Parade Sounds Popular

For Trey Davey, the Owensboro Christmas Parade’s sounds were the best. Each year the parade starts with police cars wailing their sirens. You could see him excitedly making the connection between his toy squad cars and these real ones. Next came the big fire trucks with their unique sirens, and he loved those too. In addition to the emergency vehicles, Davey loved the marching bands. There were three middle school bands, four high school bands and one college band all playing Christmas carols. When there were gaps in the noise, he seemed to lose interest in the parade, but when new sounds arrived he would run back to the window to see what was coming next. The most unusual sound he heard came from Danny Self’s 1928 circus calliope, which signaled the arrival of Santa Claus.