Pigeon
Forge, TN – July 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / Tens of thousands
of July 4 celebrants are expected to fill Patriot Park in Pigeon
Forge for the daylong Patriot
Festival. It’s the 24th edition of the free extravaganza.
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music band Lonestar tops the entertainment lineup, and activity culminates
with a gigantic fireworks display that will light up the sky above this
Great Smoky Mountains resort town.
Activity begins at noon with
children’s games, and live stage entertainment begins at 1:30 p.m.
The lineup offers the Pigeon
Forge Community Chorus, performers from the Biblical Times Theater, the
Shelby Huskey Band, the Tim Kellar Band, bluegrass band Adkins & Loudermilk
and Sons of Sailors, a Jimmy Buffet tribute band.
Lonestar’s performance will
precede the fireworks show, which will begin about 9:45 p.m. The fireworks
will be synchronized to music from WIVK-FM in Knoxville.
Lonestar has had nine No.
1 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Among them are “Amazed,”
“No News,” “I’m Already There” and “My Front Porch Looking In.”
Admission to Patriot Festival
is free, and free parking and shuttle service are available starting at
noon at the city’s parking facility on Teaster Lane. Lawn chairs and blankets
are welcome, and a variety of food and beverage vendors will be present.
Their proceeds will benefit local charities.
Information about visiting
Pigeon Forge is available online at MyPigeonForge.com
and toll-free at 800-251-9100.
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Media Contact:
Tom
Adkinson, APR
for Pigeon Forge Department
of Tourism
615-341-8796 |
