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LED light show set for county

BUTLER COUNTY — If you are looking to make new holiday memories, the Butler County Tourism and Convention Bureau has created an opportunity to do just that.

The bureau is bringing Shadrack’s Christmas Wonderland from Bristol, Tenn., to the Big Butler Fairgrounds for the holiday season.

It is a light show that combines technology, lights and music with custom built and animated elements with LED lights.

Jack Cohen, president of the bureau, said the light show is “Christmas lights on steroids.”

Josh Hawk, director of marketing for Shadrack’s Christmas Wonderland, said Butler County and the Pittsburgh area is a place where the company has not been before. The company has shows in other cities such as Asheville, N.C., Sevierville, Tenn., Greenville, S.C., Charlotte, N.C., and Birmingham, Ala.

Hawk said the bureau helped put the pieces together to make the show possible.

The show will start to be built at the beginning of October, Hawk said. It will take about a month and a half to get ready to open Nov. 20. It will run until Jan. 3.

“It is an elaborate undertaking with the amount of lights,” Hawk said. “We market the show as hundreds of thousands of LED lights and there’s multiple synchronized displays.”

Hawk said what makes the show unique is that the music that comes over the broadcast to car radios and is synchronized with the show.

Cohen said, “You go see a display like this, where you drive through and it is all themed to music and the lights dance according to the beat of the music. It is pretty cool stuff.”

The light show will be on a three-mile route through the fairgrounds, Cohen said.

“It is going to be fun,” he said. “Again another great family event. You know you can take a car load of kids or bus load of churchgoers and you can go have some fun.”

Cohen said the light show also will have a Santa’s village with Santa there every night.

Cohen said there is an agreement to have the light show in the county for five years.

Hawk said, “We are very excited about being in the market and just the possibilities of being the top attraction and the top entertainment piece for the holiday and Christmas season.”

This is a regional attraction, not just one for Butler County, Cohen said. With the fairgrounds on Route 422 and near Interstate 79, it can potentially draw people from Erie, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Youngstown.

For details, visit www.ShadrackChristmas.com or www.VisitButlerCounty.com.

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