Nashville's downtown "Let Freedom Sing" July 4th festivities on Thursday evening closed with veteran country star and Murfreesboro native Chris Young performing before an extensive, drone-assisted fireworks display soundtracked by the Nashville Symphony that offered a wild display over Lower Broadway in the humid evening air.

The late-arriving record crowd of approximately 355,000 Nashville area residents and tourists were often pleasantly awed by the spectacle, including 400 drones and 40,000 pounds of explosives flying 800 feet into Music City's skies.