Prize History of the String Bands
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(in EST)

Until the 2013 Mummers Parade

2013 Order of March
Place Band Theme Captain
1. Greater Overbrook Hillbillies
2. Durning
3. Trilby
4. Broomall Doctors/nurses/patients
5. South Philadelphia Farmers
6. Hegeman British Invasion
7. Woodland Knights
8. Aqua Hobos
9. Uptown Cops and Robbers
10. Polish American Rio
11. Avalon Circus
12. Ferko Minstrels
13. Greater Kensington Cowboys
14. Quaker City Indians
15. Pennsport Egyptians
16. Duffy Bakers
17. Fralinger Scary/Haunted

Hi there.... I am a huge mummers fan who lives in Easton, PA. Here you will find finishing orders from all the string band portion of the parades.

I realize I did not amass all this information. It was from a gentleman who had a page up with all the prize info, it was about 1997. If anyone knows who it was, I will give rightful credit.

If I left anything out, please e-mail me so I can fill in the info. Thanks for looking!

1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 (NO PARADE) 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 (NO PARADE)
1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954
1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
1st prize winning bands 1st prize winning captains Leadoff bands and where they finished Hall of Fame Inductees SURE String Band LPs

  • Thanks to Steve Volkert "Nomoremummy" for all his help filling in past captains of most of the non-association bands.

  • Thanks also to Russ Coleman "RoccoMole", owner of String Band Archives for his help filling in most of the information of correct themes/captains as well as the Captain's prize history. Thanks also to Russ for providing most of the points results from 1976-present.

  • Thanks also to Bill McDowell, long-time member of Fralinger (since 1954.) Bill helped me get most of the marching orders pre-1980.

  • Thanks as well to Chris Zadroga, a member of Fralinger since 1980. Chris helped me get the points results from 1956-1975.

  • Thanks to Brian Reed, a member of Greater Overbrook and Joe Marchesa "SilverBaritone", from Polish American for all his videos that he has posted on YouTube.

    • © 2005 finkmeister@rcn.com