The Metropolis of San Antonio’s Official New 12 months’s Eve Celebration with San Antonio Parks Basis & Michelob Extremely
CelebrateSA, the Metropolis of San Antonio’s Official New 12 months’s Eve Celebration returns to downtown on Sunday, December 31, 2023. CelebrateSA continues to attract in extra of 70,000 excited partygoers yearly. The downtown space shall be vibrant with revelers “Dancing In The Streets,” the theme for the 2023 celebration. Attributable to development going down on South Alamo Avenue, the reside music occasion and fireworks present will transfer across the nook to happen on Market Avenue between South Alamo Avenue and the Grand Hyatt, with pedestrian connections to Hemisfair Civic Park.
Moreover, revelers will discover a satellite tv for pc occasion, CelebrateSA on the River, on the Arneson River Theatre.
Official occasion hours are from 6:00 PM by means of 12:00 AM, on Sunday, December thirty first, 2023. The occasion is 100% FREE to the general public and all ages.
Produced by the San Antonio Parks Basis and the Metropolis of San Antonio, the occasion options reside leisure on three phases. Market Avenue crowds will take pleasure in performances on the Michelob Extremely Most important Stage by award-winning alt-pop four-piece, Jefferson Clay; digital rock trio dripping in shamanic futurism, Pop Pistol performing their LIGHTGEIST present; pop-soul singer and environmental activist Shannon Sionna; and open-format units by DJ Cósmicaa showcasing various Latin and disco sounds. LED screens flank the principle stage with reside feeds of performances and messaging from native companies welcoming the brand new yr. News4 San Antonio will broadcast reside from the principle stage for his or her New 12 months’s Eve particular.
Hemisfair Civic Park shall be dwelling to DISCO PICNIC, a New 12 months’s Eve backyard occasion hosted by SoundCream Airstream. What’s on the menu? For starters, a style of the Rio Grande Valley with a disco heavy home music set by DJ Flacucho of Trópicasa. For the principle course, a puro San Antonio dance occasion from Príncipe Q of Kumbia All Starz. For dessert, the most effective fireworks view within the metropolis. DISCO PICNIC company will discover the retrofitted airstream trailer turned DJ sales space on the Nice Garden of Civic Park, arrive early to safe your spot on the garden to look at the fireworks present! Visitors are inspired to deliver their very own blankets and garden chairs. Meals, cocktails, beer and bubbles shall be accessible for buy in Civic Park.
Riverwalk partygoers will discover reside performances on the Arneson River Theatre Stage as a part of CelebrateSA on the River, alongside the gorgeous San Antonio Riverwalk, full with the annual festive vacation lighting. The Arneson Stage options units by DJ Joaquin Muerte; Vanita Leo, bringing the following era of Chicano music to the stage by exploring the trendy intersections of Latino and American music, and South Texas barrio-big-band, Bombasta taking Boogie Bend into 2023.Telemundo will broadcast reside from the Arneson for his or her nation-wide New 12 months’s Eve particular, Bienvenido 2024.
Bringing the celebratory theme to life is Studio AVI SA, one among San Antonio’s premier health, dance health, and dance coaching studios. By the imaginative and prescient of founder Roger Mendoza, the staff at Studio AVI SA is working to construct an inclusive and welcoming surroundings for all who’re able to shine. Catch the AVI Showman Elite efficiency firm all through Rejoice SA and dance into the brand new yr!
“We’re delighted to showcase San Antonio’s various expertise and tradition on the eve of 2024, surrounded by the San Antonio group. Our Core Values of Fairness, Conservation, Tradition, Group, Training, and Folks drive our work guaranteeing high quality parks and park programming is loved by San Antonians for years to come back,” says Mary Jane Verette, President & CEO of the nonprofit San Antonio Parks Basis. Hemisfair Civic Park shall be included within the reimagined CelebrateSA footprint with the fireworks present going down over the tower as in previous years.
On the occasion, company can stay up for enjoyable details about Metropolis and County parks, the historical past of the San Antonio Parks Basis, in addition to highlights from 2023 group occasions. There will even be a full array of family-friendly programming together with carnival video games and sights for all ages. Native meals and artisan vendor cubicles providing various choices shall be accessible on Market Avenue, Villita Manner, and in Civic Park. Cocktails, beer, and wine shall be accessible for buy together with scorching drinks, beverage proceeds profit SA and Bexar County parks. The evening shall be capped with a communal countdown at midnight, adopted by the spectacular fireworks present.
For individuals who favor to ring within the New 12 months within the consolation of dwelling, the celebration shall be broadcast reside on Channel News4 San Antonio starting at 10:30 PM CST, and at 11 PM CST on Telemundo.
