Free family fun in Kiener Plaza with music, food and drinks, activations, hot air balloons, a DJ and a fireworks finale
Celebrate the 4th with a 5K run.
137th Annual VP Parade in downtown St. Louis along Market Street. This year's parade theme is " USA". The 2019 Parade Honorary Grand Marshal is Bill Griffin, a 50-year employee of the Veiled Prophet Organization and instrumental each year int he Parade's production.
Check out 14 high caliber marching bands, 21 beautifully designed floats, huge helium-filled character balloons and dozens of great units as the kick off to the Fourth of July weekend.
If you can’t join in person catch the live broadcast on KMOV, Channel 4 starting at 9:30 am.
Purina Festival Zone, STEAM Expo and Interactive Zone Open
Check out exciting ways that science, technology, engineering, arts and math can be educational AND fun.
Check out these high flying, exhilarating, aerobatic performers dazzling the crowd over the Mississippi River.
In the Purina Festival Zone in the North teardrop
In the Purina Festival Zone in the North teardrop
Check out these high flying, exhilarating, aerobatic performers dazzling the crowd over the Mississippi River.
In the Purina Festival Zone in the North teardrop
on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Stage
on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Stage
With an inimitable voice The New York Times describes as “wholly different, thicker and more throbbing, a caldron bubbling over,” Randy Houser racked up three consecutive No. 1 hits and more than four million in singles sales to date with his Stoney Creek Records album, How Country Feels. He topped the charts with the title track, “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight” and “Goodnight Kiss” (also his first No. 1 as a songwriter) and earned critical acclaim for his powerful delivery of the Top 5 smash and CMA Song of the Year-nominated "Like A Cowboy." Houser added a fourth No. 1 to his catalogue with “We Went” from his 2016 album, Fired Up. His fifth studio album, Magnolia marks a new era for Houser. Listeners got their first taste of Houser’s rootsy new sound with “What Whiskey Does,” which debuted at Country radio as #1 Most Added and Rolling Stone immediately dubbed “a classic tears-and-twang drinking song.”
Brett Young’s sophomore album Ticket to L.A. hit No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart upon its December 2018 release. The album follows his colossal 2017 self-titled debut, which dominated the Top 20 on the Country Albums chart for 37 weeks and quickly reached RIAA PLATINUM certification. Delivering four consecutive No. 1 PLATINUM-certified hits, Young was recently named ASCAP’s 2018 Country Songwriter-Artist of the Year, and his 3X PLATINUM smash hit “In Case You Didn’t Know” was named BMI Country Awards’ Song of the Year. Young has garnered nominations from ACM, Billboard, Teen Choice, CMT and CMA. Along with the industry successes, his relationship with fans found Young selling out every stop on his debut headlining CALIVILLE TOUR and earning new followers on the road with Thomas Rhett’s LIFE CHANGES TOUR and Kelsea Ballerini’s MISS ME MORE TOUR.
Purina Festival Zone, STEAM Expo and Interactive Zone Open
In the Purina Festival Zone in the North teardrop
Check out these high flying, exhilarating, aerobatic performers dazzling the crowd over the Mississippi River.
In the Purina Festival Zone in the North teardrop
on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Stage
on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Stage
With an unmistakable, unique trademark style, GRAMMY®-nominated Johnny Gill has altered the sound of R&B music for over three decades. His classics include “My, My, My,” “Rub You The Right Way,” “Where Do We Go From Here,” “Perfect Combination,” “Boys To Men,” “Can You Stand The Rain,” “My Body,” and the timeless wedding song “You For Me” from Tyler Perry’s hit movie Madea’s Family Reunion. With a seemingly endless list of hits, ranging from his time in New Edition to the all-star trios L.S.G. (the late Gerald Levert and Keith Sweat) and Heads of State (Bobby Brown and Ralph Tresvant), it’s easy to see why Johnny Gill serves as the prototype for the supreme R&B singer. He is one of the few artists to score number No. 1 hits with two different groups, duo & also solo, and one of the top legendary artists.
