Performed at the 1988 Philadelphia Mummers Show of Shows

I Love A Piano

Performed at the 1986 Philadelphia Mummers String Band Show of Shows

Take Your Girlie To The Movies

Performed at the 1987 Philadelphia Mummers Show of Shows

Who's In The Strawberry Patch

Performed during one of our weekly rehearsals.

Dark Eyes

Rehearsing our 2006 prize winning theme, ¡Viva Latina!

¡Viva Latina!

Rehearsing our 2007 prize winning theme, One in Spirit 

One in Spirit

Rehearsing our 2009 prize winning theme, Your Wish is Our Command

Your Wish is Our Command

Prize winning theme performed at the 2008 Philadelphia Mummers Show of Shows

Westward Bound

Stage Fright

Performed during one of our weekly rehearsals

'Round And 'Round

Can You Read My Mind

Rehearsing our routine for the 2003 Philadelphia Mummers New Years Day Parade

Starship Fralinger

Played during one of our weekly rehearsals

Cotton Candy And A Toy Balloon

When You Wish Upon A Star

Our 1987 prize winning routine played during one of our weekly rehearsals

Copabanana

Off the 1989 Philadelphia Mummers String Band Association record "On the Street"

Strike Up The Band

Performed during the 2008 Philadelphia Mummers Show of Shows

Star Wars

Performed during the 2009 Philadelphia Mummers Show of Shows

Down Among The Sheltering Palms

Performed during one of our many concerts throughout the year

I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Warming up prior to the 2017 Philadelphia Mummers Parade

It's A Big, Wide, Wonderful World

Fralinger String Band rehearsing for the 1992 New Years Day Parade

Hail to the Redskins

Fralinger String Band performing during the 2017 serenade for champion Quaker City String Band

Flickers

Fralinger String Band during the 2012 New Years Day Parade

Scotland the Brave

Forget You

Fralinger String Band warming up 1/1/1991

Fralinger Has Its Irish Up

Sailing Away on the Henry Clay

Best Of The Mummers Spotlight Series 6

Back Home Again In Indiana

Rehearsing for the 2018 New Years Day parade

Let's Go To The Movies

Rehearsing their 2018 theme: Movie CHROMATIC

Movie CHROMATIC (2018)

Rehearsing for their 2016 theme: Undiscovered

Undiscovered (2016)

That’s Entertainment (2018)

Rehearsing for the 2018 New Years Day parade.

What I Did For Love (2018)

The Fralinger String Band has been a trailblazer within the String Band division, with many “firsts” to its credit. The band was one of the first to introduce the saxophone, now the predominant instrument among String Bands, and was the first to use vocalized harmony in its musical performances. Fralinger was also the first String Band to emulate brass instrument sounds with reed instruments (1971), the first String Band to feature the “Big Band” sound (1972) and the first String Band to explore the Dixieland Jazz music genre (1973). Of local distinction, Fralinger was the first String Band to receive the Philadelphia Mayor’s Achievement Award (1973) and the first to appear in a major Hollywood film (“Blowout”, featuring John Travolta in 1981).

Since 1914, it has been a pleasure for many generations of Fralinger members to perform and delight audiences of all ages. We hope this tradition of Philadelphia Mummery and Fralinger entertainment excellence continues well into the 21st century.

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