Rome Parade 2024 – FREE admission

Posted on December 17th, 2023

Rome Parade 2024. Italian artists and American marching bands will gather at 3:00 PM in Piazza del Popolo to celebrate New Year’s Day together with a grand musical parade.

Rome Parade is the major FREE event that showcases numerous performers from American high school bands, Italian folk groups, and majorettes along a route twice as long as in previous editions. In addition to covering the main streets of the Trident, the iconic heart of Roman shopping, the parade will extend to the Villa Borghese park.

From San Angelo, Texas, comes the Angelo State University Ram Band; from San Francisco, California, the Archbishop Riordan High School Crusader Marching Band; from Virginia, the Charlottesville High School Marching Knights; from Sparks, Nevada, the Edward C. Reed High School Raider Band; from Overland Park, Kansas, the Howlin’ Husky Marching Band; from the northern Chicago area, the Libertyville High School Marching Wildcats; from New York, The Saints Brigade Drum and Bugle Corps; from Dallas, the Spirit of America Dancers; from the global community of women, the Red Hat Society; from Southern California, The Spirit of Great Oak Marching Band & Guard; from Birmingham, Alabama, the Vestavia Hills Rebel Marching Band; and from Palm Beach County, Florida, the Vestavia Hills Rebel Marching Band; from College Park, Georgia, the Woodward Academy.

From Italy, there are the Stilt Artifacts by Myriam Abutori, the United Associations of Historical Reenactment of Roman Ivano Cavaterra, the Historical Group and Flag Throwers of Castiglion Fiorentino, and the ever-present Folk Group ‘La Frustica’ from Faleria.

Accompanying the lengthy artistic procession are the most characteristic models of Vespa Side Car Tours and the Megaflatable Balloons, giant artistic inflatable balloons that, in addition to the traditional Rome Parade, Senator, and Centurion, introduce two new characters: the majorette Marie and the officer Trevor the Triangle.