The San Antonio Parks Basis wish to thank all official sponsors of Rejoice SA together with Michelob Extremely, Metropolis of San Antonio, Telemundo, Parallel | A Model Company, NBC4, Fox29, CW35, The Stellar Case, and iHeartMedia.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Bombasta [Arneson River Theatre]
Bombasta’s unbiased and authentic sound blends parts of cumbia, funk, hip hop, reggae, salsa, and world rhythms with a big-band strategy that strikes any viewers to their ft. Their distinctive and impactful performances have put them able to share the stage with a variety of nationwide and worldwide touring musical acts, together with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Los Lobos, ZZ High, Poncho Sanchez, Kinky, La Santa Cecilia, Ana Tijoux, Chico Trujillo, Los Rakas, El Dusty, Grupo Fantasma, Los Texmaniacs, and Las Cafeteras.
DJ Cósmicaa [Michelob Ultra Main Stage on Market Street]
DJ Cósmicaa is a provider of celestial dance grooves that may have you ever orbiting the dance flooring. That’s how “La Tejana en la massive manzana” Cósmicaa describes herself to music lovers. A fearless selector, her emotive music picks characteristic cumbia, chicha, Afro beats & cumbia psicodélicas, reaching all communities by means of dance. Nos vemos en el dance flooring! At present, this interprets into various units fusing collectively all of the items of this music that she loves greatest: lovely synth work, rhythmic basslines, and vocal hooks.
DJ Joaquin Muerte [Arneson River Theatre]
Joaquin Muerte, born within the barrio of San Felipe in Del Rio, started his skilled music profession 23 years in the past in San Antonio as a road performer taking part in percussion and guitar. As a DJ, Joaquin makes a speciality of Texas Uncommon soul and funk and maintain the dance flooring filled with power.
He has been taking part in music since he was a baby and is a founding member of a number of native bands that compose authentic music – Los Nahuatlatos, Eddie and the Valiants and the Joaquin and The Glowliners. Joaquin is a conventional Danzante conchero, whose roots return to pre-Hispanic America. He’s a group Builder with Methodist Healthcare Ministries, the place he builds constituencies of change in areas of communities of shade in San Antonio. Joaquin’s many different titles embrace chef, photographer, inventive, podcaster and vinyl DJ.
Jefferson Clay [Michelob Ultra Main Stage on Market Street]
Jefferson Clay is an award-winning singer/songwriter and Alt-Pop artist based mostly in San Antonio, Texas. A pandemic success story, the songster launched his first slew of singles in 2020, to acclaim from numerous indie music blogs and Spotify’s “Contemporary Finds”, “Contemporary Finds: Pop”, and “New Pop Picks” editorial playlists alike. Releases have garnered over 3 million streams throughout platforms, 100,000+ month-to-month listeners on Spotify, and a fast-growing fan base eagerly anticipating what’s to come back. In his brief artist profession, Jefferson has made a number of nationwide tv appearances, together with “American Idol” and “The 4”, shared the stage with Austin staples like Alpha Rev and Nané, and the nationwide stage with the likes of MisterWives, Dent Could, and REO Speedwagon.
Pop Pistol [Michelob Ultra Main Stage on Market Street]
Pop Pistol is an digital rock trio from San Antonio, Texas. Steeped in an aesthetic of shamanic futurism, Pop Pistol’s cathartic reside efficiency has earned respect close to and much for the higher a part of 20 years. The group will carry out their LIGHTGEIST present backed by a UV reactive mural designed by Alex Scheel. Viewers members can count on a strong set, each visually and sonically, from one among SA’s most seasoned and distinctive musical skills.
Principe Q [SoundCream Airstream in Civic Park]
Shannon Sionna [Michelob Ultra Main Stage on Market Street]
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Shannon has been performing reside since 2004. She is professionally educated in each Classical and Musical theatre efficiency and has been independently creating music since 2015. With influences like Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross and Selena Quintanilla, she was in a position to create her personal style of music which she defines as Neosoul/Funk. Together with music, Shannon Sionna could be very obsessed with saving our planet. Being an Earth signal, it’s solely pure. She is consistently finding out local weather and surroundings preservation and is doing her half to unfold consciousness of different methods of dwelling to assist the development of our planet in a optimistic approach.
Vanita Leo [Arneson River Theatre]
Coming from a wealthy lineage of Tejano heritage, Vanita Leo’s urge for food for ushering in a brand new wave of Chicano sound was inevitable. Initially utilizing the guise of lush bed room pop as an introspective outlet of self-discovery & ardour, Leo now devotes her skills to exploring the trendy intersection of Latino & American music.