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HONK! Bradford is a three-day street music festival from the 26th to the 28th of September. It will feature community bands from around the UK and beyond. https://honkbradford.com/
TONIGHT!!! Streetbands from across the world playing across the district 🎺🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford #StreetMusic #Streetband
There are some incredible free workshops happening at HONK! Bradford - from learning a new samba to making a puppet, discovering how music and protest are linked to finding out how to create an activist streetband.
Sign up here: forms.gle/ZGKeLdKczefF...
The first UK HONK! will be in Bradford on 26/27 Sept. 300+ musicians, 17 fantastic streetbands, plus a few special guests - don't miss it! 🎺🥁🎷🪇
To find out who's playing where, have a look on the website: honkbradford.com/programme/
#HONKBradford #PeaceArtistes #StreetMusic #Streetband
Joining the Big HONK! will be our puppet friends from Cecil Green Arts who bring light, joy and meaning to so many community events. They'll join the audience in Centenary Square and dance to the sounds of over 300 musicians 💃 🎺🥁🎷🪇
The Big HONK! Bradford Saturday 27th Sept 4.00-6.30 🎶
#HONKBradford
🥁 Love a bit of bhangra? We can't wait for local heroes Punjabi Roots to bring their energy, creativity, passion and dhol drums to the Big HONK! on Saturday 27th Sept 4.00 - 6.30pm in Centenary Square, Bradford 🎶
#HONKBradford #StreetMusic #Bhangra
As if 16 streetbands, 300+ musicians, wasn't enough we're also going to be joined by Bradford Voices at the Big HONK! on Sat 27th Sept 4.00 - 6.30.
🎶 They'll be singing People have the Power reminding us that we all have the power to dream, to rule & to wrestle the world from fools 🎶
#HONKBradford
📣We're delighted to announce that the wonderful SilverFinger Singh will be joining us at the Big HONK! on Saturday 27th Sept 4.00 - 6.30pm.
This laid-back, super talented rapper has the community in his heart and we're very lucky and happy to have him support this fantastic event 💯
#HONKBradford
The brand new HONK! Band got together for the first time today - a brilliant first rehearsal - well done everyone! Can't wait to hear the band at the Big HONK! in Centenary Square, 4.00 - 6.30pm on Saturday 27th September 🎺🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford #PeaceArtistes #StreetMusic #Streetband
Graphic for Sound of the Streets Sound of the Streets Saturday 27th September 11.00am-1.00pm Baildon Farmers Market (10.00-12.00) - Storytellers Streetband Bingley Market Place - Tinnitussis Brackenhill Park - Good Trouble Brass Band Bradford Moor Park - Oz HONKeroos East Riddlesden Hall (10.00-12.00) - The Ambling Band Haworth Railway Station - Bandanarama Idle Village Green - Horns Of Plenty Kirklands Community Centre - Baybeat Streetband Lund Park - Stroud Red Band Roberts Park - Homecoming Brass Band Silsden Bandstand - Boom Dang St Margaret’s Church - Xaranga'n Roll Thornton Community Centre - Blast Furness Victoria Park - Cacophany Arkestra West Park - Toeters & Bellen Wibsey Park - Le Pompier Poney Club
💥Sound of the Streets💥
Streetbands playing in public spaces across the district. No booking needed – just turn up and enjoy the music! 🎺🥁🎷🪇
Visit the HONK! website for more information www.honkbradford.com/sound-of-the-streets
#HONKBradford #PeaceArtistes #StreetMusic #Streetband
Graphic for Let the Music Loose! Friday 26th Sept 7 – 9 pm 15 bands - 15 community centres BEAP Community Partnership - Homecoming Brass Band Bradford African Community - The Ambling Band Clarke Foley Community Hub - Horns Of Plenty Cottingley Community Centre - Toeters & Bellen Darley Street Market - Good Trouble Brass Band Lower Grange Community Centre - Good Trouble Brass Band Mary Seacole Court - Storytellers Streetband Queensbury Community Programme - Bandanarama Rockwell Centre - Xaranga'n Roll Shine West Bowling - Le Pompier Poney Club The Holme Centre - Baybeat Streetband The Keith Thompson Centre - Blast Furness Upper Bolton Social Club - Tinnitussis Windhill Community Centre - Oz HONKeroos
Let the Music Loose! 🎶
Streetbands from across the world playing in community centres across the district, from Keighley to Queensbury, Ilkley to Windhill!
