Germann Lights

01/07/2024

Just a reminder to everyone that TONIGHT is the last night of the season! We'll be live until 10:00PM.

Thanks to everyone who has stopped by so far this year! We've had a very successful food drive!

Can't wait to see you all later this year in October for Year 16!

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas everyone!

A few announcements:
1) Extended Hours! We now are starting the show at 4:30pm Daily until 10:00pm Daily!
2) FM Station Upgrade! We're finally done with some upgrades to our FM transmitter. The music should be significantly better quality and much more clear. Let us know how it sounds!
3) Strobes are back - which means our show is now 100% up and running!
4) I've reduced the length of the "Outro" song down to 1 minute. The tree will always count down until the next run of the show.

Thanks everyone for the support! Last night was by far our busiest night yet.

Please remember to not block any driveways and please don't park facing the wrong way - it causes a lot of traffic issues. Our show is always on repeat every 20 minutes.

4968 Prairie Oak Road in Gurnee. 4:30pm to 10pm nightly until Jan 7th.

12/23/2023

We hope everyone is loving the new show this year! Who's seen the new song?!

The Food Donation box is back to being interactive! Once you open the box - you'll be greeted with a quick rainbow chase inside!

Thanks to everyone who has stopped by and donated so far this year!!

It's anticipated to be busy this weekend/week!

A few reminders:
-PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT BLOCK ANY DRIVEWAYS!!!
-Keep your music at a reasonable level.
-If we are busy, come back later - the show is always on a repeat from 5-10
-For the best experience and safety, Lights OFF - Parking Lights on.

I am hoping to improve the FM transmitter quality this weekend too! We're planning to film the show in the coming days should the weather cooperate.

Located at 4968 Prairie Oak Road in Gurnee. Show runs Daily until Jan 7th from 5:00PM until 10:00PM. Food donations collected for the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

12/05/2023

NEW SONG ALERT!!

We're super excited to announce a new addition to our Holiday Light Show – "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" performed by the incredibly talented Lindsey Stirling!

This year, we've worked tirelessly programming this new song - with the unique and playful rhythms of this iconic holiday tune. Lindsey's violin brings a magical twist to this classic, and we can't wait for you to experience it!

This brings our total time to 20 minutes for the show! The song will premiere after our 'Strangers Things' Song.

Located at 4968 Prairie Oak Road in Gurnee. Tune to 87.9FM to hear the music. Food Donations accepted for the Northern Illinois Food Bank. 5PM until 10PM Daily until Jan 7th. Oh, did I mention this is 100% FREE!?

A huge thank you to everyone for your continuous support!

What is everyone's favorite song this year?!

11/24/2023

This is the post you've been waiting for!

We're officially LIVE for 2023!

YEAR 15!!!

Yup! An entire week early at that! This week will be test-run of everything but we've been testing / putting things up the past couple of days and decided to start the show a little early!

From 5:00PM to 10:00PM, tune to 87.9FM at 4968 Prairie Oak Road in Gurnee to check out our latest light show!

We've got all of the same songs from last year running:
Introduction / Nutrocker by Transiberian Orchestra
THX Intro (Simpsons)
Carol of The Bells - August Burns Red
What's This - Fall Out Boy / Nightmare Before Christmas
Wizards of Winter - Transiberian Orchestra
Mad Russian's Christmas - Transiberian Orchestra
Ending / It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas

We're also hard at work trying to get a brand new song running for Dec 1st!

A few reminders:
-PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT BLOCK ANY DRIVEWAYS!!!
-Keep your music at a reasonable level.
-If we are busy, come back later - the show is always on a repeat from 5-10
-For the best experience and safety, Lights OFF - Parking Lights on.

As always, we are collecting food items for the Northern Illinois Food Bank. Any non-perishable food items (and toiletries!!!) can be dropped off in our box on the east side of our yard.

Please enjoy! Let us know what you think of this year's show!

Thank you everyone for the amount of support the past 15 years!

11/18/2023

2 Weeks Away! Show begins Dec 1st at 5:00PM!

We are located at 4968 Prairie Oak Road in Gurnee. Food Donations are accepted for the Northern Illinois Food Bank. Tune to 87.9 FM to hear the music.

Who's excited for this year's show?!

More information: https://www.GermannLights.com

11/03/2023

That's officially a wrap! We'll be back on 12/01/2023 at 5:00PM for our annual Christmas Light Show!

Thank you to everyone for a GREAT Halloween season! Skelly and friends can't wait to see you next year!

-The Germann Family

10/31/2023

YES! We will still be up and running tonight!! What's more scary than some snow on Halloween?!

