Best Broadcast in Nashville in 2026: Nashville’s Star-Spangled Bash
Fifteen years ago, locals flocked downtown on Independence Day for live music and fireworks over the Cumberland. Now, partygoers fly from across the world to Lower Broadway for a summer celebration that has become America’s July complement to New Year’s Eve in Times Square. Ryan Seacrest, Nick Jonas and tight security checkpoints signal a hallmark event for the city’s tourism machine that drew some 500,000 people downtown this summer for a Fourth of July celebration that was all party and no politics. Disney’s livestream showed off a Honky-Tonk Highway that looked and felt like a genuinely good time.
