Don’t miss a long-lost Toledo tradition that’s come roaring back in recent years, as the King Wamba Carnival Parade launches this year’s Old West End Festival. Originally conceived in 1909 as the “Mardi Gras of the West,” the King Wamba festivities are an old-fashioned carnivalesque pageant built around a parade through one of Toledo’s most beautiful and historic neighborhoods. You can be part of the parade — adults, kids, companies or performers are asked to join the march, and are being recruited through their Facebook page. The parade begins at 10am on Robinwood Ave., and features bands, performers, civic leaders and fun-seekers, young and old, ending at the Historic Mansion View Inn with the coronation of this year’s King Wamba and Queen Sancha, presided over by Judge Arlene Singer. Saturday, June 2. www.facebook.com/people/King-Wamba-Parade.
Long live the (new) king
Don’t miss a long-lost Toledo tradition that’s come roaring back in recent years, as the King Wamba Carnival Parade launches this year’s Old West End Festival. Originally conceived in 1909 as the “Mardi Gras of the West,” the King Wamba festivities are an old-fashioned carnivalesque pageant built around a parade through one of Toledo’s most beautiful and historic neighborhoods. You can be part of the parade — adults, kids, companies or performers are asked to join the march, and are being recruited through their Facebook page. The parade begins at 10am on Robinwood Ave., and features bands, performers, civic leaders and fun-seekers, young and old, ending at the Historic Mansion View Inn with the coronation of this year’s King Wamba and Queen Sancha, presided over by Judge Arlene Singer. Saturday, June 2. www.facebook.com/people/King-Wamba-Parade.
