Hornucopia Festival, Featuring 35+ Horn & Brass Fueled Bands

Hornucopia Festival

The Hornucopia Festival takes place September 4th through 14th featuring over 35+ horn and brass fueled bands playing at over 9 different venues in the Bay Area.

The Hornucopia Festival is a new festival featuring the best horn and brass driven bands in the Bay Area and beyond for two weeks of mind blowing, soul shaking shows, workshops and presentations. Taking place September 4th – 14th at 9 different Bay Area venues, The Hornucopia Festival is a celebration foremost of the uniquely dynamic and strong horn and brass community in San Francisco. The Festival also aims to explore the historic and contemporary power of horn and brass music to bring people together while exuberantly bridging genres, languages, borders and cultures. through educational workshops, a DIY parade, and over 30 eclectic bands, The Hornucopia Festival will feature music as diverse as Gypsy Brass to Afrobeat, Marching Bands to Cartoon Bands, Punk Rock Polka to New Orleans 2nd line, delighting hot and cool Jazz cats, klezmorim, soul stirrers and salseros alike in one brassy, horny celebration.

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Scott Beale
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