From the Niagara Falls Review:
Later this month, for the 20th time, there will be a big, free New Year’s Eve concert down at Queen Victoria Park.
Also happening for the 20th time? Griping about the New Year’s Eve concert.
Like Auld Lang Syne and jacked-up hotel rates, it’s a New Year’s tradition in Niagara Falls. The second the lineup is announced, the complaints begin. It doesn’t matter that the show doesn’t cost a cent, it doesn’t matter there are endless other things to do (including a rave at the convention centre this year) … the New Year’s show is our nationally televised badge of honour, and we take it serious.
The problem organizers face with this show is trying to please two very different camps – the rock show crowd, and the family concert crowd. The two don’t mix well, and I’m not sure they should. Pleasing one means shortchanging the other.