HONK! parade brings music to the streets of Somerville, Cambridge

Over thirty bands took to the roads of Cambridge and Somerville Sunday for the annual HONK festival celebrating reclaiming the streets for horns bikes and feet At full power these bands create an irresistible spectacle of creative movement and sonic self-expression directed at making the world a better place the HONK organizers stated This is the movement we call HONK The colorful musical march from Davis Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge arriving to join the th annual Oktoberfest on Sunday Thirty-two in-person bands were scheduled to join in the revelry Sunday organizers declared with from Massachusetts and others from Seattle to New Orleans to Minneapolis The annual parade wrapped up days of events beginning Thursday with a new-to-the-festival free all-day HONK U Conference Celebrating Years of Street Music Activism The first-time addition included presentations workshops and more discussing the growth of HONK organizers explained The festival continued Friday and Saturday in Davis Square with street music workshops and lantern parades The HONK organizers noted that though international bands were not present virtual performances would be broadcast from Brazil Chile Italy England and more during Sunday s celebrations Related Articles Roslindale residents celebrate unique neighborhood in th annual parade Boston rings in its nd Caribbean Carnival Parade Photos The first HONK Festival took place in Somerville with twelve unplugged mobile street bands in organizers commented and HONK celebrations have popped up large and small have popped up throughout the world With boisterous fanfare impossible to ignore they gathered to celebrate their solidarity with the strong belief that joyful music in general space can meet the challenging moments of our time HONK organizers announced Members of the Save The Alewife Brook hold staffs with Alewife fish as they march in the th annual Honk Festival parade Sunday Icarus Tyree plays the trombone with the Bread Puppet Circus Band of Glover Vermont during Sunday s Honk festival CJ Gunther Boston Herald Allegra Heracles plays the trombone in the Good Trouble Brass Band CJ Gunther Boston Herald A group of children watch from the sidewalk and block their ears during Sunday s th annual Honk Festival parade CJ Gunther Boston Herald