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:
“Our choice is clear,
we may share
your choice,
declare
meaning and rhythm and grace
in each daily act.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”
—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)