Brecon Frazz Parade returned on Saturday, 8 August, afternoon with thousands lining the streets to watch the parade waltz through the town with the weekend’s festivals in full swing.

Organisers invited people to explore different ways of getting around, from boots and bicycles to boats and buses, while highlighting ways to travel with a lower impact on the environment, which made for some interesting costumes and designs including two women on giant stilts.

The parade now in its ninth year brings together the Brecon Jazz Festival and the Brecon Fringe Festival and this year’s event received generous support from organisations including SDF fund, Brecknock Art Trust and Brecon Town Council.

Children from Priory School were busy in preparation of the parade creating this year’s centrepiece, along with windmills, green passports and rubber band-powered vehicles.

Pupils at Brecon High School also got involved making 3D “passport” stamps, while colourful costumes and hats were created at a Frazz workshop which was held at Brecon Volunteers Bureau.

Further workshops put together the finishing touches for the vibrant parade at a free family workshop at Uplands Park on Wednesday, August 5, from 2pm to 5pm.

On the day of the Frazz parade itself, festivities began at 12:30pm in Brecon Cathedral Close, which included face painting, crafts and performances from the Brecon Shanty Men, Taiko drummers and Bass 12.

The Parade set off from Brecon Cathedral’s grounds at 2pm and made its way up The Struet, onto Brecon High Street, past all the food stands and through the crowds of people and finished on Brecon Bulwark, gathering on the outside stage by St Mary’s Church.

The couple of hundred involved played musical instruments, sang songs and danced their way through the town, lifting spirits as they went.