“Welcome 2026 with NOLA New Year’s Eve Fireworks Show”
*Georgia Bulldogs vs. Ole Miss Rebels in 92nd Annual Allstate Sugar Bowl CFP Quarterfinals!*
The Crescent City Countdown, our traditional New Orleans New Year’s Eve midnight fireworks display … the backdrop for all of the exciting New Year’s festivities in our great city!
Welcome 2026 as only New Orleans can with the traditional NOLA New Year’s Eve
Midnight Fireworks Display over the Mighty Mississippi River, the backdrop for New Year’s
Eve festivities in our great city! Produced by the Crescent City Countdown Club in
partnership with the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Foundation, this beloved tradition
is a community project made possible by New Orleans and Company with support from the
Allstate Sugar Bowl, the Berger and Tiller families, French Quarter Festivals, Inc.,
Pyromania Fireworks, WWL 870 AM/ 105.3 FM, WWL.com, Magic 101.9, and more than
fifteen other community sponsors.
This spectacular FREE fireworks display can be seen along the historic New Orleans
Riverfront in downtown New Orleans on the East Bank of the Mississippi River, from Canal
Street (upriver) to Esplanade Avenue (downriver), and on the West Bank. At the stroke of
midnight an intense barrage of colors—including the team colors of the Georgia Bulldogs and the Ole Miss Rebels in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl—will light up the dark sky!
Produced by Pyromania Fireworks, this extraordinary display will open with breath-taking
Weeping Willows that send cascades of golden streamers down to the river. Thousands of
effects will then blanket the sky, with some breaking out across the thousand-foot span
across the Mississippi River and a thousand feet high. The show will end with fourteen three-
dimensional red hearts that will gracefully descend from the sky in memory of the fourteen
lives lost last year.
A link to the New Orleans fireworks music used to choreograph the
fireworks—including the fight songs of the Georgia Bulldogs and the Ole Miss Rebels
in the Allstate Sugar Bowl CFP Quarterfinal!—can be found on WWL.com.
How to view the fireworks!
The spectacular fireworks display can be seen along the historic New Orleans Riverfront in downtown New Orleans from both the East and West Banks of the Mississippi River — on the East bank, from Canal Street (upriver) to Esplanade Avenue (downriver).
Our spectacular fireworks display is choreographed to music which adds so much energy to our fireworks show. especially for our Sugar Bowl visitors as it includes the college team fight songs.
At 11:59 pm on NYE, click on the link below for the music to play during the fireworks.
Audio Soundtrack for 2026 celebration
PLEASE NOTE: There is about a 40 second delay before you will hear the music!
Produced by the Crescent City Countdown Club in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy and the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund.
This internationally acclaimed tradition is a community project made possible by our generous sponsors.
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The Crescent City Countdown Club is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization officially formed in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina exclusively to preserve and produce New Orleans’ traditional New Year’s Eve festivities in the French Quarter.
From all of us at the Crescent City Countdown Club,
have a safe, healthy, and Happy New Year, everyone!