Rhythm and Booms is an annual Independence Day fireworks show in Madison, Wisconsin at Warner Park on the city's northeast side. The show, which began in 1993, is held on the Saturday before Independence Day. Madison claims it is the largest fireworks presentation in the Midwest. The event is primarily sponsored by the Madison Oldies radio station, 94.9 WOLX and draws an annual attendance of around 300,000 people.
The show is operated by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Madison Fireworks Fund, that exists only to produce the event. Proceeds from the event go to area children's charities.
Famous quotes containing the words rhythm and and/or rhythm:
“Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
“Pass in, pass in,” the angels say,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don’t dance at all.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)