From Niagara This Week: With mild weather and a great musical line-up, Niagara Falls was the place to be on New Year’s Eve. Canadian supergroups Barenaked Ladies and Great Big Sea were joined by hip hop artist Kardinal Offishall to ring in 2011 in style at the brink of the world famous Niagara Falls.
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo (includes video): Old Falls Street was packed with thousands of patrons for the 2nd annual Hard Rock Cafe New Year’s Eve Guitar Drop Friday night. The event was headlined by a live performance from Smashmouth and also included food, drinks and fireworks.
From the Niagara Falls Review (includes video): A great big sea of New Year’s Eve revellers flooded Niagara Falls where a lineup of popular entertainers and unusually warm weather led to a bigger-than-normal crowd for the annual concert in Queen Victoria Park. Barenaked Ladies, Great Big Sea and rapper Kardinal Offishall ushered in 2011 from…
They’ve finally got some “big” (or bigger than previous years) names coming to the Niagara Falls New Year’s Eve concert. From a CNW Newswire press release: Global Television and Entertainment Tonight Canada celebrate 2011 with ‘New Year’s Eve at Niagara Falls,’ a nationally televised New Year’s Eve bash for the entire nation. On Friday, December…
From the Niagara Falls Review (includes pictures and videos): When you put a rock band named after a mythical river next to one of the world’s legendary rivers, it’s a recipe for a soggy experience. But thousands ot New Year’s Eve revellers rang in 2010 with the powerful rock band Styx, named after the mythological…
From AuburnPub.com: New York City drops a crystal ball in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., 2010 will be ushered in with the dropping of a big guitar. A 10-foot fiberglass guitar will be dropped at midnight at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Niagara Falls. The model of a Gibson…
Here are some pictures I took yesterday and today of the work going on in Queen Victoria Park in preparation for the big show tomorrow night.
Early this morning I received the latest newsletter from Oh Canada, Eh? Dinner Theatre:
From the National Post: The outing: Head to the Niagara region for winery tours, the spectacular falls, a giant New Year’s Eve party or make a date for mid-January and the icewine harvest. Why it will make your holiday sparkle: Wine and holiday spirit undoubtedly go together. So, what better way to enjoy a uniquely…
From a CNW press release: Global Television and Entertainment Tonight Canada welcome 2010 with ‘New Year’s Eve in Niagara Falls’, a fun-filled evening in celebration of the coming year. The nationwide fete is an ET Canada first and will kick off with a 90-minute live broadcast from the Falls on Thursday, December 31 beginning at…