New Year’s Eve Day and the question arises: what are we doing for New Year’s Eve. Here are some suggestions in the music and fireworks department. If you want a quiet night stay home and at midnight wander out to the park to see fireworks. Or make a reservation at a local restaurant for an early supper. Drink Proseco and watch Hannanh and her Sisters…
Fireworks in Prospect Park
Start the celebrations off around 11 p.m. with entertainment and hot refreshments at Grand Army Plaza. Best locations for viewing the fireworks include: anywhere in Grand Army Plaza, inside the Park on the West Drive, and along Prospect Park West between grand Army Plaza and 9th Street.
Music
New Year’s Eve at the Bell House: Brooklyn Soul New YEar’s Eve with Marva Whitney, Billy Prince and the Sweet Divines.
New Year’s Eve at South Paw: Murray Hill’s New Year’s Eve Extravaganza with New York’s nightlife superstar and beloved comedian MR. MURRAY HILL rings in the New Year with his annual laugh-tastic, boozy, bodacious variety show and dance party with New York’s finest, wildest, and wackiest performers.
New Year’s Eve at The Rock Shop: Mr. Brownstone. The Rock’s Shop’s 1st annual NYE.
New Year’s Eve according to Now I’ve Heard Everything : Check out Eliot’s blog if you’re still looking for something to do on New Years Eve, here are some shows with no cover or not all that expensive tickets. The shows which are not charging covers and those marked pay at the door are where you should head if you are making up your mind Friday night.
New Year’s Eve at Barbes: Spanglish Fly, the sounds of 1960′s Spanish Harlem. With Atsushi Tsumura, trumpet; Charly Rodriguez, timbales; Christelle Durandy, percussion; Dmitri Moderbacher, bass; Erica Ramos, lead vocals; Gabo Tomasini, percussion; Jonathan Flothow, bari saxeric; Jonathan Goldman a/k/a Jonny Semi-Colón, trumpet; Martin Wallace, piano; Mick Santurio, congas; Rose Imperato, tenor sax; Sebastian Isler, trombone. “What Sharon Jones did for oldschool soul, what Antibalas did for Afrobeat and what Chicha Libre is doing for chicha, Spanglish Fly is doing for bugalu. As dance music, it’s irresistible.” — Lucid Culture. $15
New Year’s Eve at the Brooklyn Lyceum: Ugly Rhinos Warehouse New Year’s.
New Year’s Eve with Mean Red Productions: The Rub, Evil Dee and Rich Medina, Nextah and Romanthony at Public Assembly.
37th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Poetry Reading at St. Marks Church: Poets and perfromers include: John Giorno, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Philip Glass, Suzanne Vega, Taylor Mead, Eric Bogosian, Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye, Vito Acconci, Foamola, Anselm Berrigan, Ariana Reines, Peter Gizzi, Elizabeth Willis, Ted Greenwald, Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers, The Church of Betty, Thom Donovan, Tim Griffin, Todd Colby, Tom Savage, David Shapiro, Jonas Mekas, Josef Kaplan, Judith Malina, Albert Mobilio, Alex Abelson, Maria Mirabal, Bill Kushner, David Freeman, David Kirschenbaum, Diana Rickard, Don Yorty, Dorothea Lasky, Douglas Dunn, Alan Gilbert, Alan Licht w/ Angela Jaeger, Charles Bernstein, Christopher Stackhouse, Citizen Reno, Cliff Fyman, Corina Copp, Aaron Kiely, Adeena Karasick, Bill Zavatsky, Bob Holman, Robert Fitterman, Rodrigo Toscano, Brenda Iijima, Brendan Lorber, Brett Price, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Curtis Jensen, Dael Orlandersmith, David Vogen, Derek Kroessler, Diana Hamilton, ARTHUR’S LANDING, CAConrad, Akilah Oliver, Douglas Piccinnini, John S. Hall, Samita Sinha, Sara Wintz, Secret Orchestra with special guest Joanna Penn Cooper, Shonni Enelow, Bob Rosenthal, Brenda Coultas, John Yau, Julian T. Brolaski, Evelyn Reilly, Filip Marinovich, Douglas Rothschild, Drew Gardner, Eleni Stecopoulos, Elinor Nauen, Eve Packer, Jo Ann Wasserman, Joanna Fuhrman, Dustin Williamson, E. Tracy Grinnell, Ed Friedman, Edwin Torres, Eileen Myles, Elliott Sharp, Emily XYZ, Erica Hunt, Erica Kaufman, Evan Kennedy, Joe Elliot, Joel Lewis, Frank Sherlock, Gillian McCain, Greg Fuchs, Janet Hamill, Jeremy Hoevenaar, Jessica Fiorini, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Jim Behrle, Julianna Barwick, Julie Patton, Michael Lydon, Lisa Jarnot, Maggie Dubris, Marcella Durand, Marty Ehrlich, Merry Fortune, Michael Cirelli, Kristen Kosmas, Laura Elrick, Lauren Russell, Leopoldine Core, Nina Freeman, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Paul Mills (Poez), Michael Scharf, Mike Doughty, Karen Weiser, Lewis Warsh, Linda Russo, Penny Arcade, Peter Bushyeager, Rebecca Moore, Mónica de la Torre, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Nathaniel Siegel, Nick Hallett, Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris & Miles Joris-Peyrefitte, Kathleen Miller, Katie Degentesh, Kelly Ginger, Ken Chen, Kim Lyons, Kim Rosenfield, India Radfar, Tonya Foster, Stephanie Gray, Susan Landers, Tony Towle, Tracie Morris, Valery Oisteanu, John Coletti, Rachel Levitsky, Edmund Berrigan, Jamie Townsend, Macgregor Card, Wayne Koestenbaum, Will Edmiston, Yoshiko Chuma, Nicole Wallace, Arlo Quint, Stacy Szymaszek and more T.B.A
Dark Matters: The Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Work/Poetry Extravaganza at the Bowery Poetry Club: We have Dark Matters: The arts that hold all us disparate individuals together! When the city, the country and the world splits into fighting fragments, music, poetry, and dance keep us intact. Come celebrate our unity when other factors attempt to drive us apart.