{"id":240788,"date":"2026-04-08T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240788\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:18:07","slug":"meet-the-2026-art-car-parade-grand-marshals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240788\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 2026 Art Car Parade Grand Marshals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; This weekend, the streets of Houston will roll with creativity as the 39th annual Art Car Parade returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Leading the parade as Grand Marshals are Dynamo legend Brian Ching and Kam Franklin, the lead singer of Houston band The Suffers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;To be part of this parade.. Really, the words excitement and grateful are the ones that come to mind,&#8221; Franklin shared with us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ching told us, &#8220;The Art Car Parade is always something I have always seen and went to, but I never really got the full history until this time around. Definitely a lot more impressed and excited to be the Grand Marshal this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In addition to serving as Grand Marshals, both Franklin and Ching are celebrating career milestones this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Franklin collaborated on the album A Tribute to the King of Zydeco. This album won the Grammy for Best Regional Root Music Album in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The following month, Ching was recognized for his impact and was inducted into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Check out Brian Ching and Kam Franklin kickoff the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehoustonartcarparade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Art Car Parade<\/a>, presented by Team Gillman, Saturday, April 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ABC13 will live stream the parade starting at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; This weekend, the streets of Houston will roll with creativity as the 39th annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[92309,13723,92308,91378,71013,91829,56,58,57,18076],"class_list":{"0":"post-240788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-92309","9":"tag-13723","10":"tag-39th-annual","11":"tag-art-car-parade","12":"tag-brian-ching","13":"tag-grand-marshals","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-kam-franklin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}