Captivating Light Show

Information from the official seller of tickets and events for the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras, Symphony Hall in Boston, and Tanglewood. A visitor to Tanglewood's Festival of Lights drives through the light displays. The festival's first night was Saturday, November 15, 2008, and it will continue through January 1, 2009. LAUREN CARROLL.

The 2019 Tanglewood Festival of Lights is open nightly 6-11pm through Jan 1st 2020. The countryside at Clemmons Tanglewood Park is now a winter wonderland of over a million lights, tons of giant snowflakes and captivating scenes! This 28th season continues to be one of the largest and most spectacular light shows in the entire Southeast! One of the best drive-thru festive light shows you will ever experience! Visitors come by cars, vans, trucks, limos, motor coaches, and buses.

History and Details

Tanglewood Park’s Festival of Lights started in 1992; a 1.5 mile route with only 25 displays. Today the route is just under 5 miles and over 100 displays. On average, 250,000 visitors attend this yearly tradition event. The Driving Golfer scene was one of the original light displays from 1992 and remains one of the favorites of visitors. Each year Tanglewood adds or replaces exciting displays to the Festival. Interactive holiday music is composed from the UNC School of the Arts Music Technology students.

The staff begins setting up displays during the month of August in order to be ready for this large-scale winter event. There are now over a million individual LED lights, making it truly spectacular! Tanglewood’s Festival of Lights has been selected as a Top 20 Event in the Southeast and a Top 100 Event in North America. America’s Best Online gave an honorable mention to the Festival of Lights as one of the best light shows in the US.

Below is a video of what you can expect.

Horse-drawn Carriage Rides

With a reservation, the staff will take you and up to three guests for a lovely carriage ride through the Tanglewood Festival of Lights. Experience the light show in the comfort of a traditional white carriage drawn by a Percheron horse.

Tractor-pulled Hayrides

You can also choose to take in the magic with your family and friends on a tractor pulled hayride. Holiday hayrides are available for groups of up to 25 people per ride. Hay rides are available by reservation every night during the light show.

Smores

Be sure to stop by the gift shop for an extra treat, where you and the family can roast marshmallows and make s’mores! Also, get a picture with Santa!

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Magic of this magnitude requires more than a million LED lights and two months of assembly. Chris Weavil, Tanglewood’s assistant director of park operations, has been there since the first light show in 1991.

He’s watched it grow from a dozen displays to 72 and become part of thousands of families’ holiday traditions.“We look forward to the happy faces coming through each year,” Weavil said. “Not just folks in this area, but folks in a 90- to 100-mile radius are here every year. They expect us to be here, so we expect to be the best that we can be.”It takes about 30 employees a collective 6,000 hours to set everything up. In September, the team unpacks the displays from the barn. Each of the 72 displays can have four to 10 separate pieces. They’re made of a steel frame and a sleeve of lights that slides onto the frame like a slipcover.

Then they’re ready for the electrical wiring.It takes about 12 miles of wire and cords to connect everything. It’s important that the pieces are taken back to the exact location each year so that there’s enough wiring to complete the set. The location of each display is recorded with GPS coordinates. “Everybody is pretty much a pro at it by now,” Weavil said. “They know how to put the puzzle together, and that makes it a whole lot easier.”When Weavil got his start with holiday displays, it wasn’t so deliberate.

He was a horticulturist who started out at the park trimming trees and cutting grass. When another employee who didn’t like heights didn’t want to get in the cherry picker to hang the snowflakes in the trees, Weavil hopped in.“Somebody asked if I wanted to go up in it, and there’s my career,” Weavil said. “I started hanging lights, and we’ve just gone from there.”Even though it’s grown so much and there are more lights, Weavil said, it takes about the same amount of time now as it did when they started because LED lights and technology have made the process more efficient. They used to change more than 100,000 incandescent bulbs each year because of color fade, but since they moved to LEDs four years ago, they haven’t had to change any. The park saves 20 to 30 percent on its electric bill, and instead of manual switches, LEDs can be switched on and off with a digital timer.When the timers come on, the work is done, the pressure is off and Weavil enjoys standing near the entrance to watch the cars roll in – full of smiling faces with their windows down and holiday soundtrack playing.“That’s something that’s always rewarding for the staff,” he said, “and rewarding for me.”At home, Weavil said he sticks to minor decorations and saves the big show for Tanglewood. His children grew up with the lights, and even though they are in college now, they still ask when it’s time to visit the park.“I said, ‘Maybe you’re a little old this year,’ and they said, ‘We’re never too old.’”Find more information about visting Tanglewood and watch a timelapse ride-through of the park.