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The 2024 DJBC Happy Hour Fireworks Mix

Local 4th of July Fireworks: https://www.10tv.com/article/entertainment/events/4th-of-july-fireworks-...

Experience Columbus: https://www.experiencecolumbus.com/blog/post/fourth-of-july-celebrations...

Northland Parade: https://northlandparade.org/

Doo Dah Parade: https://www.doodahparade.com/

Clintonville Fourth Preview: https://www.clintonvillespotlight.com/articles/fourth-festivities-bring-...

Fireworks Mix XIV: https://wcrsfm.org/content/djbc-fireworks-mix-xiv-beautifully-djbc500

Show Notes (Cut from Show for Time):
(For Reference - Parade Themes):
Hilliard - “Celebrate the Red, White, and Blue”
Upper Arlington - “Back in Black and Gold”
Worthington Hills - “Totally ‘80s”
Dublin - “Let Freedom Ring”
Gahanna - “A Red, White, and Blue City”
Northland - “Diamonds of Columbus” (celebrating 60 years of the Northland Parade)
Bexley - “Beautifully Bexley”
Westerville - “Red, White and Blue…America, For Me and You” (picked by a second grader from Cherrington Elementary School in Westerville)
Whitehall - “The Future of Whitehall Is Bright”

Freedom Fest - Big & Rich are your Headliners, Hilliard, It’s Happening, Hilliard Chose Them, and Grand Marshal is former Hilliard Chamber President Libby Gierach

Delaware - The Central Ohio Symphony Concert graces Phillips Glen on the OWU Campus with Pomp, Circumstance, and Patriotism. Friday's First Friday is "Chalk It Up for Freedom".

Doo Dah - Celebrating Liberty and Lunacy in the Short North for 40 years (yes, the 2020 Drive By Parade does count). This year’s Less Than Grand Marshals are fresh off their inaugural season, playing at Nationwide Arena, your Columbus Fury and their Head Coach Angel Perez are your 2024 Doo Dah Parade Less Than Grand Marshals.

It is America's Birthday! We have fireworks, baseball, soccer, patriotism, and the arts this weekend.

Local 4th of July Fireworks: https://www.10tv.com/article/entertainment/events/4th-of-july-fireworks-...
Experience Columbus: https://www.experiencecolumbus.com/blog/post/fourth-of-july-celebrations...
Northland Parade: https://northlandparade.org/
Doo Dah Parade: https://www.doodahparade.com/
Clintonville Fourth Preview: https://www.clintonvillespotlight.com/articles/fourth-festivities-bring-...
Fireworks Mix XIV: https://wcrsfm.org/content/djbc-fireworks-mix-xiv-beautifully-djbc500

PARADES:
JULY 3 (Weather Permitting):
Red, White & Boom!, Starts at Bicentennial Park, 5:30PM

JULY 4 (Weather Permitting):
Bexley ("Beautifully Bexley"); Starts at 9:30AM at Maryland Elementary School
Delaware: Starts at 3PM at Delaware County Fairgrounds
Dublin ("Let Freedom Ring"): Starts at 11AM at Metro Place, ending at South High Street and Waterford Drive
Gahanna ("A Red, White, and Blue City"): Starts at 10:30AM at Clark Hall
Groveport: Starts at 10:30AM at Glendening Elementary School
Hilliard ("Celebrate the Red, White and Blue"): Starts at 9AM at Franklin County Fairgrounds (with Grand Marshal Libby Gierach, former Director of the Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce)
New Albany (Starts at 11AM at New Albany Middle School)
Northland ("Diamonds of Columbus"): Starts at 10AM at Karl Road (just north of Morse Road, ending at Karl and Hempwood Drive at Karl Road Baptist Church)
Orange Township: Starts at 10AM at Olentangy Orange Middle School
Pickerington: Starts at 10AM
Reynoldsburg: Starts at 10AM at Main Street and Rosehill Road, ending at Davidson Drive
Westerville ("Red, White and Blue. America. For Me and You."): Starts at 10:30AM at St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church
Whitehall ("The Future of Whitehall Is Bright"): Starts at Yearling Road and E. Broad St.
Worthington Hills ("Totally '80s")

FIREWORKS:

Comfest is this weekend at Goodale Park. Come say "Hi" to WCRS/WGRN/Radio 614 Volunteers/Personalities.

PARADES:
JUNE 29:
Westland (starts at West Broad Street and Old Village Road, ending at Norton Middle School, 9AM

JULY 3:
Red, White & Boom!, Starts at Bicentennial Park, 5:30PM

FIREWORKS:
JUNE 29:
Pataskala

JULY 3:
Gahanna
Groveport
Obetz
Pickerington
Reynoldsburg
Whitehall
and
Red, White & Boom!

Here is the Fourth of July Edition of The Weekend Warrior for June 29, 2023.

Columbus On The Cheap:
https://www.columbusonthecheap.com/event/fireworks-celebrations-around-c...

Experience Columbus:
https://www.experiencecolumbus.com/blog/post/fourth-of-july-celebrations...

And there are other events happening this weekend, as well.

