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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.
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 ...
What time does the Mummers Parade start? The 2024 Mummers Parade will begin at 9 a.m. ET on New Year's Day (Jan. 1, 2024).Mummers Parade history. Immigrants from Scandinavia were some of the first ...
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 ...
If you want to keep the holiday celebration going after Christmas and try something truly different, check out the Mummer's Day Parade in Philadelphia on New Year's Day. The oldest continuous folk ...
Notable articles on the Mummers Parade, an annual parade held New Year's Day in Philadelphia since 1901. The main article for this category is Mummers Parade . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mummers Parade .
Dry, mild and gusty weather is expected for the 118th annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019.