Sunday's display will be the 240th I've seen from La Ronde plus another 24 I watched from Notre Dame. Since 1993, I've missed only 5 displays (2 in 1995) and 2 in the mid 2000s due to working my own shows and 1 due to being in the UK for my Mum's 80th birthday!

Indeed — I did 13 Canada Day displays over the years in the Eastern Townships, with 9 of those being pyromusicals, including one with specially commissioned music (see https://youtu.be/HhGydv82SkI?si=vE-dAzc5ChIUxqU6) — anyway, I don't want to hijack this thread further!

Paul.

@Smoke, @Norandois

Pretty interesting stories too.

All of you guys make me feel like a rookie! ;)

Sorry to keep going with the «out of thread subject», but I couldn't help but watched the video.

Soundtrack is dark, mysterious!

At 7:45... Energy 52 — Café Del Mar... One of my favorite dance/techno song ever. So emotional! I don't remember having the chance to witness a display segment using this song at LaRonde...

Pretty intense finale too! Well done!

:)

Dan

Indeed! It was composed by Sebastien Lavoie as part of his research into electro acoustics. There were many samples of native singing and dancing used, hence the name Pyro Pow-wow.

This was a local town's Canada Day display and we did the best we could with the budget we had. I'm grateful to Royal Pyrotechnie for the opportunity to design a show like this. I must give credit to Yannick Roy as he did a lot of the detailed work in ShowDirector.

Paul