It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at 607 Calamar Court in Dardenne Prairie. An incredible music and light show is displayed at the Roderique house for all to enjoy this holiday season.

For the past nine years, Gary Roderique has been decorating his house to the max with Christmas lights, but what makes his house special is that his lights are synchronized to music. Roderique spends about 18 days stringing up lights and he works countless hours to sync them to music.

His Christmas hobby started out small by simply lining the roof with icicle lights.

“It was’t until Christmas 2005 when a friend mailed me the video of Carson William’s famous Wizards of Winter synchronized light show that I got hooked. I made it my goal to synchronize my lights for the 2006 season,” Roderique wrote on his website, neverenoughlights.com.

Since then, Roderique’s light collection has grown considerably. He learned to sync the lights with music and programmed it into a computer to run the show. It takes him about three hours to sequence 15 seconds of a song. Though this work is tedious and time consuming, Roderique enjoys it and it definitely pays off.

This year, his house is decorated with 63,732 lights (many of the lights being color-mixing RGBs). With all of these lights flashing for hours, many people worry about Roderique’s electricity bill. However, he writes on his website that his December bill is only about $40-$60 more than his November bill!

“The blinking lights does save money,” Roderique wrote.

Roderique’s light show runs all month long. The times are Sunday–Thursday from 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. and Friday–Saturday from 5:00 – 11:00 p.m. There are 29 different Christmas songs that play in rotation, such as “Blue Christmas” by Elvis, “Let it Go” from Frozen, and many songs by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Tune in to 107.1 FM to hear the music in your car.

If you are looking for a good reason to visit the show, Roderique shares his passion for his light display on his website.

“Why go to one of those parks, pay your $10, just to see a million lights that were thrown in the trees? Anyone can throw lights in the trees. Those places need to upgrade and give you a light show worth seeing. Until that time you can come see my lights and others like them for free,” Roderique wrote.

Outside of the house, there is a donation box set up. All donations are given to the Hope Ministries Food Pantry. Online donations are also accepted. They have already raised almost $1400 so far this month.

The light and music show is sure to brighten up your holiday. Next time you are out looking at Christmas lights, make sure to visit Roderique’s house to see the phenomenal display.