Independence Day Celebrates Red, White, and New Orleans!
WWL AM/ FM.com and The Riverfront Marketing Group invites you to celebrate Red, White, and New Orleans at the 17th annual Go 4th on the River Dueling Barges Fireworks Extravaganza on the New Orleans Riverfront. Selected as a TOP 20 EVENT by the Southeast Tourism Society, this year’s celebration will feature all-day family activities, culminating with the nationally acclaimed dueling barges fireworks display over the Mighty Mississippi at 9pm. Sponsored by Zito Companies, ExperienceNewOrleans.com, Magic 101.9 and WWL AM 870/FM 105.3, and NewsWatch 15, Go 4th on the River will salute the Fourth New Orleans-style!
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Ranked by the American Pyrotechnics Association as one of the "TOP FIVE MUST-SEE fireworks displays in the U.S.," Go 4th on the River offers live local music on four stages, including a traditional second line, plus riverboat rides, shopping, dining, and exploring great attractions along the New Orleans Riverfront. Bring your radios to the River as Magic 101.9 and WWL AM 870/FM 105.3, which can be heard in 38 states throughout the U.S., simulcast Pyrotecnico’s spectacular dueling barges fireworks show, choreographed to stirring patriotic music, at 9pm!
Go 4th on the River is a community project produced by the Riverfront Marketing Group—the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World, French Market Corporation, Garage at Canal Place, Hard Rock Café, Harrah’s New Orleans Casino, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Jax Brewery, Jax Brewery Parking Lots, the Marketplace at Jax Brewery, New Orleans Steamboat Company, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, Riverwalk Marketplace, The Shops at Canal Place, World Trade Center, and the Wyndham New Orleans at Canal Place—with support from the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau and New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporation.
For more info visit the official event site or call 522-1555 X 7001. 
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