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CONCORD’S NEW YEAR’S EVE
FIREWORKS CELEBRATION
Sumal and Features Editor Kenneth Chan who both saw an
overwhelming demand for a major, free public event in the
city to celebrate New Year’s revelry.
A sweet, nostalgic, and hopeful celebration packed with fireworks and live music will return to Coal Harbour in downtown Vancouver on December 31, 2016 to ring in the New
Year on the North American West Coast.
After last year’s highly successful inaugural event
attracting over 80,000 attendees, making it the largest New
Year’s Eve celebration in Canada, organizers of Concord’s
New Year’s Eve Vancouver are promising a significantly expanded event that heightens the revelry and showcases the
city in all her festive beauty.
This year’s event is officially a part of the nationwide Canada 150 celebrations, kicking off year-long festivities marking Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation
in 2017.
FREE PUBLIC OUTDOOR CELEBRATION
View of Canada Place Way during the New Year’s Eve Street
Festival last year. (Judy Wu/New Year’s Eve Vancouver)
“Concord Pacific is proud and honoured to be involved in a bigger way this year and is pleased to announce
a title partnership with Concord’s New Year’s Eve Vancouver celebration,” said Terry Hui, President and CEO of Concord Pacific, in a statement.
“Concord Pacific believes in supporting city-wide,
family-oriented events in the communities that we develop.
We have been working with the Vancouver New Year’s Eve
Celebration Society, volunteers, BRANDLIVE and the City
since the inception of this event and we believe that 2016
will be the best celebration in the country.”
This year’s event organized by the Vancouver New
Year’s Eve Celebration Society is supported by the Government of Canada, City of Vancouver, The Peak/JRFM, RE/
MAX, United Way, Dine Alone Records, Haven Sounds,
Tymac, WestPark, Phillips Brewing, and founding partners
Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association,
Daily Hive, Tourism Vancouver, Boughton Law, Port of Vancouver, Vanterre Projects Corp., Starbucks, and BDO.
The Society was founded in 2012 by Daily Hive CEO Karm
The second annual Concord’s New Year’s Eve Vancouver
on Canada Place Way consists of two concert stages, a new
tall countdown clock tower, and food trucks and sponsor activations along Canada Place Way.
The free public celebration takes place from 6:30
pm to 12:10 am and consists of two high-aerial fireworks
displays launched from a barge: a 9 pm Early Eve fireworks
display for families with young children and a midnight
countdown with a spectacular fireworks final
The stroke of midnight from the main stage at last year’s
event. (Brandon Klemets/New Year’s Eve Vancouver)
Juno Award-winning The Sheepdogs will headline
the event at the main outdoor stage and will be preceded
by a diverse and talented lineup that includes Wintersleep,
Yukon Blonde, Humans, Spencer Burton, Meghan Patrick,
Dan Davidson, Delhi 2 Dublin, and Crystal Shawanda.
THE BIGGEST AND BEST BALLROOM NYE
EVENT IN VANCOUVER
Another addition to this year’s Concord’s New Year’s Eve
celebrations will be the inclusion of a major indoor event inside the West Building of the Vancouver Convention Centre
within the stunningly beautiful West Ballrooms.
This premium experience event, dubbed as TRUE
NORTH, will have its own high-calibre live entertainment
programming within two ballrooms. The New Pornographers
will take centre stage at this indoor event, joining a TRUE
NORTH lineup that includes Yukon Blonde, Megan Patrick,
Humans, and Delhi 2 Dublin in one ballroom and DJs Kevin
Shiu, Andy Clockwork, and Hebergebe in another ballroom.
All revellers at the indoor event will have access to
both ballrooms as well as the ability to enjoy the midnight
fireworks from indoors through the multi-storey, floor-to-ceiling glass walls of the convention centre or the private outdoors areas on the Pacific Terrace, the location of the Digital
Orca sculpture, overlooking Jack Poole Plaza.
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