When is boomsday in knoxville tn

Free to the public, Boomsday features live music, entertainment, and festivities from 5 pm to 9 pm, with fireworks starting at around pm every year. The minute fireworks show, accompanied by soundtrack music, blasts off from the Henley Street Bridge, the Gay Street Bridge, and from Baptist Hospital. The event has also featured pony rides, petting zoos, and shows by radio DJs in its history.

In , the show was expanded to three days, but could not sustain its profit and population over the longer weekend and so went back to the traditional one-day format starting again in Knoxville has hosted Boomsday since its inception in , and Pyro Shows of LaFollette, Tennessee has organized the fireworks display for the show for each of its first 20 years.

Since about , Boomsday has expanded to a hour event, and features convenient seating on many places along the riverfront, from the beach, to docked boats, house roofs, and hillsides. Boomsday is also used as an avenue for patriotic and contemporary music and promotional messages, and draws many visitors to the nearby Great Smoky Mountains and to the Knoxville Zoo.

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By Kitty Capelle. Published: Sep. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Share on Twitter. Share on Pinterest. Share on LinkedIn. Visit Knoxville says Boomsday will be the last one.

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