HONK! Oz 2015 - Archive

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January 9th-11th - a fringe event of The Illawarra Folk Festival

We are pleased to welcome the following bands and musicians for the first ever HONK! Oz Festival of Street Music

• Beatmeisters (Wollongong, NSW)
• Bettina Shelker (Switzerland)

• Brassholes (Sydney, NSW)
• Circus Wow (Wollongong, NSW)

• Con Artists (Wollongong, NSW)

• Curious Rendition Orchestra (Wollongong, NSW)

• David De Santi’s Good Tunes Session (Wollongong, NSW)

• Environmental Encroachment (USA)
• Havana Palava (Melbourne, VIC)
• Hot Potato Band (Sydney, NSW)
• InspeKtor-Gadje (Shoalhaven, NSW)
• Jam 'n Bread Macedonian Re-Union Band
• Joe Correia (USA)

• Junkadelic Brass Band (Perth, WA)
• Ken Field (USA)
• Linsey Pollak (Maleny, QLD)
• Mama Wailer (Wollongong, NSW)

• Mr Cuttlefish (Wollongong, NSW)

• Red Brigade (Melbourne, VIC)
• Riff Raff Radical Marching Band (Sydney, NSW)
• Ruido Flamenco Blues (Wollongong, NSW)

• Squeezebox Trio (Sydney, NSW)
• St George Players Jazz Band (Sydney, NSW)
• The Bottlers (Sydney, NSW)
• The Purple Tusks (Melbourne, VIC)

• Tribal Bellydance (Wollongong, NSW)

• Wollongong Conservatorium of Music Latin Jazz Ensemble (Wollongong, NSW)

• Underscore Orkestra (USA)

Thank you to our supporters:

• Illawarra Folk Club
• The Con Artists
• Wollongong Conservatorium of Music
• Wollongong City Council
• University of Wollongong
• Culture Bank
• Centro CBD
• ​The Howling' Wolf
• Merrigong Theatre
  
• The Social
  
• ​The Three Chimneys
  

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Linsey Pollak is attending Honk! Oz as part of a community engagement grant funded by the University of Wollongong in collaboration with The Wollongong Conservatorium of Music and The Illawarra Folk Club. 

Linsey is well known all around Australia as a musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. He has toured his solo shows extensively in Europe, Nth America and Asia since 1996. Linsey’s current  projects include his new solo show “Live & Loopy”, World music duo “Dva” with Tunji Beier, and the Community Balkan Gypsy style street band "The Unusual Suspects".  [more . . . ]

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Ken Field and Joe Correia are attending Honk! Oz in Australia with the support of a US Embassy Grant under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act.

Ken is a composer, saxophonist, flautist, and percussionist. Ken is on the organizing committee for the original  "HONK! Festival of activist street bands",  in Somerville, MA, USA.  His band, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble has received international public and critical acclaim.   He is also a member of the 25 piece community based New Orleans style Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band .  [more . . ]

Joe Correia is a Sousaphone/Tuba player form Somerville Boston, now relocated to Seattle.  He works as a freelance musicians and  has performed at numerous Honk festivals. He performs regularly with a number of bands including: Environmental Encroachment , Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band , Harmoos and Hungry March Band