A TRADITION RETURNS IN 2024!
We now offer Prize Money for the following Categories*:
Marching Bands $2300 | Community Bands $1550 | Drill and Dance Teams $350 | Community Made Floats $800
Marching bands earn Points like any other Local Band Competition!
Parade and Festival Registration Deadline is September 14th!
*Categories are judged by a select professional judging organization.
Oct 5th Festivities start at 8am with Breakfast of Champions "Meet the Grand Marshals", 9am Community Village Booths, 10am Opening Ceremonies, 11am Parade with Professionally Judged Contest and prizes, all day Food Trucks, SCPOC Wine and Beer Booth Fundraiser, and festivites include a Street Dance from 1:30pm to 5pm
Oct 5th Festivities start at 8am with Breakfast of Champions "Meet the Grand Marshals", 9am Community Village Booths, 10am Opening Ceremonies, 11am Parade with Professionally Judged Contest and prizes, all day Food Trucks, SCPOC Wine and Beer Booth Fundraiser, and festivites include a Street Dance from 1:30pm to 5pm
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Sign up for the Parade!
Over 2K in our Parade every year! It’s our 56th Year and a Tradition returns: Prize money for Marching and Community Bands, Dance and Drill Teams and Community built Floats! Professional Judges. Marching Bands earn competition points.
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Santa Clara Parade and Festival of Champions
October 4th, 2026 @ 11AM
Downtown Santa Clara @ Franklin Square
Farmers Market, Shops, Community Village, & Street Dance -
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Downtown Street Dance will be POP ROCKS!!!
Our Annual Street Dance LIVE entertainment will be Pop Rocks, a local Bay Area Favorite. Along with DJ Macala, enjoy a mix from R&B, Pop, Rock, Dance mixes to please everyone.
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Parade Day Program
Plan your Day: Parade route for the 2025 Santa Clara Parade of Champions, Parking, Meet the Grand Marshals at Breakfast of Champions. Visit the Community Village and Food Trucks, Book your Grandstand Bleacher seating online, and enjoy the Street Dance!
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Become a Sponsor!
SCPOC offers great ways for your organization to support this historic event. Over 15K from the in attendance. Great Visibility and opportunities to engage the community and give back!
Thank you to the Pop Rocks Band for leading our Street Dance in 2024!
Check out their Sizzle Reel!
Check out the 2023 Parade Day sizzle reel…
Thank you for all of the Support we have Received over the Years!
*Current list is a work in progress. Any omissions or misspellings are not intentional.
Coffee/Tea
Jiaren’s Cafe
OMG Tea
Restaurants
Home Pho Vietnamese
Jasmine Fine Thai Cuisine
Mio Vicino
Mountain Mikes Pizza
Rantei’s
Seniore’s Pizza
The HUT
Diners
Hungry Hound
Sara’s Kitchen
Deli
Fuel Good
Togo’s
Craft Beer/Pubs/Bars
Taplands Bars
Bronco Bar
Thirsty Bar
Businesses
Acuherb Studio
Big Jim’s Barber Shop
DeKeyrel Chiropractic
Franklin Cleaners
The Franklin Mall UPS Store
Gillmor & Associates
Hunny Nails
Jiaren’s Yoga Studio
Mission Chiropractic
Rebel Rise Yoga
Santa Clara Liquors
Serenity Spa
Shine Dry Cleaning
Sunshine Dry Cleaning and Alterations
Tick Tock Shop
US Post Office
Vampire Mansion Tattoo
Victoria Beauty Salon
Volare Dance Studios
Farmer’s Market Merchants
A note from the Parade Organizers:
The Santa Clara Parade of Champions nonprofit 501c3 organization has been a celebration of people, non-profits, businesses, organizations, and traditions; bridging communities in Santa Clara and beyond for over half a century. Since its founding in 1945, we have made it our mission to never forget the sacrifices of our community and front-line heroes in times of war or peace for their communities. Thank you for your support, and with your generous donations our nonprofit is able to fund the Parade Day Festivities so the public can enjoy at no cost, and our charitable initiatives from Youth Scholarship and Community Service, Veterans and Families facing medical Crisis each year. It’s with your help that we have kept our legacy tradition alive since 1945! Thank you