Mark your calendars: next weekend, June 1 – 3, is Honk Fest West, the annual conclave of community street bands from across the nation, and Saturday, June 2nd will find them at Wallingford’s own Gas Works Park:
Renegade Marching Bands & Community Street Bands invade Seattle from Coast to Coast
A record twenty-three of the most exciting and original renegade marching bands and community street bands from across North America are returning to Seattle to perform absolutely free in streets, parks, and neighborhoods across the city for the fifth annual HONK! Fest West festival, from June 1st through June 3rd, 2012.
- June 1st, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in Georgetown (12th Ave S. and S. Vale St.)
- June 2nd, 2012 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Gas Works Park (2101 N. Northlake Way, Fremont)
- June 3rd, 2012 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the EMP Sky Church (Seattle Center)
If you, we absolutely guarantee you will see: accordions, tubas, dented trumpets, feather boas, leather, home-made Mad Max-esque costumes, striped stockings, snare drums, duct tape, snare drums with duct tape, and a rarin’ good time.
(Stilt Walker photo by Joshua Weiner)
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Next weekend is Memorial Day and Folklife. Honk Fest us the weekend after.
When does “next weekend” become “this weekend”?
Wallyhood, the difference is a west coast/east coast language difference. always ask what the person means!
The article says Gas Works Park is in Fremont?? Really??
June 2nd, 2012 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Gas Works Park (2101 N. Northlake Way, Fremont)