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Washington Market Children’s Halloween Parade

Date: Sunday, October 27, 2024

Call Time: 12:00 noon

Call Location: Greenwich Street & North Moore Street, TriBeCa (Manhattan)

Truck duty: Trumpets

CALL TIME

  • 12:00 noon

CALL LOCATION

  • Greenwich Street & North Moore Street, TriBeCa (Manhattan)

BY SUBWAY

  • CLOSEST AND EASIEST:  1 train to Franklin St
  • 2ND BEST: A/C/E trains to Canal St. 
  • This event falls on a SUNDAY. Allow ample travel time due to delayed train times.
  • Be sure to check the MTA website for service changes and the MTA Live Map before you leave home!


PARKING

  • There is some street parking, but you will need to arrive early to find it.
Uniform/Costume (Everyone):
  • Family-friendly Halloween Costume (this is for the kids!)
  • Our winning 2024 theme is BRAT CAT–meaning you can be “Brat Cat,” “Cat,” “Brat,” or whatever floats your boat (see “Alternative to Brat Cat,” below)! Have you had a 365 Party Girl Brat Summer? Come dressed in your best BRAT attire (think lime green, attitude, confidence) and/or CATS (whiskers, tails, cute kitten ears). We’ll be sure to be bumpin’ that.
  • ALTERNATIVE to BRAT CAT: Come as whatever the heck you want, including in your street clothes. This is a costume-optional event, and “costume” can be as simple as a silly hat you borrow from Leslie…

BUT:
  • Please, NO SCARY/GORY costumes for the children!
  • Please be culturally sensitive with your costume choice.
Everything! The 2024 Marching Set, Warmups, Ballad, Bonus Tracks, and GOATs. All music and GOATs will be available at the performance, as always!
  • 34th Street Chorale warm up
  • Ballad (Turn Turn Turn)
 
The 2024 Marching Set:
  1. Flowers
  2. Lil Boo Thang
  3. Scream and Shout
  4. Fat Bottomed Girls
  5. Made You Look
  6. Poker Face
 
The 2024 Bonus Tracks:
  1. Cake By The Ocean
  2. I Get Around
  3. Take On Me
  The GOATs:
  1. Feel It Still
  2. I Want to Hold Your Hand
  3. Locked Out of Heaven
  4. Starships
  5. Timber
  6. Uptown Funk
  7. Viva La Vida
 
The Wedding Music:
  1. Firework 
  2. Give Me Everything Tonight
  3. Touch Me

More About the Music:
  • Put your music into a flip-folder (and don’t forget to bring a lyre)
  • Suggestion: If you need to put the GOATs in a flipfolder, consider using a separate flip folder than the one with your Marching Set to avoid making that one too unwieldy.
  • Make sure you have a new QBAC logo placard in front of the pieces in the Marching Set, Bonus Tracks, GOATs, and Wedding Music.
  • TIP from the past experience: This gig has a history of being WINDY and/or CHILLY: Bring extra binder clips, rubber bands, or something to keep your music from flying away!
  • This is a small parade of 3 or so blocks down Greenwich Street and into Washington Market Park, where we will play our Bonus Tracks, GOATS, etc., and the kids and their parents will dance and immerse themselves in the fun!
  • After the performance, a group of us always go out for lunch nearby in our Halloween attire–feel free to join us!
 
This gig is rain or shine! In the case of rain, we will not march and will instead find shelter and perform our stand-and-play portion for the kids and families under a giant overhang.

Restrooms

  • Try to use a restroom before you get to step-off. Neighborhood businesses are usually okay about letting you in. 
  • There are bathrooms in the park, where we will be doing the stand-and-play at the end of the gig.