HONK! Fest West 2013, Seattle’s free festival celebrating street band culture with fanfare performances, will be taking the streets and parks by horn, drum, and HONK!er on June 21st, 22nd, and 23rd.
On Friday, June 21st, HONK! Fest West returns to the corner of Vale and Airport Way in Georgetown from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Music continues until midnight inside The Mix (21+).
Saturday, June 22nd, HONK! Fest West is excited to partner with the Fremont Arts Council and the Solstice Parade! We are pleased to be a part of Solstice Parade’s 25th year in the streets of Fremont, before traveling on to Gas Works Park for an afternoon of musical revelry amidst and astride one of the best views of the city and Sound from 3 – 8 p.m.
Sunday, June 23rd, HONK! Presents a revue of all our HONK! Bands at the Seattle Art Museum from 12-3pm! This event is free and open to the public. Then follow us down to the Columbia City Theatre at 7pm for a wrap party and jam session with anybody left standing.
Mark your calendars now. We want to see you dancing with us in the streets.
Stay tuned to this website (and please do explore), our Facebook page and Twitter feed to catch the latest. Please consider supporting the festival as a volunteer and/or donor!
HONK! Fest West takes over the International Fountain (2010)
HONK! Fest West is a free, three-day, community-supported music festival devoted to marching bands, drum corps, samba lines, and anything acoustic and mobile that makes a ruckus. We revel in celebration of street band culture by taking mirth and music to the streets and parks of Seattle.
Always family-friendly, always free :: fanciful costumery and audience participation are *highly* encouraged!
Want to help us put on this amazing event? Check this out:
It’s not always like this as a HONK! volunteer or donor — but sometimes!
Potential volunteers should contact our Volunteer Coordinator via our volunteer page or send an email to volunteer@honkfestwest.com ~ we have great perks!
Community-oriented businesses, please contact us at support@honkfestwest.com ~ we are especially in need of in-kind food and beverage donations.
Sponsors and donors of all stripes, please visit our donations page.
We have partnered with Shunpike, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the arts, as our fiscal sponsor. This means your in-kind donation of goods to HONK! Fest West and Shunpike will be tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Please direct general questions and press inquiries about HONK! Fest West, please contact Tyson at info@honkfestwest.com. Or, Subscribe to our newsletter.
And don’t forget, this June 21st, 22nd and 23rd to come HONK! with us!!
HONK! Fest West 2011 Procession thru Seattle Center – will you be there in 2012?
LOVE HONK! Fest West! I went there once, and now I have to go back every year!
the best time I ever had in my life was playing Honk! Fest West
I AM SO BUMMED I MISSED HONKFest this year! Why did this happened? There was no advanced listing of HONKFest in the Seattle Times this year. No listing in the Summer Music Guide, no listing in the Summer Event Guide and no listing anywhere else that I could see. In years past the Times did have coverage and that is how I knew about it. Don’t know who is to blame for this years short fall, but sure hope that HONKFest gets in the Seattle Times next year!
Sweet!! I just read about this event in the Stranger today. My girlfriend LOVES marching bands (she marched for Jacksonville State back in 2000, badass trumpet player!). And I love street food! We’ll probably catch the show tonight in Georgetown. I hope the rain lets up. Cheers to all you musicians!! Thanks for a free show~
I like the way you think, Bridget! Any calendar help is most appreciated. Posters will be appearing in Ballard soon!
Time to start seriously getting the word out…I will get this event on a few calendars and start getting it on Facebook….through my tiny part of the world (Ballard). I am So looking forward to dance’n in the streets and anywhere else your bringing such great life. Hmmmmm, perhaps we can have carpools to events and honk horns along the way, pied piper style, : )
From the producers of acclaimed METALESQUE! and RECKLESS REVUE we present…
SHAKE YOUR BRASS! Get Horny for HONK!
A Brazen Burlesque Benefit for Seattle’s own HONK! Fest West
4/20 at Columbia City Theater
Door 9pm, Show starts at 9:30
$10 | 21+
Advance Tickets Available Now!
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/235966
HONK! Fest West is Seattle’s own Marching Band Festival and Community Street Fair that is all volunteer run and free to the public. This year HONK! Fest west will take place June 1st – 3rd, featuring marching bands from all over the country.
All proceeds from SHAKE YOUR BRASS! Get Horny for HONK! on 4/20 at Columbia City Theater will help fund the festival’s musicians who are traveling from near and far to turn our community’s sidewalks into dance floors. To support this noble cause, we are bringing you a taste of local artists, musicians, and the sparkliest supporters from the burlesque realm!
There will also be a Live Auction for you to bid on various swanky swag bags, live performances, and more!
Featuring Live Music by One Love
Burlesque by:
Madisun Avenue
Scandal From Bohemia
Pinky Shines
Bitsy Rini
Jesse Bell Jones
and Tamara the Trapeze Lady!
If you donate $50 to Honk! Fest West today, you’ll recieve two Guest Tickets to this event as well as many other prizes!
http://www.indiegogo.com/honkfestwest2012
If you would like to Volunteer for HONK! Fest West, fill out the form here: http://honkfestwest.com/volunteer/
Website says “COME GET HORNY FOR HONK! benefit on April 20th at the Columbia City Theater!” as being on Saturday night? Saturday night is April 21st? And is there any way to find out more about this, without having a facebook account?
We have one! Check out our contact, about or homepage!
That’s great, Bridget! We love your enthusiasm, and we’re looking forward to HONK!ing with you. Make sure to spread the word far and wide! We need lots of support this year – we’re bringing a record HONK! Fest West record 26 bands to the streets and parks of Seattle!
Nothing official, Benson. But we’re spreading the word far and wide, and this event is open & free to all. We hope to see HONK!ers from all walks of life joining us
We hope you make it too, Tim! It’s just not the same without your bari sax and smile!
Let us know if we can help at all.
M*A
Hi Nora!
We’ve been hard at work on some surprises for this year’s poster art and festival art. Details soon! Thanks for checking
M*A
Do you have artists doing the posters this year? If so, who are they? : )
Hope I make it, I’m having some passport problems;(
Laurie, once again we’ll be HONKing between Georgetown & GasWorks Park, so any of Seattle’s inner core neighborhoods are in proximity: SoDo, Georgetown, Beacon Hill, Central Area, Capitol Hill, U District, Wallingford, Fremont, Queen Anne, Belltown, downtown…
Lovely internet work! Please nail down the schedule soon!
Are you doing anything with the 99%ers or Occupy? they love a party : )
Do you have suggestions for best neighborhoods to stay in for proximity to where Honk will be happening June 1, 2, 3 in Seattle?
Thanks for posting 2012 dates so early….I missed 201 so will get this on my calendar NOW…..just 8 months early….This is my favorite event in Seattle, I feel so happy listening to the music and seeing the performer that I get butterflies in my stomach : )
make up a mailing list so people don’t miss it next year and so we can send your reminder email to all our friends!
What happened to the years when Honk Fest went late into the night in the streets of Georgetown? When it felt more like Carnival or New Orleans? This year it felt so squashed, squelched and subdued…
Best wishes for what I know will be an excellent event!
So glad this keeps happening. See you lovelies real soon!
xoxoxokog
Anyone know exact location?
Yes — Please please please get Mucca Pazza to Seattle!!!!!
pretty please?
next year you should invite mucca pazza (http://mucca-pazza.org/)