I have attended the summer festival parade in Fishers for many years, going back to the days of the Freedom Festival.  The 2023 Spark Fishers Parade drew the largest crowd I have seen, at least from my vantage point this year on 116th Street near Municipal Drive.

When the city looks back on how this parade went, there was one clear problem with this year’s parade.  Public address announcer Tom Britt, and officials along the parade route, politely asked attendees to stay off the street, on the south sidewalks and not watch the event from the median.  There were way too many people way past the sidewalk into the street and on the median.  The city will need to figure out how to enforce the rules for the safety of the crowd.

But, that aside, here is my attempt at providing video highlights of this year’s parade.  My apologies for some of the video glitches, this was my first time attempting a video editing job of this magnitude.  Also, my sincere apologies to the HSE High School marching band, I had a catastrophic technical issue.  I thought I had your performance recorded, but once reviewing it, found it missing.

Again, this video features highlights, not the entire parade.  So be kind in critiquing this video attempt, warts & all.