Tonight is the last night to check out our Halloween Light Show! We'll be up and running 6pm to 10pm tonight.

Thanks everyone for a great year!! Please please please don't forget to bring food items - unfortunately donations this year have been down. We will have the food box out the rest of the week!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

10/29/2023

Gurnee Trick or Treating today! 2PM to 5PM.

Skelly will be telling jokes again and we'll have the show running throughout! Come by, get a treat, and come ask questions! We'll be outside the whole time!

Mango is all ready too!

10/21/2023

We have just wrapped up our finishing touches! We have all of our special effects going tonight!! FOG! STROBES! CONTROLLED WITCHY EYES!

We are also now officially Mango approved! 🐶

Please don't forget to bring food items for the Northern Illinois Food Bank!

We are located at 4968 Prairie Oak Road in Gurnee. The show runs on repeat from 6PM to 10PM daily until October 31st. Tune to 87.9FM to hear the music or use our push-button to turn on our outdoor speaker!

10/16/2023

Please welcome the newest members to our Halloween Light show! The 8ft Pumpkin Stack! We, of course, couldn't add it without a twist! Over 300RGB Pixels make up the faces, allowing us to make the pumpkins "sing"! We are slowing adding them to all of our songs over this week!

Running Daily 6PM to 10PM until the 31st!

10/10/2023

We hope everyone is enjoying the show!!!

We've made a few improvements the past few days!

1) Skelly is back! He decided to take a nap the past couple of days - sorry about that!

2) Songs are finally evened-out volume-wise across the show, so you no longer should need to touch that dial!

3) After 15 years, we finally ditched the 150W Spotlights that have been lighting up our tune-to/food box sign. We are now all LEDS! This should give a better experience as we can now dim/change their colors. More tuning to be done this week!

4) Coming soon! Some new props that we've custom made! Once these new props are in, we're planning to film!

5) Did you notice our new coffins for our skulls?!

Let us know what you're favorite song is so far! We also LOVE to see photos/videos from your point of view!

10/03/2023

We are now LIVE for 2023!

We've got all of our songs from last year up and running!
Including:
Haunted Mansion Theme (Introduction)
Ghostbusters
This is Halloween
Worlds Apart - Journey (Stranger Things)
Starwars Remix
Addam's Family
Twilight Zone Theme Song
Halloween Theme Song / Spooky Scary Skeletons (Outro).

We're located at 4968 Prairie Oak Road in Gurnee.

Please keep your volume at a reasonable level.
Please please please do not block ANY driveways.

Tune to 87.9 FM and enjoy! We are once again collecting food donations for the Northern Illinois Food Bank. You may drop off any non-perishable items in our box located on the East side of our yard.

Enjoy! Please let us know how you like the show. We aren't fully done yet, we've got a few more props coming out in the coming week or two!! So stay tuned!

09/29/2023

Progress! :)

01/08/2023

Christmas 2022 Videos are now LIVE!

New Song This Year - Mad Russian's Christmas by Transiberian Orchestra: https://youtu.be/W7FAVYfUhkE

Complete YouTube Playlist with all of the songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GFwxtnd7CU&list=PLH_xUf_yUlFglinRDaAQTldoOJfAqVvnA

Please Enjoy!!! Let us know what you think in the comments!

Germann Lights 2022 - Intro / Nutrocker by Transiberian Orchestra

01/07/2023

That's a wrap on 2022! Thank you all so much for your support! We were able to donate 385lbs of food to the Northern Illinois Food Bank today!

I hope everyone enjoyed this year's show! I'm working on both a behind the scenes video as well as releasing the filmed songs! Stay tuned for more!

We'll officially be back on October 1st, 2023 for Halloween! Skelly will see you then!

~Adam and Family

01/06/2023

Just a reminder! Tonight is the LAST night to come see the show!

The show will run until 10pm tonight.

Thank you all for your continued support! We just finished filming this year's show and hope to have it up soon here and on our YouTube channel!

What's next?!

See you for an epic 2023 ;)

01/03/2023

Further extended!!!

Because, why not?!

We'll be running until Friday 01/06!! 4:30PM to 10:00PM.

We were planning on taking everything down this weekend - we will either have Thursday as our last night or Friday night. We have to get everything down this weekend!

Thank you all so much for the support this year! We're up to about 7-8 big boxes of food to donate!!

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas everyone!!

We will be running extended hours today until Jan 2nd - 4:30PM until 10:00PM!

12/17/2022

We hope everyone has been enjoying the show!!

