increase font size Portland to host fireworks, but with less fanfare, on Fourth of July The city will hold the display near the Eastern Promenade but without the related activities held in past years, including vendors and music from the Portland Symphony Orchestra. Share Crowds watch fireworks from the Eastern Prom in 2019. Fireworks are back this year but officials hope crowds spread out. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer People searching for a dramatic example of how life in Maine is returning to normal this year can look, and listen, to Portland’s Eastern Promenade on the Fourth of July. City officials announced Friday that Portland’s annual Fourth of July fireworks display on the city’s eastern waterfront will resume this year. It was canceled last year because of limits on crowd sizes to contain the spread of COVID-19.