Contact the centre, or visit the HONK! website for more information www.honkbradford.com/let-the-music-loose
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025
Bring it to the City! Saturday 27th Sept 2.00 - 4.00 pm 16 bands , 300+ musicians, busking across the city centre Image of map of busking spots List of busking spots: 1. Darley Street Market - Tinitussis 2. St George’s Hall - Xaranga’n Roll 3. Bradford Interchange - Toeters & Bellen and Bandanarama 4. Norfolk Gardens - Boom Dang 5. Bradford 2025 office - OZ HONKeroos and Storytellers Streetband 6. CakeOle - Good Trouble Brass Band 7. Tower of Now - Baybeat Streetband 8. Above the CakeOle - Homecoming BB 9. Bottom of Ivegate - Cacophany Arkestra 10. Magistrates Court - Pompier Poney Club 11. Tiffin Coffee - Stroud Red Band 12. Pizza Express - Blast Furnace 13. Broadway/Bank Street - Ambling Band 14. Waterstones - Horns of Plenty
Bring it to the City - the biggest busk Bradford has ever seen! Bands from the UK, Australia and America, Spain, France Germany and the Netherlands. playing across the city centre. 🎺🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic #StreetBand
4.00 - 4.20 pm Bradford's favourite bhangra band Punjabi Roots 4.30 - 5.20 pm The HONK! band of 100 local musicians plus 300 visiting musicians will play 6 pieces specially arranged for HONK! Bradford including the almighty HONK! Song with Silver Finger Singh and People Got the Power featuring local choir Bradford Voices and friends. 5.20 - 5.35 pm HONK! hosts - the wonderful Peace Artistes! 5.35 - 6.35 Visiting international bands will each play a 10 minute slot: Tinitussis, Hamburg, Germany Good Trouble Brass Band, Boston, USA Le Pompier Poney Club, Marseilles, France Toeters & Bellen, Amsterdam, Netherlands OZ HONKeroos, Wollongong, Australia Xaranga’n Roll, Valencia, Spain
💥We can't wait for this! The Big HONK! A showdown of the International bands in Centenary Square, Bradford, with the HONK! Band, the Peace Artistes, Punjabi Roots, Bradford Voices and special guest Silver Finger Singh. It's going to be aaaa-mazing 🎺🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic
Most of HONK! will be out on the streets. Have a look at the programme - Sound of the Streets, Bring it to the City and the Big HONK! are all free, street events. honkbradford.com/programme/
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This is going to be a night to remember! A totally unique one-off evening where every band will play a few of their favourite tunes, from Balkan to bhangra, secondline to ska, Latin to legendary pop classics 🎺🥁🎷🪇
Get your tickets now!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/peace-artist...
Do you want more of this? #HONKBradford is coming but we just need a bit more help to get there.
When our Crowdfunder hits £2,000, the Peace Artistes will perform a live gig for a group YOU help choose.
Let’s fill Bradford with music, joy and community spirit.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/honk-bradford
Our friends over at Toeters & Bellen have sent over this video, to tickle your excitement buds! We are VERY excited to have them for #HONK!Bradford #streetbands #Bd2025
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Great to see the Peace Artistes busking at Darley Street Market on Saturday, bringing joy to shoppers and raising money for HONK! The market will be one of the busking locations forBring it to the City 2.00-4.00pm on Saturday 27th September
🎺🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic #StreetBand
The last band announcement in our stellar line up of 16 streetbands from across the world are the OZ HONKeroos, joining us all the way from Wollongong, NSW Australia!
Catch them at HONK! Bradford 26th-28th September 🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic #StreetBand
💥 We need your support 💥
HONK! Bradford will transform the district into a vibrant hub of live acoustic music featuring performances by bands from across the world.
