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2026 HONK!TX Bands

Sound that’s RAW- like brass knuckles to the face! 9th Avenue Brass Band representing the 850

9th Avenue Brass Band

Pensacola, FL, USA

A diasporic Austin community band celebrating the rich cultural legacy of klezmer music

Austin Klezmer Bund

Austin, TX, USA

Bat City Brass Band is an Austin-based group that plays high-energy dance music with an international sound. Our influences come from New Orleans, New York, Brazil, Egypt, and the Balkans. Get ready for trumpet, trombone, drums, saxes, and ground-shaking tuba!

Bat City Brass Band

Austin, TX, USA

Born out of a love for jazz, Big Wy's Brass Band brings a frenetic party wherever they play. The band performs at iconic Austin, TX venues such as Antone's Nightclub and Continental Club. They have also represented the United States at International jazz festivals in Guatemala and Costa Rica. The band plays an eclectic mix of traditional New Orleans standards and funky originals. Whether it's at a second-line wedding overlooking Lake Austin, Jazz festival in Antigua Guatemala, or a rocking house party, Big Wy's aims to invite the listener on a wild ride through its brassy confections and irresistible grooves!

Big Wy's Brass Band

Austin, TX, USA

Bramaya is an Austin based West African percussion and dance group led by Master Percussionist, Aboubacar Sylla from Guinea. Bramaya is named in honor of Aboubacar's father’s village and combines new musical ideas with traditional West African rhythms, dance, and instruments such as the djembe, dundun, balafon, bote and krin.

Austin, TX, USA

Chicago's glam street marching band for people of marginalized genders

Clamor & Lace Noise Brigade

Chicago, IL, USA

ENSMB is a joyful cacophony of Balkan, Klezmer and funk, with a tasteful thrash of metal thrown in for good measure.

Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band

Somerville, MA, USA

We are Greenbelt MD’s very own community street band. We draw inspiration from funk, pop and New Orleans Second Line tradition, and deliver with the passion of Mardi Gras and Carnival. If you're not smiling when you see us, do you even have a mouth?

greenbelt honk! Situation & friends

Greenbelt, MD, USA

High energy Zimbabwean Marimba music for your dance and trance pleasure!

Austin, TX, USA

Fun, loud and in the street! Minor Mishap Marching Band is a 25-piece renegade circus-punk brass band: Bourbon Street meets Budapest. We are inspired by a love of street music, brass bands, and spectacle, as well as a desire to create community and reinvent public spaces.

Minor Mishap Marching Band

Austin, TX, USA

The Samba Knights is a Brazilian Carnaval style Batería made up of students from McCallum High School in Austin, TX. It began in 2014 through an Austin Creative Classroom Fund grant spearheaded by then Percussion Director Matt Ehlers and representatives from Austin Samba. The ensemble operates as an after school club which meets from January through May. The Samba Knights perform at school concerts, soccer games and community events throughout the school year and are one of few high school level Brazilian samba ensembles in the state.

Samba Knights McCallum High School

Austin, TX, USA

New Orleans style street band playing trad jazz to Second Line tunes, to modern funky stuff.

Austin, TX, USA

Houston’s first all female brass band.

Girl Gang Brass Band

Houston, TX, USA

ACC Afro-Cuban music ensemble focuses on the Rumba genre from Cuba. We adhere to the traditions while also adding some American innovations

ACC Afro-Cuban Music Ensemble

Austin, TX, USA

Austin Samba is a group of over 50 drummers and dancers performing the music and dance of Brazilian Carnaval, with styles ranging from Rio to Bahia.

We perform at parades, festivals, charity events, and special occasions, bringing the music, movement, color, pageantry and joy of Carnaval to events throughout the region. While Austin Samba features a group of highly trained drummers and dancers, in the spirit of an authentic Brazilian samba school we are open to the community and offer classes to beginners every year.

Austin, TX, USA

Bateristas Do Coração, Drummers of the Heart
- Paying homage to the rich, soulful rhythms of Bahia Brazil! Grooves of celebration - Samba Reggae in the heart of Texas

Bateristas do Coraçao

Austin, TX, USA

Blowcomotion is Austin’s learning brass band, welcoming adults of all skill levels. They build community by bringing people together to learn musical instruments, play in public spaces and experience the joy and sense of belonging one gets in making music with others. Blowcomotion plays upbeat party music (from funk to disco, latin, and pop) to get audiences engaged and moving together!

Austin, TX, USA

Brasscals! is a lively group made up of 13+ members, ages 21 to 87, from the Santa Barbara community. The band boasts a wide roster of talent – including woodwinds, brass, a banjo, a washboard, and one bull horn. United by a shared love of music, Brasscals’ diverse, multigenerational membership is what makes this band so special. Brasscals! play while on the move, have minimal set-up, and don't need electricity. Their high-energy shows encourage crowd participation to increase the fun factor and break down the barrier between “performer” and “audience”. It’s all about having fun together...

Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Horror brass-ness. We want your skullz. Our monstrously macabre musical mission is to inspirit joy and keep people dancing, no matter if it’s out in the street, the club, or the great beyond.

Dead Music Capital Band

Austin, TX, USA

The Good Trouble Brass Band is a large, not-for-profit, “raucous, stomp-your-foot-and-belt-out-the-choruses” activist New Orleans-style street band based in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to fight for social justice causes and support community events while having fun and spreading joy through our music.

We are also a part of the organizing force behind the HONK!Festival of activist street bands that takes place every October in Somerville’s Davis Square.

Good Trouble Brass Band

Somerville, MA, USA

The McCallum Knights of Steel is among the most sought after steel drum bands in central Texas, playing 20-30 public performances each year, and is made up of students from McCallum High School in Austin, TX. The Knights of Steel have twice been a feature ensemble at the Midwest Band and Orchestra International Convention and have performed at the 2006 and 2011 Percussive Arts Society International Convention, alongside the Austin-based Inside Out Community Steel Band. Recently they were an invited ensemble to the 2024 Texas Music Educator's Association Convention.

Knights of Steel McCallum High School

Austin, TX, USA

Community brass and drum band focused on Austin FC with the greater Austin community

La Murga de Austin

Austin, TX, USA

Negativity decimators

Moon Tower Brass Band

Austin, TX, USA

Atlanta’s Wildest Community Band! Thrilling audiences since 1974, Seed & Feed performs both at home and on the road in festivals, on stages, and in support of community events and fundraisers of all kinds.

Throughout our history, Seed & Feed has electrified audiences with our trademark style of explosive sound and colorful street theater. Originally formed as part of a theatre company, the band is well known for our fancifully costumed performers as well as our high-energy music.

Seed & Feed Marching Abominable

Atlanta, GA, USA

The Yes Ma’am Brass Band is an all female/nonbinary brass band from Austin, TX, originally formed in 2012. Our mission is to create an environment where female & nonbinary musicians can flourish, & to provide representation of marginalized genders on instruments that have been traditionally played by men. We exist for all the little girls who were told to play flute when they wanted to play trumpet or drums, & for every female tuba player who gets asked “Can you really play that?” — because representation matters.

Yes Ma'am Brass Band

Austin, TX, USA

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