The cowboy party [La Fiesta de los Vaqueros] Parade live TV!

[Ptah]

https://www.kold.com/livestream/

Fiesta de los Vaqueros is a weeklong event in Tucson, Ariz., featuring the "world's longest non-motorized parade" and the largest outdoor midwinter rodeo in the United States. The fiesta starts with the parade—a two-mile-long procession of more than 200 entries, including such old horse-drawn vehicles as buckboards, surreys (with or without the fringe on top), western stagecoaches, and Conestoga wagons. The first parade was in 1925; now about 200,000 people line the parade route.
The eight days of rodeo include the standard events as well as daily Mutton Bustin' contests. In these, four- to six-year-olds test their riding skills on sheep. There are also demonstrations by Appaloosa trick stallions and by the Quadrille de Mujeres, a women's precision-riding team.

[WhiteTara]

1. thanks.

[Goddessartist]

2. Thank you!

I just sent this to my daughter and her husband, who is Guatemalan, and my two grandsons!

[MLAA]

3. Unfortunately today is a little cold and overcast. Usually Rodeo Days are welcomed with clear

cloudless sky’s and low - mid 70s. When I first moved to Tucson in the early 80s I was surprised to find schools gave 2 days off for the celebration.

[Ptah]

4. I marched in the Tucson Parade with my high school band in 1968 and 1969.

I'm old.

[MLAA]

5. I moved here in 1982 right out of college. Have lived around the world for work over the years

but always kept a home here. I love the desert.

[Kali]

7. I don't know...

seems like it rains a lot of years.

I was thinking yesterday while it was raining and snowing out here and the radio mentioned the rodeo and parade "oh yeah parade in the rain, it is February"

[MLAA]

8. I must be stuck back in the good old days when rain and monsoons were more like clockwork 😉

[Ptah]

6. La Charreada

[yellowdogintexas]

9. and here I thought the non motorized Ft Worth Stock Show parade was the longest

Maybe it is the longest running. I will now have to go look that up .

I know the Stock Show passed its centennial a couple or three years ago but do not know how long the parade has been running.

edited to add: I found some info on our parade

In Fort Worth, Texas. For over 100 years an event called the Stock Show & Rodeo takes place in Fort Worth's Cultural District. The Stock Show starts off with a parade in downtown Fort Worth. The Stock Show Parade is the biggest western themed parade in the world, and the biggest non-motorized parade in the world. By non-motorized it is meant that no manmade means of motion are allowed, all parade entries either walk, ride a horse, ride a cow, or ride a wagon pulled by a horse or a cow.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. another note: I have lived here since 1989 and have yet to see the parade

It is either too cold, raining, snowing, someone is sick or I had to work.
Maybe next year!!! (we did not have it in 2020 & 2021 due to COVID and in 2022 due to exceedingly high winds)

[Ptah]

11. I'm not sure whether any parade is the longest is that important.

In my home town the Whoop-up Parade was the local thing.

I enjoy seeing teams of horses!