Living Skies Fireworks competition return to Moosomin Regional Park this August Long
May 12, 2025, 10:28 am
Ashley Bochek
The Living Skies Fireworks Competition is back this August Long at Moosomin Regional Park.
Tickets go on sale June 14 and are available at Jeannot Electric, The World-Spectator, Glasser’s TV, and at Moosomin Regional Park.
Kyle Jeannot, the Chair of the Entertainment Committee and Chris Davidson, the Chairman of the Regional Park say they are excited to bring back the traditional August Long weekend to Moosomin Lake this year.
“Land of Living Skies will be back this year at the lake,” Jeannot said. “It will be Saskatchewan versus Alberta for the two nights of fireworks. Saturday night it will be Saskatchewan and the 605 Band will be playing. Sunday night will be Alberta and The Sean Taylor Band.
“The bands are both brand new this year. The band 605 is from Gerald and Sean Taylor band is from Winnipeg. They are both country rock bands.”
Jeannot says food trucks will also be returning for the weekend.
“There will be four food trucks, the Perras Boys, Mexican King, there is a slushy truck for the weekend, and one other. They show up late on Friday.”
He says the weekend will be filled with kids’ activities.
“There will be kids’ events happening throughout the weekend too—sand castle building, kids’ games, beach volleyball, and road hockey.
“Beer gardens will be available Saturday and Sunday night again as well. I am assuming it will be good and people will be travelling to see family so we should have lots out.”
Tickets
Jeannot says tickets will go on sale in early June.
“Tickets are available June 14 on early-bird sale for $20. They are available at Jeannot Electric, The World-Spectator, Glasser’s, and the toll booth at the lake.
“We want to still make it affordable so families can afford it. The advance tickets are $20 early bird and $25 after, and 5-and-under are free.”
The committee will be posting a calendar of upcoming events happening this summer at the lake.
“On the lake site there will be an events calendar for the whole summer so everyone can see what is going on at the lake every weekend and it will also be in the Plain and Valley and the paper,” Jeannot said.
Back to traditional August Long
Davidson says the committee has decided to bring back pre-pandemic August Long fireworks and events this summer.
“We are gearing up for what we used to do pre-pandemic. We are hoping 5,000 people each night.”
Jeannot adds, “All of the power sites are already booked. We are booking overflow sites right now. We have lots of sites yet to go. It is a good turnout already though with lots of people booking that weekend.”
Davidson says people can expect the full scale fireworks show like before the pandemic. “It will be similar to past years regarding the show, so people know what to expect with the fireworks. Archangel out of Winnipeg is going to run and manage everything and then they have a crew that will come out of Saskatchewan and Alberta. They are very excited to come out again this year. They did our smaller show on the July Long last year too.”
Excitement in community
Jeannot says he has heard positive feedback from the community.
“People are excited and looking forward to it coming back. People were disappointed when it was gone with the pandemic, but now that it is coming back people are excited and it should be really good.”
“We have had a lot of people ask ‘Where are the fireworks?’ The public and community missed it,” Davidson said. “We tried the drone fireworks a few years ago, but people want the dynamite and explosions and sounds, so we thought we should get it back again.”
“This is hopefully our plan to continue to get back to the way it was, and keep it the same from now on every August Long,” Jeannot adds.
The committee is still looking for some volunteers for the weekend.
“Volunteers are the biggest thing right now,” Jeannot explained.
“We are pretty well set. Our biggest thing is finding volunteers for parking. It is an out-in-the-sun job which nobody really likes, but we are trying to break it up into small shifts so we are still looking for volunteers for that.
A lot of work goes into it. We’ve been working on it since the fall to stay ahead of it.”
Jeannot says the weekend helps fund updating projects at the park.“It is about having a fun summer event for people to come out to and enjoy, and also it does help better the park and beautify it for people and maybe add more campsites or anything the water plant may need. There is no end to the projects we could do out there.”
Davidson says the event has helped support many expenses for the park. “One year it was quite big when China was there and it helped pay for a huge chunk of the water treatment plant for about three years that we ran it. It paid for at least half of the water treatment plant when we built it back in 2018.
Everything just gets more expensive—we have to set the ticket price point too where it is not so high that it drives people away, so we left the prices the same as they were last year. We talked about raising the price of tickets, but decided not to.”
Great venue
Davidson explains the park is a great venue for different firework companies.
“It is a unique venue too. All the firework companies that come just love the venue—being able to light them from the other side of the lake and see them reflect in the water, and you get the echo of the sound up and down the valley, it is quite the venue.”
Davidson explains how the fireworks shows began at Moosomin Lake each summer.
“It has been a long time. Prior to the competition, we did it for a few years as well and it just kept growing. In the beginning there was some people from Windthorst and they were part of a fireworks outfit out of Regina and they would come and camp at the lake and they told us ‘Let us camp for free, and we will do a fireworks display for you,’ and that is how it started, but that was probably 30 years ago now.
“I also think it is very beneficial to the local economy here. People come down for the weekend and buy their gas, buy their groceries, booze, and stay at hotels and spend money within the community and the surrounding communities.”
Jeannot says the committee and community are very excited to see the fireworks return this upcoming August long weekend.
“We are super excited. It is really exciting to be part of it and put something on for the community and surrounding communities. People are full of excitement that it is happening again this year and we’ve had a lot of people step forward to help this year which has been really good.”