Have you ever wondered 'HOW DO THEY DO IT?!' - Wonder no more - I've updated the 'technical details' on our website here: https://www.germannlights.com/?page_id=331

We'd also like to note that we anticipate this weekend and next weekend to be very busy! Please, do not block driveways, and if there's a line, please come back later! The show is approximately 20 minutes long and is always on repeat. If you arrive during 'It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas' - that means the show is about to restart!!

Thank you everyone for the continued support!

What is everyone's favorite song this year?

12/03/2022

New Song Alert!!!

We've added a new song for this year! "Mad Russian's Christmas" by Transiberian Orchestra (short version) - this is an awesome Rock n Roll but also very slow/fast and nice paced song that I had an absolute joy programming!

The new song will premiere after our 'THX - Simpsons' Intro song!

We're live daily, 5PM to 10PM daily through the 2nd of Jan! We hope everyone is enjoying the show so far :D

11/27/2022

This is the post you've been waiting for!!!

We are officially LIVE for 2022!!!

From 5:00pm to 10:00pm Daily until Jan 2nd, 2023!

We are located at 4968 Prairie Oak Road in Gurnee.

The current song list:
Introduction / Nutrocker by Transiberian Orchestra
THX Intro (Simpsons)
Carol of The Bells by August Burns Red
What's This - Nightmare Before Christmas (as performed by Fall Out Boy)
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer by August Burns Red
Stranger Things Theme Song
Wizards of Winter by Transiberian Orchestra
Outro - It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas
(1 BRAND NEW song will be added in the next week or two!)

A few reminders:
-PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT BLOCK ANY DRIVEWAYS!!!
-Keep your music at a reasonable level.
-If we are busy, come back later - the show is always on a repeat from 5-10
-For the best experience and safety, Lights OFF - Parking Lights on.

As always, we are collecting food items for the Northern Illinois Food Bank. Any non-perishable food items (and toiletries!!!) can be dropped off in our box on the east side of our yard.

Please enjoy! Let us know what you think of this year's show!

11/25/2022

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!! I'm happy to announce we are on track for a December 1st launch *maybe sooner!

Here's a short teaser I made with Santa!

Officially Opening December 1st at 5:00PM!

11/23/2022

Day 1: Complete!

We typically take our first day to layout all of our items. Then we'll button everything up and get it all wired up and tested! We are extremely happy for this warm weather!!

We're planning for a December 1st launch, but stay tuned here - just in-case we're ready sooner :D

10/31/2022

Happy Halloween!!!

Tonight is the LAST NIGHT to see our 2022 Light Show! We'll be going from 6PM to 10PM tonight. Thank you so much for all the support! Our food donation box will remain outside for the remainder of the week.

We'll be back with our annual Holiday Light Show starting December 1st at 5:00PM! See you then! :D

10/30/2022

Gurnee Trick or Treating today 2pm to 5pm!

Skelly will be telling jokes! Come on by!

Two more nights to see our light show! Tonight and tomorrow night! 6pm to 10pm. Thank you so much for your support this year!

10/22/2022

NEW this year!

Just in time for this final weekend of warm weather, we now have a Push for Music button! When you push the button a speaker will activate for 3 minutes. Once the speaker turns off you can click again for an additional 3 minutes!

We will only have this working from 6pm to 9pm to not disturb our neighbors.

Please enjoy!

10/10/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FRTZNE8pBU

For those who can't make it out - or for those who want to see what to expect! Here's a video of our new song - Worlds Apart - Journey / Stranger Things!

Enjoy! I'm slowly but surely adding more and more songs to our YouTube channel.

Germann Lights - Worlds Apart - Journey / Stranger Things.Utilizing a 12-ft Animatronic Skeleton and roughly 1000 pixels / 12 flood lights - watch our Hallow...

10/08/2022

Hope everyone is enjoying the new show so far! What's everyone's favorite song this year?!

We'll be running our Fog Effects every weekend now! Friday through Sunday! Come out and see the light show in a whole new way!

09/28/2022

October 1st Song List!
-Introduction (Haunted Mansion Theme)
-Twilight Zone Theme Song (NEW / REDONE FOR 2022!!)
-Monster Mash
-Adaam's Family Theme Song
-This is Halloween
-Ghost Busters
-Worlds Apart - Journey / Stranger Things (NEW FOR 2022!!)
-Halloween Theme Song (NEW / REDONE FOR 2022!) - including a snippet from Spooky Scary Skeletons! (NEW)
-Outro

Each song will be sang by our 12ft Skeleton!!

We might be ready by Friday night, however, we are planning to do a filming session that night - official launch is October 1st at 6PM!