School of HONK

School of HONK has big plans for 2020 and we hope you can be a part of it.

Watch our video to see some of our recent highlights, and consider a donation to help us ensure everyone can play in the coming year!

Check out these rewards as tokens of our appreciation for your support:

For $25 or more, you’ll receive our official School of HONK 5th anniversary pin

For $50 or more, in addition to our pin, you can choose between our official School of HONK poster or coloring book

For $100 or more, you’ll receive all of the above plus a copy of our forthcoming “5 Years of School of HONK” photo book featuring favorite photographs from our first five years

For $250 or more, you’ll receive all of the above plus a 1-hour private lesson (for trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet or percussion)

For $500 or more, you’ll receive our pin, our poster or coloring book, and an elegant hard-cover edition of our photo book 

For $1000 or more, you'll  receive our pin, a poster or coloring book, our hard-cover photo book, and we'll come play on your doorstep, anywhere within the greater Boston area

As we enter our fifth year, School of HONK continues to grow. Watch our video to learn more about our hopes and plans for the coming year.

You can help us double our opportunities for community music-making with a tax-deductible gift today!

Check out these rewards as tokens of our appreciation for your donation:

For $25 or more: Choose any color School of HONK Water Bottle

For $50 or more: Choose a water bottle and also get our Official School of HONK T-Shirt

For $100 or more: Choose a Water Bottle and a T-Shirt, and also receive our brand new School of HONK Coloring Book 

For $250 or more: Get all of the above plus a 1-Hour Private Lesson (for trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet or percussion)

For $500 or more: Lead Our Sunday Parade to a nearby destination of your choice, and you'll also receive our Water Bottle, our T-Shirt, and our new Coloring Book
 
For $1000 or more: We'll Come Play On Your Doorstep, anywhere within the Greater Boston Area, and you'll also receive our Water Bottle, our T-Shirt, and our new Coloring Book


  Sample from the forthcoming School of HONK Coloring Book (Artwork by Patrick Johnson)


  School of HONK Water Bottles


  Official School of HONK T-Shirt (Artwork by Shaunalynn Duffy)

(All donations are tax-deductible. You will receive a confirmation email receipt from PayPal, which states that no goods or services were provided in exchange for your donation. Rewards are considered tokens of appreciation.)

• to make fun, music & magic together
• in a community that values play over perfection
• and brings inspiration to our friends and neighbors.

• to talk about how we do what we do
• and to dream about what we’d like to do next;
• how we care for each other as a community,
• and even how to start a new band;
• we even held a “speed-friending” session – like speed dating but for friends!

• explored new destinations in Winchester and Allston,
• expanded our Summer HONK middle-school camp,
• and collaborated with Around Hear and the Mystic Learning Center for an afterschool program in East Somerville;
• we added new tunes to our repertoire, featuring struts, shouts, umbrella dancing, and… chickens? (yup, we added another song with animal sounds — that’s on brand);
• and we reveled at our 10th Birthday Gala, where band alumni joined current members to share food, music, memories, and dancing to the grooves of Undertow Brass Band.

• For our first full-scale Summer HONK since the pandemic, middle schoolers and mentors crashed the Green Line as well as coffee shops, markets, and other local haunts. And, we brought a new favorite tune to our song book.
• We also enjoyed our second-ever community retreat at the beautiful Hale Reservation, a free, weekend-long opportunity for our members to gather with friends and family, and with horns and drums, playing and connecting with each other in ways deeper than we can at Sunday sessions.
• And, we celebrated October with HONK!, PRONK!, our Monster Mash dance party, and our Halloween blinky light parade, where we braved a “spider apocalypse” full of candy, decorations, and kids in costumes.