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Lexington’s 2025 Patriots’ Day Parade

April 19 @ 2:00 pm

The William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps at Lexington's annual Patriots' Day parade. (Photo Courtesy William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps)

Lexington’s Patriots’ Day Parade honors Lexington’s history as the birthplace of liberty and provides a fun-filled afternoon for families of all ages. This year’s parade on Saturday, April 19, at 2 pm, will be bigger and more exciting than ever. It will include reenactors, marching bands, floats, fife & drums, clowns & jugglers, dancers, dignitaries, celebrities, and the Shriners.

The afternoon features a 125-unit parade, marching over 2.5 miles along Massachusetts Avenue from Maple Street to Worthen Road.

There will be nearly 2,700 marchers, reenactors, and performers including (in no particular order):

  • The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
  • The West Point Band
  • William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum
  • The Spirit of ’76: Fifes and Drums
  • U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps
  • Navy Band Northeast
  • Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. of Mass.
  • The 6th Connecticut Regiment
  • 1st Delaware Regiment
  • Greater Boston Firefighters Pipes and Drums
  • Marblehead Base U.S. Submarine Veterans
  • Blues Brothers, the Next Generation
  • National Lancers, ceremonial cavalry squadron
  • Hobby Knoll Stable Clydesdales
  • Aleppo Shriners
  • Lexington Minute Men
  • Bedford and Lincoln Minute Men
  • Lexington Historical Society and Lexington Scout Troops 10, 119, and 160 with a historic pumper fire truck
  • Lexington civic groups including Town Meeting members, Lexington Youth Commission and Lexington Visitors Center
  • Dance performances by Artisan Dance Academy (ADA), Samskriti School of Dance, The Dance Inn and db studios

Additionally, numerous Lexington civic groups are joining the parade, including Lexington Lions, LexSeeHer Inc., Association of Black Citizens of Lexington (ABCL), Chinese American Association of Lexington (CAAL), Indian Americans of Lexington (IAL), Chinese Americans of Lexington (CALex), Korean-American Organization of Lexington (KoLex), LexFarm, Lexington Field & Garden Club, Lexington High School classes of 1965, 1975 and 1985, Lexington Goes Purple and many more!

Lineup subject to change.

Details

Date:
April 19
Time:
2:00 pm
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