New barriers save the day for Bristol July 4th concerts in the park

By: Jordan J. Phelan

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: July 1, 2026

Words: 1,759

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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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 …

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