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HONK NYC Welcome to our House. House of HONK! An artist run organization connecting street bands & spectacle artists with audiences across NYC.

HONK NYC brings the tradition of global street band music and spectacle to audiences everywhere — in parks, at clubs, in schools, and out in the streets.
“Honk NYC!,” brings together ensembles from all over the world in a bid to jump-start enthusiasm for brass in the city. - York Times

10/17/2026

COMMUNITY POTLUCK IS TONIGHT! ❤️

Sara Valentine, director of House of HONK, has an invitation for you! Come share a meal, swap stories, get a few hugs, and sing along with the HONK community. Everyone’s welcome. Bring a dish to share! 🥘💛

🌙 TONIGHT | COMMUNITY POTLUCK
📍 Ki Smith Gallery, 170 Forsyth St., Lower East Side, NYC
🕖 6:30 PM | 🎟️ FREE!

An evening of food, stories, hugs, and song, hosted by HONK Family Band! It starts with an opening ceremony with Batalá, then a potluck dinner, music by Funkrust Brass Band, a likely jam 🎶, and a special screening of a HONK NYC! 2020 documentary by longtime HONK! collaborator and co-producer Victoria Lingchong. You may even see yourself onscreen! 🎬

🎶 Hosted by
🎶 Batalá New York
🎶 Funkrust Brass Band
📽️ This Is Our New York: The Five Boroughs of HONK

📩 RSVP on Partiful (link in bio!) to let us know you’re coming!

Come hungry. Come sing. Come HONK! 🎺

10/17/2026

🗽 SATURDAY AT HONK NYC: TWO EVENTS, ONE BIG DAY! 🎺

Spend the afternoon with us in the park, then join us tonight for food, stories, and song. Both events are FREE!

☀️ DAY | HONK! FOR DEMOCRACY
@ No Kings VoteFest NYC
📍 Washington Square Park, NYC
🕑 2-5 PM
An afternoon of music, community, and civic engagement!
🎶 4pm - HONK Family Band

🌙 NIGHT | COMMUNITY POTLUCK ❤️🍲
📍 Ki Smith Gallery, 170 Forsyth St., Lower East Side, NYC
🕖 6:30 PM
An evening of food, stories, hugs, and song, hosted by HONK Family Band! It starts with an opening ceremony with Batalá, then a potluck dinner, music by Funkrust Brass Band, a likely jam 🎶, and a special screening of a HONK NYC! 2020 documentary by longtime HONK! collaborator and co-producer Victoria Lingchong. You may even see yourself onscreen! 🎬

🎶 Batalá New York
🎶 Funkrust Brass Band
📽️ This Is Our New York: The Five Boroughs of HONK

🥘 Bring a dish to share and come celebrate the HONK! community.
📩 RSVP on Partiful (link in bio!) to let us know you’re coming!

Come sing. Come share. Come HONK! 🎺

MEET YOUR HONK NYC HOSTS! 🎺Our 20th anniversary festival is packed with music, and these three will be keeping the party...
10/16/2026

MEET YOUR HONK NYC HOSTS! 🎺

Our 20th anniversary festival is packed with music, and these three will be keeping the party going. Say hi to the folks guiding you through the weekend!

👻 VIVA LAMORE
FRIDAY, OCT. 16 | HONK! From Beats to Bop featuring Ghost Band
📍 McHale’s Bar & Grill
A writer and performance artist who creates films and experiential events. A Sundance finalist screenwriter and NYC native, she spent 4 years in Berlin, where her productions included the 5-star (Edinburgh Fringe) Full Moon Cabaret.

☀️ WILDER SELZER
SUNDAY, OCT. 18 (DAY) | HONK! The Open Streets
📍 Underhill Plaza
A singer and performer based in NY who gets flooded with fuzzies when he thinks about the community ties HONK builds.

🌙 KAY TURNER
SUNDAY, OCT. 18 (NIGHT) | HONK! The LOOVE
📍 LOOVE Annex
A multi-disciplinary artist and folklorist working in music, writing, and performance art. She leads Kay Turn Her and the Pages, a Brooklyn-based q***r trio of rockers with decades of musical experience.

