Nashville kicks 2021 to the curb this weekend with a free downtown live performance and tv particular that includes among the greatest names in nation music.
Friday night time, CBS airs “Big Bash,” a five-hour broadcast that includes town’s annual free New Year’s Eve live performance at Bicentennial Mall. The present may pull as many as 200,000 concertgoers to the park, in accordance with metropolis organizers.
Headed to the live performance? We’ve received you lined with info on parking, security, COVID-19 protocols, fireworks and more.
Who’s performing
Co-headliners at Bicentennial Mall embrace Zac Brown Band, Dierks Bentley and Sam Hunt. Guest performances embrace Darius Rucker, Ingrid and Andress and Breland.
Music kicks off at 6 p.m. with Nashville’s personal Fisk Jubilee Singers, adopted by a half-hour set from DJ Aydam. Co-headliners start at 7 p.m., working till about 12:30 a.m.
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COVID-19 protocols
Those attending “Big Bash” at Bicentennial Mall should volunteer vaccination proof or present proof of a monitored destructive COVID-19 take a look at taken Thursday or Friday earlier than getting into live performance grounds. Beyond entrance protocols, the rapidly-spreading omicron variant had not at publication time impacted present producers’ plans for a live performance with an in-person viewers. Those wanting up to date COVID-19 info for “Big Bash” can discover it at visitmusiccity.com/newyearseve.
Fireworks and music notice
Concertgoer can anticipate a double shot of midnight countdowns this yr. The music notice drops at 11 p.m. for east coast viewers at residence and once more at midnight for central time zone audiences. The midnight drops contains a two-minute fireworks present, in accordance with Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp.
![People fill up Bicentennial Mall during the Jack Daniel's Music City Midnight New Year's Eve celebration Tuesday, December 31, 2019.](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/01/01/PNAS/8f98f6bc-aaca-4b12-95f8-a6e42cae8f66-NYE_highlights-13.jpg?width=660&height=502&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Parking, rideshare and security
Those driving to the present can get a rundown of parking heaps close to Bicentennial Mall at nashvilledowntown.com/get-around/nashville-parking. Neighboring parking choices embrace the Vision Lot, Bowtruss Lot and State Garage, amongst others. Prices range.
Concertgoers who plan to bookmark New Year’s Eve with a visit downtown can park at Nissan Stadium — throughout the Cumberland River from Lower Broadway by way of the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge — for $10, in accordance with visitmusiccity.com.
Designated rideshare stations and taxi stands will be discovered on the following places, in accordance with NCVC:
- James Robertson Parkway between Fourth Avenue and Rep. John Lewis Way
- James Robertson Parkway from Charlotte Pike to Rosa L. Parks Boulevard (Capitol Hill aspect)
- Rosa L. Parks Boulevard from Nashville Farmers’ Market entrance to Tenth Circle North
- Jefferson Street between Sixth Avenue and Rosa L. Parks Boulevard
Prohibited objects inside live performance grounds embrace coolers, backpacks, chairs, pop-up tents, exterior alcoholic drinks and “dangerous devices of any kind.” A full listing of prohibited objects will be discovered at visitmusiccity.com.
Street closures
Roads surrounding Bicentennial Mall closed on Friday afternoon embrace seventh Avenue and sixth Avenue North between Jefferson Street and Rosa L. Parks Boulevard. Closures between Jefferson and Rosa Parks lengthen east by 4th Avenue North, which reopens at Harrison Street.
See a whole listing of road closures at visitmusiccity.com/newyearseve/road-closures.
More music
“Big Bash” contains a satellite tv for pc stage this yr at Assembly Food Hall inside downtown advanced fifth + Broadway. A ticketed occasion, the lineup options Carly Pearce, Jon Pardi, Chris Janson, Riley Green and nation trio Lady A. More info at assemblyfoodhall.com.
Looking for different New Year’s Eve live performance choices? We’ve received you lined with this listing.
How to look at from residence
CBS broadcasts segments of the Bicentennial Mall live performance between extra performances from Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Kelsea Ballerini and more. Local viewers can tune in by way of NewsChannel5 at 7 p.m. CST. Music runs till 12:30 a.m., breaking for a half-hour at 10 p.m. for a information broadcast.
Paramount+ subscribers can stream “Big Bash” dwell or on-demand by way of the web service.