 Honk Fest West (Seattle, WA) invited the band to return again to play their festival in April.The band also made another island tour, making their way to Salt Spring Island for the first time.Regularly appearing at numerous peace marches, Critical Mass rides, Vancouver's Chinese New Year parades, Illuminares, and Parade of the Lost Souls, the Carnival Band has also performed at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the Gibsons Jazz Festival, Altonale in Hamburg, Germany, the Blaydon Races and the International Street Band Festival hosted by the Tenth Avenue Band in Newcastle, with the Baybeat Streetband in Morecambe, the Vancouver Sun Run, the Vancouver Children's Festival, and many other festivals, weddings, funerals, community related events, clubs, and parties in and around British Columbia.