Look for 48 giant inflatable soccer balls as part of a citywide World Cup-themed scavenger hunt in Miami this summer<\/a><\/p>\nThe free event, presented by the Bayfront Park Management Trust and hosted by IRIE, runs from 1pm to midnight along Biscayne Bay with musical guests including Ashanti, Ja Rule, The Fray, Shaggy, Willy Chirino and 112 featuring Slim and Mike.<\/p>\n
The event will also include a FIFA World Cup Fan Zone with giant-screen match viewing, food vendors, cocktails and family-friendly programming throughout the park before the evening culminates in a drone light show over the water and fireworks at midnight. Admission is free, though organizers are asking all attendees to RSVP in advance. There is paid parking available, and doors open at noon.<\/p>\n
The timing is especially fitting for Miami, which has spent the past few years transforming into the nation\u2019s unofficial capital of giant outdoor events. Bayfront Park alone hosts everything from Ultra Music Festival to New Year\u2019s Eve blowouts, and this year\u2019s Fourth of July celebration feels engineered to combine Miami\u2019s favorite things into one marathon party day: international soccer, waterfront cocktails, nostalgia acts and pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also something\u00a0very Miami about celebrating America\u2019s\u00a0250th birthday with Shaggy performing near a FIFA fan zone while drones fly over Biscayne Bay. The Founding Fathers probably didn\u2019t envision this exact scenario, but honestly, they might have appreciated the commitment.<\/p>\n
And because this is South Florida in July, prepare accordingly: sunscreen, hydration and\u00a0a certain emotional readiness to hear\u00a0some nostalgic hits\u00a0echoing across\u00a0the water at sunset.<\/p>\n
The 250 United: America’s 250th Celebration at Bayfront Park concert is located at 301 Biscayne Boulevard. To RSVP for the free concert, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami is going especially big for America\u2019s\u00a0semiquincentennial, a word that doesn’t look any more real the more you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[83620,123,125,124,1407,83621],"class_list":["post-293531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-categories-music","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-music","tag-news-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}