We got VIP parking. We sat in lawn chairs in a public park, alongside the food trucks and across the way from the launch site and whoever put together the playlist. Just before it got fully dark the fireworks began, and they ran to their logical crescendo. There are fireworks across the country. I’m not sure how many of those will feel like 250, or how many will feature, for inexplicable reasons, Free Bird, but this show did.
The small towns have fireworks on the 3rd, I think so they will have an audience because of the much larger nearby show on the 4th.
The one we attended tonight had a musical pairing. The finale was Free Bird.
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith.org) July 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
It was nice. It was easy. It was warm. The air quality was better, I guess, and then of course, we put a bunch of explosive propellants and smoke (during a drought) in the air for all of us to enjoy. Free Bird, indeed.
