Boomsday is an annual fireworks event held on Labor Day weekend in Knoxville, Tennessee. It’s the largest fireworks display in the southeast of the United States, attracting nearly 325,000 people. The event features live music, entertainment, and parties, as well as food vendors, amusement park games, and children’s activities. The fireworks show lasts for 45 minutes and can be viewed from several locations around the waterfront. Boomsday draws visitors to the nearby Great Smoky Mountains and the Knoxville Zoo.
Boomsday is a fireworks event in Knoxville, Tennessee held annually on Labor Day weekend. Boomsday, which takes place on the waterfront in downtown Knoxville, is the largest fireworks display in the southeast of the United States and was visited by dignitaries from the Middle East and Europe. As one of Tennessee’s largest events, it’s a major attraction in the region and was even filmed by National Geographic for a television special. The term Boomsday comes from the booming sound of the hundreds of fireworks that create the highlight of the event.
Held at Volunteer Landing and Neyland Drive in Knoxville, the Boomsday celebration draws spectators from all over the United States. Nearly 325,000 people attend the event usually on a Sunday in early September and the fireworks can be viewed from any of several locations around the waterfront. Free to the public, Boomsday features live music, entertainment and parties from 5am to 9:30am, with fireworks starting around 8pm each year. The XNUMX-minute fireworks show, accompanied by soundtrack music, takes off from Henley Street Bridge, Gay Street Bridge and Baptist Hospital.
The event features boom day food vendors, amusement park games and rides, children’s activities, exhibits, and an amateur stage for performances or community programs. The event also featured pony rides, petting zoos and radio DJ performances in its story. Since 2000, Boomsday has incorporated displays and flybys from the Air National Guard, the Knox County Sheriff’s Aviation Unit, and the Tennessee Museum of Aviation. In 2006, the show was expanded to three days, but could not sustain its profits and population over the longer weekend and thus reverted to the traditional one-day format beginning in 2007.
Knoxville has hosted Boomsday since its inception in 1987, and Pyro Shows of LaFollette, Tennessee has staged the fireworks display for the show for each of its first 20 years. Since about 2005, Boomsday has grown into a 12-hour event and offers comfortable seating in many places along the river, from the beach, moored boats, rooftops 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 the Knoxville Zoo.
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