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Honkfest, Somerville, MA, Oct 11, 2009

honkfest graphic, somerville, ma, Oct 9-11, 2009Don’t miss a beat. Grab your dancing shoes, and join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 9-11!
Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands 2009
www.honkfest.org
Friday Neighborhood Honks!

October 9, 3pm
We’re taking to your street to start Honk this year! Join us Friday afternoon in Roxbury , Jamaica Plain, East Somerville, East Boston, and at Harvard Yard, and Boston Common. Details posted here – www.honkfest.org/schedule
(and thanks to the MBTA, watch for Honk! posters this week on the T, and listen for the bands starting around 2pm on Friday as they go underground on the red and orange lines!)

7 stages for 8 hours on Saturday
October 10
All in Davis Square! Opening Ceremony at 12noon in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square; then music all day beginning at 1pm at 7 Hills, Statue Park, Davis Square Plaza, Chester Street, VFW Dilboy Hall, Kenney Park, and 406 Highland Street. www.honkfest.org/schedule

Sunday down Mass Ave.
October 11
Anywhere you look from noon ‘till 2pm you’ll see (and hear!) Honkers in parade! Don’t forget to join us afterwards in Harvard Square as bands perform on the streets of Oktoberfest from 2-5pm.
Sunday night blow-out!
More tubas than you’ve ever seen in one place! Plus trumpets, sousaphones, saxophones, and radical cheerleaders!
The beautiful Somerville Theater is hosting the Sunday night blow-out all-band show. Four hours, four hundred musicians, and twenty-four tubas. Don’t miss it! Get your tix now. We guarantee these bands won’t stay on the stage -- there won’t be a bad seat in the house!
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
(right next to the T station)
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Get your tickets at the box office in person, by phone at 617-625-4088, or online.
www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php

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