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Monterey will extend the 4th of July weekend with a Friday full full of music, activities, and fireworks.
Cultural Administrator Rafferty Cleary said the city’s Independence Day event will feature food vendors, plenty of crafts, contests, and bounce houses. Cleary said the main goal of the event is to bring the Monterey community through the celebration of such an important day.
“In Monterey we all work together to make sure that resources are in place for our residents, and it takes everyone who lives in this community to make that happen, and so this is kind of obviously we’re celebrating our county’s birthday first and foremost, but this is an opportunity to do that and bring everyone together to do that,” Cleary said.”
Cleary said the fireworks show will be completely choreographed to music for the first time in the city’s history. He said a sponsorship from One Bank of Tennessee allowed them to “up the ante” and add proper choreography.
“This one is a true pyro musical,” Cleary said. “It literally is choreographed to music, and the fireworks will explode to the beats of the music and be shot off to the beats of the music.”
Cleary said the gates for the event will open at 3:00pm and the event will go until about 9:30pm. He said the twenty-two minute long firework show will start promptly at 9:00pm.
“The fireworks are shot off behind the Monterey Depot Museum in a parking lot and the stage is on the opposite side of the Monterey Depot Museum in a parking lot, so as you’re watching the music on stage and sitting in the parking lot and then on Commercial Avenue when the firework show is launched, you get that view over top of the depot museum,” Cleary said. “It’s a, just a spectacular setting. Truly all-American, if you will.”
Cleary said there will also be a Little Patriots Parade at 10:00am where children ten and under can dress up and decorate their bikes, scooters, wheelchairs, and wagons in patriotic decorations and ride on a short parade route starting and ending at the depot museum.
“Just an opportunity for those kids to show off and celebrate Independence Day,” Cleary said.
