VINEMONT, Ala. – The holiday season is here, and families are preparing their holiday ; locals are preparing their menus, carefully selecting gifts and gearing up to spend quality time with loved ones and family. Board games and family movie nights are fantastic traditions, but for the past few years, drive-through light displays have been creeping higher and higher into the most popular holiday activity category. Enjoying a spectacular light show from the comfort and warmth of your vehicle somehow adds extra magic.
Vinemont resident Taylor Davis thought locals needed an epic musically synchronized light display after he saw a large musical display in another town. He eventually brought in his neighbor, Brian Pearson. The men spend all year planning, programming and building props to make each year’s show more spectacular than the last’s. A mind-boggling 25,000-plus lights adorn the properties, lighting the dark sky and bringing wonder and awe to music and light lovers alike.
“I started this show because I wanted to help bring joy and fun to the holiday season and give people in the community a different experience from what they are used to with static displays,” Davis said of what has been dubbed the Pinnacle Landing Light Show. “It has about 25 different songs, so if you come multiple times chances are you will see something different each time.”
The Pinnacle Landing Light show begins each year on Black Friday at 5 p.m. and runs through New Year’s Day. The love, effort, time and resources Davis and Pearson pour into their show is obvious to any onlooker. Transitioning from their Halloween show to the Christmas show typically takes a week of hard work and only uses about as much power as each home’s own refrigerator.
Pearson and Davis admitted that turning their homes into a six-week-long public light display isn’t for everyone. Laughed Davis, “You definitely have to have a passion for it.”
The lights are synchronized to the music and beats of popular songs of today’s radio, along with movie classics and traditional Christmas carols. Light enthusiasts can expect groovy tunes from every imaginable genre, all the way from Vanilla Ice to the musical score of the Harry Potter and Star Wars movies. The light show operators decided to cater to all the Taylor Swift fans for the 2023 show as well.
Said Davis, “For all the Swifties, we have an eight-minute mashup of about 10 of her songs.”
Adding joy to the community wasn’t the only goal Davis had in mind when he created the Pinnacle Landing Light Show. He wanted to help the community in a tangible way as well. Davis and Pearson have helped local businesses with their holiday-themed light shows, including 4D Farm’s Fall Festival Goblin Glow Trail.
Last year, the Pinnacle Landing Light Show collected donations to benefit local nonprofit Curt’s Closet, something the mean are doing for the second year in a row. “We are also taking donations to benefit Curt’s Closet again. We did the same last year and we are wanting to gather even more this year,” Davis said.
Davis and Pearson’s Pinnacle Landing Light Show is a free drive-through light display synchronized with a radio station. It is located at 45 County Road 1584 and is open to the public until New Year’s Day. The show runs Sunday through Thursday from 5-9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 5-10 p.m.
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