Crescent City Countdown
New Years Eve Celebration
on the Riverfront

CHAMPIONSHIP SPIRIT SHOWCASED IN
A NOLA NEW YEAR’S EVE 2007

The Crescent City Countdown Club (CCCC) will welcome 2008 with the traditional gumbo pot drop, live local entertainment, and the midnight fireworks display over the Mighty Mississippi River! Produced by the Crescent City Countdown Club in cooperation with the City of New Orleans and the New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporation, festivities will begin at 8:30 p.m. at the Decatur Street Stage in front of Jackson Square.

Join Mayor C. Ray Nagin as we count down to the New Year, and watch as the now-traditional gumbo pot ascends a 25-foot pole atop Jax Brewery Condominiums to launch the exquisite Symphony in the Sky. The display will illuminate team colors and be choreographed to the spirited fight songs of the four teams participating in the Allstate Sugar Bowl and the Allstate BCS National Championship and, of course, our beloved New Orleans Saints. The finale will feature a barrage of purple, green, and gold to dance across the skies to the “Mardi Gras Mambo” and end with B. B. King’s “Auld Lang Syne.” The NOLA New Year’s Eve celebration will be enjoyed in more than 38 states across the United States and also on the worldwide web, simulcast live on WWL AM 870 and FM 105.3, as we invite all the world to come to Mardi Gras 2008.

  
The Crescent City Countdown Club is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization formed exclusively to preserve and produce New Orleans’ traditional New Year’s Eve festivities in the French Quarter. “A NOLA New Year’s Eve is truly a community effort and a tribute to the big hearts and resilient souls of the people of New Orleans,” says CCCC Treasurer Adrienne Thomas. “Without support from Harrah’s and French Quarter Festivals, Inc., plus eighteen downtown businesses, there would be no New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration here.”

Decatur Street Stage Schedule

8:30 p.m. – 9:15 p.m. Ras Tree & Third Coast Reggae All-Stars

9:30 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. Fredy Omar

10:30 p.m. – 11:50 p.m. Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers

11:50 p.m. – 11:59 p.m. Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Family & Friends

11:59 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Tune in to WWL 870 AM - 105.3 FM
for live simulcast of countdown to 2008 & Gumbo Pot Drop
from atop Jax Brewery Condominium

12 midnight New Year’s Toast with the Mayor

12:00 a.m. – 12:12 a.m. “Symphony in the Sky” fireworks display,
choreographed to local music & spirited fight songs, simulcast live
on WWL 870 AM - 105.3 FM

Special thanks to our sponsors...
whose generosity makes this event possible:

French Quarter Festivals, Inc. ~ Harrah’s

with support from:
The Allstate BCS National Championship
The Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic
Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World
Garage at Canal Place
Greater New Orleans Hotel & Lodging Association
Hilton New Orleans Riverside/Drago’s Restaurant
Jax Brewery Condominium
The Marketplace
The Millhouse at Jax Brewery
N.O. School of Cooking
Parking at Jax Brewery
Pat O’Brien’s
River Parish Disposal
RiverBarge Excursion Lines
Riverview Room
Shops at Canal Place
Steamboat Natchez

in cooperation with:
The City of New Orleans - C. Ray Nagin, Mayor
New Orleans Tourism & Marketing Corporation
Experience New Orleans