It difficult to describe the giant party that is Honk Fest West. Twenty five street bands from all over the United States arrive in Seattle and play at various venues throughout the city. One might call these groups marching bands except that they don't all march. Brass and percussion are the predominant instruments but accordions, bells, whistles. I even saw an acoustic guitar with the Stanford Band. The first night this year began in the Fremont districts. All venues were out side and bands in Fremont were all within a block of each other. There were four bands playing at the same time but none seemed to interfere with each other. Saturday night we took over Georgetown. I loved the earlier start time as well as playing outside. It made for some good videos. Then Sunday in West Seattle was the part I missed, but you will see some links to those performances below.
The best thing that I can do is to give links to sites that feature videos and photos.
The Honk Fest West Site pulls all photos and movies from Flickr that are labeled honkfestwest2010
Seattle Twist
Of course homage to the Hubbub Club in West Seattle
West Seattle Blog
Joe Mabel's Posted photos in Flikr. He takes nice photos of people at Honk.
I put in a search on Youtube for HonkFestWest 2010 and came up with some pretty good videos including one of the Hubbub Club from yesterday. They were playing while I had to go to the airport.
I had to laugh at this 2009 Honk video. I am the photographer butting into the picture.
The best think to do is just click and enjoy. I won't ramble any more that this.
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