Holiday Lights in the Park

Nov 24, 2009 to Dec 31, 2009

IBEW Holiday Lights in the Park is back for its second year in S. Paul’s Phalen Park, opening November 24 and continuing through December 31. Last year’s new annual holiday light display attracted more than 40,000 visitors in its first year, raising more than $50,000 for local charities.

IBEW is partnering with King of Kings Church in Woodbury to treat the public to 50 exceptional life-size displays portraying scenes with a holiday flavor and a winter feel. Several of the scenes along the half-mile tour will be animated. The drive is bordered by Lake Phalen and Phalen Golf Course.

The event will be open seven days a week. Daily tours are from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sightseers will pay a vehicle entrance fee of $8 Sundays – Thursdays and $10 on Fridays, Saturdays, and holidays.

In addition to the light displays at Phalen Park, IBEW Holiday Lights is introducing a musical element this year. Fifteen of Minnesota’s finest musicians have come together to create a fresh new holiday CD of original mixes to celebrate the season and to help raise funds for Holiday Lights. The CD titled “Home For The Holidays: A Minnesota Christmas” will be on sale for $10 at Phalen Park during the IBEW Holiday Lights in the Park event, in Twin Cities' Target Stores, and at other IBEW Holiday Lights events.

Musicians for “Home for the Holidays: A Minnesota Christmas” include Tim & Kathy Mahoney, The Blenders, GB Leighton, Patty Peterson, Katie McMahon, Mick Sterling, John Trones, Mary Beth Carlson, Matthew Griswold, Ari Herstand, Roster McCabe, Cate Fierro, Wild Colonial Bhoys, Peter Mayer, and Phil Thompson.

IBEW Holiday Lights was developed with the sole purpose of creating fun, affordable holiday events in the Twin Cities that pledge 100 percent of net proceeds to local charities.

Phalen Park
1615 Phalen Drive E.
St. Paul, MN
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