Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind.

Parades are held over the three days before Lent ; the most important participants are the Gilles, who go out in traditional costumes on Shrove Tuesday and throw blood oranges to the crowd.

Russia's officials are similarly adverse to Pride Parades.

Parades such as Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Manchester's Pride events attract significant investment and create tourist revenue, and cities are beginning to realize, firstly, that the acceptance of lesbian and gay culture is fast becoming a sign of urban " sophistication ", and secondly, that gay-oriented events, such as pride parades, the World Outgames and the Gay Games, are potentially lucrative events, attracting thousands of gay tourists and their dollars.

There are plenty of other activities to take part in right downtown with the yearly Independence Weekend Celebration that includes Parades, cook offs, carnival, fireworks and a Duck Race in Flaherty Park.

Three Sovereign's Parades are held each year outside the Old College to mark the " passing-out " and the final parade at Sandhurst of the Senior Division.

Parades led by Western-type brass bands are common, often competing in volume with a shawm / chuigushou band.

Parades held are distinct from the ticker-tape parades held on the " Canyon of Heroes " on lower Broadway, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade held on Broadway from the Upper West Side downtown to Herald Square.

Parades in Nassau are judged in various categories ; A ( or Major ) Category, the B Category, Individual costume, and fun groups.

Parades, jigs, hornpipes, maypole dances and other music and dance types are a part of the Landship Society's celebrations.

The Target Holidazzle Parades are a series of parades located on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Among these visitors are audiences for the Sunset Parades performed Tuesday evenings during the summer months by the United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps with the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon.

However, the lyrics are written from the perspective of a war veteran, containing the line " wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir " and tracking the bathetic progress of the former soldier's war medal: " It sells at market stalls / Parades Milan catwalks ".

Usually, during the summertime, there are Guard Parades, where the New Guard marches from Akershus Fortress accompanied by a band, through Oslo's parade street, Karl Johan ’ s Gate.

Parades are often in the morning, while fireworks displays occur in the evening at such places as parks, fairgrounds, or town squares.

Parades are held and many schools are closed.

Parades are held in the capital city ( Islamabad ).

Pasties are worn by many neo-burlesque performers and are also found in night clubs, fetish parties and parades, such as Pride Parades.

* Friday Evening Parades are held at Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C. during Friday evenings in summer ( May through August ).

Parades were held, led by the U. S. flag being flown upside down as a symbol of distress, followed by military reviews and march-pasts of the Soldiers ' Circles.

Parades and other celebrations mark the ceremony.

The Allen Eagle Escadrille, Allen High School's marching band, participated in the 1994 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland, the 1995 and 1999 Texas Gubernatorial Parades, the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, and marched in the 117th Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California on January 2, 2006.

Parades in other Soviet cities only used the chromatic fanfare trumpeters in file formation in front of the bands, the parades in Leningrad ( now St. Petersburg ) also used the field drums as well.

It was also a participant in the 1994 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland, being the only high school band chosen to play at the Dublin Lord Mayors Ball ; the 1995 and 1999 Texas Gubernatorial Parades ; and the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

Parades, music, dance, fireworks, food and drink all feature in the celebrations.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

As a consequence of this, the organiser of the festival announced that no further Love Parades would be held and that the festival was permanently cancelled.

Parades, dances and festivities throughout the week feature famous stars from Portugal and Brazil.

Carnival means weeks of events that bring you colourfully decorated floats, contagiously throbbing music, luxuriously costumed groups of celebrants of all ages, King & Queen elections, electrifying jump ups and torch light parades that wind their way through the streets at night, the Jouvert morning: the Children's Parades and finally the Grand Parade.

LGBT Pride Parades often attract violence because of their public nature.

Paris hosts annual Gay Pride Parades on June 27, with attendances of over half a million.

Barcelona, Valencia and Seville hold also local Pride Parades.

Other Pride Parades which happen in Greater Rio de Janeiro take place in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro's ex-capital in the times when Rio was the Brazilian capital and a separated Federal District, and Nova Iguaçu, where about 800. 000 persons live and is located in the center of Baixada Fluminense, which compose all northern suburban cities of Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area numbering 3. 5 million people.

" The 300 + member SDSU Marching Band, " The Pride of the Dakotas ", given the special name the Millennium Band in 2000 by the South Dakota State Legislature, has marched in the 1981 and 1997 Presidential Inaugural Parades in Washington, D. C .; A Capital Fourth in 2000 in Washington DC which was broadcast on PBS ; the 2003 and 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California making them the second collegiate band in the history of the Rose Bowl to be invited to march twice when their team was not competing ; and the Korean War Monument Dedication at the state's capital Pierre in 2004, in the company of two other college bands and 60-some high school bands from across the state.

Other cities from Madison, WI and Lubbock, TX, to Newfane, NY and Bullhead City, AZ, have had Boom Box Parades, but none have endured or been as large as Willimantic's.

McAleese was a member of the Catholic Church Episcopal Delegation to the New Ireland Forum in 1984, and a member of the Catholic Church delegation to the Northern Ireland Commission on Contentious Parades in 1996.

Blanchard also boasts one of the largest Veterans ' Day Parades in Oklahoma around Veteran's Day.

Venues include Canada Day Events ( Kelso Beach ), Christmas Parades ; in the city, neighbouring towns and villages throughout Grey and Bruce Counties, Opening ceremonies such as Festival of Northern Lights and various nursing homes.

List of Republic of China National Day Parades

It also featured clips of past Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades.

The 1995 Victory Day Parades at Red Square and Moscow's Poklonnaya Hill created the modern Russian Military band we know today.

Category: Ten Day Festival and Parades

Parades followed daily from Thursday night through Mardi Gras Day.

The Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band Parades happens every Saturday night during the summer months ending Labour Day weekend.

A 21-gun salute is carried out for National Day Parades in Singapore by the Singapore Artillery during the presidential inspection of parade contingents.

Ceremonial Parades take place each Sunday morning ; the grandest of these being Remembrance Sunday and the Grand Day at the end of summer.

WJR's Detroit Tigers home games were broadcast in stereo, as were the Thanksgiving Day Parades.

They toured Russia, appeared in " The Lonely Goatherd " sequence in the film The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), as well as in the ABC-TV 1958 television special Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf, graced many World's Fairs, and were part of five Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades.

It was a traditional feature of Fourth of July parades in parts of the United States in the nineteenth century, and " Horribles Parades " continue to be part of the Independence Day celebration in several New England communities.

The steps of the City Hall is use as a VIP seating area at National Day Parades held there.

The band continues to support local events, such as the Hendy and Pontarddulais carnival, and Remembrance Day Parades.