Brad Paisley will perform on Lower Broadway
Live music is back and it’s bigger than ever before. This year’s free Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th event presented by Dr Pepper is projected to draw record crowds to Downtown Nashville. The event will feature a concert headlined by country superstar Brad Paisley at First and Broadway with supporting talent Lilly Hiatt, Regi Wooten and Friends, and Priscilla Block, followed by the largest fireworks show in Nashville’s history with the pyrotechnics synchronized to a live performance by the GRAMMY-winning Nashville Symphony performing from Ascend Amphitheater.
“Following conversations with other cities regarding major July 4th events across the US, it’s safe to say that Nashville will have the largest live Independence Day celebration in the country this year,” shares Julie Heckman, Executive Director, American Pyrotechnics Association. “Nashville is a wonderfully creative and inviting city that knows live entertainment inside and out. It’s exciting to see a massive event with diverse top-tier talent like this come together in such a big way with a spectacular 30-minute fireworks show topping it all off.”
Features that make this the largest live Independence Day celebration include all live music (no recorded performances) from 4-10 pm; 30-minutes of pyrotechnics synchronized to music by the Nashville Symphony; expectation of record-breaking crowds; and an A-list headliner in Paisley. In 2019, Nashville’s July 4th event drew a record crowd of more than 343,000 people downtown to the streets of the city’s famed Lower Broadway. As Music City tunes in to a summer of recovery, visitors and locals alike are eager to take part once again in one of Nashville’s biggest events of the year.
“If the weather stays on our side, we are fully prepared for a record-breaking crowd this July 4th ,” adds Butch Spyridon, President and CEO, Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. “Tourism is one of Nashville’s largest industries and this is our biggest annual one-day event, so it holds great significance after having to cancel last year. We’re thrilled to be able to welcome everyone back for a long-awaited celebration of both our country and city with a fun, safe, entertainment-packed night.”
For those looking to join the fun from home, the fireworks show will be livestreamed on via visitmusiccity.com.
Let Freedom Sing! is Nashville’s first major event in over a year. Due to COVID-19, last year’s event was reworked as a television show with no public concert, spectators or fireworks. Paisley, who was previously scheduled to headline in 2020, agreed to come this year instead.
The celebration continues on Monday, July 5th with a video shoot on the Broadway stage by Chris Young from 8-9 pm followed by a 45 minute live concert by the country crooner.
