Skyshow was an annual fireworks

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 event held in Adelaide

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, South Australia

South Australia

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

SAFM

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. Originating as an Australia Day

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 celebration, the event was subsequently moved to late summer, usually February.

Although beset with serious financial difficulties in the late 1990s until rescued by the South Australian Government

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, it is estimated some 150,000 people attend the main festivities in Bonython Park

Bonython Park, Adelaide

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, whilst many more watch from vantage points along the Adelaide Hills

Adelaide Hills

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. The event ceased in 2006 after funding could not be secured for 2007.

After a large public campaign on social networking site Facebook

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 for the event to return, the Skyshow returned on 13 March 2010 as part of the annual Clipsal 500

Adelaide 500

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event.