Holiday spirit marches into Mid-South with parades, tree lightings

By: FOX13 Memphis News Staff

MID-SOUTH – The schedule of holiday parades, Christmas tree lightings and other festivities are in place, and Santa Claus is on the move.

Now all you have to do is figure out which one(s) to attend, which Christmas sweater to don.

Below is a (running) list of holiday events schedule in Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas.

Memphis

• Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees, Memphis Museum of Science & History, Nov. 18-Dec. 31
• Peabody Hotel Christmas Tree, Nov. 24-Dec. 31
• Memphis Zoo Lights, Nov. 24-Jan. 6
• Starry Nights, Nov. 24-Dec. 31, Shelby Farms Park
• Holiday Wonders, Nov. 24-Dec. 30, Botanic Gardens
• Deck the Diamond Spectacular at AutoZone Park, Nov. 24-Dec. 31
• “Who’s Holiday!” Stage performance at The Circuit Playhouse, Nov. 24-Dec. 31
• Season of Delight, at Crosstown Concourse’s Central Atrium, Dec. 1, 8, 15, 5 p.m.
• “A Christmas Carol,” Theatre Memphis, Dec. 1-23
• Beale St. Holiday Parade, Dec. 9, 2 p.m.
• “The Nutcracker,” Orpheum Theatre, Dec. 9–17

Tennessee

• Dyersburg: Parade, Nov. 27, 7-9 p.m.
• Alamo: Parade, Nov. 27
• Collierville: Parade, Dec. 1, Town Square
• Covington: Parade, Dec. 2, 10 a. m., Downtown
• Brownsville: Parade, Dec. 2
• Munford: Dec. 2, 5 p.m. McLaughlin Drive
• Bartlett: Parade, Dec. 2, 4 p.m., W.J. Freeman Park
• Brighton: Parade, Dec. 4, 7 p.m.
• Lakeland: Parade, Dec. 7, 7 p.m.
• Germantown: Parade Dec. 9, 2 p.m. corner of Kimbrough Rd & Farmington Blvd
• Arlington: Parade, Dec. 16, 11 a.m., Airline Rd
• Collierville: Parade, Dec. 1, Town Square

Mississippi

• Clarksdale: Nov. 30, 7 p.m.
• Tunica: Nov. 30, Christmas Tree Lighting
• Batesville: Christmas Parade/Tree lighting, Dec. 1, 4 p.m., Downtown
• Oxford, Parade, Dec. 2, 1 p.m., Downtown
• Byhalia: Christmas Parade, Dec. 8, 4 p.m., 28 Chase Street
• Hernando: Parade, Dec. 9, 2 p.m., Pleasant Ext & Commerce St.
• Horn Lake: Dec. 9, Horn Lake Middle School

Arkansas

• Helena: Parade, Dec. 2, 6 p.m.
• West Memphis: Parade, Dec. 5, 7 p.m., Meadowbrook Shopping Center
• Marion: Parade, Dec. 7, 6:30 p.m., Block Street East

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