Sunday, 04 Jun 2023: Honk Fest West 2023--Sunday
Yesler Terrace Park,
903 Yesler Way, Seattle, WA 98122
Location: Yesler Terrace Park, 903 Yesler Way, Seattle, WA 98122
Sets between: 12pm & 6pm
Details: TBD
Event start: 12:00pm. Performance start: 12:00am.
Sunday, 11 Jun 2023: RBC Race for the Kids
Riley Park
4601 Ontario St, Vancouver BC V5H 3H4
This year our event will be taking place on Sunday, June 11th at Riley Park in Vancouver from 9am-12pm. The race begins at 9am, followed by an on-site carnival till 12pm, with 6000 participants attending.
We are looking to engage a group to help build excitement and encourage the runners to move from the race finish line to the festival side, and feel your band would be perfect for this!
We have limited parking around the site, but I should be able to allocate 1 VIP Parking spot for the band in the carpark of Riley Park. (we will designate this for whoever is driving Ross)
8:30am – 8:40am – Band to play in RBC Team Meeting area (shown on start site map attached, by 2k warmup)
Break time – the band can take a break in our volunteer tent (#9 on the start site map)
9:25am – 9:35am – Band to start playing outside the volunteer tent and walk a loop of the teams area (gravel carpark of Nat Bailey stadium), walking slowly over to the festival side to encourage participants to follow
9:35am – 9:40am - Band to play in front of the main stage, opening up the festival program (Main stage is #33 on the festival site map attached)
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Latest update:
Arrival time: 8.00am
Performance times:
8:30am – 8:40am – Band to play in RBC Team Meeting area
Break time – the band can take a break in our volunteer tent or green room
9:25am – 9:35am – Band to start playing outside the volunteer tent and walk a loop of the teams area (gravel carpark of Nat Bailey stadium), walking slowly over to the festival side to encourage participants to follow
9:35am – 9:40am - Band to play in front of the main stage, opening up the festival program
Event start: 12:00am. Performance start: 8:30am.
Friday, 16 Jun 2023: Nightingale Spring Fair
Nightingale Elementary
This event is planned for 5-8pm.
There will be other entertainment and performers. A more info comes our way, we will adjust the call time if necessary.
Event start: 5:00pm. Performance start: 12:00am.
Sunday, 18 Jun 2023: Hug Burnaby Mountain Again
More details to follow, on Burnaby Mtn
Same location. Can't pay us much but good times with good people preventing worse times for all beings..
noon-4pm event, but we would play between 2:30-3:30
“Our Father`s Day Hug Burnaby Mtn event is on June 18th and we would love to have the Carnival Band lead the procession from the soccer field to the path and towards the WatchHouse. The final details are not set in stone so this is my best guess.”
Event start: 12:00pm. Performance start: 1:00pm.
Sunday, 16 Jul 2023: Honk!BC at RedGate
Redgate at 5th'ish and Main
doors open at 6pm
Event start: 7:00pm. Performance start: 10:00pm.
Sunday, 16 Jul 2023: Honk!BC at Grandview Park outdoor stage and parades
Grandview Park
More details to come
Event start: 12:00pm. Performance start: 11:00am.
Sunday, 23 Jul 2023: Fort Langley Jazz Festival
Fort Langley jazz festival sote
we are roving, performing between 11-3pm…yay jazzz!!!!
Event start: 11:06am. Performance start: 11:00am.
Saturday, 29 Jul 2023: Carnival Band Hot hot hot Weather Auxiliary Outdoor Workshop 29 July
Christine's place!
657 202 Street Langley V2Z 1V7
Carnies, we need to celebrate ourselves with a party- it's been too long. And our outdoor auxiliary workshops have been an added bonus to our Monday night workshops…which adds up to having an outdoor Saturday workshop in the summer, 29 July to be precise. Followed by a potluck and swim … in… rural Langley? Yes, after 23 July when you enjoy the charms of the Jazz festival in Fort Langley in North Langley, you can follow up with a Saturday afternoon in South Langley with Darryl ….playing music at 2-4 pm and then maybe some more music after eating and swimming and roaming the garden and petting the horses.
Christine’s place: 657 202 Street Langley V2Z 1V7 (south of 8th ave…don’t let your GPS take you to 65th ave!!)…To get to south Langley…driving there from anywhere in Vancouver travel via hwy 99 is easy- go south as far as you can, almost to usa border, and last exit before border is 8th AVE EAST and take that and travel east about 7 min to 202 St and turn right and we are the third house on the right (house is bright BLUE). If you take hwy 1 take the hwy 15 exit all the way to 8th ave, turn Left and then go east to 202 St and turn right).
Bring your + one, children and assorted Greenhorns.
This could be you:

