Kingsport is excited to announce Cheap Trick as the headliner on the Cardinal Glass Industries Stage for the second annual Red, White & BOOM Independence Day Celebration. The opener for Cheap Trick will be Music City Stones, a Rolling Stones tribute band. The event will take place on Main Street in the Centennial Park area in Downtown Kingsport on Saturday, July 1st.
The event is free and open to the public. Visit one of many downtown establishments or enjoy food trucks and beverage vendors beginning at 5 p.m. in the Main Street area. Bring a chair or blanket and the whole family to enjoy an evening of food, beverage, music and fireworks. Concerts will begin at 6:30 p.m. and fireworks will start at the conclusion of Cheap Trick’s set at around 9:45 p.m.
The day’s celebrations will begin earlier that morning with Kingsport’s 69th annual Mack Legion Independence Day Parade! The parade will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will start at the Renaissance Center.
Participants will proceed down Center Street to Fort Henry Drive, and the route will end at Memorial Park across from Dobyns-Bennett High School. For more information about the parade click here
For more information about this year’s festivities, visit the Red White and Boom website here.
A calendar has been created called the This is Kingsport events calendar which will serve as a non-public forum to provide citizens with information about social and organizational gatherings held within the city. The city will disseminate information to the public through this online calendar about social and organizational gatherings which are conducted or promoted by community partners with which the city currently has partnership agreements. Additionally, social or organizational gatherings held on city owned property to which the public at large is invited will be published on this calendar.
Each year the city enters into partnership agreements with multiple community partners some of whom in turn support the city by organizing events or promoting events of members and affiliates. By creating a common source for the dissemination of information about community events the city will be furthering its support of those community partners which in turn support the city. Moreover, the city wishes to and will benefit from highlighting gatherings which will be of benefit and enjoyment to the public.
Community partners may communicate their events or those which they promote to the city which will disseminate the information through the event calendar. Furthermore, the city of Kingsport will publish on the calendar those community events which are held on city property. In order to achieve the city’s goals only those events described herein will be published on the This is Kingsport event calendar which will be curated by city staff.