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  2. Mummers parade: Everything you need to know about Philly's ...

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    The Mummers Parade is Philadelphia's annual New Year's Day celebration that started over 120 years ago. Visit Philadelphia describes the Mummers Parade as "a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade, but ...

  3. Mummers Parade - Wikipedia

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    The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia.Started in 1901, it is the longest-running continuous folk parade in the United States. [1]Local clubs, usually called "New Years Associations" or "New Years Brigades", compete in one of five categories: Comics, Wench Brigades, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades.

  4. What Is the Mummers Parade? - AOL

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    The Mummers Parade in Philadelphia is taking place again in 2024. The annual celebration of the New Year has a long, long history, dating back to 1901 and their first "formal, city-sponsored ...

  5. Greater Kensington (string band) - Wikipedia

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    Greater Kensington is a string band in Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade. The Greater Kensington String Band was organized in 1946 and first marched in the New Year's Day Mummers Parade in 1948. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The band, known as "GKSB", has taken first prize on three occasions [ 3 ] and has finished in the top ten forty one times including ...

  6. Ferko String Band - Wikipedia

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    [5] The 1929 incarnation not only won the event, but it was estimated that its parade float was the largest ever up to that point. [6] In addition to the Mummers Parade, Ferko also has a long history of performing in various parades and special occasions within the United States, [7] [8] Canada, [9] as well as places far away as France and Hong ...

  7. Will holiday weekend weather put a damper on Eagles game ...

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    Weather outlook for both the Philadelphia Eagles final regular season home game and the New Year's Day Mummers Parade.

  8. List of Christmas and holiday season parades - Wikipedia

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    North Wales: Santa Arrival Parade at Montgomery Mall; Philadelphia: 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade; Philadelphia: Mummers Parade on New Year's Day; Pittsburgh: Celebrate the Season Parade; Scranton: Greater Scranton Jaycees Santa Parade; State College: Penn State Homecoming Parade; West Chester: QVC West Chester Christmas Parade

  9. Aqua String Band - Wikipedia

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    The Aqua String Band is an all-volunteer string band, best known for its participation in Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade. [1] The band was founded in 1920, and participated in its first Mummers Parade on New Year's Day in 1921. [2] [3] By 1949, this ensemble was the largest string band to make an appearance in Philadelphia's Mummers' Day ...