Shadrack Productions’ show allows drivers to meander through an intricately choreographed display of Christmas lights that pulse and dance to pre-programmed music broadcast over your vehicle’s radio at 107.5 FM.
The dazzling show — built around the theme of “The 12 Days of Christmas” — took the Bristol, Tenn.-based production company three tractor-trailer loads of equipment, 10,000 feet of data cable and roughly a million LED lights to create, organizers said.
“It’s awful labor intensive,” said Roger Forbes, on-site manager for Shadrack. “We’ve been here two weeks, working 12 hours a day. But it’s going to generate a lot of revenue – people going out to local restaurants and things like that. And it’s a lot of fun for us. We enjoy it.”
The show is the brainchild of Shadrack’s Keith Glover, a retired music teacher and high school principal who owns a boat dealership in Bristol. In 2006, Glover and his son, Josh, were looking for a way to boost business during the slower winter months and came up with the idea of creating a musical light show.
Glover spent more than 700 hours programming his first Christmas show in Bristol, synchronizing the dancing lights to songs such as the Mannheim Steamroller’s “Stille
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