Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival: ‘Lights across the city’

MILWAUKEE – The twenty fourth Annual Milwaukee Vacation Lights Competition will happen from Nov. 17 to Jan. 1 and can characteristic greater than 500,000 lights and dozens of animated shows.

In accordance with a information launch, the annual show of lights will remodel three downtown parks into winter wonderland scenes – Cathedral Sq. Park, Pere Marquette Park and Zeidler Union Sq. – in addition to avenue decorations alongside three downtown thoroughfares, together with an 18-block stretch of lights alongside Wisconsin Avenue.

Downtown Milwaukee’s vacation lights will likely be kicking off with an in-person switch-flipping ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in Pere Marquette Park. The Milwaukee Vacation Lights Competition Kickoff Extravaganza will characteristic dwell music, dance acts, sensational feats, a go to from Santa and Mrs. Claus, a fireworks ceremony and pre-show leisure beginning at 5 p.m. Free cocoa and cookies will likely be supplied, plus free Jingle Bus rides will likely be made out there after the present for friends to soak up all of downtown’s festive panorama.

“We’re overjoyed to welcome friends again for our in-person kickoff that ignites half 1,000,000 lights throughout the town and resumes our Jingle Bus excursions,” stated Beth Weirick, CEO of Milwaukee downtown, BID #21. “Each of which have change into synonymous with the vacations in Milwaukee.”

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All through the Milwaukee Vacation Lights Competition, households can view all of the embellished scenes aboard the Jingle Bus which returns in individual this 12 months. 

The 40-minute narrated tour is a no-fuss strategy to see the magic of downtown stated the information launch. New this 12 months, pre-booking is required for all Jingle Bus rides. Restricted excursions will likely be out there to e-book prematurely on-line for under $5 per individual. Excursions will go from Thursdays to Sundays, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Nov. 18 to Dec. 30.  The service is not going to function on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve or Christmas.