Bagpipers

Normally on March 17, about 2 million spectators dressed in green line a 35-block route along Fifth Avenue to view the dozens of marching bands, bagpipers, police, firemen, politicians and personalities along the route.

The three-day festival includes concerts, storytelling, sheep dog competitions and demonstrations of sheep shearing. But the highlight is the parade, as old sheep wagons, bagpipers and Basque dancers lead hundreds of sheep down Main Street.