The city’s 57th annual event next week will end at a park, where live music and family fun will be on hand.
The annual Piedmont 4th of July Parade and Picnic, seen last year with bagpipers above, will return next week for its 57th year. A pancake breakfast beforehand will provide the perfect fuel for the events afterward — a parade running roughly eight blocks along Highland Avenue to its finish line at Piedmont Park, where the city's 4th of July Committee chair says live music and family fun will prevail until midafternoon.
Kelleher said choosing the parade theme, which this year is “Small Town, Big Spirit,” was not difficult. Picked in March from about 10 ideas the committee had brainstormed, Kelleher said, “There’s no magic to it; it just fits. The parade shows large enthusiasm in this one small community.” Committee member Roland Lazzorotto supervises the parade’s lineup and logistics. He makes sure two musical groups are never placed together, cars and community groups that include young children are ordered with safety in mind and reminds pet brigades to make sure the pavement is not overheated or to bring protective paw coverage.
At the park, soprano Amy McKenzie will sing America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” at the end of the parade. McKenzie grew up in Piedmont and attended the city’s schools. Before serving as a member of the San Francisco Opera Chorus from 2002 to 2013 and as a soloist from 1998 to 2018 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Berkeley, McKenzie was a charter member of the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir.
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