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The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia. Featuring modern mummers , the event started in 1901, is the longest-running continuous folk parade in the United States. [ 1 ]
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] 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 ...
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 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 ...
About 15,000 mummers now perform in the parade each year. They are organized into four distinct types of troupes: Comics, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades. All dress in elaborate costumes. There is a Mummers Museum dedicated to the history of Philadelphia Mummers.
Having watched Philadelphia's annual New Year's Day Mummers parade since he was a child, Raab set out to capture the world of the Mummers. STRUT! featured music from turn-of-the-century ragtime and Dixieland hymns to Broadway show tunes and pop music hits. Raab also produced the film's soundtrack.