Skyshow was an annual

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event held in

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, from 1985 to 2006. The half-hour fireworks display was synchronised to rock and pop music and presented by local commercial radio station

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. Originating as an

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celebration, the event was subsequently moved to late summer, usually February. Sister events were also held at

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and sponsored by

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and on

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by 2Day FM. Although, faced with serious financial difficulties in the late 1990s until rescued by the

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, it is estimated some 150,000 people attended the main festivities in

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, while many more watch from vantage points along the Adelaide Hills. The event ceased in 2006 after failing to secure funding for 2007. After a large public campaign on social networking site

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for the event to return, the Skyshow returned on 13 March 2010 as part of the annual

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event.

References

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