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For Fiesta San Antonio fans, even a mini June Fiesta with fewer events and just the Texas Cavaliers River Parade is cause to celebrate
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El Rey Feo LXX Kenneth Flores (left center) with his wife Donna and others enter the Arneson River Theatre at La Villita during the 2018 Texas Cavaliers River Parade in 2018. This year’s River Parade will be held June 21.Staff file photoShow MoreShow Less
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Raquel Rother takes a bite of her chicken on a stick at A Night in Old San Antonio in 2018. NIOSA this year will be held June 22-25.Kin Man Hui /Staff file photoShow MoreShow Less
Watch: King William House Float Parade gives San Antonio a different Fiesta experience
Monte Bach
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With the King William Fair and King William Parade both canceled due to COVID-19, several local neighborhood associations decided to throw a different kind of parade of homes, borrowing an idea that originated in New Orleans in February when neighbors there decorated their front yards and porches to celebrate Mardi Gras after the celebration was canceled.
Homeowners were encouraged to festoon their homes Fiesta-style. Many residents went the extra mile with elaborate themes, such as a battle of the vaccines on Mission Street, a luchador-inspired Medal Mania on Madison, and Moira Rose s wall of wigs at the Schitt s Creek homage on Adams.
Note: Be sure and check out the Current of the House Float Parade.
Like countless festivals across the globe, Fiesta has been in a hazy holding pattern since the COVID-19 pandemic reared its head in early 2020. Last March, the Fiesta San Antonio Commission announced that the 2020 celebration had been rescheduled from April to November due to safety concerns. While animated conversations ensued about a brisk Fiesta leading into the holidays, the postponement amounted to nothing more than wishful thinking. Amusingly, Fiesta diehards had no intention of waiting until November. Instead, they got creative in quarantine and found safe ways to celebrate in April. Folks took to social media and posted lively photos of women in flower crowns, dogs in serapes, doors decorated with wreaths, even chicken on a stick being sold curbside with the hashtag #AtHomeFiesta.
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Fiesta s King William Parade 2021 pulls a Mardi Gras with a parade of house floats on display in south San Antonio
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In a normal year, Leigh Anne and Nick Lester would be spending the day of Fiesta’s King William Fair the way they usually do: skedaddling to their hometown of New Orleans to attend the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
But this is far from a normal year. And so with the King William Fair and parade both canceled due to COVID, they’re staying in town and have gone all-out decorating their home for the King William House Float Parade. The free, socially distant event encourages homeowners to festoon their homes Fiesta-style, so visitors can come and enjoy the spectacle, which runs Thursday through April 25.