Honk Fest West is presenting their 3rd annual festival of acoustic, mobile street bands from across North America in the
West Seattle Junction next Sunday, April 11 from 12 to 6PM. Honk Fest will close California Avenue from Alaska to Genesee Street.

The event is free to the public and will take place on 5 stages featuring 26 different bands around the nation including:

Anti-Fascist Marching Band
Artesian Rumble Arkestra
BeatCrunchers
Bolting Brassicas Marching Band
Brass Messengers
The Carnival Band
Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band
Environmental Encroachment
Extraordinary Rendition Band
Garfield High School Bulldog Drumline
The HBC Brass Band
Hubbub Club
Hungry March Band
Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB)
Minor Mishap Marching Band
Orkestar Slivovica
Orkestar Zirkonium
Samba Ja
Seattle Sounders FC Soundwave Band
Seattle Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline
Titanium Sporkestra
Vamola
Yellow Hat Band
Yesterday's Chonies

Here's the Honk Fest West Performance Schedule

From the organization's Facebook page:

What is HONK! Fest West?
HONK! Fest West is a street fair dedicated to bringing marching bands, samba
lines, horn players, drum corps, and every manner of rhythmic and melodic
noisemaker we could find right to the Seattle streets.

Like Sommerville’s HONK! East, from which we take our inspiration, HONK!
Fest West is pledged to support and supply stages for all manner of street
oriented bands, groups, associations, communities, and performers.

HONK! events are a celebration of the emergence of a new type of street
band, one that is typically acoustic and mobile, often politically aware and
articulate, and always high spirited. There is a rich community ethic amongst
many honkers, who use their music to erode the barriers between
professional and novice, and between audience and performers.

Although uniforms are sometimes used as a performance tool, individuality is key, and
group members often hail from all range of classes, ethnicities, ages, and
backgrounds.

Perhaps most importantly, the honkers' ultimate goal is to have
fun, to relish the art of making fun as a form of individual and collective
transcendence, and to encourage others to see and do the same.

This year, over 20 bands large and small (anywhere from 8 – 60 members) will
come from all over the United States and Canada, ready with old ditties, new
tunes, fighting songs, protest marches, funeral dirges, swinging gospel, Balkan
folk, tin pan jazz, and everything in between.
Our festival is part musical gathering, part community activism.

Many of us play an instrument. Some don’t. But all of us have found that live, energetic,
mobile, acoustic music—no matter which side of the mouthpiece you are on—
brings audience and band together in something like family. A raucous, playful
family.