Come say hi, come dance, come HONK! 🎉

10/16/2026

👻 HONK! FROM BEATS TO BOP: GHOST BAND IS TONIGHT! 🎺

Meet us at McHale’s for live music, then march and pay homage to the great ghost venues and old haunts of yesteryear! Bring an instrument and make some noise with us! 🥁🎷

FRIDAY, OCT. 16
📍 McHale’s, Midtown Manhattan
🕕 Happy Hour: 6-8 PM
🎶 Live Music: 7:30 PM | Ghost Band: 8 PM
🎟️ FREE!
📌 251 West 51st St., Midtown, New York, NY

Featuring:
7:30pm: Afoxé Alkebulan Acá
8:15pm: GHOST BAND
8:30pm: Inconvenient Brass Band
9:45pm: Hungry March Band
🎺 AND YOU!

Come play. Come march. Come HONK! 🎉

10/15/2026

"🎺 HONK NYC OPENING NIGHT IS TODAY! 🎺

Our 20th anniversary festival kicks off tonight at Fifth Hammer Brewing, and we want YOU there! Come for the incredible bands, stay for a NOLA-inspired HONK Family Jam. Bring your instrument! 🎷🥁

🍺 Fifth Hammer made a special b**r just for us: HONKFEST ZWICK, a 5% ABV l***r, 100% brasstastic. Tonight only, and there's just ONE keg. Get there early, because once it's gone, it's gone forever!

THURSDAY, OCT. 15
📍 Fifth Hammer Brewing, LIC
🕡 6:30–9:30 PM
🎟️ FREE! Kid friendly 👶 and pet friendly 🐶
📌 10-28 46th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101

Featuring:
🎶 No Small Money Brass Band
🎶 Bhangra Liberation Orchestra
🎶 HONK Family Jam led by Indofunk Satish

Come play. Come dance. Come HONK! 🎉

"

10/14/2026

It starts TOMORROW! 🎺

Our director Sara Valentine is here with a message for you 💛
The 20th edition of HONK NYC kicks off Thursday! Come play, dance, and make some joyful noise with us!

📅 Oct 15–18
📍 Across NYC!
👉 Full schedule in our feed and at honknyc.com (link in our bio!)

Free music, movement and making for everyone. See you in the streets! 🥁🎶

🎥:
🖼️ Background art:

🍺 ONE KEG. ONE NIGHT. NEVER AGAIN. 🍺Get there early! Fifth Hammer Brewing made a special b**r just for the festival: HON...
10/13/2026

🍺 ONE KEG. ONE NIGHT. NEVER AGAIN. 🍺

Get there early! Fifth Hammer Brewing made a special b**r just for the festival: HONKFEST ZWICK 🎺 5% ABV l***r, 100% brasstastic. It’s on tap Oct 15th ONLY, and once the keg is gone, it’s gone forever!

Come taste it at our opening night party 👇

🎺 MEET HONK NYC! OPENING NIGHT BANDS! 🎺

THURSDAY, OCT. 15
Our 20th Anniversary HONK NYC! Blowout kicks off with two bands making their HONK! debut!
🔥 No Small Money Brass Band has been playing the music of Africa and the Caribbean since 2008.

🔥 Bhangra Liberation Orchestra brings rebellious, joyful sounds rooted in bhangra, qawwali, Afrobeat, and jazz.

🥁 THEN WE CALL EVERYBODY IN FOR A BIG BRASS JAM! Led by Indofunk Satish of HONK Family Band, this open, NOLA-style jam is your chance to jump in, play along, and make some joyful noise!

BYO INSTRUMENT. | $FREE.
COME PLAY. COME DANCE. COME HONK! 🎉

📍 Fifth Hammer Brewing
10-28 46th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101
🗓 THURSDAY, OCT. 15 | 6:30–9:30 PM

🎉 The Honk NYC T-shirts are HERE! 👕✨Grab yours online (link below!) or at the info table at the festival. Every penny go...
10/13/2026

🎉 The Honk NYC T-shirts are HERE! 👕✨

Grab yours online (link below!) or at the info table at the festival. Every penny goes to House of HONK, your favorite non-profit bringing free music, movement and making to NYC 💛🎺

And guess what? The 20th edition of Honk NYC kicks off on Thursday, so we're just 2 DAYS AWAY!!!

