It’s true. Dozens of bands, hundreds of musicians will be playing for free all over the Central Area for HONK! Fest West on Saturday, April 10. High energy HONK! bands from throughout the US and Canada will be joining Seattle groups such as the Seattle Fandango Project, the UW Steel Drum Band, The Seahawks Blue Thunder and the Sounders Sound Wave band. (See http://honkfestwest.com for details of this and other HONK! events 4/9-11. Central Area schedule for 4/10 is below.)

We are honored to have Bakra Batá kick things off at 9:45 AM at CAMP Firehouse for the Squire Park Community Council membership meeting. Elsewhere we will help launch Central Area Little League at Garfield Community Center, we’ll entertain the staff and clients at St Mary’s Food Bank, warm up Casa Latina for the Immigrants’ Rights rally, play on the roof of the old Wonder Bread factory (now the Legacy at Pratt Park Appartments), parade through Yesler Terrace Community Center and party with the residents at LIHI’s Norman Mitchell Manor.

From 1-4PM everyone is invited to join us at 13th & Yesler where all the bands will strut there stuff on 4 different stages. You can also get a sneak preview of the reopening of historic Washington Hall at 153 14th Avenue http://www.historicseattle.org/projects/wa_hall.aspx.

Why are all these musicians coming to the Central Area for HONK? Because they love to play and they want you to participate. For one view of the HONK philosophy (and some great video!) see http://honkfest.org/about/ 

Complete Central Area Schedule HONK! Fest West, April 10, 2010

Venue Time	St Mary’s	Pratt Park Apts	Casa Latina	Garfield Community Center	Central Area Motivation Project	Yesler Terrace Community Center	LIHI Norman Mitchell Manor
10AM	Hubbub Club	Artesian Rumble	Banda Gozona	Bolting Brassicas	9:45-10:10 AM Bakra Batá	Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band
10:45AM	Hungry March Band	Samba Ja	Seattle Fandango Project	Seahawks Blue Thunder		Extraordinary Rendition Band	Yellow Hat Band
11:30AM	Artesian Rumble Arkestra	Hubbub Club	Carnival Band		Brass Messengers	Bolting Brassicas	Orkestar Slivovica
12:15PM	Yesterday’s Chonies	Sounders Sound Wave Band	To Immigration Rally at Occidental Square			Environmental Encroachment	Minor Mishap

 

Venue       Time	Washington Hall Ball Room/2nd floor	Yesler Stage (13th Avenue Stage at E Yesler Way)	Fir Street Stage (E Fir at 14th Avenue)	Pavilion (SW corner 14th & Yesler)	Bailey Gatzert (1301 E Yesler Way, north entrance)
1PM		Orkestar Zirkonium	Titanium Sporkestra	Yellow Hat Band	Seattle Fandango Project
1:30PM	How to Host a HONK! Fest Workshop	Emperor Norton Stationary Marching Band	Brass Messengers	Minor Mishap	UW Steel Drum Band
2PM	AFMB/Pick-Up Band Workshop	Extraordinary Rendition Band	Bolting Brassicas	Bakra Batá
2:30PM	AFMB/Pick-Up Band Workshop	Orkestar Slivovica	Carnival Band	Environmental Encroachment	The African ConeXion Project
3PM	Composition Workshop	Minor Mishap	Samba Ja	Banda Gozona
3:30PM	Composition Workshop	Artesian Rumble Arkestra	Yesterday’s Chonies