New Yr’s Eve occasions in New Orleans | Leisure/Life

Because the tune asks, “What are you doing New Yr’s Eve?”

In New Orleans, there are many choices to bid 2022 adieu and welcome in 2023.

Most golf equipment will probably be providing dwell music and festive enjoyable. Take a look at Keith Spera’s Sound Verify column in at this time’s Lagniappe for extra.

Additionally, most of the metropolis’s accommodations and eating places will probably be providing particular night enticements that embody delicacies, cocktails and dwell music.

And nationwide consideration will probably be centered on the town’s conventional fleur de lis drop from Jax Brewery as Broadway veteran Billy Porter hosts the native feed for the televised “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Yr’s Eve.”

Take your choose from this sampling of actions for all ages across the metro space. Take a look at the nola.com calendar for extra actions and enjoyable issues to usher in 2023.

NOON YEAR’S EVE: 9:30 a.m., Louisiana Kids’s Museum, 15 Henry Thomas Drive, Metropolis Park, New Orleans. For the youthful set, the celebration occurs at midday with a confetti and bubbles extravaganza. Crafts, together with making noisemakers, dwell music, dancing and extra are on faucet for the family-friendly celebration. Tickets begin at $13. lcm.org.

NOON YEAR’S EVE BASH: 10 a.m., Kids’s Museum of St. Tammany, 21404 Koop Drive, Mandeville. With the Creativeness Movers offering leisure and a midday balloon drop, the north shore house for kids has plenty of enjoyable deliberate. Tickets begin at $25. cmstkids.org.

ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL AND PARADE: The sport kicks off Saturday at 11 a.m., Caesars Superdome, 1500 Dave Dixon Drive. Large 12 champions Kansas State tackle SEC champion Alabama within the 89th annual gridiron contest, marking the 61st matchup between groups ranked within the High 10. The parade steps off Friday at 2:30 p.m. with a Carnival-style procession that rolls by the French Quarter alongside Decatur and N. Peters streets, to disband at Canal Avenue. Tickets for the sport begin at $36. allstatesugarbowl.org.

BIG NIGHT NEW ORLEANS NYE: 9 p.m., Mardi Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans Place. Large Freedia headlines this glittering multistage array of leisure, with Tank and Bangas, Choppa, Child Kamillion, Lolo Mayhew, Fairly Na$ty, DJ Rozay Rell and extra. A giant sendoff for the previous yr and welcome for the brand new occurs at midnight, plus a silent disco. Tickets begin at $80. bignightneworleans.com.

FIREWORKS VIEWING PARTY: 10 p.m., Vue Orleans, 2 Canal St., New Orleans. One of many metropolis’s latest sights, the Thirty fourth-floor spot has a 360-degree view of the town, primed to see the fireworks. Music, appetizers and Champagne are on the menu. Tickets begin at $250. vueorleans.com

NEW YEAR’S EVE FIREWORKS DISPLAY: Midnight, downtown riverfront alongside the Mississippi River. Crescent Metropolis Countdown Membership presents the annual fireworks show choreographed to music and livestreamed by WWL.com and WWL Radio Fb. crescentcitycountdown.com