{"id":304779,"date":"2026-06-12T04:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T04:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:28:36","slug":"jul-4-liberty-by-the-bay-2026-july-4-fireworks-festival-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304779\/","title":{"rendered":"Jul 4 | Liberty By The Bay 2026: July 4 Fireworks, Festival In Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate America&#8217;s 250th anniversary at this free, family-friendly waterfront festival featuring a 250-drone light show, fireworks finale, and live entertainment. This massive Fourth of July event includes a Kids Zone, food trucks, a beer garden, a patriotic pet show, and a water ski show on the Hillsborough River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampa.gov\/libertybythebay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Information from the City of Tampa:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event Details<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampa.gov\/libertybythebay#event-details\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nDate: July 4, 2026Time: 4:00 p.m. \u2013 9:30 p.m.Location: Julian B. Lane ParkCost: Free and open to the public<br \/>\nWhat to Expect<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampa.gov\/libertybythebay#what-to-expect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nKids Zone with family-friendly activitiesFood trucks and local vendorsBeer gardenLive music and DJ entertainmentPatriotic Pet ShowWater ski show on the Hillsborough RiverKids Liberty Procession250-drone light showFireworks finale<br \/>\nFull Event Schedule<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampa.gov\/libertybythebay#full-event-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>4:00 p.m. \u2013 4:30 p.m. DJ<br \/>4:00 p.m. \u2013 8:30 p.m. Kids Zone<br \/>4:00 p.m. \u2013 8:30 p.m. Food Trucks<br \/>4:00 p.m. \u2013 8:30 p.m. Beer Garden<\/p>\n<p>4:30 p.m. \u2013 5:15 p.m. Live band performance<br \/>5:15 p.m. \u2013 5:30 p.m. DJ<br \/>5:15 p.m. \u2013 5:45 p.m. Patriotic Pet Show (hosted by Humane Society of Tampa Bay)<br \/>5:30 p.m. \u2013 6:15 p.m. Live band performance<br \/>6:15 p.m. \u2013 7:00 p.m.<a href=\"https:\/\/thetampariverwalk.com\/events\/fourth-of-july-boat-parade.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Water ski show (hosted by Friends of the Riverwalk)<\/a> \/ DJ<br \/>6:45 p.m. \u2013 7:15 p.m. Kids Liberty Procession (hosted by Glazer Children\u2019s Museum)<br \/>7:00 p.m. \u2013 7:45 p.m. Live band performance<br \/>7:45 p.m. \u2013 8:00 p.m. DJ<br \/>8:00 p.m. \u2013 8:45 p.m. Live band performance<br \/>8:45 p.m. \u2013 9:00 p.m. Closing remarks, National anthem, Mayor\u2019s proclamation<br \/>9:00 p.m. \u2013 9:30 p.m. Drone show (250 drones) followed by fireworks display<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrate America&#8217;s 250th anniversary at this free, family-friendly waterfront festival featuring a 250-drone light show, fireworks finale, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-304779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304779","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=304779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}