HONK FAMILY BAND ::: BLOCO FROM DA BLOCK ::: N’S HORNS ::: COBU ::: LA MANGA ::: BATALÁ NEW YORK
Pier 84 at Hudson River Park | West 43rd Street and the Hudson River
FREE ALL AGES EVENT
It's a Hudson River HONK! at Pier 84 as we close our festival along the majestic river separating NYC from the USA.
Enjoy global brass and percussion traditions, including Japanese Taiko, New Orleans Second Line, Brazilian samba reggae and carnival music, Colombian rhythms and Jazz.
Family workshops include HONK NYC's Master Makers' Table, Double Dutch, Face Painting, bike decorating, and more!
Co-Presented with Hudson River Park.
1pm Opening Parade with HONK Family Band, featuring Grand Marshal Pat Oleszko as Helen Highwater
2pm Bloco from da Block
3pm COBU
3:45pm N's Horns
4:30pm La Manga
5:30pm Batalá NY
Forget your average “kiddie” show! Bloco from da Block brings the sights, sounds and moves of Brazilian carnaval to Brooklyn and beyond. Specializing in an interactive, family friendly performance in the rhythms of Brazil and NYC, Bloco from da Block creates accessible, intergenerational and inclusive art with all of those who wish to jump into the parade.
Batalá New York is the premier all-women, Black-led, percussion ensemble, activating partnerships, community building, and cultural awareness, bringing high-energy performances to the people of New York City through an engaging blend of cultural education and joyous entertainment. Our music, instruments and costumes are primarily from Salvador da Bahia in the northeast of Brazil.
La Manga is a cultural identity laboratory created by a collective of women artists that is inspired by the spirit and ancestry of cultural manifestations from the Caribbean coast in Colombia. Honoring Black and Indigenous oral traditions; connecting with the power of tambores Afro-Colombianos (Tambor Alegre, Tambora and llamador) and celebrating life through storytelling and bailes cantaos. La Manga was featured at The New York Times and has performed at Joe’s Pub, Nublu, Moma PS1, Museum of the City of New York, Museum at Eldridge Street, Queens Theater, Bronx Music Heritage Center, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Arrebato Queer Party. www.lamangamusic.com/
The HONK Family Band is a multi-dimensional community ensemble created to connect musicians, sound-makers, dancers and spectacle-doers across the city. First and foremost, the HFB is a space for everyone to take part in under a collective and guiding spirit of love for music and a desire to deepen bonds of friendship across cultural boundaries, regardless of musical background and any other core identifier. If this spirit is in place, the HFB will live and operate as it was designed: to support and uplift HONK! NYC’s work of highlighting and advancing global street band music in as many forms as possible, through “music-making, pageantry, audience participation, and education.”
Cobu was created in 2000 by Yako Miyamoto, a veteran member of the Off-Broadway hit STOMP. An all-woman ensemble expressing the splendor, beauty, and strength of Japan, Cobu has performed in Madison Square Garden for the NBA halftime show, Shakespeare in the Park, and We the Peoples at the United Nations. Listed as one of the 30 shows to see by Time Out NY, Cobu won the Wella International Trend Talent Award, the Audience Favorite Award at Fringe Festival, and the Grand Prize of the K-Pop Dance Contest K-ollaboration.
Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself—and doesn’t mind if you laugh. With elaborate costumes and props, she creates performances, films, inflatables and spatial events. She has worked from the popular art forms of the street, party, parade, and burlesque house, to the fields, mountains, trees and seas, from the Museum of Modern Art, Documenta, the Olympics and King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, to Artforum, Ms, Esquire, Playboy and Sesame Street Magazine. Oleszko has been amply rewarded for her diverse efforts bringing home the beacon with the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim, a DAAD (Berlin), several Tony nominations, multiple NEA’s, NYFA’S, a Jim Henson Grant, and the Bessie, a NY Dance and Theater Award for Sustained Excellence.