Philly Artists Determined to Cross Over Into the Surrealistic Mummer Dimension
If you live in Philadelphia and have ever hung around on Broad Street on New Year’s Day, well you may have noticed all the colorful, eye-popping brigades trotting and dancing down the street in glorious celebration. Of course, I’m referring to the annual Mummer’s New Year’s Parade, a Philadelphia tradition that invites everyone’s inner freakiness to come out and play. Man, it’s a blast! The costumes! The music! The soft-pretzels! Yeeee!
Bewildered by all of the excitement, at times you may have even been inspired to JOIN one of those brigades…or perhaps, dare you think it, start your own. Well, a group of local artists have dared to think it, and they need your support. Led by Sonja Trauss and Space 1026-er Aryon Hoselton, The Vaudevillains New Years Brigade is a collective of new-wave Mummer wanna-bes. They have put together an awesome ecological-themed routine with mashed up music, charming choreography and conceptual props, all in the hopes of crossing over into that surrealistic Mummer dimension. Let’s help these kids live out their dream!
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