Every Friday night of the Niverville Olde Tyme Country Fair ends with a bang—fireworks—and this year will be no exception.
In the past, these fireworks have been set off from the Niverville Elementary School playground, but that has changed in recent years. Since 2015, the fair committee has tried something different. By setting off the show from a location off Main Street, they have been able to feature bigger fireworks. This year, they are going back to basics, which means having the show nice and close for the crowd to enjoy.
“The shows that we have had for the past two years have been about double the budget of the older Main Street shows,” says Dustin Krahn, one of the fair’s coordinators. “The problem lies in the show being so far away from the fairgrounds that it is hard to really appreciate what is going on. We put pressure on the fireworks team to come up with a solution that brought the show back to Main Street, and they have done a really good job in working with us and coming up with a plan. This allows us to use some smaller fireworks, but they seem bigger because you are right in front of them, and the crowd can then experience the lights and sounds right in their faces as opposed to half a mile away.”
The Friday night show is weather-permitting, of course. If it does rain, the fireworks will simply be pushed back to the Saturday night after the mainstage act.
Archangel Fireworks has been working with the Olde Tyme Country Fair for 15 years. They are the same Winnipeg-based company that puts on the Canada Day fireworks at The Forks.
