Dallas's Seventh Día de los Muertos Parade and Festival Takes Over City Hall Plaza Saturday Evening
The 7th annual Dallas Día de los Muertos Parade & Festival runs 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday at City Hall Plaza - floats from lowriders to painted ponies, a 7 p.m. parade, stage performers, and free admission.
Downtown Dallas gets its second celebration of the day on Saturday evening. The 7th annual Dallas Día de los Muertos Parade & Festival takes over Dallas City Hall Plaza at 1500 Marilla Street from 4 to 10 p.m., according to Visit Dallas, with free admission. The festival brings floats and entrants of every kind - everything from lowrider cars to painted ponies, DFW Child's guide says - and performers on the stage set up in front of City Hall, in the most elaborate catrina and catrín costumes.
The parade itself steps off at 7 p.m. and begins and ends at City Hall. Listings for the evening differ slightly on the closing hour - Visit Dallas lists the festival at 4 to 10 p.m., while DFW Child lists a 4-to-11 p.m. window - but both agree on the place, the date, the free admission and the 7 p.m. parade.
The City Hall festival is the center of a wider Dallas Día calendar Visit Dallas lays out for the weekend: the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Día de los Muertos Concert plays the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center at 2301 Flora Street at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and the 40th annual Día de Muertos Exhibition at the Bath House Cultural Center runs through November 7. For downtown families, Saturday offers both holidays at once - Halloween in the neighborhoods, and remembrance at City Hall Plaza.
