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Journey announced as Stadium of Fire 2023 headliner

Mar 17, 2023, 1:00 PM
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Fireworks explode over Stadium of Fire at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday, July 2, 2022. (Spenser Heaps/Deseret News)
(Spenser Heaps/Deseret News)

PROVO, Utah — America’s Freedom Festival at Provo announced on Thursday that the headliner for Stadium of Fire 2023 will be Journey.

Festival organizers said Journey, an 80’s rock group, is celebrating 50 years of making music by headlining the concert.

The band will be rockin’ at the LaVell Edwards Stadium on July 1 as part of one of the largest and longest Fourth of July celebrations in the U.S

Tickets to Stadium of Fire go on sale Friday, March 24.

Other events include July 4th’s Grand Parade and the Freedom Days vendor market in downtown Provo.

Also included is the nation’s largest stadium fireworks spectacle. Then, an evening of patriotic celebrations with a flyover by F-35 jets from Hill Air Force Base.

America’s Freedom Festival at Provo said it expects 500,000 people will attend festival events over the Independence Day week.

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Journey announced as Stadium of Fire 2023 headliner