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Aqua String Band’s 2010 Performance – “It’s About Time!” by Roniannacone. CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you’ve never lived in Philadelphia then you, like me, have never heard of the Mummers Parade<\/a> – perhaps the oldest folk festival in the U.S.\u00a0 The Mummers Parade happens on New Years Day, and is based on the Mummers Play tradition from the U.K. and Ireland, which is one of several begging traditions from around Christmas and New Years.<\/p>\n

Though the Mummers Parade has been broadcast locally since 1993 and digitally streamed since 2011, it seems to have had far less fan fair than the West coast’s Rose Parade<\/a>.\u00a0 I hate to think this is because of football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve never lived in Philadelphia then you, like me, have never heard of the Mummers Parade – perhaps the oldest folk festival in the U.S.\u00a0 The Mummers Parade happens on New Years Day, and is based on the Mummers Play tradition from the U.K. and Ireland, which is one of several begging traditions from… Continue reading Mummers Parade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-5748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holiday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10132,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/09\/02\/holidays-in-movies-labor-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":5748,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in Movies: Labor Day","author":"leems","date":"September 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"detail from Labor Day Parade in New York's Union Square, 1882. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_Day#\/media\/File:First_United_States_Labor_Day_Parade,_September_5,_1882_in_New_York_City.jpg The first labor day parade in 1882 was captured in illustration in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 12 years before it became a federal holiday to recognize the nature and power of organized labor. 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