# 501 - Red, White & Blue. America. For Me and YOU

Submitted by djbc on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 7:52pm
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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.

Dublin - Martina McBride returns to Central Ohio for a second straight Summer, this time as Dublin’s Headliner, joining the likes of Chicago, Chaka Khan (with Michael McDonald), John Fogerty, Earth Wind & Fire, Peter Frampton, Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts fame, Kenny Loggins, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool & The Gang (with Sheena Easton), Huey Lewis and the News, and Sheryl Crow. Chubby Checker was the very first Big Name Headliner. You know how Michael Jackson amped up the Super Bowl Halftime Show? Dublin has done the same with their Fireworks, which leads us back to…

Red, White & Boom! Last year on WCRS, we went up against Dave, Jimmy, and That Colonial Girl, and kicked their butts in the ratings. The NEW 614 Magazine winners for Best Radio Station have the official soundtrack to the Fireworks Mix, except ours is still better.