House of HONK! & Moment NYC co-present:
Radiant Revelry for Make Music New York
A Winter Solstice Happening
featuring A Ghost Band Processional
Radiant Revelry for Make Music New York
A Winter Solstice Happening
featuring A Ghost Band Processional
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Baker Falls 192 Allen Street, Manhattan
3pm to 8pm, All ages, Free/pay what you wish
With:
Ghost Band Plays Ghost Venues
HONK Family Band
Moment Collective (feat. members of Groove Collective and guests)
DJ Illexxandra
Plus!
Parade prep at HONK!’s Craftivation Station
Tarot Readings
with The Oracle Electric, 6 to 8pm
Full bar and cafe menu
available from Baker Falls
Schedule:
3pm – 4pm: DJ Illexxandra spins during parade prep with HONK NYC!
4pm – 5pm: Processional with Ghost Band Plays Ghost Venues around the LES
4pm – 5pm at Baker Falls, 100 Years of LES Music, MOMENT video and Ghost band tour calls-ins
– Parade Return to Baker Falls –
5:30pm: Moment Collective
6:30pm: HONK Family Band
7:15 – 8pm: Come on stage with Moment Collective -“All City Winter Welcome to the Longest Night of the Year!”
Regeneration is the very nature of New York. Cycling through time, one discovers cultural rebirths over and over in the city, questioning what it means for any era to simply “BE.”Join House of HONK! and Moment NYC for a joyous Solstice celebration honoring the vibrant creativity of Manhattan’s “Greater Lower East Side,” part of Make Music Winter.
About the Bands:
Ghost Band Plays Ghost Venues, a project of musician Stefan Zeniuk and HONK NYC!, honors creative spaces that once were. The ensemble’s 3rd annual expedition explores the area around East Houston Street. Parade through multiple generations – and genres – of music history, haunting once revered but now shuttered music halls, sites currently home to boutiques, banks, and hotels. The hallowed incubators of NYC’s musical heritage, cornerstones of punk, hard-core, jazz, folk, house, experimental, indie rock, salsa, performance art, drag culture, and more, may be gone but are not forgotten. Touch the past and sing a song for the town that continues to inspire. Venues to be rehabilitated for one night only include: Lismar Lounge, Princess Pamela’s Southern Touch, Cuando, The Spiral, Save The Robots, Gas Station, Slug’s Saloon, The Stone, Meow Mix, ABC No Rio, Tonic, Cake Shop, Luna Lounge, Pink Pony, Surf Reality, and The Living Room.
HONK FAMILY BAND
Born on the Open Streets of NYC in 2022, HONK Family Band brings the sounds of The Big Easy and beyond to inclusive events across NYC. The ever-evolving group blends New Orleans brass with Brazilian samba, performing everything from Rebirth Brass Band and Duke Ellington to the Talking Heads, Nirvana, Pharoah Sanders, Fela Kuti, and our very own Frank London. They’ve led parades for Jersey City Jazz Fest, and Bryant Park, have performed at The Mermaid Parade and Sinterklaas, and are the go-to band for your local kids’ Halloween parade. The ensemble is a commissioned project of House of HONK! further growing the organization’s mission of “…bringing street band music and spectacle culture to audiences everywhere.”
MOMENT Collective is a manifestation of the living collaborative museum of music in New York City, MOMENT NYC. In collaboration with artist groups, venues, institutions, and DIY spaces, MOMENT NYC brings together people of all ages and backgrounds through music. We create gigs for working musicians, student opportunities, and free spaces for people who love to sing, dance, and make music. MOMENT Collective is a super-band formed for this year’s winter solstice celebration, made up of some of the many fantastic musicians who have worked with us, new friends, and extended family. Featuring founding members of the Grammy-nominated NYC band Groove Collective – Chris Theberge, Genji Siraisi, and Jonathan Maron, with special guests Will Bernard, Marcio Garcia, Tony Jarvis, Eliot Krimsky, and special guest sit-ins, it will be a night of improvisation and spontaneous expression, excavating the continuum of independent music making in downtown Manhattan.
