I made a playlist of the fireworks videos from my YouTube Channel. Three different years we have here, each one, in its own way, captures the true spirit of these JAM at the CAM parties.

The sound of kids laughing, the oohs and ahhs as the sky lights up reflected in the lake. From our yard you could see up to five often spectacular shows simultaneously in the eastern sky. Five little towns, just like ours, celebrating in a most American way.

The spirit of the JAM at the CAM shows is the freedom of the jam. The coming together of musicians of all styles, experience and competence.
Mix and match at random and play what you feel when you feel it. Often unfettered by song structure or even music theory we made sounds that made people happy (mostly) if not the listeners, at least the players.

The first video is a perfect example. There are people standing around on stage, setting up stuff, the sounds of folks tuning up.

Somebody starts a riff, the drummer grabs it, a bass guy jumps in, guitar guy finds a melody, a sprinkling of sax and off they go. All of a sudden five guys who don't know each other's names and have never met in their life are playing eight minutes of cool party music. You can feel the crowd gathering at their feet. Enough music to be a sound bed for the fireworks show.

Freedom in a song. Freedom to play what you feel.
It isn't good, it isn't bad, it is what you feel.

To be honest, we never really tried, but in 20 years we never played the same song twice.