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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.
As the annual Mummers Parade kicked off the new year, Philadelphia city leaders explained the heightened security efforts in wake of the tragedy of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans.
The Philadelphia Eagles are celebrating the franchise's second Super Bowl win with a hometown parade on Friday. USA TODAY is providing live coverage of the parade and following victory rally ...
The parade itself will start at 11 a.m. near the South Philadelphia stadium, proceed up Broad Street to City Hall and then west on to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the art museum.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...