Before thousands of Houstonians gather along Buffalo Bayou to celebrate Independence Day, crews from Pyrotecnico spend hours carefully installing the fireworks that will light up the city\u2019s skyline.|<\/p>\n
The pyrotechnics are being staged in Buffalo Bayou Park for the City of Houston\u2019s annual Freedom Over Texas celebration, now in its 39th year. This year\u2019s festival also marks a milestone by celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States.<\/p>\n
Freedom Over Texas takes place Friday, July 4, from 3 to 10 p.m. at Eleanor Tinsley and Sam Houston parks along Allen Parkway. The festival features live music, family activities, food vendors and entertainment throughout the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n
Country superstar Keith Urban headlines the concert lineup, joined by rock band Collective Soul and Texas favorites Los Lonely Boys. Festival attractions include a Futbol Park and viewing party, an All-American Kids Zone and a variety of food offerings.<\/p>\n
The celebration culminates with a musically choreographed fireworks spectacular beginning at 9:30 p.m., illuminating the sky above Buffalo Bayou, Allen Parkway and the downtown Houston skyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before thousands of Houstonians gather along Buffalo Bayou to celebrate Independence Day, crews from Pyrotecnico spend hours carefully…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-360109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}