Scores of costumed performers took to the streets of their south Philadelphia stomping grounds for a New Year’s celebration of Mummers tradition, far from the customary parade route and despite official cancellation of the annual event due to the pandemic.
Defying a ban on large gatherings, participants in brightly colored costumes, some with faces painted, paraded Friday down Second Street, following trucks that blared string band or popular music.
Some wore masks, but many did not. Oothers marched with them wearing "South Philly Still Struts" sweatshirts. WPVI-TV reported that other groups of Mummers marched through other sections of south Philadelphia.
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