{"id":53878,"date":"2025-12-06T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53878\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:44:07","slug":"joe-ferry-christmas-string-band-gives-back-in-memory-of-mummers-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53878\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Ferry Christmas String Band gives back in memory of Mummers members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The Joe Ferry Christmas String Band performs in South Philadelphia each year in memory of loved ones they lost too soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In 2019, shortly after the new year celebrations, Joe Ferry, his fiance, Kelly Wiseley, and friend, Dennis Palandro, were killed in a car crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In their memory, members of various string band organizations came together to put on a holiday performance. It has since become an annual tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Each year, they ask the community to donate items for the holidays. This time, they collected hats and gloves for area school children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to see the performance in action and why they keep coming back every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/videoClip\/18159275\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Hundreds step up to &#8216;Do It Like Dylan&#8217; in memory of NJ student<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the tragic passing of a 20-year-old student, his family vowed to &#8216;Do It Like Dylan.&#8217; Now, hundreds of people are joining the cause.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The Joe Ferry Christmas String Band performs in South Philadelphia each year in memory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30223,30222,15868,9376,1070,30221,4012,24242,1132,69,71,70,7625,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-53878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-annual","9":"tag-christmas-string-band","10":"tag-donation","11":"tag-drive","12":"tag-holiday","13":"tag-joe-ferry","14":"tag-members","15":"tag-mummers","16":"tag-performance","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","19":"tag-philadelphia-news","20":"tag-philly","21":"tag-south-philadelphia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}