Or you could be lounging here:

Or meet this guy:

And sometimes special people even have a special event here:

Event start: 2:00pm. Performance start: 12:00am.
Saturday, 12 Aug 2023: Beedie Rock
Malkin Bowl
We play 4 x 20minute sets, and should be done by 8:30pm. The actual event is over at 11pm. This is a high profile gig playing between acts on a main stage.
Event start: 4:00pm. Performance start: 4:00am.
Wednesday, 23 Aug 2023: Trout Lake Lantern Festival
Trout lake community centre: procession around the lake
Event start: 8:00pm. Performance start: 8:00pm.
Saturday, 26 Aug 2023: Summer Nights at Southlands in Tsawwassen
Southlands at Tsawwassen
We are holding our Summer Nights at Southlands event, with a craft market, food trucks and performers, and we thought it would be amazing to have the Carnival Band's joyous atmosphere and wild entertainment.
I'm so glad to see Carnival Band is still at it- I discovered your magic waaaaay back in the early days of producing Illuminares at Trout Lake!
- 4-8pm is the total event
- Greenroom in the Grange building, which is adjacent to the Red Barn and Market Square
We will draw attention to the event as well as enlivening the mood of vendors by roving around and leading the public back in to the event space. We will have use of a stationary site as a main performance space with one or more microphones so we can perform some of our songs with more complicated lyrics that benefit by being heard.
We will do roving for 20 minutes at 5pm and 6pm and a set of 30-40 minutes in place at 7pm. But we will remain open to fitting around other performances that they might not want drowned out!
Event start: 4:00pm. Performance start: 5:00pm.
Thursday, 31 Aug 2023: Veggie contest
Clinton park
Hi Tim it's Eva from Frog Hollow😊 I think that getting a hold of you sooner than later is a good idea to try to book you for the harvest festival/Veggie Contest this year out at Clinton Park on August 31. Can you let me know if you guys can make it? I hope so, love you guys, thank you. Hope this text finds you in good health and happiness.🌈”
Event start: 12:00pm. Performance start: 12:40pm.
Tentative: Saturday, 09 Sep 2023: Hope Brigade Days
Hope BC
parade down the main street of Hope BC to the festival grounds
(still negotiating if there are other adjacent gig possibilities)
Event start: 11:00am. Performance start: 11:00am.
Tentative: Sunday, 10 Sep 2023: McSpadden Country Faire and Zucchini Races
East 4th Ave and Victoria Drive at McSpadden Park adjacent to QVAnnex Elementary
(We hope to play in the middle and the end of the event instead of the beginning and the end.)
Event start: 11:00am. Performance start: 12:00am.
Friday, 27 Oct 2023: North Van Cares
Pipe shop at the Shipyards in North Van
A fundraiser on the North Shore at the Pipe Shop at the Shipyards in North Vancouver.
The North Van Cares Foundation is a non-profit on the North Shore. It was started during COVID to provide seniors and other compromised folks help getting groceries and prescriptions. It has morphed into a community based, grassroots organisation that raises money for other non-profits and charities on the shore.
With our first gala in October 2022 we raised $2k for each of our 4 charities. The Black Bear Society, North Shore Search and Rescue, Backpack Buddies and the Lookout Shelter. We felt that focusing on fund raising for others would free them up to do the good works they are so great at.
Event start: 12:00am. Performance start: 12:00am.