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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. Mummering - Wikipedia

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    2013 St John's Mummers Parade Mummering is a Christmas -time house-visiting tradition practiced in Newfoundland and Labrador , Ireland , Philadelphia , and parts of the United Kingdom . Also known as mumming or janneying , it typically involves a group of friends or family who dress in disguise and visit homes within their community or ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Holiday guide: Best things to do and places to visit this season

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    The Mummers Parade is one of the longest-running traditions in the nation, with the first parade taking place in 1901 as a celebration of the New Year in Philadelphia. The colorful procession ...

  8. List of Christmas and holiday season parades - Wikipedia

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    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. Temperatures to soar in Philadelphia for New Year's Day ...

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    Dry, mild and gusty weather is expected for the 118th annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Temperatures to soar in Philadelphia for New Year's Day Mummers Parade Skip to ...