A little more money will help bring joyful street music from around the world to Bradford 🙏🙏🙏
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/honk-bradf...
A promotional image announcing "Good Trouble Brass Band" is "Coming to Bradford...". The image features the band members, mostly dressed in red and black, posing outdoors with their brass and percussion instruments. A bass drum in the center prominently displays the "Good Trouble Brass Band" logo. The background shows a paved area with modern buildings. The image has a bright pink top border with "HONK!" in a yellow speech bubble and "Coming to Bradford..." in black text. A mustard yellow bottom border features a megaphone icon and "Good Trouble Brass Band" in black text.
The Good Trouble Brass Band is a large, not-for-profit, activist New Orleans-style street band based in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts with a mission to fight for social justice causes and support community events while having fun and spreading joy through music.
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025
A vibrant promotional image announcing "Toeters & Bellen" are "Coming to Bradford...". The central photo shows the band members in colorful, eclectic outfits, posing enthusiastically with their brass and percussion instruments on a street, possibly in front of a shop called "JUNGLE". The image has a bright pink top border with "HONK!" in a yellow speech bubble and "Coming to Bradford..." in black text. A mustard yellow bottom border features a megaphone icon and "Toeters & Bellen" in black text.
Toeters & Bellen are a street band from Amsterdam playing music from all over the world on streets, squares, in parks, neighbourhoods and at demonstrations in the Netherlands and further afield.
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic #StreetBand
A group of brass, percussion, and wind musicians all dressed in pink and white- The Ambling Band is written in black text, alongside coming to Bradford.
A fun loving wind and beat powered streetband born in Bristol as protest band for the miners strikes in the 1980’s and support for the CND campaigners at Greenham Common.
They’ve performed at carnivals, festivals, weddings, parties and fundraising busks for charities.
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025
HONK! Bradford is a three-day street music festival from the 26th to the 28th of September. It will feature community bands from around the UK and beyond.
Find out more on our website honkbradford.com
A group of brass instrument and saxophone players adorned in leopard print playing in a wild and raucous way.
Fom Hamburg in Germany… Tinnitussis!
…suddenly you’re dancing to ABBA, A-ha, Scooter, and Billie Eilish again, wanting to stock up on wind instruments for possible lockdowns, blackouts, or worse, and you’ll be a Tinnitussis at heart!”
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic #StreetBand
A proud group of musicians in red, waving red flags. They appear to be on a protest
The Stroud Red Band plays on the streets in support of progressive causes. They play a selection of African, Latin, protest and the odd Jazz or pop tune, along with protest marching classics like Bella Ciao, the Red Flag and the Internationale 🚩🚩🚩
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic #StreetBand
Photo of the Peace Artistes playing in City PArk Bradford as part of Bradford Progress.
If you enjoyed #BradfordProgress, why not sign up to be part of HONK! a brand new streetband festival coming to Bradford 26th-28th September? All the information you need is on our website honkbradford.com
We would love you to be part of it 🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic
Photo of bands and audience in Bradford City Park
Hundreds of musicians in Bradford's City Park today playing and singing as #BradfordProgress reached the end of its epic journey.
Looking forward to filling the city centre with live music again in September 🥁🎷🪇
Be part of it: honkbradford.com/honk-band/
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic
We're delighted that our friends in the Homecoming Brass Band will be joining us at HONK! Looking forward to their African influenced music, played by a Bradford based New Orleans influenced brass band.
Catch them at HONK! Bradford 26th-28th September 🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic
“We do like to protest. But the majority of the stuff we do is getting communities jumping up and down and dancing,”
Great article in the Big Issue about brass in Bradford and how the Peace Artistes fit in to the long tradition of brass bands 🎺 🎺 🎺
shorturl.at/lyYla
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💥 HONK! needs some help! 💥
We're looking for band buddies, stewards, hosts and drivers to welcome streetbands from across the world to Bradford. You'll meet some wonderful people, hear some great music, and help put Bradford on the musical map 🥁🎷🪇
#HONKBradford
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