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HONK! Festival

Somerville, MA · Music

When

October 9–11, 2026

Where

Davis Square · Somerville · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

HONK! brings activist street bands from around the world to Somerville and Cambridge each October, with free concerts in Davis Square and a closing parade to Harvard Square. The festival started in 2006 and now draws dozens of brass, second line, and percussion bands. All performances are free and outdoors.

The history within reach

• HONK! Festivalsame spot

  HONK! brings activist street bands from around the world to Somerville and Cambridge each October, with free concerts in Davis Square and a closing parade to Harvard Square.

• The Somerville Theatre opens for vaudeville in Davis Squaresame spot

  The 1,100 seat house opened in May 1914 as a vaudeville stage and movie theatre, designed by the firm of Funk and Wilcox.

• Independent Film Festival Boston0.1 mi

  An independent film festival founded in 2003 that screens roughly 90 narrative features, documentaries and shorts across historic Boston-area theaters including the Somerville Theatre, Brattle Theatre and Coolidge Corner Theatre.

• The Powder Alarm empties the magazine above Powder House Square0.4 mi

  British soldiers carried 250 half barrels of colonial gunpowder out of the stone magazine above this rotary on 1 September 1774.

• Jumbo the elephant burns at Tufts0.8 mi

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