Chesapeake Energy Parade of Lights

The Chesapeake Energy Parade of Lights rings in the holiday season Friday, Nov. 27 with a glittering procession that will set the city’s heart aglow.

The 27th annual parade celebrates “Holiday Dreams, Holiday Wishes!” with a promenade of illuminated floats, marching bands and strolling groups that lights up the night on the day after Thanksgiving and draws an estimated 100,000 people to downtown Fort Worth each year.

The parade--featuring floats and groups from schools, community organizations and nonprofits as well as the city’s leading corporate citizens--will roll from the corner of Belknap and Throckmorton streets at 6 p.m. Nov. 27.

The band of merrymakers will bring revelers to the base of the Sundance Square Christmas Tree, where Santa will appear to hear the dreams and wishes of all ages.

General admission is free, but guests can purchase Street Seats, or reserved, festival-style seating along the parade route, at prices starting at $10 for adults, $7 for seniors or kids 12 and under. Family Fun Packs of four seats are available for only $28. Street Seats are on sale now at www.fortworthparadeoflights.org.

Music lovers also can package discounted Street Seats for the parade with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s “Home for the Holidays” concert Nov. 27. The annual holiday concert will fill the air with favorite carols, a family sing-along and performances by the Dorothy Shaw Bell Choir and the Southwestern Seminary Master Chorale, all conducted by FWSO Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Purchase the “Home for the Holidays” parade and concert package by telephone at 817-665-6000 or at the FWSO Ticket Office, 330 E. Fourth Street, Suite 200, in downtown Fort Worth.

The concert package is just one option for holiday fun before and after the parade. Good food, games and live entertainment start at 2 p.m. at the parade’s downtown Holiday Fun Zone presented by XTO Energy, where friends and families make a day and night of this holiday affair.

Follow all the fun as it develops at www.fortworthparadeoflights.org.

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