New Year’s Eve in downtown Nashville to include live music and fireworks show
Published December 6, 2009 | 
Display location:Lower Broadway
City:Nashville
State:TN
Date:Dec. 27
Details: The Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau announced plans to hold a New Year’s Eve bash this year on Lower Broadway with fireworks and four to five hours of live music on the street.
The free event ends a two-year hiatus of a major New Year’s Eve concert downtown, said Butch Spyridon, the bureau’s president on Thursday. Spyridon said the idea is to match up the event with the Dec. 27 Music City Bowl and give visitors a reason to come and stay longer.
“Let’s grow this to be Nashville’s version of Times Square,” Spyridon said, adding he hopes the bureau’s event will become an annual one.
Spyridon said number of attendees for the event can reach up to 10,000 people. Hard Rock Cafe Nashville is the title sponsor of the event and the bureau could spend six figures on the event.
News of the downtown concert comes a year after many New Year’s Eve events in Middle Tennessee were canceled or scaled back amid harsh economic times last year — a dull end to what was an economically disastrous 2008.
So few people ticket buyers stepped up for a planned Sommet Center concert with Trace Adkins and Lynyrd Skynyrd, for example, with tickets priced up to $250 apiece that the New Year’s Eve bash was scrapped last year here.
Other partygoers traded champagne dinners for beer and pretzels at home.
Prague’s New Year Fireworks Show
Published December 1, 2009 | Display location:Letna
City:Paague
Country:Czech
Date:New Year’s Eve
Show Contact:tom.sheppard@laterooms.com +44 (0)161 607 3460
Details: People looking for some excitement this New Year’s Eve may want to travel to the Czech capital to witness the spectacular firework displays.
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, November 28, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ — New Year’s Eve in Prague is characterised by its extravagant fireworks display, visible across the city. Several fireworks displays are organised for midnight on New Year’s Eve, when revellers can choose to brave the cold and watch them from one of the bridges over the river, or select a warm bar or restaurant that overlooks the waterway. Top spots to get a good view of the brightly-coloured displays include the Charles Bridge or Prague Castle. Many of the river boats also take tours out, offering an unusual option for New Year’s tourists. People staying in Prague hotels will be up until the early hours of the morning celebrating the New Year with the locals. More adventurous tourists may want to spend midnight in one of the city’s famous squares. In both the Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square, locals gather to set off their own fireworks and see the New Year in with style. Those staying in Prague hotels with small children do not have to miss out on the fun. A fireworks display also takes place on New Year’s Day at 18:00 local time. Any little angels that did not stay up for the evening’s festivities can watch the spectacular aerial display. Visitors can get the best views from the city centre or the riverside, as the fireworks are set off from Letna, on the Prague Castle side of the capital. Jessica Reading, head of marketing for LateRooms, commented: “Demand for New Year in Prague is always significant and we recommend that anyone considering attending should book their hotels in Prague as early as possible”. Editors notes : LateRooms is one of the UK’s leading online accommodation sites offering late availability deals in over 22,000 properties worldwide, ranging from bed and breakfasts to five star luxury hotels. LateRooms offers customers a saving of up to 70 per cent off the normal room rate for a variety of independent and branded hotels. Customers can book by phone or online 24/7, whether booking 12 months or 12 minutes in advance – whatever time, whatever day. LateRooms arm the customer with information to help them choose the right hotel. Users can read from over 350,000 true hotel reviews, written by customers who have booked through LateRooms and actually stayed at the hotel. LateRooms is the first online site to use VisitBritain’s official national classification system to rate its hotels, bed and breakfasts and guest houses. This ensures customers know the standards of quality they can expect when making a reservation. For further editorial information please contact: tom.sheppard@laterooms.com +44 (0)161 607 3460 Website: http://www.laterooms.com — Press release service and press release distribution provided by http://www.24-7pressrelease.com
New Year stock
Published November 16, 2009 | Tomorrow’s our big day when we set off for sunny China, though the weather report says it may snow, no need for the suntan cream then.
But before we head off for distant shores, we’ve updated our site with some fantastic discounts for New Year. AS we haven’t had time to add any new stock, we’ll have a bash when we get back. Hopefully, subject to access, we’ll update the site while we’re away.
Chinese New Year Traditions
Published February 15, 2009 | Chinese New Year Traditions
& Beijing CCTV Hotel Fire
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with children carrying lanterns and fireworks. New Year’s Eve and the Lantern Festival are the biggest days for Fireworks, but fireworks are shot on all 15 days of the festival.
The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. order to “catch up” with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are celebrated with food, family and Fireworks. New Years Eve rivals Christmas in China. It is the most important holiday.
More food is consumed during the New Year celebrations than any other time of the year. Vast amounts of traditional food is prepared for family and friends. Our family prepares Dumplings for New Year’s Eve and Rice balls with bean sweet paste for the 15th day Lantern Festival.
Shooting off firecrackers on New Year’s Eve is the Chinese way of sending out the old year and welcoming in the New Year. On the stroke of midnight strings of firecrackers will ring through-out all China and now large cakes have become popular as well.
Unfortunately, this year’s celebration ended in a large fire that reportedly was initiated by a non-permitted display conducted by a professional display company. A shell fell onto the roof of the unfinished Manderian Oriental Hotel and started a fire that gutted the multi-million dollar skyscraper. It is unclear how this will effect the legality of fireworks in Beijing, but the fire has spurred a bit of a backlash over fireworks as some resident grew tired of large falsh salutes at all hours of the day for the rather long 15 day Fireworks season.
England welcomes in the New Year
Published January 21, 2009 | 
Thousands of revellers braved the cold weather to see in the New Year at events across England.
The largest celebrations took place in London, where crowds lined the banks of the Thames for the city's annual fireworks display.
Firework displays also started 2009 in Birmingham and Manchester, the city's first major firework event since the millennium.
Temperatures fell below freezing in several parts of England.
Up to half a million people were thought to have been at the firework display in central London, with the night one of the busiest of the year for the Metropolitan Police.
Free Tubes
Scotland Yard said it had made 78 arrests during the festivities in the capital, with about 3,300 officers involved in policing the night.
Supt Brian Pearce said the majority of revellers had been well behaved.
"The nature of New Year's Eve in central London has changed. What used to be a relatively low-key spontaneous night is now a world-class event that attracts thousands and thousands of people.
"The atmosphere of the event meant that in the main the crowds were good humoured and there were no major issues reported to police."
Viewing areas for the firework display near the London Eye started to fill up at about 1800 GMT and were closed by 2300 GMT because they were full.
Many people crowded into Whitehall to watch the firework display .
Tubes ran until 0430 GMT in an effort to get revellers home.
Extra police were deployed in popular gathering spots, including Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square, where police were on raised viewing platforms to oversee festivities.
Of the 78 arrests, 39 were for public order offences, 18 for assault, 10 for being drunk and disorderly, and others for carrying offensive weapons, robbery, obstructing police, theft, drug possession and sex offences.
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "It has been quieter than expected in terms of incidents.
"Between midnight and 1am we took 292 calls, compared with 377 in the first hour of New Year's Day last year."
The 10-minute fireworks display began after midnight was sounded by the chimes of Big Ben.
Earlier, the crowds were treated to a series of video messages from celebrities including actors Michael Caine and Helen Mirren, comedian Ricky Gervais, cartoon characters Homer and Marge Simpson, and one from the Mayor London, Boris Johnson.
Manchester's firework display was set off from the top of the Arndale Centre.
In Birmingham, the firework celebrations were centred around Centenary Square.
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