2015 Honk! Oz Program

8 th - 11 th January 2015 WOLLONGONG, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Fringe Event of the Illawarra Folk Festival

Welcome

Colourful, acoustic and mobile, a Honk philosophy of music making blurs the line between artist and audience, between professional and amateur. Honk bands are inclusive and community minded.

They take their musical inspiration from Mardi Gras and Carnivale, and from street music gatherings across Europe and South America.

They borrow a fusion of repertoire from a diverse set of music traditions; New Orleans second line, Klezmer, Balkan and Romani music; Brazilian Samba and Frevo; Jazz, funk and popular music.

Lotte Latukefu and David Rooney, Festival Directors

Free Music Workshops

Free music workshops for people interested in participating in HONK! Oz will be held at the Wollongong Conservatorium.

Registration forms for workshops can be found at www.honkfest.org.au.

Ken Field (USA) Free Public Lecture Wednesday 7th January FREE Public Lecture about the Honk music movement with Ken Field at the Wollongong Art Gallery

Wollongong CBD Venues

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www.illawarrafolkfestival.com.au

Thursday 8th 9am

Pre HONK! Oz

Kids Music Workshops 10am

Wollongong Conservatorium of Music (WCM)

Friday 9th

Saturday 10th

Pre HONK! Oz

Kids Music Workshops Wollongong Conservatorium of Music

10 – 11am HONK! Oz Parade IPAC in the Arts Precinct (2)

11am

11am – 2.30pm 11.30-1.30pm

HONK! Oz in the Square

12pm 1pm 2pm

Sunday 11th

1 – 2.30pm

Lantern Making

1 – 4pm Free

1 – 2.30pm

1 – 3pm Free

HONK! music Lantern Making workshops

HONK! music workshops

musicians (WCM)

(WCM)

workshops (WCM) for community

The Arts Square (1) 12.30pm–5.30pm

HONK! Oz Fiesta All Band Concert and Balkan Bush Dance Centro CBD (4,5)

workshops (WCM) for community musicians

3pm

3pm till late

HONK! Oz at the Bowlo

4pm 5pm 6pm

HONK! Oz Festival Opening The Arts Square (1)

7.30-8pm Lantern Parade Arts Square (1)

8pm – 12am

HONK! Oz After Dark 9pm 10pm 11pm

Brassholes & others Figgy Bowlo, 120 The Avenue Figtree

4.30pm-7.30pm

7pm 8pm

HONK! Oz at the Botanic Gardens

Honk Band Howlin’ Wolf (8) Brassholes Rad (11) Honk Session until 9pm The Social, IPAC (1)

7 – 9pm HONK! Oz in the Mall Wollongong CBD Mall (13)

8pm – 12am HONK! Oz After Dark

Brassholes Howlin’ Wolf (8) Underscore Orkestra Three Chimneys (7) Honk Session until 9pm The Social, IPAC (1)

Thank You Thanks to the Illawarra Folk Club and the Illawarra Folk Festival, The Con Artists, The Wollongong Conservatorium of Music, The University of Wollongong, The Embassy of the United States of America, The Wollongong Culture Bank, Centro CBD, The Three Chimneys, Yours and Owls, The Howlin Wolf, IPAC, Destination Wollongong, David De Santi, Milk Bar Studios

Beatmeisters Drawing heavily on the traditions of African drumming interspersed with Latin and Arabic influences, the Beat Meisters never fail to get the punters jumping and the good vibes pumping.

Circus Wow Circus WOW is a women’s community circus creating thought provoking circus and physical theatre that energetically affirms women’s lives in the Illawarra, with an irreverent and larrikin sense of humour.

Havana Palava Havana Palava is a street band that plays around Melbourne.

They have bring a great carnival vibe to the festivals, sporting fabulous hot pink outfits, processing in anarchic formation, and generally making people get loosey goosey!

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Brassholes Building the bridge between old and new; The Brassholes blend traditional New Orleans second line rhythms with modern day dance floor fillers and sing-a-long songs.

