4th of July Events Planner

While I would love to attend one of these celebrations, we’ll probably be staying at home guarding the house from the bottle-rocket toting teenagers who like to do drive-by’s in our neighborhood.  A couple years ago they burned down one of our bushes, and we’d like to not risk the same fate for our house…

July 2- American Pride Concert in Collegedale:

Collegedale is hosting it’s annual American Pride Concert and Fireworks on the Collegedale Greenway (at Veterans Memorial Park, Apison Pike) this Thursday(July 2) at 8 PM. The East Tennessee Symphony Orchestra will be performing several patriotic pieces, and the fireworks will begin at the end of Tchaicovsky’s “1812 Overture”.

If the greenway is too packed, feel free to park your lawnchair in the Ooltewah Middle School Parking Lot or some of the parking lots in the Four Corners Intersection!

Admission is FREE, call 580-4999 for more details!

July 4- Pops On The River in Chattanooga:

On July 4th, head on down to Coolidge Park with your lawn chairs and picnic blankets for some more patriotic music and fireworks.  The concert will begin at 8:00 PM, featuring The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Orchestra and including such acts as The Dismembered Tennesseans and father/daughter duo Tim & Sara King who will sing songs from recent Disney movies (i.e. Pocahontas and Beauty & The Beast).  The Chattanooga Fire Dept. Color Guard & a T-34 military flyover will present a salute to the red, white, and blue.  Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture will finish off the night with a fireworks display over the river.

For more details, especially bus and parking information, read all about it HERE!

July 4- Soddy Daisy Lake Festival:

I’m just going to warn you guys, this festival sounds like the cutest thing ever.  You might just get cuteness overload from the write-up alone. This sounds like the one to take the old folks to!

The city of Soddy Daisy is presenting it’s annual 4th of July celebration at Soddy Daisy Lake on Saturday. This free family event will start at 9 AM and last all day, ending in the city’s fireworks show at dark.  The high-school marching band will lead a parade down Dayton Pike…and there will be cake!  Local firemen will test their ladder and strength skills in the annual Fireman’s Muster competition!!  (Does this celebration just get more and more adorable, or what??)  Wander up and down Dayton Pike and enjoy the car show/swap meet, food and craft vendors at the ball field, and a kids area with inflatables.

Lots of local bands (Bluegrass, Rock, Christian, etc..) will be entertaining the masses, including “Elvis” (Gene Hodge) and rising Nashville Star Barlee Norton. “Dancing is encouraged”!!

For any questions, call Laura Oaklet @ 842-0379