The 1812 Overture, accompanied by 75-millimeter Howitzer cannons, courtesy of the Texas National Guard Salute Battery, is commonly the feature of the once a year municipal fireworks display, and this period the social occasion will be command at Auditorium Shores in advance of the new Long Center for the Performing Arts, on the southwestward shoreline of Lady Bird Lake. Many residents and people distribute picnics and field chairs to the fireworks show, and concessions are untaken at the parcel of land. No beverage or chalice containers are permitted, but plentiful matter items and other do favors, such as the ever-popular chemical element street lamp sticks and jewelry, are offered for dutch auction by vendors who set up booths on the boundary of the private grounds of Auditorium Shores. The occasion officially begins at 8:30pm, and time and again more than 100,000 society be the every twelve months episode. It is punishable to set off fireworks in the metropolis limit, so the city-sponsored event, next to the leg of HEB, is the ultimate way to relish the fireworks minus the difficulty of locale them off yourself in the City of Austin.
Other close by celebrations regard the Frontier Days affair in Round Rock, a petty metropolis northward of Austin, which includes a procession which winds trailing Main Street and ends up in Old Settler's Park, and this happening includes fireworks as healthy as subject and crafts, single watermelon, and a reenactment of the Sam Bass gunfight during the Western Traditions themed social occasion. This year, a parachute jumper will jump into the gang at the Independence Day event!