Dearborn Will Now Kick Off Homecoming With Fireworks

DEARBORN, MI — The 2020 Dearborn Homecoming will kick off with a bang.

To ignite even more excitement early in the 2020 Homecoming festival, the first fireworks show now will be on Friday night, followed by another pyrotechnic display on Saturday.

This frontloads the energy to the first day of the Aug. 7-9 event, organizers said.

In previous years, fireworks had been on Saturday and Sunday. In 2020, they will instead launch the excitement on Friday, and then be repeated on Saturday.

Plenty of activities will still take place at the festival on Sunday, Aug. 9, including the Dearborn Area Chamber of Commerce’s Car Cruise and Show that will move from Friday night to Sunday afternoon and early evening.

The festival will continue on a high note on Sunday with live entertainment including on the Main Stage with a show offered from 6-8 p.m. The Main Stage show will mark the conclusion of all city-run activities on Sunday, except for the carnival, which will keep going until 10:30 p.m.

Homecoming organizers said the change to the fireworks schedule is a response to requests over the years from people who work on Monday mornings, and who couldn’t always enjoy the Sunday night fireworks.

Now Sunday can also be reserved for a “rain date” for the fireworks if severe weather occurs on Friday or Saturday nights, they added.

Homecoming is in its 41st year in 2020.