BONK AT BARBÈS
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE LAST THURSDAY EVERY MONTH
HONK NYC collaborates with Barbès, the Park Slope oasis for experimental sound.
Expect a monthly dose of our favorite brass and percussion artists honking their hearts out with original tunes, slamming solos, and untethered experimentation.
June 22
Michael Winograd & the Honorable Mentshn
Join clarinetist Michael Winograd and his crew for a night of toe-tapping hits from their vast cannon of Bulgars, Shers, Freilachs, Horas, Polkas and more.
It being the band's only NYC show of the summer, one can expect some hot performances from this bunch. Be not surprised at tempos a few bpm faster, and volumes a few dB louder than you've heard before!
With Michael Winograd (clarinet,) Brian Drye (trombone,) Will Holshouser (accordion,) Shoko Nagai (piano,) Zoe Guigueno (bass,) and from New Jersey David Licht (drums.)
MAY 25, 2023
AURORA NEALAND brings us her take on New Orlenans style trad jazz with her Royal Roses
An established bandleader, composer, performer and improviser, Aurora Nealand has become a prominent force in the New Orleans music scene. Combining the “formal education” – a music composition degree from Oberlin Conservatory and training at the Jacques Lecoq School of Physical Theatre in Paris – with the “informal” experience of playing music in the streets and clubs of New Orleans and throughout the northern Hemisphere, Nealand has emerged as an innovative, sensitive and daring music creator and performer.
She is most recognized for her performance on saxophones, clarinet and vocals and has been at the forefront of the revival of New Orleans Traditional Jazz, with her band The Royal Roses, but also collaborates with Bill Frisell and Tim Berne and leads the rockabilly band.
10pm to midnight
$20 suggested
APRIL 27. 2023
Frank London's ¡No Pasarán!
Bonk! at BARBES Brooklyn
BONK! What happens when street band music comes inside? Expect a monthly dose of our favorite brass and percussion artists honking their hearts out with original tunes, slamming solos, and untethered experimentation.
From the creators of HONK NYC.
Frank London's ¡No Pasarán!
Frank London - trumpet, José Davila - trombone, Marcus Rojas - tuba and drums - tbd
Frank London’s latest project ¡No Pasaran! is a brass trio plus percussion that blurs the borders between chamber & folk music, composition & improvisation, Jazz & world music, traditional & avant garde. Featuring tubist Marcus Rojas and trombonist José Davila, the members have worked with everyone from Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy, Charlie Haden, Sex Mob, Metropolitan Opera, Henry Threadgill, Eddie Palmieri, Itzhak Perlman, the Klezmatics, David Byrne and beyond.
MARCH 23. 2023
Liberation Trio
Bonk! at BARBES Brooklyn
Liberation Trio is a side project of HONK NYC's musical director, Elijah J. Thomas who will be joined by Alberto Oliart and Greg Deangelis.
OPEN JAM at 11 PM - 12 AM, in the spirit of New Orleans for Mardi Gras week. Bring your axe!
FEB 23. 2023
Bonk! at BARBES Brooklyn
Liberation Trio is a side project of HONK NYC's musical director, Elijah J. Thomas who will be joined by Alberto Oliart and Greg Deangelis.
OPEN JAM at 11 PM - 12 AM, in the spirit of New Orleans for Mardi Gras week. Bring your axe!
AUG 25. 2022
The Cirkus Amok Band
Circus Amok has presented free political circus shows to the people of New York City since 1989. Providing the soundtrack to their one-ring spectacle is the Circus Amok Band, a tight-knit group of five playing an eclectic repertoire of unlikely circus tunes. Sun Ra meets Bhangra meets funk meets traditional circus with a highly nuanced and radically humorous, gender-fluid spin on every note.
SEPT 22. 2022
The HONK Family Band
The HONK Family Band plays indoors for the very first time! Led by musician and composer Elijah J. Thomas, our first-ever Musical Director, and assistant director Skyler Hagner, The HONK Family Band is a multi-dimensional community ensemble created to connect musicians, sound-makers, dancers and spectacle-doers across the city.