Ocean City Hosts Christmas Parade This Friday

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Ocean City's annual Christmas Parade travels down Asbury Avenue at 6 p.m. Friday. The parade features a variety of bands, floats and other entries.

The parade rolls from 6th to 11th Street. This year's event will feature more than 65 entries, culminating with Santa Claus greeting boys and girls by horse-and-carriage.

Parade entries include the Ocean City High School Band, the Interboro Middle and High School Band, the Pitman High School Band, Absegami High School Band and Wildwood Middle School and High School Band.

More than 80 singers from the Upper Township School District, the state champion Ocean City High School girls’ soccer team, 2019 Ocean City Citizen of the Year Carrie Merritt and the casts of Ocean City Theater Company’s “2019 Holiday Spectacular” and “Frozen Jr” will participate.

At least five dance schools will compete in the “Dancin’ Through the Downtown” competition. Little Miss, Junior Miss and Miss Ocean City all will be on hand.

New this year will be two cold-air balloons from StarBound Entertainment. Look for the Snickerdoodle the Reindeer and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer balloons.

The Upper Township school choir will sing in front of City Hall after the event.

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