See you in the streets! 🙌

https://www.bonfire.com/house-of-honk-nyc/

Meet our performers for our Sunday events - OCT. 18!Brass Brunch at Branded📍Branded Saloon603 Vanderbilt Ave., Prospect ...
10/12/2026

Meet our performers for our Sunday events - OCT. 18!

Brass Brunch at Branded
📍Branded Saloon
603 Vanderbilt Ave., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
🕑 Noon to 2 p.m. | 🎟️ $Two-Item Minimum
Featuring:
Swunky Z RETURNS to HONK NYC! by popular demand! This much-lauded Brooklyn-based outfit funks and swings like nobody's biz… 🎶

& right around the corner…

HONK! The Open Streets at Underhill Plaza!
📍 Underhill Plaza @ Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
🕑 Noon to 5 p.m. | 🎟️ $FREE!
Featuring:
NOON: HONK n’ Groove, a kids' dance class with Natalia! 💃🏻
12:30 PM: Bloco HONK, a kids' drumming class with Angela! 🥁
1 PM: Peniel Guerrier Dance with live drumming 💃🏻
2 PM: Pressure Point Brass Band 🎶
2:30 PM: HONK Family Band 🎶
3:30 PM: Tarab Ensemble, ft. Zafer Tawil 🎶
4 PM: Mambembé 🎶

With your emcee Wilder Selzer!

Plus:
🎪 Our Craftivation Station!
🖨️ Live screenprinting with Darkin Brown
🎨Facepainting with Laura Amaya
🤹‍♀️Juggling with Maelie
🧚A Fairy Visit from Charlotte of Midnight Radio Show

& to end our festival...

HONK! At The Love!
📍 Loove Annex, 238 N. 12th St., Brooklyn
🕑 7 p.m.
Featuring:

•⁠ ⁠Newman Taylor Baker
•⁠ ⁠⁠Criss-Cross Big Band
•⁠ ⁠⁠ Loove Ritual Brass Ensemble 🎶

LINK IN OUR BIO TO RSVP!🥖🎺 JOIN US FOR A HONK! COMMUNITY POTLUCK!📅 SATURDAY, OCT. 17 | 6:30 PM📍 Ki Smith Gallery170 Fors...
10/09/2026

LINK IN OUR BIO TO RSVP!

🥖🎺 JOIN US FOR A HONK! COMMUNITY POTLUCK!

📅 SATURDAY, OCT. 17 | 6:30 PM
📍 Ki Smith Gallery
170 Forsyth St., Lower East Side, NYC
🕖 6:30 PM | 🎟️ FREE!
📩 RSVP on Partiful to let us know you're coming! Link in our bio!

Bring a dish to share! 🍲 Gather with the HONK! family for bread-breaking, stories, hugs, and song. ❤️

The night will include an opening ceremony with Batala, a potluck dinner, music by Funkrust Brass Band, a likely jam 🎶, and a special screening of a HONK NYC! 2020 documentary by longtime HONK! collaborator and co-producer Victoria Lingchong. 👀 If you've been to HONK NYC!, you may well see yourself onscreen!

🥁 Batalá New York

🎺 FUNKRUST BRASS BAND

📽️ This Is Our New York: The Five Boroughs of HONK by Victoria Linchong
At the party, enjoy a screening of this 2020 documentary by longtime HONK collaborator and co-producer Victoria Linchong. Linchong is a Taiwanese-American writer, actor, and director whose work often delves into untold history, immigrant stories, alternative communities, and the female gaze. She is a Sundance finalist screenwriter who produced the world premiere of Tennessee Williams last short plays. Returning to NYC after four years in Berlin, where she produced the critically acclaimed Full Moon Cabaret and performed burlesque as Viva Lamore, she is currently working on Viva Lamore's Forgotten History, a web series highlighting women and people of color who have been sidelined from mainstream Western history.

❤️🥖 Bring a dish, bring a friend, and celebrate the HONK! community with food, music, and film! RSVP on Partiful! Link in our bio!



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