Ryan Seacrest to host Nashville’s live July 4 Star-Spangled Bash
Ryan Seacrest will host a three-hour live Nashville July 4 broadcast tied to a free downtown celebration, with fireworks, drones and 30-plus local artists.
Ryan Seacrest will host Disney Celebrates America: Nashville’s Star-Spangled Bash, a three-hour live broadcast scheduled for Saturday, July 4, 2026, from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. EDT, or 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. CDT. ABC, the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp and ITV America Nashville announced the special, which will stream on ABC News Live, Disney+, Hulu, the ESPN App, Freeform, FX and NatGeo.
The show is being staged around Nashville’s free July 3-4 Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th celebration in downtown Nashville, placing the city’s holiday program at the center of a national television event. The broadcast is also part of Nashville’s expanded America 250 programming, a broader push that turns the holiday into a showcase for the city’s tourism and public-event infrastructure as much as its entertainment roster.
The lineup spans country, pop, R&B and rock, with reported performers including The All-American Rejects, Boyz II Men, Brothers Osborne, Clint Black, Lauren Daigle, NE-YO, Nick Jonas, Sublime, Little Big Town, Reba McEntire and Tim McGraw. MusicRow said the expanded America 250 celebration will feature more than 30 Nashville artists across two days and five stages, underscoring the scale of a downtown production that has to manage multiple performance sites at once.
Local coverage has described the holiday display as one of the nation’s largest fireworks and drone shows, with the Nashville Symphony set to provide the live score. WKRN-TV also reported behind-the-scenes rehearsal coverage with Reba McEntire, who said she would debut two never-before-released songs during the special. Danielle Breezy of WKRN-TV has been taking GMA viewers behind the scenes as Nashville readies the production, while Deana Ivey, the head of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp, has been promoting the city’s role as host for the July 4 broadcast.
The event places downtown Nashville under a national spotlight for a crowded holiday weekend, with a free public celebration running July 3 and July 4 and a live coast-to-coast television window layered on top. For the city, the test is not only the stage lineup but the logistics required to move thousands of people through a multi-venue holiday program built for television, tourism and a fireworks finale that will be seen far beyond Music City.
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