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Crescent City Countdown Club

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: December 15, 2025		 CONTACT: Debra L. Bresler
(985) 630-4604

NOLA New Year’s Eve Fireworks
to Make Magic over the Mississippi!

 

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 & 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 contenders in the College Football Playoff (CFP) 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 threedimensional 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 contenders in the Allstate Sugar Bowl CFP Quarterfinal!—can be found on WWL.com.

Start your New Year’s Eve celebration at 2 p.m. on December 31, 2025, with the FREE official Allstate Sugar Bowl New Year’s Eve Parade presented by Louisiana Tourism, an exciting Mardi Gras-style parade through the French Quarter up Decatur Street along the Mississippi River, passing iconic landmarks and ending at Canal Street. On New Year’s Day, catch the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the 92nd Annual Allstate Sugar Bowl at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Central Time. For more information, visit AllstateSugarBowl.org.

From 9 p.m. until midnight catch the FREE New Orleans Eve Concert at Woldenberg Park sponsored by French Quarter Festivals, Inc. and New Orleans & Company. Rock to live performances by Dumpstaphunk, Sweet Crude, and DJ Captain Charles, all leading up to the midnight fleur-de-lis drop and the legendary Crescent City Countdown Club fireworks display.

Be sure to explore the French Quarter and downtown New Orleans restaurants, bars, shops, museums, and local entertainment venues as we await the greatly anticipated NOLA New Year’s Eve midnight fireworks show.

You can also make reservations and purchase tickets for other exciting midnight fireworks experiences:

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 in the French Quarter. “This treasured tradition has been produced by the Crescent City Countdown Club for more than two decades and depends solely on continued community support. Become a sponsor and help us ensure that this internationally acclaimed tradition continues to light up the NOLA skies,” says Adrienne Thomas, CCCC Treasurer

For more exciting details about NOLA New Year’s Eve, visit CrescentCityCountdown.com. Click the link to play or download the fireworks music.