After the success of the Jounieh International Festival Fireworks in July, ICE International Events asked Merlin Fireworks to return to Lebanon to work with them and with Lebanon's premier Firework Company, J & J Fireworks, to produce a display to open the Cedars International Festival on 1st August. This was the first Cedars International Festival to be held after almost fifty years so the pressure was on to open it in style! Merlin's Pierre-Yves Angoujard designed the five minute Aerial Shell display to a specially mixed soundtrack and we used forty five Cobra System radio receivers set around the hills of the Cedars to fire the display.
