Rocky Mount tower lighting 2025
So I need to pick the button up after I'm
done playing and then press it on one
This is new information
We are so excited
We have quite the crowd out here at Rocky Mount
Mills to celebrate lighting not one but 2 towers this
year at Rocky Mount Mills
And to celebrate we brought in local musician Chandler James
He is incredible so I'm gonna let him do the
honors and we have some special guests in the background
A manger no crip for a bit
Lord Jesus play down his sweet head the stars in
the sky
Do
Oh Lord Jesus a sleeve on
Maybe
Just no cry
Jesus look down from the sky and stay by my
cradle till morning
in a manger no crib
in the sky
And we
Lord Jesus asleep on
Oh Lord Jesus asleep on
How about that Can we get a round of applause
for Chandler You have an incredible voice
You got started right here in North Carolina
Where'd you grow up at Um Nashville North Carolina the
original Nashville
The original Nashville we love to hear it
Is that your favorite Christmas song Chandler Um
Fair enough fair enough
Now what you guys may not know at home we've
been practicing the tower lighting
Chandler's got the button but before we get to actually
lighting both of the towers we have to bring in
these friendly faces around us
Come on in come in a little closer
We have some wonderful kids from the crowd that are
here to help us light the towers tonight
You may have seen them doing a little bit of
dancing in the background
Thank you for uh helping our backup dancers
You guys were really good
Can you tell me your favorite part of tonight Uh
Well it's probably about to happen right When we light
the tower
What do you think What do you think Do you
like the the snow we have out here We have
some special snow out here
Yeah you like it OK can I get the wand
I've got the wand the magical wand
Chandler's got the button
Are you guys ready to light both towers here at
Rocky Mount Mills Alright now is the time
Help me with the countdown
10 987
life
3
All right well
There we go Chandler we must have messed it up
We practiced like 10 times making sure that we could
that we could uh get the button to work
I told Chandler last time
This was the first time that I've ever been able
to have the button but we're working on it
We'll get that lit for you soon
At least we oh wait wait we've got the other
tower lit
There we go the silo is hit
OK sounds good
Well It was that was live on the news
That was actually live on the news so
So the first time I was ever live on television
news I was in New Bern North Carolina
It was Christmas Eve and my whole family was watching
and my microphone because I'm so short fell off hit
the ground the batteries flew out and it was a
complete and utter disaster
So this feels like
This
There we go there we go
Woo Magic
Thank you thank you