HONK NYC

05/15/2026

🎷 We're bringing the noise to Jersey City!

Join House of Honk for Craftivation at the Jersey City Free Public Library — build your own instrument from 12:30–3pm, then PARADE the streets with the Honk Family Band at the Jersey City Jazz Festival!

✴️May 30th, 1pm

Come make music with us! 🥁

05/08/2026

DON’T MISS IT – this Sunday, May 10 at Market Hotel, HONK hero Melvin Gibbs joins forces with visionary pianist Vijay Iyer and emcee Kokayi Issa for the debut performance of the ISSA IYER GIBBS COALITION – a collision of hip hop, jazz, go-go, rock and electronic music where live improv meets machine precision meets sound system power. Fatboi Sharif opens the night.

🗓 Sunday, May 10
📍 Market Hotel, Brooklyn
Doors 7pm | Show 8pm

Part of Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over the World — don't sleep on this one.


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04/30/2026

We invite you to join our annual community ritual:

✨The PLUMES PARADE✨
Sunday, May 3rd

We step off at 6 PM from Berry St & South 6th St in Williamsburg and wind our way to Banker's Anchor Public Plaza by 7 PM, serenaded the whole way by the amazing HONK Family Band

Dress lovely. Dress creatively. Come ready to celebrate.

It's gonna be a blast 🎉

04/26/2026

RADIANT REBIRTH is TODAY!!!! 2pm - 7pm at Baker Falls in Manhattan - 192 Allen Street.
We summon Spring's delight with music, movement, making.
Craft your Rebirth Day Crown for our parade, let by and his RIOT CITY BRASS at 5pm.
Moment NYC brings you Genji's Birthday Quodlibot at 3pm.
Stefan Zeniuk shares his new piece, Baker Rising, at 6pm.
The missing ingriedient in all of this? YOU.

04/24/2026

Performing at 2PM: Frank London's Loisaida Fife & Drum Corps!

This powerhouse ensemble reimagines American Revolutionary and Civil War music through a modern lens — think funk grooves, improvisation, and avant-garde fire. History, but make it NOW.

📍 5th Ave between 41st & 45th St, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
🌿 Car-Free Earth Day

04/24/2026

Don't miss the Honk Family Band at CAR FREE EARTH DAY!

✴️Saturday, April 25th, 3PM
☀️Sunset Park - 5th Ave, Brooklyn, between 41st and 45th St

04/22/2026

CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP! 🎶✨

Your whole weekend just got a serious upgrade. On Saturday, we're taking over Sunset Park for Car Free Earth Day (check our profile for deets!), and on Sunday we're bringing the party to the LES — find us at for an afternoon packed with live music, crafts, whimsy, and pure joy.

No cover, Family Friendly, ZERO excuses! 🥁🎺

📍 Baker Falls – 192 Allen St, Manhattan
🕑 2–7PM

Come as you are. Bring everyone you love. 💛

04/20/2026

On Saturday, APRIL 25TH, 10am-4pm HONK! NYC will be in Sunset Park!

Join us for a day full of crafts, music and happiness!

✳️10am - 4pm: HONK! Craftivation Station - Craft with HONK NYC!'s Master Makers - instruments, props, hats, create your heart out! 

✳️2pm: Frank London's Loisaida Fife & Drum Corps - reimagines American Revolutionary and Civil War music through a modern, improvised lens, featuring a mix of funk and avant-garde styles. 


✳️3pm: HONK Family Band - Born on the Open Streets of NYC, HONK! Family Band brings New Orleans soul, global grooves, and unstoppable energy to parties, parades, and community celebrations across the city


📍WHERE? Brooklyn, 5th Avenue, between 41st and 45th Streets

See you there!

03/19/2026

Support our Mama Mermaid Parade!!!!

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade needs your help! Coney Island USA, the n… Buddy Engelhart needs your support for Save the Coney Island Mermaid Parade!

03/06/2026

🎭This Saturday. Brooklyn goes full New Orleans

We're throwing a Mardi Gras night with 3 live brass bands, authentic NOLA food flown in, Second Line and Brazilian dance, and a King Cake with a very important baby inside.

The lineup:
🎺 9:30PM — Dance Workshop w/ Angelita Sorlando
🎺 10PM — The Funking Brass Souls
🎺 11PM — HONK Family Band
🎺 12AM — L Train Brass Band

Plus: chicken & andouille gumbo, Café du Monde coffee, and enough beads to last you through spring.

📍 Gemini & Scorpio Loft · 267 Douglass St, 3rd Fl · Gowanus, BK
📅 Saturday, March 7 · 9PM–1AM

⚡ Flash sale is live. Use code TAKE20 for 20% off.

Tickets at the link in our bio. Don't wait.