{"id":429633,"date":"2025-12-06T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/429633\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:48:16","slug":"joe-ferry-christmas-string-band-gives-back-in-memory-of-mummers-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/429633\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Ferry Christmas String Band gives back in memory of Mummers members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The Joe Ferry Christmas String Band performs in South Philadelphia each year in memory of loved ones they lost too soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In 2019, shortly after the new year celebrations, Joe Ferry, his fiance, Kelly Wiseley, and friend, Dennis Palandro, were killed in a car crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In their memory, members of various string band organizations came together to put on a holiday performance. It has since become an annual tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Each year, they ask the community to donate items for the holidays. This time, they collected hats and gloves for area school children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to see the performance in action and why they keep coming back every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/videoClip\/18159275\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED: Hundreds step up to &#8216;Do It Like Dylan&#8217; in memory of NJ student<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the tragic passing of a 20-year-old student, his family vowed to &#8216;Do It Like Dylan.&#8217; Now, hundreds of people are joining the cause.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The Joe Ferry Christmas String Band performs in South Philadelphia each year in memory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":429634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,2772,199696,8621,27229,11090,199695,57434,199697,1448,2830,18281,1311,18823,11590,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-429633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-annual","10":"tag-christmas-string-band","11":"tag-donation","12":"tag-drive","13":"tag-holiday","14":"tag-joe-ferry","15":"tag-members","16":"tag-mummers","17":"tag-pa","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-performance","20":"tag-philadelphia","21":"tag-philly","22":"tag-south-philadelphia","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115674829155083486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}