{"id":486544,"date":"2026-01-02T07:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486544\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:03:13","slug":"mummers-parade-2026-frigid-cold-in-philly-delays-string-band-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486544\/","title":{"rendered":"Mummers Parade 2026: Frigid cold in Philly delays string band competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philly Elmo has been at previous Mummers celebrations, but only at the parades and parties on 2nd Street \u2013 or \u201cTwo Street,\u201d as it\u2019s known. This year was the first time they performed in front of City Hall, before cameras that broadcast the parade to 95 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2012, we\u2019ve just been like popping up to the Mummers and trying to get in where we fit in \u2026 but to actually be involved and being welcome to the club is just truly amazing and I\u2019m so grateful,\u201d said Tony Royster, PME\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n<p>The director of Danza Tonantzin, Pamela Plata, said that she was happy and proud to see her dancers performing, but also emotional because of the extraordinary pressures that Mexican communities across America have faced. In April, Philly\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-carnaval-de-puebla-ice-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Carnaval de Puebla was canceled over concerns that ICE operations<\/a> would impact the event, which deprived the dance group of its regular opportunity to perform in front of tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important for us to send a message to our community that there is inclusion, we are part of this big celebration,\u201d said Plata\u2019s interpreter and Carnaval de Puebla committee member Olga Renteria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have them and them as well. Being South Philly-based, it\u2019s a partnership that just seems extremely natural,\u201d said Jesa Stiglich, Golden Sunrise\u2019s first-ever female president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also very proud to be a club that is known for diversity, inclusion and being welcoming,\u201d she added. \u201cBeing a place where people are comfortable walking up and saying, \u2018Hey, can we join?\u2019 And we say, \u2018Absolutely.\u2019 The Mummers Parade as a whole is becoming more and more inclusive, and we are glad to be able to be on the forefront of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philly Elmo has been at previous Mummers celebrations, but only at the parades and parties on 2nd Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[186539,145477,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-486544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-mummers-parade","10":"tag-new-years-day","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115824230658243099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486544","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=486544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}