Sunday in Harvard Square
Photograph by Benjamin Greenberg
Sunday, October 8, 2023
2-6PM, All-band concert on the main stage and sets around Harvard Square
Each band will have a brief set on the Main Stage of the Harvard Square Oktoberfest on Sunday. Main Stage schedule listed here.
In addition, some bands will also be playing longer sets in 3 locations around Harvard Square during the afternoon:
Or see this schedule with maps of all of the locations
1:45-3:15PM Social Movement Songwriting Workshop
The HONK! Festival will host a movement songwriting workshop on Sunday October 8th in Winthrop Park. This will be a space in which musicians and activists can get together and spend some time brainstorming ideas for songs that can be part of rallies and protests organized by the many social movements that HONK! and its bands try to support. La Colaborativa’s Arts & Culture Youth Group, along with members of City Life/Vida Urbana and musicians of HONK, will facilitate the space.
Within the workshop, musicians and activists might do things like:
- Revive some older movement songs that lend themselves to a 21st century brass band treatment
- Or, experiment with spoken word lyrics over rhythmic, percussive brass band grooves
- Or it might be something totally new and different that no one has thought of yet
- Some free-form or choreographed dancing to music
- Street Theater
This workshop is designed such that folks can come and go, so drop by any time!
Main Stage Schedule
| 2:00p | The Ultimate Jam Session with Boston Music Project and the Summer Street Brass Band lead by Chris Schroeder |
| 2:08p | The J.P. HONK Band |
| 2:16p | Leftist Marching Band |
| 2:24p | The Party Band |
| 2:32p | Expandable Brass Band |
| 2:40p | Undertow Brass Band |
| 2:48p | Seed & Feed Marching Abominable |
| 2:56p | Forward! Marching Band |
| 3:04p | Musicians Action Group |
| 3:12p | HONK! ‘Mass’ Nasty Woman Band |
| 3:20p | The Bread & Puppet Circus Band |
| 3:28p | School of HONK |
| 3:36p | Good Trouble Brass Band |
| 3:44p | Environmental Encroachment |
| 3:52p | BABAM |
| 4:00p | Rara Bel Poze |
| 4:08p | Dirty Water Brass Band |
| 4:16p | Brass Solidarity |
| 4:24p | Detroit Party Marching Band |
| 4:32p | Chaotic Noise Marching Corps |
| 4:40p | Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band |
| 4:48p | Yes Ma'am Brass Band |
| 4:56p | HONK! Family Band |
| 5:04p | Rude Mechanical Orchestra |
| 5:12p | Clamor & Lace Noise Brigade |
| 5:20p | Extraordinary Rendition Band |
| 5:28p | The Brass Balagan |
| 5:36p | TMB |
| 5:44p | Young Fellaz Brass Band |
Here’s some more info!