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`Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular` (NBC logo)
"Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular" (NBC logo)

Ed Sheeran joins all-star lineup of performers for NBC's annual 'Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular'

by jmaloni

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Mon, Jun 29th 2015 01:00 pm

Dierks Bentley, Kelly Clarkson, Brad Paisley, Flo Rida and Meghan Trainor also set to perform

NBC's annual "Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular" celebrates the nation's birthday with all-star performances from multiplatinum singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran. The six-time Grammy-nominated singer joins Dierks Bentley, Kelly Clarkson, Brad Paisley, Flo Rida and Meghan Trainor. "Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular" airs Saturday, July 4 (8-10 p.m. ET/PT) with an hour-long encore presentation at 10 p.m.

Emceed by "Today" show co-hosts Willie Geist and Tamron Hall, America's birthday party will take place from two locations on the East River in midtown and within the South Street Seaport district. The 39th annual Macy's 4th of July fireworks will be fired from four barges positioned between 23rd and 37th streets in midtown and from one double-barge positioned below the Brooklyn Bridge.

The presentation will include more than 50,000 pyrotechnic shells and effects during a 25-minute synchronized display. New shells and effects include multicolored transformation ghosts, blue and red octopi, crescent moons, patriotic stars, double hearts, roaring dragons, screaming banshees, purple rain and spider-webbed-shaped shells.

In honor of this year's bravery theme, the show will combine these effects in 22 different colors.

Ed Sheeran (Submitted NBC photo) 

Ed Sheeran (Submitted NBC photo)

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