The Stadium of Fire is annual event held in Provo, Utah at LaVell Edwards Stadium on the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU) on or near each July 4th, celebrated as the United States' Independence Day.
The event is the culmination of a broader week of celebrations called America's Freedom Festival. The Stadium of Fire is intended as a patriotic extravaganza and features prominent musical performers (often including members of the Osmonds, who founded the event), comedians, dancers, stunt performers, tributes to military personnel and first responders and other events, along with one of the largest stadium fireworks show in the USA, all of which are televised internationally. The venue holds over 50,000 people and tends to sell most or all available seats for the Stadium of Fire, and many tens of thousands more crowd around the area to observe the fireworks.
The Stadium of Fire has been held annually in its current form every year since 1980, with the exception of 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, when a televised best-of special was broadcast showing highlights from past events.
History Stadium of Fire originated as the Freedom Festival Panorama. It took on its current format and name in 1980 after Alan Osmond and Merrill Osmond acquired control of the festival.
In this era, the Osmonds developed a number of businesses or other money-making events to recover from financial losses due to their father George Osmond's bad business decisions that left the family in deep debt. Stadium of Fire reflected Alan's love of large fireworks celebrations. Since 1980, the Stadium of Fire has become one of the largest Independence Day celebrations in the United States with super-star performers. Since 2004, it has been created and produced by Baruch Gayton Productions.
At the 2024 Stadium of Fire event, a firework malfunction injured 26 people.
Yearly headline performers
+ Stadium performers Year Performer(s) 1980 The Osmonds 1981 The Osmonds 1982 The Osmonds 1983 The Osmonds 1984 Lee Greenwood; Donny, Marie, and Jimmy Osmond 1985 Roy Clark, David Hasselhoff, Miss America Sharlene Wells, The Osmond Brothers 1986 Crystal Gayle, Mr. T, Donny & Marie Osmond 1987 Bob Hope, The Osmond Boys (2nd Generation), Miss America Kellye Cash, Thurl Bailey 1988 Rich Little; Mary Hart; Emmanuel Lewis, Osmond Brothers 1989 NBC weatherman Willard Scott, Keshia Knight Pulliam, The Osmond Boys, The Jets 1990 Osmond Family, Wayne Newton, Highway 101 1991 Andy Williams, Phylicia Rashad, Lorrie Morgan 1992 The Beach Boys 1993 Kenny Loggins, Jeffrey Osborne, Miss America Leanza Cornett 1994 The Oak Ridge Boys, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Mickey Mouse & his ToonTown friends 1995 Barbara Mandrell, Jay Leno, Utah Symphony 1996 Donny Osmond, Kurt Bestor 1997 Natalie Cole, The Jets 1998 Huey Lewis and the News 1999 Gladys Knight, All-4-One, Harry James Orchestra, Lex de Azevedo 2000 Alabama, The Osmonds-Second Generation 2001 Sawyer Brown 2002 Toby Keith 2003 Martina McBride, Sean Hannity 2004 Reba McEntire, Sean Hannity 2005 Mandy Moore, Lonestar, Debbie Reynolds, Lucy Lawless, The Osmonds 2006 Taylor Hicks, Lee Ann Womack, Raven-Symoné 2007 Brooks & Dunn, Corbin Bleu, Glenn Beck 2008 Miley Cyrus, Blue Man Group, Glenn Beck 2009 Jonas Brothers, SHeDAISY, Glenn Beck 2010 Carrie Underwood, The 5 Browns, Jenny Oaks Baker, The Osmonds Second Generation, Eric Dodge 2011 Brad Paisley, David Archuleta, The Whits, Eve Asplund, Artie Hemphill and the Iron Horse BandDeseret News Paisley, Archuleta provide fun American Saturday Night 2012 The Beach Boys, Scotty McCreery, Ryan Innes 2013 Kelly Clarkson, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Cirque du Soleil 2014 Carrie Underwood, Studio C 2015 Journey, Olivia Holt and GENTRI 2016 Tim McGraw 2017 Little Big Town, Brian Regan, and Hunter Hayes 2018 OneRepublic, GENTRI and Lexi Walker 2019 Keith Urban, Chuck Norris, and Flippenout 2020 (KSL-TV Channel 5 airs a special presentation of the Best of Stadium of Fire on July 4, 2020 at 9pm due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.) 2021 Lee Greenwood, Collin Raye, David Archuleta, Jenny Oaks Baker, Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, Nitro Circus, Stadium of Fire 4One 2022 Tim McGraw, Marie Osmond 2023 Journey 2024 Zion’s Youth Symphony and Chorus |2025Rascal Flatts2026Brad Paisley, Nitro Circus, and GENTRI
TV Special Year Special title Aired date and time Station name Channel number 2020 The Best of Stadium of Fire July 4, 2020 9pm KSL-TV 5
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