A Night of Mischief and Music

HONK! Fest West invites you to join us for a Benefit Extraordinaire! Delight to music, twitterpate to burlesque, and support the 4th Annual HONK! Fest West!

Featuring:

• Titanium Sporkestra!


• Mouce Manouche!


• Chaotic Hearts!


• Movitas Moving Orchestra!


• Purty Mouth!


• Miss Mamie Lavona The Exotic Mulatta & Her White Boy Band!

With Burlesque By:

• Boom Boom L'Roux!


• Madisun Avenue!


• Trojan Originale!


• and their announcer Ben Jammin' Esq.!

Saturday, April 16 at 8:00pm

Pre-sale tickets can be purchased today by donating $25 to our Kickstarter page.

All proceeds benefit HONK! Fest West and help us bring bands from all around the US straight to the streets of Seattle!

Little Red Studio
400 Dexter Avenue North
Seattle, WA

The Little Red Studio is an All Ages Space. Please be aware, however, that burlesque is a part of the evening's line-up, and therefore may not be appropriate for all families. If you have any questions, please contact Tyson at info@honfestwest.com.

HONK! Fest West returns to Seattle for its fourth year! A traveling festival, HONK! this year is excited to visit Georgetown on Friday, May 13; Gasworks on Saturday, May 14; and Seattle Center on Sunday, May 15th.

We are pleased to announce that we will once again be joined by hundreds of musicians from across the country and Canada. Take a look at this line-up!

• Artesian Rumble Arkestra (Olympia)
  
• BeatCrunchers (Eugene)
  
• Bolting Brassicas Marching Band (Lasqueti Island, B.C.)
  
• Bucharest Drinking Team (Seattle)
  
• The Carnival Band (Vancouver, B.C.)
  
• Chaotic Hearts (Seattle)
  
• Environmental Encroachment (Chicago)
  
• Firebrass Village Blasting Club (Phoenix, AZ)
  
• Garfield High School Bulldog Drumline (Seattle)
  
• Garfield High School Bulldog Marching Band (Seattle)
  
• HBC Brass Band (Stanford, CA)
  
• Movitas (Seattle)
  
• Orkestar Zirkonium (Seattle)
  
• Samba Ja (Eugene)
  
• Seattle Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline (Seattle)
  
• Seattle Sounders FC Soundwave (Seattle)
  
• Soulaphone Brass Band (Missoula, MT)
  
• Titanium Sporkestra (Seattle)
  
• Tubaluba (Seattle)
  
• Vamola (Seattle)
  

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 are also partial to street performers, dancers, and professional appreciators.

If you'd like to help support HONK!, please consider donating to our Kickstarter or contacting our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@honkfestwest.com.

If you have any questions about HONK! Fest West, please contact Tyson at info@honkfestwest.com.

Support HONK! Fest West!

Some of you may know that I help organize HONK! Fest West. It's a three-day, non-profit, community-supported music festival that focuses on marching bands, drum corps, samba lines, 2nd line New Orleans Brass, and anything acoustic and mobile that can make a ruckus (we also love jugglers, magicians, dancers, and street performers of all stripes).

We are a volunteer-run festival. We draw no salary. We do it out of love for the music, the moment when the audience melts into the performers, and--of course--dancing in the streets.

This year will be the fourth time we've held HONK! in Seattle, and the first time we've run a month-long fundraising campaign through Kickstarter.

We're looking to raise $5,000 over the next 30 days. This money helps cover our permits, venue rentals, food for the musicians and volunteers, travel costs, and all the other line-item details that come with putting on a music festival. If you can, please consider supporting us. Every dollar helps. (And I wouldn't say no to you forwarding this on to others you might think interested.) Would you like to see our video? Yes? Well, good, cause I was gonna put it here anyway.



As you might imagine, putting on a festival requires help of all sorts. If you can dontate a service--food, printing, venue, transportation, and so on--or your time or work for an organization that would like to table at our event, please get in touch with me at info @ honkfestwest . com.

I am extremely excited to put this event on again in Seattle, see old friends and meet new, and--of course--dance in the streets. Hot damn do I love dancing in the streets. I hope you can come out and join me.

So, do you?

HONK! Fest West is approaching! May is not that far away. And we're hosting two fundraisers before it! Hot damn! Want to be part of this crazy adventure? Get in touch!

Volunteer for Honk!

Honk! Fest West is coming! I've been involved since September and finally--finally!--we're just one week off.

Honk is bringing in some fantastic street bands, tons of horns and drums, from around the Pacific Northwest, across the nation, and out of Canada. Bands like: Orkestar Zirconioum, Titanium Sporkestra, Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band, Samba Ja, Environmental Encroachment, March Fourth Marching Band, and Emperor Norton Stationary Marching. They'll take over Georgetown, Ballard, and Gasworks park. From venues and into the streets and vice versa.

It's gonna be badass and we want everyone to know.

But knowing is only half the battle. We need your help!

Multiple volunteer positions are available, from working the door to providing security to glad-handing bands. As a thank you for your time, you'll be welcome to enjoy the rest of the night's festivities on us.

Come out to Honk! and shake your shit with us!