October 1, 2024 - HONK! Festival with The Good Trouble Brass Band, the Provincetown Town Crier Competition, and Laughs in Spanish

The HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands  is back with its 19th annual multi-day music extravaganza. It is outrageous and inclusive, brass and brash, percussive and persuasive. It kicks off October 4th and honks its way through the streets of Somerville and Cambridge through October 6th. HONK! Committee representatives, Reebee Garafalo and John Bell – who are also members of  The Good Trouble Brass Band –  join us for an overview.  Then The Good Trouble Brass band wows us with their music.From there Daniel Gómez Llata,  the Town Crier of Provincetown joins us to talk about what it takes to host the first-ever Provincetown Town Crier Competition. It kicks off next Monday, with 15 Town Criers from the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom  crying and vying for prizes and top honors.Finally, its “Laughs in Spanish.” The play  is part whodunnit, part telenovela and 100%  fun. The director Mariela López-Ponce and actress Paola Ferrer, who stars as Estella, join us to talk about the production.  “Laughs in Spanish” is  presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company at Roberts Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts. Through Oct. 12.