Making Plans for New Year’s Eve

With Christmas just a week away, it’s not too late to start making plans for New Year’s in North Carolina.

In the Raleigh area you could get tickets for the North Carolina Symphony New Year’s Eve Extravaganza Package. To include a pre-concert cocktail party at 5 o.m. at the Sheraton Capital Center in downtown Raleigh, the 7:30 p.m. concert, and a post concert dinner and dancing fest back at the Sheraton offering a four-course dinner and big band music from Leon Jordan’s Continentals. There will of course be plenty of champagne at midnight too.

Music Director Grant Llewellyn hosts special guests mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy and the Red Clay ramblers’ mix of Irish and French folk tunes, classical favorites and bluegrass-rock fusions.

If you’re in the Raleigh area and you’d like to make other plans, check out the offerings at The Twisted Fork, or at Michael Dean’s, Bogart’s, Hi5, or the Red Room. In Fayetteville check out the planned festivities at the Mash House Restaurant & Brewery. Make your reservations now!

ClubZone offers a rundown of New Year’s events in Charlotte, for which you can pre-purchase tickets on line so they’ll be ready to give for Christmas gifts.

You could make plans to be in Mt. Olive for the Annual New Year’s Pickle Drop, or in Clay’s Corner (Possum Capitol of the World) for the midnight Lowering of the Possum. There’s a fairly complete list of events all over North Carolina at the Carolina Connoisseur website.

North Carolina’s ski resorts are planning some fun New Year’s festivities as well. Appalachian Ski Mountain near Blowing Rock offers fireworks, a torchlight parade, night skiing until 11:30 p.m., moonlight ice skating until midnight, and breakfast in the restaurant from 9 p.m. to midnight.

Sugar Mountain Ski Resort near Banner Elk plans a Mountain Style celebration to which the public is invited free of charge. There will be a torchlight parade and fireworks at midnight. Reservations will be required for indoor festivities, so call quick!

Links:

North Carolina Symphony

ClubZone: Charlotte

Mt. Olive Pickle Drop

Lowering of the Possum

Carolina Connoisseur

Appalachian Ski Mountain

Sugar Mountain Ski Resort

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