Greater Kensington
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Greater Kensington is a string band in Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade.
The Greater Kensington String Band was organized in 1946 and first marched in the New Year's Day Mummers Parade in 1948. The band, known as "GKSB", has taken first prize on three occasions and has finished in the top ten forty one times including seventeen years in the top five.
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