Once again, New Orleans will ring in the new year with a colorful display lighting up the New Year’s Eve sky over the Mississippi River.
The NOLA New Year’s Eve midnight fireworks display will punctuate what has traditionally become a big tourism weekend for the Big Easy.
The festivities will begin Friday, December 30, with the Allstate Sugar Bowl Parade through the French Quarter, ahead of the game itself contested the following day.
The 89th Annual Allstate Sugar Bowl Football Classic will kick off Saturday, December 31, at 11 a.m. in the Caesars Superdome. This year’s game pits the 11th-ranked champions of the Big 12, the Kansas State Wildcats, against the #5 Alabama Crimson Tide of the SEC.
Then later that night, the Crescent City Countdown Club will present the annual fireworks spectacular, a display that can be seen from both the east and west banks of the Mississippi River, in conjunction with the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy and the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund along with 23 community sponsors.
“We are so grateful to our dedicated sponsors who embrace this community project and have enabled us to produce this treasured tradition for more than two decades,” Crescent City Countdown Club secretary/treasurer Adrienne Thomas said in a release. “We truly could not do it without huge community support!”
The show will be streamed live on WWL.com and on the WWL Radio Facebook page. For more information and special offers from sponsors, as well as a link to the music choreographed to the show, log onto CrescentCityCountdown.com.
For further information on the Allstate Sugar Bowl festivities, click on AllstateSugarBowl.org.
In a press release, the Crescent City Countdown Club is described as “a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization officially formed in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina exclusively to preserve and produce New Orleans’ traditional New Year’s Eve festivities in the French Quarter.”
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