DECADE IN REVIEW — Quaker City String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2019 with their nautical theme Last But NAUT Least!. This victory gives Quaker City 22 1st prize string band...
DECADE IN REVIEW — South Philadelphia String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2018 with their dead cowboy theme West In Peace. This is South Philadelphia’s second string band championship of the...
DECADE IN REVIEW — Quaker City String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2017 with their Game of Thrones theme Winter Is Coming. This is Quaker City’s third string band championship of the...
DECADE IN REVIEW — South Philadelphia String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2016 with their Mexican Day of the Dead theme Dia De Los Muertos. This was South Philly’s first string band division championship in 41...
DECADE IN REVIEW — South Philly Vikings won 1st Place in the fancy brigade band division in 2015 with their Avatar theme Day Of The Avatar – Master of the...
DECADE IN REVIEW — Fralinger String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2015 with their robot theme The Machine. Fralinger’s first-place win in the 2015 Mummers Parade was also the 100th anniversary of Fralinger String...
DECADE IN REVIEW — Quaker City String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2014 with their gold rush theme California Here We MUM. According to the Quaker City String Band website, this was the first time in costume – ever – for first time captain,...
DECADE IN REVIEW — Fralinger String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2013 with their haunted theme Back From the Dead. On December 10, 2012 A four-alarm fire destroyed the Second and Wharton streets warehouse in South Philadelphia where the...
DECADE IN REVIEW — South Philly Vikings won 1st Place in the fancy brigade band division in 2012 with their shapes and color theme Ka”LIGHT”oscope: Harness The Power of the...
Below are the 2020 String Band Order of March and Themes for the 2020 Mummers Parade in Philadelphia PA. String Band Themes 1. Jersey What In Carnation 2. Woodland Caliente En Cuba 3. Avalon Going Down The Bayou 4. South Philadelphia Carouspell 5. Fralinger Lunar...
DECADE IN REVIEW — Woodland String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2012 with their jungle theme It’s A Jungle Out There. It took 87 years, but Woodland String Band finally won their first 1st prize string band championship in...
DECADE IN REVIEW — Jokers won 1st Place in the fancy brigade band division in 2011 with their ancient Greece theme Clash of the Titans. Also, the Jokers Captain Joe Gallagher won first prize...
DECADE IN REVIEW — Quaker City String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2011 with their clown theme My Kind of Clown. This was the first of four 1st place performances by Quaker City String Band this...
DECADE IN REVIEW — South Philly Vikings won 1st Place in the fancy brigade band division in 2010 with their futuristic theme Apocalypse 2110. In 2010, an NBC casting director saw their performance of “Apocalypse: 2110” on YouTube and invited them to audition...
DECADE IN REVIEW — Fralinger String Band won 1st Place in the string band division in 2010 with their hillbilly theme Feudin’ Fussin’ & Fightin’. This was Fralinger’s unprecedented eighth consecutive first prize performance....
