43rd Annual Harvard Square Oktoberfest and HONK! Parade

When:
Sunday, Oct 09, 2022 12:00p -
6:00p

Where:
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Cambridge, MA

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, Food, Kid Friendly, Music, Party, Social Good, University

Event website:
https://www.harvardsquare.com/43rd-annual-oktoberfest-and-honk-parade-2

We’re back! The Harvard Square Business Association is excited to announce the return of the 43rd Annual Oktoberfest and slightly irrepressible and fabulously madcap 17th Annual HONK! Parade on Sunday, October 9th, 2022. Come be a part of this unique, irreverent, family-friendly annual tradition where musicians and spectators “reclaim the streets for horns, bikes and feet”!


New this year: The Filipino American Festival and The Grolier Poetry Book Shop 95th Anniversary Festival!


Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest features food from all over the world, arts, crafts, vintage goods, free samples, sidewalk sales and one-of-a-kind gifts. 


This annual celebration of fall features live music, including a Passim stage and an all HONK! Review on the main stage. Dancing in the streets is encouraged!


One of the highlights of the festival is the HONK! Parade which arrives in the Square at approximately 1pm. In its 17th year, the HONK! movement has become a global phenomenon. This year, more than 20 HONK! bands from around the country will march from Davis Square to Harvard Square. Spectators will be treated to a horn-tooting, hand-clapping, foot-stomping, mind-blowing spectacle and everyone is welcome to join the back of the parade and make their way to Oktoberfest.


Traditionally held at our annual MayFair celebration, the Rotary Club of Cambridge’s “Chalk on the Walk” art installation will transform Church Street into a colorful display or artistry and creativity.


Oktoberfest in Harvard Square was started in 1978 by the late Frank Cardullo, a Square mover, shaker and owner of the renowned Wurtshaus, which served up traditional German food from 1917 to 1996. The early festivals were in keeping with old world customs. Over the years, the festival has taken on a more discerningly Cambridge vibe to become an Oktoberfest unlike any other.


Oktoberfest 2022 partners include:

Alden & Harlow, Commonwealth Wine School, HarborOne Bank, Harvard University Employees Credit Union, Irving House, Leaf Guard, Minute Rice, Passim, Renewal by Andersen, T-Mobile, TideSmart, and Wusong Road. 


See the full schedule here.

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