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Honk! Fest West at Gas Works Saturday

HONK! Fest West returns to Seattle for its fourth year this weekend.  The traveling festival will visit  Georgetown on Friday; Gas Works Park on Saturday, May 14; and Seattle Center on Sunday.

What is Honk! Fest West?  Well, it’s not a gaggle of geese or a google of gooses.  Nor is it a festival designed to celebrate my Roman nose.  It’s about horns & percussion & dancing.  To quote the Honk! Fest organizers themselves:

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 artistic appreciators.

This year, bands large and small (anywhere from 8 – 60 members) will come from all over the United States and Canada, ready with old ditties, new tunes, fighting songs, protest marches, funeral dirges, swinging gospel, Balkan folk, tin pan jazz, and everything in between.

The 2011 lineup includes:

And more, way way more.  Check out the full lineup here.  That’s Saturday at Gas Works Park noon to six.

Honk! Fest West is a free community event, though donations are accepted.  Honk! Fest West is also a Vera Project, and is sponsored by a whole lot of folks, including Wallingford’s own Bottleworks and Seattle Tilth.

Also, the All Star HONK! Review takes place at Hale’s Palladium in Fremont Saturday night.  Ticket information is available here.

 

 

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Chris Witwer

Chris S. Witwer likes to call herself Wallyhood’s “Lower Wallingford Correspondent.” Chris is a former Texan (is there any such thing?) who came to Seattle in 2005 for three reasons: weather, scenery, and coffee culture. It has taken her four years to begin to understand Seattle humor, but she’s getting there. Chris is a bureaucrat by day, and caffeine-fueled blogger when she’s not reading novels or pretending to write one. She lives with her partner, Laura, and two cats — Dolce and Molly, and uses the internet to make fun of stuff on her personal blog, http://felsputzer.wordpress.com.