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Ho Ho Ho! Lets kickoff the 2016 season with a bang! Our best response last year came from our mashup, so we went ahead and did another for this year. There have been lots of behind the scene changes for this year that have slowed everything down. We are moving away from our old “Light O Rama” based hardware in favor of more DMX based products. We have also completely switched software suites to program the lights. This has presented a large learning curve but our hope is that it will give us a better more versatile product in the end. Please leave us a comment or email us at simcole (a-t) yahoo.com Merry Christmas!

The current song rotation (Which will change):

1. 2016 Mashup
2. Pentatonix – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
3. Trans Siberian Orchestra – Queen of the Winter Night
4. Bob Rivers – Decorations
5. Christmas Vacation Theme Song
6. Thurl Ravencroft – The Grinch
7. EleventySeven – O Come All Ye Faithful
8. DaRude – Sandstorm
9. 2015 Mashup

The Show will run Monday – Thursday: 5pm – 9pm
Friday – Sunday: 5pm – 10pm

Hello everyone. It’s been another great season, but today we shutdown the show for 2014. I really enjoyed the new elements we added to the show and next year we plan on adding more color effects. We managed to raise $81.00 this year for Toys for Tots! I also published the new video’s on our video page. I want to thank everyone for coming out to see the lights, and a special thanks to my neighbors for putting up with the traffic and lights. Happy New Year everyone!

Some of you like to learn more about what goes into running a Christmas show. This year (so far) we have a limited amount of songs up. This fact is mostly due to the design changes we implemented this year to incorporate “Smart Pixels”. As you watch our show, you’ll notice the columns and the two arches are extremely bright and change colors. These smart pixels allow me to change individual bulb color. With that ability comes a new controller and a whole new way to program the lights. It took me late into the fall to finally get all the parts from China and test everything. The design had to change a few times because my Arches were initially too big to support their own weight. I had to trim them down from 16′ to 10′ so they would stand up. I had to redo the programming I had already done.

Next the software option for programming smart pixels is limited. There are pro’s and con’s to whatever software you pick (including exorbant prices), and my pick crashed whenever I tried to add all my pixels. You’d think it’s not hard to add 320 lights to a software program, BUT since each light can display invidual spectrum of Red/Green/Blue on each bulb it’s really not 320 light. It’s 960 lights or “channels”. For reference, 2013’s show only had 36 Channels. This year it’s 996 Channels. A lot of the tricks to get the show to look right have to be imported and exported across multiple pieces of software. This was all a learning process this year. I should have started the new project in June to be ready, but I didn’t get started until late August.

Now, I have to make all the old songs conform to the new channel layout. I have so busy at work lately, my free time is sparse. I’m working every night to get several of the other songs back up as well as a completely new song for this year. With that check back weekly for new information.

I really hope you enjoy the show. Please tell your friends to come visit as well. Remember, we’re donating to “Toys for Tots” again this year, so we appreciate anything you feel you can give. Leave us a note in our mailbox and tell us what you like about the show.

Merry Christmas!

Thanks to everyone for coming out this year and seeing the lights! A special Thank You to the people who donated to “Toys for Tots”. I tallied everything up and mailed a check today. The grand total was $140.97!!! What an awesome job. We also had 1 peso and a Canadian .10 piece which couldn’t be converted. I appreciate everyone’s time and effort, and please look forward to some big changes next year.

Hello everyone!

A big thank you to everyone who came out and saw Santa last night. He really enjoyed it and we look forward to doing that again next year. I’d like to remind everyone that our show will run until Jan 1st, so if you haven’t come by yet, please do so soon.

We have tallied up the donations so far, and we’re at $102.xx and some jingle change I haven’t counted yet. I thank everyone for their generosity. I will update the page again soon before Jan 1.

Ho Ho Ho.

Our letters to Santa have finally reached the North Pole. Santa will be showing up Monday, December 23 from around 7-8pm (ish). Santa is very busy and we’re glad he said he would stop by. Come wave hi to him and enjoy the lights!

Two of our new songs are finally posted on Vimeo as of this morning. Check the video’s page.

Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas.

The final new song of the season is now up. I finished the “Christmas Vacation” theme song enough to put on display. I’ll tweak it some more soon. I’m hammering out the details with Santa to make sure his time of his visit will work out. I should have that info soon. The video’s of this year’s show should be on display soon. I will be recording them tomorrow if all goes well. So far we have raised $56 for Toys for Tots. This is great, and we can’t wait to give it to the foundation! Stay tuned.

Christmas 2013 is almost upon us, and our lights have already gone up. Our biggest exciting news for this year is that we’ve decided to sponsor some kids through “Toys for Tots”. We have setup a locked donation box next to our radio sign that has a slot for cash donations. We will empty the box every night and near Christmas we will make a donation in the name of “Denver NC Christmas Spirit”. 100% of the proceeds will go to Toys for Tots. We figured since we’re going to do the light show anyway, why not make something more positive out of it. I will update the website with the grand total donation around Christmas. I hope this brings some extra joy to families in need.

I hope everyone enjoys the new songs. As always, we have kept the old ones up as well. We added a few more LED lights to the show and rotated out some of the incandescents. We did not have a budget this year to expand the show again, but next year is looking like we should be able to. Pretty soon I’m going to have to install an electrical sub panel! HA!

Don’t be shy, leave us a note. We’ve even taken a few song requests.

This year’s show will run Monday-Thursday 6pm-9pm. Friday-Sunday 6pm-1030pm.

This years track list so far is: Carol of the Bells, Sandstorm, Christmas Vacation, Queen of the Winter Night, and Decorations. We will be putting the final touches on a few more songs as well.

Santa caught wind of our light show and was so impressed he is supposed to stop by one night and hand out candy canes. Keep checking our website for an update on when that’s going to happen.

From my family to yours, I hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas.

-The Colemans