National Day Parade 2024: Celebrating food, people and dreams as Singapore turns 59

This year’s National Day Parade featured 12 artistes and more than 3,000 performers. - Photo: ST

SINGAPORE: As night fell, softening the day’s heat, a change came over the audience at the Padang while they settled in to await the show segment of the National Day Parade (NDP).

They had been feted by giant balloon mascots in the pre-parade show, witnessed the marching contingents and Total Defence show, and oohed and aahed at the aerial displays, including the popular Red Lions parachutists descending on the Padang.