Spectacular Fireworks: Feel the thunder

Presented by DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial

Largest 4th of July fireworks display in Oregon takes center stage, opening night, Friday, July 4
It’s a Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival tradition! The Waterfront Blues Festival presents a spectacular display of fireworks on the festival's opening day to commemorate July 4th and to celebrate America’s rich, original and most important contribution to music—the blues. DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial will present the fireworks show. KINK fm102 will simulcast the soundtrack.

Enjoy listening to fabulous blues right up to the time the first fireworks burst in the sky to “oohs” and “ahhs” at 10 p.m. on Friday, July 4, 2007. People begin staking out their favorite viewing spots at about 6 p.m.

The spectacular grand finale will be fired from three locations and will transition through stunning, color-changing and ground-shaking stages as it builds into an explosion of brilliant, trailing colors of ruby red and sapphire blue, twinkling strobes, crackling palms, screaming comets and thundering salutes. Get ready to feel the thunder!

Admission to the festival and its fireworks presentation is $10 donation per person plus two cans of nonperishable food. Every dollar donation enables Oregon Food Bank to collect and distribute six pounds of food through its food distribution system.

Bring a sweater or light jacket and a small pad or blanket to sit on.

Tip: Once you arrive at the festival on July 4, plan to stay. The crowds swell on July 4. If the fire marshall determines the festival has reached its capacity, gates will close. Those outside the festival gates will not be allowed in -- even if they entered previously.

2008 Waterfront Blues Festival fireworks show: largest display in Oregon
As long as the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival has had fireworks, Western Display Fireworks has produced the display with Bob Gobet, company owner, as the lead pyrotechnician. The three-generation company, located in Canby , Ore. , originated in 1948 and has been producing fireworks shows for 59 years in the Northwest and around the United States . On July 4, 2008, the company will supply more than 250 fireworks displays throughout the country.

The 2008 Waterfront Blues Festival fireworks show will be the largest July 4th show in Oregon .

Western Display Fireworks will fire the 2008 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival firework display from a barge on the Willamette River between the Hawthorne and Marquam bridges.

Sound track simulcast on KINK fm102
Producers will choreograph the show to a musical sound track by Bob Ancheta of KINK fm102.

Watching the fireworks off-site from the festival? Tune to KINK fm102 to hear a simulcast of the soundtrack while watching the fireworks.

For additional admission information:

• General Admission Information
  
• Food and beverages? What to bring? What to leave home? Check out festival essentials.
  
• See special info for handicapped access.