The Little 5 Points Halloween Festival & Parade is an annual Halloween festival and parade held in Atlanta, Georgia

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. It is the signature Halloween festival in the southeast and one of the top ten Halloween events in the country. On the Saturday before Halloween (October 31), over 35,000 people come to Little Five Points, Atlanta’s edgy bohemian district. Bands play in the square, local vendors sell arts and crafts

Arts and crafts

Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" and "the rest"...

, and the highlight of the celebration is the Little Five Points Halloween Parade. The parade

Parade

A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind...

 features local celebrities, biker

Motorcycling

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s in costume, live music, hearse

Hearse

A hearse is a funerary vehicle used to carry a coffin from a church or funeral home to a cemetery. In the funeral trade, hearses are often called funeral coaches.-History:...

s, several local marching band

Marching band

Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...

s, and many parade floats that are put together by community action groups and local businesses.