TAMPA, Fla. — The Sylvan Ramble Lights Show is happening this Friday but the shows are ending at the end of the month.

The show on Sylvan Ramble Street in south Tampa has been going on since 2018.

Unfortunately, this year is their last.

What You Need To Know

  • Sylvan Ramble Lights Show in South Tampa dazzles audiences this December for the last time, at least in this location 

  • The show has outgrown the neighborhood where the lights show happens

  •  The shows are raising money for local Tampa Bay charities

However, the show might keep going in the future.

Sam Johnson and his family put on the show at their Florida winter wonderland. The closer we get to Christmas; you can see up to two hundred people show up.

In the big crowds, the kids love to sing along as well as the adults.

“It’s truly heart-warming,” Johnson said. “It happens during every show, and it never gets old.”

Manny Cabrera has brought his son Ethan for the last four years.

Cabrera said they get excited early every year to come to a show.

“Ever since this year started, he said, dad we need to go to the Sylvan Ramble lights show,” Manny said.

Since 2018, the Johnson family has put on the show in this neighborhood.

Every year the show has gotten bigger, better, and more complicated.

“It almost takes a full year to plan and execute,” Johnson said.

That is why Johnson feverishly programmed this show and let our cameras catch up with him a month ago.

“Especially because we don’t just do songs, we actually created our own soundtrack with a theme and a storyline behind it, which takes the extra time,” he said.

Back then, the family also finished testing and putting up the lights.

They were transitioning from their October Halloween show, which is also extremely popular.

The shows are raising money for Clothes to Kids, a local Tampa Bay non-profit.

(Sylvan Ramble Lights Show)

“They would say that the funds are great, but the awareness it brings to them is just as great as the funds that we raise,” Sam said.

Cabrera said $50,000 is the goal by the end of 2023.

This year’s shows are going to be the last series of shows at this location.

That is why Cabrera is taking in a show this year with his son.

“Just wanted to enjoy it one more time before it goes away and hopefully maybe they’ll pick it up someplace else,” Cabrera said.

That request is now on Santa’s Wishlist, on the nice side.

“We’ve kind of outgrown it,” Johnson said. “We’re looking for commercial properties to move to potentially for next year.”