Adjust your calendars accordingly.
The 28th annual Houston Art Car Parade is now set for April 11, 2015, The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, producers of the annual Houston Art Car Parade Weekend, announced today.
This year’s past parade was May 10.
In the past festival goers had expressed that that rain, heat, and humidity in early May dampened the fun of the parade, which sees hundreds of cars driving through downtown Houston decorated to the hilt.
“Securing this date in April for the Houston Art Car Parade is a dream come true. To be able to present the parade then will allow for a greater audience including those who could not or would not brave the heat in May,” said Don Mafrige, Jr., Orange Show Center for Visionary Art Board President-Elect and Chairman of Houston Art Car Weekend.
College graduation and wedding season sometimes caused conflicts for those wanting to attend the parade festivities.
Here’s the press release from the Orange Show about this. It does get hot, no question about it. I don’t know how much cooler it will be in April, but it will be less likely to be 90 degrees, and that’s about as good as it gets without risking genuinely un-parade-like weather. Hope this works out as well as everyone wants it to.
I think this is a change all Houstonians can get behind.