Officials announce 2021 Fiesta schedule
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Grupo Folklorico De Bendiciones dancers enjoy the crowd during the Fiesta Flambeau Parade on April 27, 2019. While the parade is not taking place in 2021, may other signature events will take part in Fiesta next month.Tom Reel, Staff / Staff photographer
The Fiesta Commission on Tuesday released its schedule of events for San Antonio s 11-day party next month.
Though some notable events have decided to skip this year s Fiesta, many of them will take place from June 17-27.
Last year, San Antonio s biggest party was canceled for the first time since World War II in response to the pandemic. This year, Fiesta was moved from April to June after the commission consulted with medical experts.
Watch: King William House Float Parade gives San Antonio a different Fiesta experience
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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.