The 16th Annual HONK NYC! Festival returns Oct. 11-19 to celebrate the city's resilience from COVID-19 with music, dance and art that highlight New York City culture.
HONK NYC! produces a week-long annual festival each October, partners with local business improvement districts and cultural institutions on immersive concerts, events, and activations that reclaim, reuse, and redefine public space, celebrating the power and vitality of the street performance.
This year, HONK eagerly presents the New York City premiere of Banda Rim Ram Bum, from Santiago, Chile, fusing indigenous Andean sounds of Tinku and Diablada with cumbia, Afro-Latin rhythms, carnaval, and salsa in a celebration of Latine culture. Another band making their New York City premiere is the Young Fellaz Brass Band, from New Orleans, Louisiana, with their authentic New Orleans Second Line experience.
8 p.m. – HONK NYC! 9th Annual Brasstastic Blowout at Rubulad featuring Funkrust Brass Band, a 20- piece post-apocalyptic disco-punk brass band playing all original music and Dancing Divas Brass Band, a new queer-led ensemble commissioned by HONK NYC!10 p.m. – HONK NYC! returns to Barbés with the Brass Queens, an all-women 8-piece brass band2 p.m. – 4 p.m. – Parade performances at the 34th Ave Open Streets with Banda Rim Bam Bum and Young Fellaz Brass Band7 p.m.