Stadium of Fire

The Stadium of Fire is a nearly annual event held in the Brigham Young University's LaVell Edwards Stadium on or very near the United States' Independence Day. It is one of the main events for the America's Freedom Festival.^[1] This patriotic extravaganza with a cast of thousands features the largest stadium fireworks show in the USA. It is also televised worldwide to US troops and their families on American Forces TV, as a gift from America's Freedom Festival.

Stadium of Fire originated as the Freedom Festival Panorama. It took on its current format and name in 1980 after Alan Osmond and Merrill Osmond acquired the festival^[2] as one of the money-making events conceived by the Osmond family in the early 1980s to recuperate money from father George Osmond's bad business partnerships that had left the family in deep debt.^[3] Since 1980, it has become one of the largest Independence Day celebrations in the United States with super star performers, and the Stadium of Fire Dancers. Since 2004, it has been created and produced by Baruch Gayton Productions^[4].

At the 2024 Stadium of Fire event, a firework malfunction injured 26 people.^[5]

Stadium performers

Year	Performer(s)
1980	The Osmonds
1981	The Osmonds
1982	The Osmonds
1983	The Osmonds
1984	Lee Greenwood; Donny, Marie, and Jimmy Osmond
1985	Roy Clark, David Hasselhoff, Miss America Sharlene Wells, The Osmond Brothers
1986	Crystal Gayle, Mr. T, Donny & Marie Osmond
1987	Bob Hope, The Osmond Boys (2nd Generation), Miss America Kellye Cash, Thurl Bailey
1988	Rich Little; Mary Hart; Emmanuel Lewis, Osmond Brothers
1989	NBC weatherman Willard Scott, Keshia Knight Pulliam, The Osmond Boys, The Jets
1990	Osmond Family, Wayne Newton, Highway 101
1991	Andy Williams, Phylicia Rashad, Lorrie Morgan
1992	The Beach Boys
1993	Kenny Loggins, Jeffrey Osborne, Miss America Leanza Cornett
1994	The Oak Ridge Boys, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Mickey Mouse & his ToonTown friends
1995	Barbara Mandrell, Jay Leno, Utah Symphony
1996	Donny Osmond, Kurt Bestor
1997	Natalie Cole, The Jets
1998	Huey Lewis and the News
1999	Gladys Knight, All-4-One, Harry James Orchestra, Lex de Azevedo
2000	Alabama, The Osmonds-Second Generation
2001	Sawyer Brown
2002	Toby Keith
2003	Martina McBride, Sean Hannity
2004	Reba McEntire, Sean Hannity
2005	Mandy Moore, Lonestar, Debbie Reynolds, Lucy Lawless, The Osmonds[6]
2006	Taylor Hicks, Lee Ann Womack, Raven-Symoné
2007	Brooks & Dunn, Corbin Bleu, Glenn Beck
2008	Miley Cyrus, Blue Man Group, Glenn Beck
2009	Jonas Brothers, SHeDAISY, Glenn Beck[7]
2010	Carrie Underwood, The 5 Browns, Jenny Oaks Baker, The Osmonds Second Generation, Eric Dodge
2011	Brad Paisley, David Archuleta, The Whits, Eve Asplund, Artie Hemphill and the Iron Horse Band[8]
2012	The Beach Boys, Scotty McCreery, Ryan Innes
2013	Kelly Clarkson, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Cirque du Soleil[9]
2014	Carrie Underwood, Studio C[10]
2015	Journey, Olivia Holt[11]
2016	Tim McGraw[12]
2017	Little Big Town, Brian Regan,[13] and Hunter Hayes[14]
2018	OneRepublic and Lexi Walker[15]
2019	Keith Urban, Chuck Norris, and Flippenout[16]
2020	(KSL-TV Channel 5 airs a special presentation of the Best of Stadium of Fire on July 4, 2020 at 9pm due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.)
2021	Lee Greenwood, Collin Raye, David Archuleta, Jenny Oaks Baker, Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, Nitro Circus, Stadium of Fire 4One [17][18]
2022	Tim McGraw, Marie Osmond
2023	Journey
2024	Jonas Brothers |Zion’s Youth Symphony and Chorus |
2025	Rascal Flatts

TV Special

Year	Special title	Aired date and time	Station name	Channel number
2020	The Best of Stadium of Fire	July 4, 2020 9pm	KSL-TV	5