Burkburnett 4th of July event features food, music

Despite a lower allocation of resources, Burkburnett’s 4th of July event attracted crowds with live music, a variety of food trucks and, of course, fireworks.

Events coordinator Shae Krc said Burkburnett held its event on July 3 to avoid competing with Wichita Falls’ popular 4th in the Falls Freedom Fest event. Krc also said the city is placing more emphasis on and funneling more resources toward doing a few larger events throughout the year instead of several smaller ones.

“Because we’re trying to step up our Friendship Festival event, we actually backed off of a lot of the funding for our 4th of July event, Wichita Falls kind of has the market on that,” Krc said.

But even as the city was scaling back, area food truck owners saw an opportunity to ramp things up - at least a little. Krc said she was happy to allow them to set up by Friendship Amphitheater.

“We wanted to do something a little more local because where we set off the fireworks, the park is still like a prime spot for people to come watch. So truth be told, some of our local food trucks reached out and said, 'Hey, do you think people will probably still watch the fireworks at the park, and so do you care if we set up there?' And so I said 'Yeah,'" Krc said.

After that, all that was needed to make it a real event was entertainment. Krc said musician Bret James fit the bill.

“Enough of them said that they would be there that I was like, 'Well, I’ll try to find some form of entertainment,' and then came across Bret James, and he was happy to do it,” Krc said.

The evening wrapped up with the city’s traditional fireworks show.

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