15 days away from the 2023 Mummers Parade!
The Mummer’s Parade is on January 1, 2023!
Announced! Live Casino & Hotel Philadelphia is the new Title Sponsor of the 123rd annual Mummers Parade. As the title sponsor has made it possible for the Mummers Parade to broadcast live on WDPN-TV (MeTV2), WFMZ.com, and the WFMZ+ app available on Firestick, Roku, Apple TV, IOS, Android devices for the first time in the parade’s history.
The parade begins at 9:00am, and we march from City Hall south on Broad Street to Washington Avenue.
Please join us for all the festivities!! Dave Grzybowski runs the PhilaStringBands page on instagram and he is counting it down! The photos and the music on this page are tremendous!!
Visit the Mummers Museum! The photos on that site are wonderful. If you visit you will see many costumes in person.
Special thanks to Dave Grybowski for all of these photos from the Philadelphia String Band Association!!
Mummer's Parade Countdown for 2023!
Greater Kensington String Band at the judges stand for the 2020 Mummers Parade
1946 parade with the Joseph A. Ferko String Band
Photo taken from City Hall on Broad Street!
Theme: “Ferko’s Rays Of The Rainbow” with captain, Joseph A. Ferko (4th prize band) @jaferkosb
1978! South Philly String-Band
1978! South Philly String-Band theme “Toy Soldiers On Parade” (3rd prize with captain, Jim Donaghy. A total of 22 String Bands paraded on New Year’s Day 1978)
Joseph A. Ferko String Band
South Philly String Band
Wow! So much work into this.
Greater Kensington String Band
Avalon String Band
Showing off the costumes!
Jacky with Brian Donnelly
Happy Hat Day/Kazoo Day!! Honored to be at The Mummers Museum with helping out with The Membership Drive!!! Thanks to everybody who registered and is now a proud member of The Mummers Museum!! Let’s keep our house alive & Thanks for supporting Mummers Row! Jacky with Brian Donnelly, Vice President of the Mummer’s Museum and of Murphy Ruffenach Funeral Home.
Mummer on a Mike
Jacky Bam Bam and Felicia Punzo
Satin Slipper NYB
Aqua String Band 1978
1979 The Maminski family
Costumes!
At Live!!
Mummer's Parade!
Costume!!
Anthony Celenza Joseph A. Ferko String Band
Ferko String Band will march 9th on New Year’s Day 2023!
The display!
South Philly String Band
Quaker String Band
Captain Denny Palandro of the South Philly String-Band!
Denny has been captain of SPSB since the 2008 parade and has won the 1st prize captains honors in the 2020 and 2022 parades. Thanks to PhilaStringBands for the awesome pic!
Showing off the costumes!
Showing off the costumes!
String Band Weekend in North Wildwood! 2022
String Band Weekend in North Wildwood! 2022
Bobby Gagliardi Avalon String Band! We are highlighting some of the Mummers as we count down to the parade!
Jacky Bam Bam, Bob Kelly FOX 29 & David Grzybowski as they preview the 2023 Mummers Parade!
