From the Buffalo News:
With Tuesday temperatures rising toward 70 degrees, planners in Niagara Falls, Ont. are thinking about New Year’s Eve.
Officials have announced their plans for the annual, free New Year’s Eve concert in Queen Victoria Park. The concert is one of the signature of the Canadian city’s six week-long “Winter Festival of Lights,” a major draw for the Niagara region.
This year’s concert features former Supertramp guitarist and lead singer Roger Hodgson, Canadian guitarist and Toronto DJ Kim Mitchell and country singer Justin Hines.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
It didn’t feel a lot like Christmas, but the Winter Festival of Lights made the most of it on a rainy opening night Saturday.
Under a steady downpour, a soggy crowd at Queen Victoria Park sat through an hour of speeches, Christmas carols and magic acts before Disney favourites Goofy and Pluto flipped the switch to officially open the 26th annual festival.
At that point, everyone dropped their umbrellas to check out a city transformed. For the next two months, more than a million visitors are expected to take in more than 120 animated displays and three million lights, making this one of North America’s biggest illumination festivals.
“This never gets old,” raved Mayor Ted Salci. “In fact, it gets more exciting each year.”
I don’t know why they do this, but the preview of the article they put up had a video, but the original didn’t.
As Sue has previously mentioned, the work is progressing in setting up the Winter Festival of Light displays.
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