The 5th annual HONK! Oz Street Music Festival, 10th-12th January, 2019 
​Wollongong, NSW Australia

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HONK! Oz Street Music Festival is a three-day outdoor spectacle featuring alternative community bands and related arts.  Completely free, and volunteer run, Honk Oz is a Parade! a Party! A Raucous celebration! Lots of Fun! Energetic, Irreverent, revelrous and with a somewhat DIY approach to instrumentation and attire.  Honk bands perform to celebrate; to protest; to proclaim; some play for peace, some for activist causes; for community spirit and all of them play to have fun!!!!
HONK! Oz 2019 is delighted to welcome the following artists and bands:
  • Bateria 61 Grupo de Samba & Passistas, Unidos de Sydney
  • Beatmeisters
  • Broken Levee Brass Band
  • Capricornia
  • Circus WOW
  • City of Wollongong Wind Band
  • Con Artists
  • Curious Rendition Orchestra
  • Dogma
  • Drum Arabesque
  • Elitist Swine
  • Environmental Encroachment with Mike Smith
  • Frogwash
  • Green Dolphin
  • HOOT! Pickup Band with Ken Field
  • Horns of Ork
  • Illawarra Flame 3
  • Junkadelic Brass Band​
  • Kids HONK! Wollongong Con Workshop Band 
  • Le Femme Fatales
  • Orkeztar Lizmoré 
  • Radical Drum Corps
  • Riff Raff Radical Marching Band
  • The Swingaleles
  • Tribal Jewels Dance
  • Vic Janko Orkestar
  • Welcome Band
Make a tax deductible donation to our Campaign at Australian Cultural Fund and help bring the musicians to HONK! oz
WEDNESDAY Jan 9th: Pre-HONK! 
  • ​Free Workshops at Wollongong Conservatorium of Music in the morning.
  • Mike Smith 'Organology' : Wollongong City Council Creative Dialogues lecture at The Wollongong Art Gallery from 5pm

THURSDAY Jan 10th: HONK! Wollongong Mall Eat Street Markets 
  • Pre-Honk events at Wollongong Conservatorium of Music in the morning
  • ​Official Kick Off 4.30pm in GLOBE LANE
  • Bands perform 5-9pm in three locations around the Mall and Globe Lane, Eat Street Markets
  • HONK! After Dark Pot of Gold Mexican Cantina

FRIDAY Jan 11th: HONK! Town Hall & Arts Precinct
  • Workshop activities in the morning Arts Precinct and Music Lounge, Town Hall
  • Bands perform 5-9pm around the Town Hall and Arts Precinct
  • HONK! After Dark at CENTRO CBD

SATURDAY Jan 12th: HONK! Arts Precinct 
  • Local and Visiting HONK! Bands and related street arts converge on the Wollongong Arts Precinct from 10am-3pm
​HONK! Oz is a fringe event of The Illawarra Folk Festival and supported in kind by the following arts organisations:
  • Wollongong Conservatorium of Music
  • Wollongong City Council
  • Illawarra Folk Club
  • Merrigong Theatre Company