Over thirty bands took to the roads of Cambridge and Somerville Sunday for the annual HONK! pageant, 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 said. “This is the movement we call HONK!”
The colourful, musical march from Davis Sq. to Harvard Sq. in Cambridge, arriving to hitch the forty sixth annual Oktoberfest on Sunday. Thirty-two in-person bands had been scheduled to hitch within the revelry Sunday, organizers stated, with 11 from Massachusetts and others from Seattle to New Orleans to Minneapolis.
The annual parade wrapped up days of occasions, starting Thursday with a new-to-the-festival free all-day HONK! U “Conference Celebrating 20 Years of Street Music Activism.” The primary-time addition included displays, workshops and extra discussing the event of HONK!, organizers stated.
The pageant continued Friday and Saturday in Davis Sq. with avenue music, workshops and lantern parades.
The HONK! organizers famous that although worldwide bands weren’t current, digital performances can be broadcast from Brazil, Chile, Italy, England and extra throughout Sunday’s celebrations.
The primary HONK! Pageant passed off in Somerville with twelve unplugged cellular avenue bands in 2006, organizers stated, 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 public space can meet the challenging moments of our time,” HONK! organizers stated.
