Annual Starkville Christmas parade features Famous Maroon Band, other university dignitaries
The Mississippi State Famous Maroon Band plays Christmas music while marching last year in Starkville’s Christmas parade. PHOTO: Office of Public Affairs
Numerous Mississippi State students, employees and dignitaries -- including the Famous Maroon Band, Miss MSU Morgan Nelson and the university’s EcoCAR team -- will help ring in the Christmas season Monday [Nov. 27] in the annual Starkville Christmas parade.
The theme of this year’s parade is “All is Bright,” and the 6 p.m. event is led by Grand Marshal Roy A. Perkins, Starkville’s vice mayor and longest-serving alderman.
To facilitate the parade, a majority of Russell Street -- an important link to MSU’s campus -- will close at 4 p.m. The closure includes the length of the road from its intersection with Fellowship Street to its Lampkin Street intersection. The parade itself will begin near the Russell-Lampkin intersection and progress to Main Street.
For more information about the parade, visit www.starkville.org/things-to-do/starkville-christmas-parade.
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Carl Smith | Public Affairs
