Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are taking their July 4th cookout seriously this year—and extending an invitation to Nashville’s estimated 200,000 Independence Day guests to have a hot dog on them.
The couple’s Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk plan to pass out free hot dogs beginning at 2 p.m. on July 4 and plan to keep giving them away until they run out. There are no rules. People can eat as many hot dogs as they want.
Brooks and Yearwood recently posted a festive video to social media announcing the red, white, and blue promotion. Brooks, clad in an apron, is standing at the grill with tongs in hand. He turns to ask Yearwood what they’re doing for July 4.
“From the looks of you, we’re cooking out,” she said.
“Of course, we’re cooking out,” he replies. “How many people do you want to have over is what I’m asking.”
Yearwood, who is preparing to release her new album The Mirror on July 18, quipped: “I don’t know, how about a quarter of a million?”
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“How many?” Brooks said. “I’m going to need to get some more.”
Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk management promised to throw “a helluva party” on July 4th.
Brooks’ four-floor, 54,715-square-foot entertainment complex offers everything from the sweeping dancefloor to multiple bars on every level. In addition to free July 4th hot dogs, there is carefully curated, delicious food, cutting-edge technology for lights, sound, and screens, and a rooftop that exudes ambiance. Palm trees surround the area that provides Lower Broadway views. FILP will feature live music from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. in the Honky-Tonk, with no cover charge. Tickets are available for the rooftop, where guests will have a second-to-none view of Nashville’s fireworks display. The party officially starts at 8 p.m., but staff will serve hot dogs beginning at 2 p.m. The staff chefs will be there to man the grill.
Nashville’s fireworks display is one of the largest in the nation and will be accompanied by a live performance from the Nashville Symphony.
Two weeks after FILP’s July 4 hot dog giveaway, Yearwood will release The Mirror. The album is her first new collection in six years and the only album she co-wrote and co-produced.
The Georgia-born songstress called The Mirror “a new chapter for me” and said it was one she can’t wait to share with fans.
Free Hot Dogs Available Starting at 2 p.m. July 4
“I am so proud of this record, and hope you love it as much as I loved creating it,” she wrote on Instagram.
The Mirror marks the first time Yearwood has relied on herself to craft songs for her albums. Someone discouraged her from writing songs while in college at Belmont University in Nashville. She internalized the negativity for decades.
“I’ve always written a little bit, but I’ve never called myself a songwriter,” Yearwood told Kelly Clarkson. “In fact, I usually will say if somebody says we should write, I’m like, I’m not a songwriter. Because someone told me when I was in college that I was not a songwriter, and I let it be the truth for just like 45 years. I sort of had an aha about, ‘Why does that have to be the truth?’”
Yearwood grew up idolizing Linda Ronstadt, who didn’t write many of her songs. So, it wasn’t necessary to Yearwood, either. When journalists reviewed her albums, the clips always highlighted that Yearwood wasn’t in the writer credits. The jabs started bothering her.
“I’m like, ‘I want to just say if only Patsy Cline had written “I Fall to Pieces,” it would’ve sounded so much better,” she quipped. “I never felt like I needed to write. But I guess it’s just been as I get older … I’ve recorded so many songs now, it’s harder to find ones that feel like, ‘Okay, it’s mine.’”
The couple’s Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk is located at 411 Broadway in Nashville. For tickets to the July 4 rooftop celebration, visit here.
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