The pop and R&B stars will sing before the fireworks go off above the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Kesha in 2016. the pop star will headline the Waa Welcome America Concert on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on July 4, along with Ne-Yo.
In 2022, Jason Derulo, Ava Max, and Tori Kelly performed, and sounds of gunfire during the after-concert fireworks led to crowds fleeing in panic and the clearing of the site. In 2021, the Philly 4th of July concert’s first year back after being canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Flo Rida headlined the celebrations staged at the Mann Center.
For the second year in a row, the free July 4 concert will be the only outsized musical gathering on the Parkway in the summer after Jay-Z’s Made in America festival, a Labor Day weekend tradition since 2012,, with guests including Bob Dylan, Robert Plat & Alison Krauss, and Mavis Staples. It’s the first time Nelson’s festival will ever be staged on the east coast.
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