Chris Young To Headline July 4th Concert In Nashville

Today (4/18), it was announced that Chris Young will headline the 'Let Freedom Sing!' Music City July 4th concert. The country star will perform downtown during the family-friendly event on Jack Daniel's Broadway Stage for the city of Nashville.

Young will be joined by an exciting lineup including Yola (artist, songwriter, and actor), Girl Named Tom (Winners of The Voice in 2021), and Blessing Offor, a two-time GRAMMY Award nominee).

This year's 'Let Freedom Sing!' headlined by Young marks the 21st annual celebration produced by Music City Inc. and the 40th in the city. Previous headliners include Brad Paisley, Old Dominion, Lady A, Sheryl Crow, Martina McBride, Billy Currington, and The Band Perry, among others.

Aside from the epic performances, the downtown event features one of the largest fireworks shows in the country and will also have the pyrotechnics synchronized to a live performance by the Nashville Symphony.

As a reminder, the 2024 'Let Freedom Sing!' Music City July 4th concert in Nashville is free to attend. The yearly event has regularly drawn more than 200,000 attendees with a record-breaking crowd in 2021 of 350,000.

“In addition to these thrilling performances, we are proud to introduce new elements to enhance the festivities, such as incorporating drones into the fireworks display and partnering with PENCIL to support their invaluable work of empowering Nashville’s youth. We invite everyone to join us for a full day of music, fireworks and giving back to our community,” said Ken Levitan, Chairman of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp.

One dollar from each official event t-shirt sold this year will be donated to PENCIL, which raises funds and donates school supplies to Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Most recently, the 2024 headliner, Young, released his new album, Young Love & Saturday Nights, featuring "Looking For You," "Double Down," "Gettin' Older," and "Right Now." It is the multi-platinum entertainer's largest project to date with 18 tracks.

Today (6/21) marks the first day of summer. The summer solstice occurs when the sun appears to be directly over the Tropic of Cancer, and for 2023, that's 10:58 a.m. Eastern.

The longest daylight hours of the year will vary depending on how far you are from the equator. Daylight hours will gradually shorten until the winter solstice in December. The situation is reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, where winter starts in June.

But enough about the science of summer; we love summer because it's fun. Most country stars feel the same way. Luke Bryan told us recently, before he launched his 2023 "Country On" tour, "Nothing is better than being out on the road in the summer."

For Dierks Bentley, summer is about having fun and lighting things up a bit. A few years ago, Dierks told us before he launched a summer tour, "Fireworks were a big part of my summers growing up and explosives and putting half sticks of dynamite in mailboxes and just having fun."

Chris Young told us a few years back that summertime is the time to work when you are a country singer, and vacations during the summer are few and far between. He said, "Everyone else is getting a chance to relax a little more, but as a musician, you're playing somewhere, and it's always tricky trying to work that out. Everyone is like, 'You should come over; we're having a barbecue,' and I'm like, 'I'm gonna be in the middle of the country."

Little Big Town's Phillip Sweet told us about his group's summer anthem, "Pontoon," when it first came out, "It's just fun, it really is, it feels like summer, and it feels exactly what it sounds like. I grew up on pontoon boats in the summer on the lakes and just having a blast."

As we bring in the official start of summer today, we look at what we believe are twelve of the best country music songs celebrating the summertime.