Legendary R&B singer, songwriter and producer Keith Sweat has nearly three decades in the soul business and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Born in Harlem, New York, Sweat’s 1987 debut album, Make It Last Forever, sold more than three million copies, with songs “I Want Her” hitting No. 1 and the title track hitting No. 2 on the R&B charts. Albums I'll Give All My Love To You, hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and Keep It Comin’ debuted in the Top 20. His self-titled fifth album hit No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and gained quadruple platinum status. Sweat recently released his 13th studio album Playing for Keeps. Sweat has also achieved success as a producer, working with artists such as Silk, Kut Klose, Dru Hill and The Isley Brothers. In 1997 he formed his own R&B super group, LSG, with Johnny Gill and the late Gerald Levert. Sweat was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Soul Train Awards. In 2017, he completed two highly-successful residencies at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. Keith hosts the nationally syndicated show “The Sweat Hotel,” which airs on 70 radio stations nationwide and has over three million listeners daily.
Purina Festival Zone, STEAM Expo and Interactive Zone Open
Check out these high flying, exhilarating, aerobatic performers dazzling the crowd over the Mississippi River.
on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car stage
In the Purina Festival Zone in the North teardrop
on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Stage
In the Purina Festival Zone in the North teardrop
Join us as we honor and celebrate 300 service men and women from the Missouri National Guard for their sacrifice to our country.
Presented by Express Scripts and Express Scripts Foundation
Check out these high flying, exhilarating, aerobatic performers dazzling the crowd over the Mississippi River.
In the Purina Festival Zone in the North teardrop
on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Stage
on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Stage
GRAMMY®Award-winning band The Flaming Lips’ sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements; lyrically, their compositions show elements of space rock. O Magazine named The Lips one of the “50 Bands to See Before You Die.” Founded in 1983, the group recorded several albums and EPs on indie label Restless in the 1980s and early ‘90s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored their 1993 hit “She Don’t Use Jelly” and went on to release 1999’s “The Soft Bulletin” (named NME Magazine’s Album of the Year), 2002’s “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” and 2009’s “Embryonic.” In the early 2010s they released “The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends,” featuring Bon Iver, Kesha and Erykah Badu. They collaborated with Miley Cyrus for her album “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz,” and recently released their 15th studio album “King’s Mouth.” The band has won three GRAMMYs and as well as a BRIT Award.
Vertical Horizon was founded in the early 1990s, but it was seven years before lead singer Matt Scannell’s songs became the radio hits that brought the popular grass roots band to national attention. Vertical Horizon released three albums independently (There and Back Again, Running on Ice, and Live Stages) and toured extensively before signing with RCA Records in 1998. Their breakout album, Everything You Want, released in 1999, went on to sell more than two million copies. The title track, “Everything You Want,” captured the #1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 and Adult Top 40 charts, and became Billboard’s Most Played Single of 2000. Their follow-up album, Go, was released in 2003 and solidified the band as a no-nonsense pop rock entity. After a brief hiatus, the band released a new album, Burning the Days, in 2009, followed by Echoes From the Underground in 2013. In February 2018, Vertical Horizon released their latest album, The Lost Mile.
St. Louis duo Rubi have lived as musicians for their entire young lives. Sisters Bella and Lily Ibur started singing before they could talk and took up their first instruments before they started kindergarten. With a musician father and a mother who paints, they were always taught to appreciate every form of art and music. This, along with their ability to tell stories, has contributed to Rubi’s evolution as musicians. Rubi delivers a unique sound that sometime brightens with ironic pop-hop sounds, then turns sharply into a deeper haunting mood with interpolating elements of R&B.
Fire for Effect is an ensemble within the 135th Army Band, a unit in the Missouri Army National Guard. This group consist of 5 musicians: SFC Roger Kirchner, SSG Erik Whiting, SGT Becky Cox, SGT Dakota Fletcher, and SPC Zachary Nickerson. Fire for Effect delivers a high energy rock show to promote the Missouri National Guard under the Command of Chief Warrant Officer 4 Robert Springer. The unit’s mission is to provide music throughout the full spectrum of military operations and instill in our Soldiers the will to fight and win, foster the support of our citizens, and promote our national interests at home and abroad.
