Gallery: Chinatown’s Lunar New Year Festival, scenes from a Saturday of music and merriment

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Thousands flocked to Chinatown on Saturday for L.A.’s Year of the Snake Lunar New Year Festival, which featured a huge, slow-moving parade, cultural entertainment of all manner and performances by six bands – Eastern Conference Champions, Troup, Mind the Gap, Spirit Vine, Western Scene and Daniel Ahearn & the Jones – on the local music stage. Photographer Laurie Scavo captured images from the stage, the parade and Chinatown itself – her two expansive galleries are after the jump:

The local music stage:

The parade and other festivities: