THE PARADE
The Annual City Of Lights Holiday Parade welcomes the holiday season with the arrival of Mr and Mrs Claus and the traditional lighting of JFK Plaza and the Wannalancit smoke stack. On Saturday, November 25 at 4:30 p.m., the parade will once again commence from Jackson Street and end at City Hall, where Santa Claus will make his first appearance of the season, and will throw the switch to light City Hall!
FAMILY FUN
City of Lights is a family event with something for everyone. Main attractions include the Holiday Parade, Photos with Santa, a holiday movie screening at the Donahue Family Academic Arts Center and the annual hot chocolate and window decorating contests (vote for your favorite!).
DOWN-HOME HOLIDAY CONCERT
presented by UniCare
Get in the holiday spirit and join us after the parade for a Down-Home Holiday Concert featuring the Holiday Ramblers, Ward Hayden & the Outliers, and Counterfeit Cash Johnny Cash Tribute.
A Lowell Tradition
The Winter holiday season is kicking off with “spectacular brilliance.” The annual time-honored tradition of the City of Lights Parade is taking Downtown Lowell by storm.
2023 City of Lights Grand Marshals:
Sam Hor and Larry Wilson, co-founders of the Lowell Youth Leadership Program, an organization that embodies the spirit of community and youth leadership.
The Lowell Youth Leadership Program (LYLP) is the revival of the award-winning National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) which was discontinued in 2007. NYSP was a program that provided sports and enrichment activities for under-served Lowell youth. Several former NYSP attendees have recreated that program in the form LYLP. LYLP is a free 4 weeksummer camp that offers courses including Robotics, STEM, Dance, Art, Community Engagement, as well as, a variety of sports activities. Breakfast and lunch is included as is transportation to and from the camp. LYLP’s objective is to try and lessen the effect of the participants environment as an impediment to their success. By emphasizing leadership skills and civic engagement LYLP hopes to create an environment that fosters a desire to give back to the community and creates a legacy of leadership.
City of Lights Sponsors 2023
Thank you to all of our Sponsors who's contributions make City of Lights possible!
PRODUCING PARTNERS
MERRIMACK RIVER SPONSORS
CANAL SPONSORS
The Down-Home Holiday Concert is presented by
CONCORD RIVER SPONSORS
FRIENDS OF CITY OF LIGHTS
Attorney George Theodorou
Boulay Law Firm, LLC
Buff City Soap Chelmsford
Campbell Communitites LLC
Councilor Dan Rourke
D'Youville Senior Care Foundation, Inc
Dracut House of Pizza
Fred C Church
James F O'Donnell & Sons Funeral Home
James O'Hearn Insurance Agency, Inc
Lowell Festival Foundation
Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra
Manolis Family Foundation
Dr. Mark Gilchrist, MD
McDonough Funeral Home
Middlesex Community College - Bedford
Mill City Environmental
O'Connor Portraiture
Paul Ratha Yem - Global Realty Network
Princeton Corporate Centre
UKG