HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2025

HONK! Festival 2025 will be held from October 9-12, with HONK! outdoor band concerts held rain or shine throughout Somerville and its adjacent cities during that Thursday thru Sunday. Which includes the vast “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet" Parade that will wend its way from Davis Square to Harvard Square on that Sunday to join in Harvard Square’s 46th annual Oktoberfest. In addition, plans are in the works to host a HONK! Conference on that Thursday, held during the day at Tufts University, which will include sharing strategies on such pertinent topics as innovative performance practices and the different approaches for increasing solidarity, reclaiming public space, communicating effectively, and implementing safeguards for security.

Initiated in Somerville back in 2006, HONK! is now a world-wide movement, inspired by a commitment to instigate positive social change through music, and embodied in the powerful upbeat sounds generated by activist street bands. Musicians travel from near and far to participate annually in Somerville's HONK!, which has spawned countless bands and upwards of 20 kindred festivals around the world over the past 20 years. As global crises intensify, along with the shared feeling of urgency for a rapi

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