The Event
Multi-platinum Country superstar Dierks Bentley will headline Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th presented by Dr Pepper. The downtown event will present one of the country’s largest July 4th fireworks and drone shows synchronized to live music from the GRAMMY-winning Nashville Symphony.
Let Freedom Sing! will feature the free Amazon Family Fun Zone and include inflatables and live music. The concert and fireworks show are free and open to the public. The Amazon Family Fun Zone at Music City Walk of Fame Park will offer family-friendly activities during the day with a multi-genre lineup of music that includes Walker Montgomery, The Nashville Soul Experience, Alicia Blue, KIRWAN the band, and Les Kerr and The Bayou Band with DJ Rod Youree entertaining between sets.
The event shifts in the evening to the free concert at the Jack Daniel’s Broadway Stage located at First and Broadway. Nashville-based artist Keesha Rainey will perform the National Anthem. Kelly Sutton will emcee the Jack Daniel’s Broadway Stage, and DJ Dave Aude will provide entertainment between sets.
After the concert, the event will move to the Ascend Amphitheater for a live performance by the Nashville Symphony accompanied by a 30-minute fireworks and drone show.
Partners & Sponsors
Let Freedom Sing! partners with local organizations to give back to the community and to make the event more accessible, sustainable and safe.
- Let Freedom Sing! is partnering with Dierks Bentley’s Riser Foundation to support local nonprofits.
- For every person who attends, the NCVC is giving back. With an expected 350,000 attendees, the NCVC’s foundation – Music City Inc. – will donate $3,500 to the Riser Foundation.
- StageWater canned water will be available for purchase at beverage stands and throughout the Let Freedom Sing! event footprint. The company donates a portion of proceeds to support nonprofits that assist those in need within the entertainment industry, such as providing healthcare and hardship grants and supporting independent venues and promoters. StageWater is led by CEO Chris Thacker, tour manager for Bentley, and CMO Zach Belcher, Bentley’s touring photographer and videographer.
- Accessibility features will include an ADA platform and ASL interpreter at the Broadway Stage, and new this year the event will add a partnership with KultureCity to provide Sensory Bags and a Sensory Room.
- The NCVC will continue sustainability practices from previous years, including recycling cardboard, aluminum and plastic; recycling solid grease and grease water; composting and upcycling signage for re-use as art supplies; and using energy-saving LED lights in video and lighting, as well as solar powered lights.
- Care Kitchen Outreach will pick up extra catered food to distribute to local nonprofits.
- Compost Nashville: The event partners with Compost Nashville to collect organic waste material, including a composting station at the Amazon Family Fun Zone in Music City Walk of Fame Park and along First Avenue North near Riverfront Park.
- For the first time, the event will include Sober Space in partnership with Cumberland Heights, similar to the Sober Space at the 2024 New Year’s Eve concert.
- Let Freedom Sing! will be a Safe Bar event, with key bar and security staff trained in bystander intervention and awareness about alcohol’s role in sexual assault. For more information, visit SafeBarApp.org.
- Volunteers with Red Frogs will help create a positive presence at music festivals. They will have a tent at the Amazon Family Fun Zone at Music City Walk of Fame Park and on First Avenue North where they will provide free phone charging, give away cups of water to help keep everyone hydrated and provide sunscreen. Red Frogs volunteers will also rove the event site to ensure patrons are safe and to provide immediate help where needed.
Social Media
The official hashtag for the 2025 Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th is #NashvilleJuly4. Please use this hashtag in all social media posts about the event and follow along to join the conversation.
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