PROVO, Utah — The organizers of the annual "Stadium of Fire" Independence Day celebration have announced this year's headlining performer, and country music fans will be pleased.
The artist: Rascal Flatts!
The country music trio will be on their "Life is a Highway" reunion tour, and on July 4, they'll perform at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo for the Stadium of Fire portion of "America’s Freedom Festival at Provo."
The band's reunion tour comes five years after they had a "farewell tour."
“I literally could not count how many times over the years I have been asked about Rascal Flatts coming to Stadium of Fire,” Jim Evans, the executive director of America’s Freedom Festival said in Monday's announcement. “And I have wanted them here too! Finally the stars have aligned and they are coming to Provo!”
Tickets will go on sale Friday. According to Monday's announcement, "Freedom Festival" email subscribers will have first dibs at 10 a.m., and the general public will have access at noon. They will be available for purchase at stadiumoffire.com and tickets.byu.edu.
In addition to the concert, the Stadium of Fire will include a drone show, an F-35 jet flyover, and fireworks — which the organizers claim will be "the nation’s largest stadium fireworks spectacle."
Attendees, organizers and first responders alike will hope for a less-chaotic firework show compared to the 2024 event, where several firework rounds were shot into the crowd after a malfunction.
In the video below, the Provo Fire Marshal explains what happened and what they plan to do in the future:
