Preparations for Addison’s Kaboom Town are underway! Saturday evening is to be celebrated. The event draws more than 500,000 people to the city annually.
“This event is huge,” said Jasmine Lee, Addison Special Events director. “It’s on many national top 10 lists for the July 4th celebrations, so it has drawn people from all over the country and even made it out of other countries.”
Addison Circle Park is the 12 acre epicenter of the celebration and watch party. The celebration runs across town, with watch parties at many of Addison’s 180+ restaurants and 22 hotels.
“We’re excited to have so many of them fully open again and having these watch parties – make people celebrate and see they are back in business and running again,” said Lee.
The organizers said Kaboom Town! is even more special now after being canceled last year due to COVID-19. There is a 75% capacity limit for the watch party in the park, which equates to around 19,000 people.
“2020 was tough for everyone, from individuals to restaurants to our hotels. It hit everyone hard and everyone is so excited to get out of it and a sense of normalcy, ”said Lee.
This year’s show includes more than 4,000 shells fired from the south side of Addison Airport. Chad Stanley, general manager of Pyro Shows, said their smallest clams are about 3 inches tall and would fly 300 feet above it.
Kaboom Town is back in Addison this year after being streamed during the pandemic last year. People from all over the world come to enjoy the July 4th tradition, held on July 3rd each year.
Your team started setting up and preparing for the show on Thursday.
“The biggest ones we shoot are six inches, about the size of a miniature basketball,” said Stanley. “The two-minute final is really nice to wrap things up. We always open up big and stay strong.”
On Saturday morning, the vendors began to set up their trucks in the park to prepare for the guests in the later afternoon. Alina Trandafir, the owner of Cristi & Ali, sold food in Kaboom Town! for about a decade.
“We’re known for our gyros, garlic parmesan fries, delicious deep fried oreo,” she said. “I’m super excited. People actually come out and have a lot of fun. The events were the best they’ve ever seen.”
A highlight this year is a patriotic Freedom Flyover with warbirds from the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, aerobatic planes and other surprises.
“If you remember about a year ago when the Blue Angels made the flight for the hospitals and the like, we just thought – let’s do something like that,” said pilot and event organizer Mike Gallaway. “We’re getting out of the pandemic, let’s do a freedom flyover, something to motivate people, something we can see before the fireworks.”
And with watch parties at dozens of hotels and restaurants nearby, organizers said there is no better way for a community to come together than to support their local businesses.
The fireworks and the first Addison Airport Freedom Flyover can be seen from anywhere in the city, and guests are encouraged to make plans for one of the many watch parties across Addison.
Online tickets sell out, but you can still guarantee yourself a spot in the park by booking an Addison hotel package. The packages include a free blanket and guaranteed entry for up to six people. Several Addison Hotels are offering special discounts for Addison Kaboom Town! Click here for information on discounted hotels.
The Freedom Flyover starts at 7:30 p.m. and the fireworks starts at around 9:30 p.m. Turn on the STAR 102.1FM to hear the fireworks music simultaneously.
The fireworks will also be streamed online.
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