HONK! Oz Street Music Festival 8th-10th January 2026
Completely free, and volunteer run, HONK! Oz Street Music Festival is an outdoor spectacle featuring alternative community bands and related arts. Irreverent, revelrous and with a somewhat DIY approach to instrumentation and attire, Honk Oz 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!!!!
2026 Schedule
- Thursday 8th January, 2026 (workshops & Night Markets Performances)
- Friday 9th January 2026 (workshops Performances)
- Saturday 10th January 2026 (workshops and HONK! performances in the CBD all day until late)
Participate:
Expressions of Interest HONK! Oz Wollongong 2026
Callout for BANDS & ARTISTS interested in being part Of The Official HONK! Oz 2026 Lineup
Thursday January 8th (Pre-festival) | Friday January 9th (Pre-Festival) | Saturday January 10th - 2026
- Submit the EOI Form : www.honkfest.org.au/eoi-2026
- Bands Artists should be available Saturday 10th January
- HONK! Oz aims to feature alternative community bands and associated arts.
- HONK! Oz is a wind, brass, percussion kind of thing (e.g., Samba, New Orleans, Balkan Brass, trad jazz etc).
- The Festival is 100% volunteer run. Everything is free - there is no income from ticket sales.
- We use the existing infrastructure of the city for performance spaces. Bands don't necessarily need to be mobile, but you should be primarily acoustic and prepared to play with extremely limited tech. (e.g., a wind/brass/percussion band with a bass guitar) and suitable for outdoors.
- HONK! is a free festival for non-professional community bands. There are no performance fees. We don't pay bands to attend HONK! (depending on funding available, we can sometimes offer travel and accommodation assistance for visiting bands).
Kids HONK!
Kids HONK! Band is an important feature of the HONK! Oz Street Music Festival. Students learn four tunes, across two workshops and perform as part of the HONK! Oz Street Music Festival.
HOOT Pickup Band for unattached (and attached) Musicians - with Ken Field
HOOT Band is open to the public and completely FREE. We welcome musicians attending HONK! Oz without a band.
