Nashville’s Independence Day celebration will be headlined this year by country music artist Dierks Bentley, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp announced.
This year’s free event, Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th will present one of the country’s largest July 4th fireworks shows synchronized to live music from the Nashville Symphony beginning at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, July 4, at the Ascend Amphitheater.
The 30-minute fireworks show will also feature approximately six minutes of 400 synchronized drones for the second consecutive year.
Bentley will be joined on the Jack Daniel’s Broadway Stage, located at First and Broadway, by a “multi-genre lineup,” including Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge, Niko Moon, and Russell Dickerson for the main show before the fireworks show.
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The event site will open to attendees at 11:00 a.m. on July 4. It will feature an Amazon Family Fun Zone and live performances at the Southwest Airlines Stage at Music City Walk of Fame Park, including DJ Rod Youree, Les Kerr and The Bayou Band, KIRWAN the band, Charlie Worsham, The Nashville Soul Experience, and Walker Montgomery, until 4:55 p.m.
This year’s event is the 22nd annual celebration produced by Music City Inc. through the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp, and the 41st in the city.
Nashville’s July 4 fireworks finale will “continue to be one of the most powerful in the country,” according to the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp, which said it takes twenty technicians to set up the show over 10 days.
The fireworks show uses 40,000 pounds of explosives and 200 miles of wire. Twelve flatbed trailers, each mounted with fireworks, will be staged outside Nissan Stadium for the show.
Last year, Nashville’s Independence Day event hosted a record-breaking 355,000 attendees and generated a record $17.5 million in estimated direct visitor spending.
Next year, Nashville plans to hold a two-day event on July 3 and 4 to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Dierks Bentley” by Dierks Bentley.