The DJBC Happy Hour is getting ready for the Fourth of July.

Columbus On The Cheap:
https://www.columbusonthecheap.com/event/fireworks-celebrations-around-c...

Experience Columbus:
https://www.experiencecolumbus.com/blog/post/fourth-of-july-celebrations...

Tonight on the show, the DJBC Celebrates America.

Included is a 17-minute Fireworks Mix, mixing Juneteenth, July Fourth, Christmas, and the Number 12, because this year is The DJBC's 12th Annual Fireworks Mix.

The title for tonight's show comes from the 2022 Parade Theme of the City of Hilliard, which is "Red, White, and Together Again" - https://hilliardohio.gov/events/.

LINKS:
Fourth of July Celebrations (via NBC4): https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/july-4th-celebrations-in-and-aroun...
Red, White & Boom - What You Need to Know (also via NBC4): https://www.nbc4i.com/community/red-white-and-boom/what-you-need-to-know...
COTA and Boom! (also NBC4) - https://www.nbc4i.com/community/red-white-and-boom/cotas-plans-for-red-w...

Post-July 4 Happenings:
Franklinton Fridays (July 8; Franklinton Arts District, Franklinton; http://www.franklintonartsdistrict.com) (COTA - Lines 3, 6, 9, 10 or 12)
Summer Jam West (July 9; Westgate Park - 455 S. Westgate Ave., Westgate; http://www.hilltoparts.org) (COTA - Line 6)
Westerville Music and Arts Festival (July 9 & 10; Heritage Park - 60 N. Cleveland Ave., Westerville; http://www.westervillechamber.com) (COTA - CMAX to Polaris/Africa; Westerville COTA Plus in Westerville)
Merion Village Garden Tour (July 10; Merion Village; http://www.merionvillage.org) (COTA - Lines 4 or 8)
Mental Wellness Night (July 14; CSCC Workforce Development Center - 315 Cleveland Ave., Discovery District; http://www.aawellness.org) (COTA - CMAX)
Kaufman Plaza Dedication (July 15; Main Library/Topiary Park - 96 S. Grant Ave., Discovery District; http://www.columbuslibrary.org) (COTA - # 11, while it still lasts; #SaveTheNumber11)
We Amplify Voices (July 16; Vanderelli Room - 218 McDowell St., Franklinton; http://www.weamplifyvoices.org) (COTA - Lines 3, 6 or 9)

The official Fireworks Mix for The DJBC Happy Hour, "Red, White and Together Again" (June 27, 2022).

SONG LIST (In Order, As Possible):
(Not Included is "Running Up The Hill" - Kate Bush)
"Hot In Here" - Nelly
"Fireworks" - Grady Tate, Schoolhouse Rock!
"The Star-Spangled Banner" - Robert Shaw Chorale
"The Pinball Song" - The Pointer Sisters
"Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells" - Andy Williams
"I Love America" - Patrick Juvet
"It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" - Andy Williams
"The Great American Melting Pot" - Schoolhouse Rock!
"Christmas in Hollis" - Run D.M.C.
"America, Why I Love Her" - John Wayne
"America the Beautiful" - Mitt Romney
"My Shot" - Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton Original Cast)
"Seventy Six Trombones" - Robert Preston and The Music Man Original Broadway Cast
"The Shot Heard Around the World" - Schoolhouse Rock!
"One Nation Under A Groove" - Funkadelic
"We Shall Overcome" - Pete Seeger
"Freedom Isn't Free" - Team America: World Police
"God Bless the U.S.A." - Lee Greenwood
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" - Joel Grey
"Tradition/Beat Ohio (State) Mash-Up" - The DJBC Happy Hour (featuring "Tradition" from Fiddler on the Roof)
"American Pie" - Don McLean
"Singin' in the Rain" - Gene Kelly
"Hail to the Victors" - University of Michigan Marching Band
"Heat Miser" - from "A Year Without A Santa Claus"
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" - Ray Charles
"This is America" - Childish Gambino
"Is Anybody There?" - William Daniels
"Glory" - John Legend (with Common)
"It's A Round, Round World" - Stan Freberg
"The Christmas Waltz" - Nancy Wilson
"Love, American Style" theme - The Cowsills
"Linus and Lucy (Peanuts Theme)" - TeeVee Toons (emulating Vince Guaraldi)
"America" - Neil Diamond
"The Grand Finale" Intro - Pippin (2013 Revival Cast)
"The Nutcracker Suite/Dance of the Flowers" - Les Brown and His Band of Reknown
"Green Chri$tma$" - Stan Freberg
and
"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" - Toby Keith

Tonight on the show, the Fourth of July.

FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS:
- http://djbcadventures.tumblr.com/post/53985369028/2013-july-fourth-event...

Tonight on "The DJBC Happy Hour Classic", "Sweet Freedom's Song: Celebrating Our History" takes a look at July Fourth Events throughout town, during the Columbus Bicentennial Fourth of July. Plus, Thomas Jefferson, a striking COTA bus driver, the Doo Dah Parade, and the Fireworks Mix on "The DJBC Happy Hour Classic."

Happy ComFest Week!