OLONGAPO GRAND MARDI GRAS

 

 

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Olongapo Grand Mardi Gras celebrated every October 27 – 29 in Olongapo City (Central Business District). This is a festival featuring street-dancing along Magsaysay Ave. with acoustic bands and stand-up comedians playing to the merriment of residents. Highlight of the event is the Halloween parade participated in by SBMA officials and employees, locators and school students garbed in the scariest costumes on board Halloween-themed floats.

 

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Olongapo City’s version of the German worldwide phenomena “Oktoberfest” took place this weekend. As the signature event of the city (together with the City Fiesta which takes place every December), the Olongapo City Mardi Gras was a three-day event celebrating the best in musical and dance attractions by featuring some of the most acclaimed bands, performers and entertainment personalities in the country.

Initiated in 1981 by then-City Mayor Richard J. Gordon in order to promote businesses in the city, the first Mardi Gras in Olongapo was quite a disorganized affair. There were no stages set up along the Ramon Magsaysay Avenue and each of the numerous bars along it just had their most popular bands and performers go out in the streets to perform their acts while Filipinos and Americans walked around.  Read More:  https://subic.morefun.ph/olongapo-city-mardi-gras-past-future/

 

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