The 2026 String Band Spectacular, the official judged competition event of the Philadelphia Mummers String Band Association, ...

Since 1901 string bands have had a presence in the Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade, but on this 125th year, participants ...

With sequins and glitter, music and pageantry, the nation’s oldest folk parade strutted through downtown Philadelphia Thursday, delighting thousands who lined Broad Street despite fierce, damaging ...

Powerful winds disrupted the 125th annual Mummers Parade and forced the String Band competition to be suspended for the first ...

Jim Brown is the Presentation Coordinator for the South Philly String Band, whose presentation of Castlevania at the 2025 ...

In March of 2025, at the annual Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, I was one of hundreds of festival-goers entranced by a group of up-and-coming musicians exploring a storied American ...

SANTA CRUZ — If you attended elementary school in the Santa Cruz area and maybe even beyond in the past four decades, there’s a good chance you learned about the world of nature and how to keep it ...