DIRECTORY

JOBS

SITE MAP

MEDIA KIT

NEWSLETTERS

Mummers

The Mummers Parade is held each New Year\\'s Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It is believed to be the oldest folk festival in the United States.

Local New Years Associations (Clubs)compete in one of four categories (comics, fancies, string bands, and fancy brigades). They prepare elaborate costumes and moveable scenery, which take months to complete. This is done in clubhouses – many of which are on or near 2nd Street (called \\"Two Street\\" by some local residents in the Pennsport neighborhood of the city\\'s South Philadelphia), section – which also serve as social gathering places for members.

The parade has been broadcast since 1993 on WPHL-TV, which has live streamed the event on its website since 2011. After a national campaign to get the parade nationally televised, an edited two-hour broadcast of the parade was picked up by WGN America and WGN-TV; the broadcast debuted January 3, 2009.