A string of icicle lights and a few dancing reindeer aren't enough for one Union County man's Christmas decorations.

He wants spectators to "tune in" to something spectacular on his front lawn. David Brown has synchronized his lights to flash on and off to the beat of five Christmas tunes, which spectators can listen to on their car radios. Brown transmits the music on a low-power FM signal from a transmitter in his home. “ We love it, it's great!” exclaimed Missy Trent, who came upon the display by accident while looking at Christmas lights with her family.

Nearly 9,000 lights flash on 56 circuits in time with five Christmas classics like “Carol of the Bells,” to make the display dance in tune to the holidays. It was all programmed by Brown and his wife, and controlled from the computer in Brown's home office.

“For every minute of music you hear,” explained Brown, “there's about two hours worth of work to actually sequencing.”  

Brown calls himself the “geek” among his friends, and not surprisingly, he works in tech support for a major computer company.

They challenged him to put on the show after seeing another one like it. Brown describes the elaborate computer program that runs the lights and music. "We can go dim to bright, turn them all on, turn them all off..."

He points to a series of tiny squares on his computer screen.

Each little square controls a light circuit to one-twentieth of a second.

It can give a command for every beat of the music. “Sure, it’s fairly tedious work,” agrees Brown.

The reward, he says, is in the faces of those who stop to watch.

He and his wife like to walk outside after every 20-minute show and hand out candy canes to spectators. “Hearing kids say I want my mom to bring me every night to see the singing angels," says Brown, “that's enough for us.

We just really enjoy that" The shows run every half hour starting at 6pm.

The last one starts at 9pm, except on weekends, when the last one starts at 9:30.

If you want to see the show, you can find out more information on LakeParkLights.com.