The Con Artists Fun and irreverent, Honk Oz host band, the Con Artists are a carnival of percussion, wind, brass, accordions and fiddles.

Hot Potato Band Anything could happen!

The Hot Potato Band is an environmentally friendly roving brass band outfit with interactive properties that have been known to cause a severe case of happy fever.

Bettina Shelker She is the former internationally undefeated Swiss National Boxing Champion and an internationally touring singer songwriter. She has opened for The Bottlers or toured with Chumbawamba, The Bottlers are a hard playing, Van Morrison, Peter Frampton, nine piece, all acoustic folk punk Eric Clapton, Carl Verheyen and band hailing from Sydney Jethro Tull.

Curious Rendition Orchestra Part of The Wollongong Conservatorium of Music’s community ensemble program, The Curious Rendition Orchestra was formed recently to provide music making opportunities for less experienced adult musicians, or comeback players.

Folkaphonic Punk Orchestra Featuring a rum barrel full of special musical guests, expect lots of energy, sea shanties and rollicking choruses.

Good Tunes Session Giving new life to good folk tunes is the aim of the Good Tunes Sessions. Led by David De Santi, accordionista from the Wongawilli Band / I Viaggiatori and The Con Artists

InspeKtor-Gadje When this band plays, they are accompanied by a hoard of left wing woolly Charlies who seem to have nothing better to do than to dance about and enjoy themselves playing and drinking while encouraging others to do the same.

Junkadelic Brass Band The Junkadelic Brass Band Joe Correia are like nothing else in Perth.

Joe Correia is a Sousaphone/ Blending Street rhythms with Tuba player from Seattle. He New Orleans style jazz, Funk has toured with The Underskore grooves, Latin flavours and hipOrchestra, Environmental hop, the band is full of surprises Encroachment, Emperor – not the least of which is the Norton’s Stationary Marching awesome beats and rhythms Band, Harmoos, and The Hungry from the recycled percussion March Band section!

Mr Cuttlefish Mr Cuttlefish play curiously beguiling street music, popping up when you least expect it.

Playing everything from ipad to ukulele, viola to whamola, Mr Cuttlefish will create eccentric soundscapes for you.

Ruido Ruido - original contemporary flamenco with a unique twist.

There are no barriers in this amazing troupe. Their show is an explosion of colour and passion that fills your senses.

The Purple Tusks From Melbourne, Purple Tusks is an 8 piece party rocking band, with a massive sound that will pull you off your seat and up to the front of the dance floor!

Squeezebox Trio The Squeezebox Trio (accordion, violin, guitar) are one of the newer bands on the Sydney Jazz scene. The lads bring a strong energy to the gypsy swing genre popularised by Django Reinhardt in the ‘30’s.

Ken Field 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.

Linsey Pollack Linsey Pollak is well known all around Australia as a musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. While studying Macedonian bagpipes in Macedonia 20 years ago Linsey fell in love with Macedonian Gypsy Brass Band music.

Red Brigade The Red Brigade is a thrilling and playfully subversive all-girl marching band. Fitted out in full marching band regalia, The band takes it’s audience on one hell-of-a ride through dirty rock hits, balkan madness and big-bad-swingin’ funk.

Riff Raff radical Marching Band Formed in 2010 The Riff Raff band plays at community events, coal ports, solidarity demonstrations, artyhipsterthings, fundraisers, and on the streets!

Underscore Orkestra From Porltand, Oregon, USA The Underscore Orkestra are guaranteed to get you up and moving whether you like to swing dance, Balkan folk dance, or just go out and shake it!!!

Environmental Encroachment (reduced band) EE’s marching band has evolved as part of a new genre of music: HONK! Performances include parades, weddings, funerals, historical re-enactments, children’s shows, holiday theme parties, street busking, secondline processions, festivals, circus sideshows, music for burlesque, birthdays, coronations, proms, vaudevillian skits, and synchronized swimming with sousaphones.

Wollongong Con Jazz Program The Con’s Jazz Program run by Eric Dunan is highly regarded around the country as a model for pre-tertiary jazz studies.

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