Thursday, October 15, 2009

BONK!

BONK FEST!!!

THURSDAYSantos Party House

96 Lafayette Street, Manhattan
7pm – 11pm
$5 - $10 Sliding Scale
Full of HONK! fever, kick-off the Post-HONK! brass explosion in NYC with a night of brasstastics that will make you hit the dance floor hard!
7:10 Yellow Hat Band
8:00 Environmental Encroachment
8:40 Pink Puffers
9:20 Rude Mechanical Orchestra
10:10 Veveritse
Hosted by Tanya Z. Solomon, with special guests.

FRIDAYThe Brooklyn Brassacre

Greenpoint, Brooklyn
8pm – 2am
A raucous, ecstatic jaunt between two Greenpoint Avenue venues, with performances by seven brass bands…and a silent parade led by the HMB dancers and friends.
Lulu’s Bar, 113 Franklin Avenue, corner of Greenpoint Avenue
8:15 Stumblebum Brass Band
9:00 Yellow Hat Band
9:45 Environmental Encroachment
Hosted by Sarah Blust and Sully Ross of Rude Mechanical Orchestra.
Coco66, 66 Greenpoint Avenue
10:30 Raya Brass Band
11:30 Pink Puffers
12:30 Hungry March Band
1:30 Circus Amok Band
Hosted by Samantha La Cymbalina of Hungry March Band.

SATURDAYRude Mechanical Orchestra plays for the Our Waterfront Coalition

The courtyard between 275 and 265 Cherry Street in Manhattan
Noon to 2pm



Brass & Bowl


Asbury Lanes
209 4th Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey
10pm – 1am
$10 Admission
Find out what happens when three renegade street bands hit the happening Victorian seaside town that Bruce Springsteen made famous! Playing at the inimitable bowling alley/punk club and gallery, Asbury Lanes.
Featuring Hungry March Band, Pink Puffers, Yellow Hat Band.





SUNDAYBrass Band Potluck Picnic
McCarren Park 
near the corner of Lorimer and Driggs
4pm-8pm