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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Labor Day weekend will be better and “boomier” than ever this year as the 2007 Chrysler Jeep Boomsday Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary and takes on new activities that will spark up this family-friendly event.
This year’s festival will feature new additions never seen in previous years – including a petting zoo, pony rides, a community stage featuring some of the region’s best young athletes and performers and Allegiant Air Fly-Bys, which are demonstrations of selected aircraft in action. As always, the traditional fireworks display, live entertainment, games for children, and food and beverage vendors will also be available.
This year, the festival will begin at a new time – noon – giving attendees a full 10 hours of Labor Day weekend enjoyment.
At 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., the special Allegiant Air Fly-Bys will take place. These spectacular flight formations will be demonstrated by the Air National Guard, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit and the Tennessee Museum of Aviation.
Then, at 9:30 p.m., the largest Labor Day weekend fireworks show in the nation begins high above Neyland Drive and Volunteer Landing. The fireworks display will be choreographed to music broadcasted over loud speakers and on Star 102.1 FM.
In 2005, the Boomsday Festival was titled “the nation’s largest Labor Day weekend fireworks display,” according to Lansden Hill, national pyrotechnics expert and owner of Pyro Shows of LaFollette, Tenn. Pyro Shows has been responsible for producing the fireworks display since the event’s inception in 1987. In addition to this title, the Southeast Tourism Society (STS) selected the Boomsday Festival as one of its “Top 20 Events” for the months of September 2006 and 2007.
According to Gloria Ray, President and CEO of the Knoxville Tourism & Sports Corporation (KTSC), 350,000 spectators are expected to attend the 2007 Chrysler Jeep Boomsday Festival.
“We are very excited to announce that 2007 is the 20th anniversary of the Boomsday Festival, truly making this event a Knoxville tradition. The residents of Knoxville will see amazing additions this year and we hope to keep the festival growing year after year,” Ray said.
Admission to the 2007 Chrysler Jeep Boomsday Festival is free to the public with nominal fees for parking, games, food and beverage.
WBIR-TV will air the 2007 Chrysler Jeep Boomsday Festival fireworks display in its entirety during a special one-hour, primetime, live broadcast from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sept. 2, and will re-broadcast the show on Sept. 3 at 8 p.m.
For more information on the 2007 Chrysler Jeep Boomsday Festival, call the festival’s hotline at (865) 342-9191 or visit www.Boomsday.org.