2016 Bermuda Day Parade Map, Route & Order
The 2016 Bermuda Day holiday will take place tomorrow, with the Sinclair Packwood Memorial Cycle Race getting underway at 8.50am in Somerset, the Half-Marathon starting at 9am in Somerset, the Heritage Junior Classic Race starting at 9.45am on Front Street, while the Parade is set to begin at 1.30pm from Marsh Folly Road.
The 2016 Bermuda Day Parade will begin at 1:30pm. It will move along Marsh Folly Road and continue right through to the top of Cedar Avenue. The parade then turns left onto Church Street, takes a right down Court Street, a right along Front Street, and finally up Queen Street. Groups will have a final performance in front of Wesley Square on Church Street. Floats will make a right turn on to Church Street, park in front of City Hall and remain there on display throughout the afternoon.
The Bermuda Day Parade Order, as printed in the official brochure, is below:
Official Opening of Parade
- 1. Bermuda Longriders Motorcycle Club & Association
- 2. Gerald Young – Classic Motorcycle
- 3. Roger Francis- Classic Car
- 4. St. John’s Ambulance
- 5. Royal Bermuda Regiment Band
Bermuda Day Grand Marshals & Recognised Attendees
- 6. Grand Marshal – Annie Young
- 7. Grand Marshal – Edmundo Faria
- 8. Grand Marshal – Harold Millet
- 9. First Lady Grand Marshal – Norma Nottingham
- 10. Miss Bermuda 2016 – Alyssa Rose
- 11. Miss Hospitality 2016 – Kayla Williams
- 12. Bermuda Nurses Association Nurse of the Year – Beverley Howell
Bermuda Day Parade
- 13. The Bermuda Rifle and Drill Team
- 14. Special Olympics Bermuda Float
- 15. The Berkeley Institute Marching Panthers
- 16. Bermuda Shrine Club
- 17. For God’s Purpose
- 18. Department of Corrections Float
- 19. Warwick Gombeys
- 20. Portuguese Cultural Association
- 21. Dynamic City Rockettes
- 22. It’s a Skate Thing!
- 23. United Dance Productions
- 24. Gombey Evolution Troupe
- 25. Anchor Boys
- 26. Sui Generis Dance Team
- 27. Sandy’s Middle School Float & Band
- 28. PHC Majorettes and Drum Corps
- 29. Calypso Queen Eileen and Goodtyme Entertainment
- 30. Place’s New Generation Gombeys
- 31. Bermuda African Dance Company
- 32. Challenge Dance Crew
- 33. Bermuda Squad Entertainers
- 34. Amigos da Casa dos Açores da Bermuda
- 35. Vanity Dance Group
- 36. H&H Gombey Troupe
- 37. Dynamic Revolution Dance Group
- 38. Family Roots to Ability Shoots to Community Fruits Float
- 39. Boundary Breakers Dancers
- 40. Department of Community and Cultural Affairs Float
- 41. St. George’s Original Dancerettes
- 42. Gombey Warriors
- 43. The Bermuda Carnival Revelers
- 44. Passion Bermuda
Still don’t put the Gombeys at the back!! You people are weird!!
A subliminal way of degrading and disregarding OUR culture. De Gombeys have ALWYS been de Grand Finale in OUR activities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone disrespect de old Cedar Tree.
I see four gombey groups. It seems to me that it would be weird to have them all at the back
Passion here I come again 3yeara in a row
Thank you Bernews