New Year’s Eve in Annapolis
Live Music along Main Street from Church Circle to Market Square,
with shopping and music on Maryland Avenue!
nnapolis' annual New Year's Eve celebration takes a historic turn. Bring in the New Year with cheer and frivolity in this alcohol-free family night. ... no tickets needed!*
In 2008, everyone will discover what it means to be Annapolitan! Here, where history is still created daily, Annapolis Alive! New Year’s Eve kicks off a joyful year long celebration to launch the Charter 300 Commemorative Year. This wonderful musical evening along Main Street and Maryland Avenue — where many shops are open until late evening — will be topped off by the magnificent fireworks display we’ve all come to love at midnight, courtesy of BankAnnapolis.
This totally free evening of music and camaraderie, street performers and food vendors, brings together all Annapolitans in a New Year’s Eve Celebration sure to be full of warm memories. No tickets, no lining up, just great accessible fun!*
Fireworks! Fireworks!
Join us as we ring in 2008 with Annapolis Alive! An alcohol-free family night…no tickets needed (except for Rock the Rec)!
Schedule
3 - 6 p.m. - Free Children's Activities will celebrate New Year's Eve Around the World, with the Chesapeake Children's Museum, at the Annapolis Recreation Center, 9 St. Mary's Street (corner of St. Mary's and Compromise Street)
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Chinese New Year: paper yo-yos, dragon puppets
Miss Blossom
presented by Annapolis Community Bank
- Jewish New Year: homemade playdough for braided “bread”
- Europe: Crowns and hats, folded paper fortune tellers
- Latin America / Caribbean: maracas, masks, scarecrow
- West Africa: drums, dancing sticks
- Plus, Miss Blossom Balloons will create extraordinary hats and animals.
 Beretta Jane |
 Pompeii Graffiti |
 Loving the Lie |
6 p.m. - Midnight - Two Stages of Music! Ray Weaver will MC two stages featuring:
Main Stage
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Francis Street Stage
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6 - 6:40 p.m. - Melody Page as Hannah Montana She performs Hannah Montana favorites, and many
of her own songs and music. If you couldn’t get tickets to the real
Hannah’s show, this is Annapolis’ own Hannah Montana…and more!
www.melodypagemusic.com |
6:40 - 7:10 p.m. - Caryl P. Weiss She performs five hundred years of music from both
sides of the Atlantic, including traditional American and British
ballads, shanties and drinking songs; country and bluegrass music;
plus her own compositions! |
| 7:10 - 7:45 p.m. - Asbury Broadneck United Methodist Chancel Choir Listen to smooth the hectic holiday season with a joyful, finger snapping and heartwarming collection of gospel music. |
7:45 - 8:15 p.m. - Brothers and Sisters They present a refreshing blend of popular soft rock, folk, country, and traditional music. The group blends vocal harmonies and timeless melodies like no other, and offers relaxed, easy-listening songs… and they never take themselves too seriously! |
| 8:15 - 8:45 p.m. - Jewel Tones Ring in some rockin’ ready blues to warm your fingers and get those cold toes a tappin.’ |
8:45 - 9:15 p.m. - Sons of the Severn Barbershop Quartet Celebrating their 58th year of providing harmonies while entertaining audiences
around the region. The ensemble’s repertoire spans a century of
American popular music, from Irving Berlin, to the Beach Boys,
to holiday classics, all arranged in an accompanied four-part close
harmony. www.sonsofthesevern.org |
9:15 - 10 p.m. - Tori Tullier Band Winner of four awards in the 2007 Battle of the Bands, the soulful pop group features singer/songwriter Tori Tullier. The band plays all original songs with a lead
piano backed by bass player and cousin Allison Tullier, violinist
Katie Haney, and drummer Lucas Johnson.
www.toritullier.com |
10 - 10:30 p.m. - Sean Jackson He brings his auditory vision flawlessly to life. His
music runs a gamut of emotion translated into raw energy and
passion on the stage. Jackson, always a hit at Sly Fox Pub, creates
palpable energy listeners will really enjoy as Sean plays his original
rock and roll. www.myspace.com/seanjacksonmusic |
10:30 - 11:30 p.m. - Clones of Funk This eight-piece Annapolis-based
musical tribute to George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will shake the cobwebs out of 2007 to bring
universal love to us all in 2008. Vocalists
Wesley Beann and Lamont “Scrape” Randall and vocalist and keyboard
player Gene McBride are joined by guitarist Gerard “Hot Rod” Butler,
bass player Terre Holland, horn by Jerry Queen and Michael Powell.
Drummer Mark Brown rounds out the group.
www.clonesoffunk.com |
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7 p.m. - 10 p.m. - On Maryland Avenue, Zak Ambrose
A one-man band, he will perform a rousing collection of music at The Avenue Laundromat and other strolling performers will be on hand as well.
 Peter Brice |
 Chesapeake Caledonian Pipes and Drums |
8 - 10 p.m. - At Chick & Ruth's Delly on Main Street, Peter Brice and Danny Noveck
They will perform a selection
of Irish traditional music on the button accordion and the fiddle.
Explore Irish music’s heritage as they play songs accompanied by the
fiddle, guitar, and tenor banjo.
11:45 p.m. - Parade led by the Chesapeake Caledonian Pipes and Drums from Church Circle to Market Square
Countdown to Midnight
Ellen Moyer
Staci GriffinTraditional Midnight Countdown by Mayor Ellen Moyer and WNAV’s Radio Personality Wiley Baker
Live New Year’s Eve Countdown Show of the Top 103 songs of 2007 hosted by Stacie Griffin of WRNR
Midnight - Fireworks courtesy of BankAnnapolis
Parking & Getting Around
Remember that Ego Alley is closed for construction. If you come by boat, you won't be able to dock at City Dock.
Stadium parking $5; Free shuttle to and from downtown, 6 p.m. - 1 a.m. ::: City Garage Special Event Parking $5
For info about City garages and other parking and transit options, click here.
Limited shuttles for Special Needs Riders after the fireworks from midnight to 1 AM from City Dock area.
During the New Year's Eve holiday, Annapolis Transit will operate on its Sunday schedule. Only the Brown and Gold Routes and
Navy Blue Shuttle will be in operation. All service will end at 7:00 p.m.
Street Closures: 5 p.m. Monday, December 31, 2007, to 1 a.m. Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Main Street Market Square to Church Circle (no parking from 4 p.m. on); Francis Street to State Circle; Conduit Street from Main to Gorman Street; Maryland Avenue from State Circle to Prince George Street
Free - except for Rock at the Rec. No tickets needed. ::: *Rock at the Rec! tickets $10 at the door.
more information on the City of Annapolis' website
Thank you to Jay Stearns, Official Annapolis Alive! New Year's Eve photographer
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