New Year's Eve in downtown Nashville to include live music and fireworks show
Display location:Lower Broadway
City:Nashville
State:TN
Date:Dec. 27
Details: The Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau announced plans to hold a New Year's Eve bash this year on Lower Broadway with fireworks and four to five hours of live music on the street.
The free event ends a two-year hiatus of a major New Year's Eve concert downtown, said Butch Spyridon, the bureau's president on Thursday. Spyridon said the idea is to match up the event with the Dec. 27 Music City Bowl and give visitors a reason to come and stay longer.
"Let's grow this to be Nashville's version of Times Square," Spyridon said, adding he hopes the bureau's event will become an annual one.
Spyridon said number of attendees for the event can reach up to 10,000 people. Hard Rock Cafe Nashville is the title sponsor of the event and the bureau could spend six figures on the event.
News of the downtown concert comes a year after many New Year’s Eve events in Middle Tennessee were canceled or scaled back amid harsh economic times last year — a dull end to what was an economically disastrous 2008.
So few people ticket buyers stepped up for a planned Sommet Center concert with Trace Adkins and Lynyrd Skynyrd, for example, with tickets priced up to $250 apiece that the New Year's Eve bash was scrapped last year here.
Other partygoers traded champagne dinners for beer and pretzels at home.
City:Nashville
State:TN
Date:Dec. 27
Details: The Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau announced plans to hold a New Year's Eve bash this year on Lower Broadway with fireworks and four to five hours of live music on the street.
The free event ends a two-year hiatus of a major New Year's Eve concert downtown, said Butch Spyridon, the bureau's president on Thursday. Spyridon said the idea is to match up the event with the Dec. 27 Music City Bowl and give visitors a reason to come and stay longer.
"Let's grow this to be Nashville's version of Times Square," Spyridon said, adding he hopes the bureau's event will become an annual one.
Spyridon said number of attendees for the event can reach up to 10,000 people. Hard Rock Cafe Nashville is the title sponsor of the event and the bureau could spend six figures on the event.
News of the downtown concert comes a year after many New Year’s Eve events in Middle Tennessee were canceled or scaled back amid harsh economic times last year — a dull end to what was an economically disastrous 2008.
So few people ticket buyers stepped up for a planned Sommet Center concert with Trace Adkins and Lynyrd Skynyrd, for example, with tickets priced up to $250 apiece that the New Year's Eve bash was scrapped last year here.
Other partygoers traded champagne dinners for beer and pretzels at home.
posted by jessi at
6:30 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home