass Solidarity
Mothers Out Front from Somerville and Cambridge and North Shore
Forward! Marching Band
Circus Up!
Tufts BEATs
350 MA
Greenbelt Honk! Situation
DC Activist Street Band
Food Not Bombs
Ideal Maine Social Aid and Sanctuary Band
Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS)
Extraordinary Rendition Band
Indivisible Somerville
KANDJANWOU RARA
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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