- Bristol Fourth of July Concert Series returns to Independence Park after being relocated last summer due to public safety concerns.
The music is back at Independence Park in Bristol. So are the folding chairs, the coolers and the longtime neighbors finding one another beside Bristol Harbor.
On June 21, the first night of this year’s Fourth of July concert series, the 4-acre lawn filled from the boardwalk to Thames Street, restoring one of the town’s most familiar summer scenes to the downtown area after the concerts were moved to Roger Williams University last summer to address public safety and overcrowding issues.
But now, at the edge of the crowd, stands something new: Meridian Archer barriers…