Tuesday, December 31, 2024 Happy New Year! You’re invited to attend First Night—Northampton’s most beloved signature event. Since 1985, First Night Northampton has filled Paradise City with a 12-hour, family-friendly festival of the arts, culminating in a traditional ball-raising from the roof of the Hotel Northampton. Gather with friends, neighbors, and visitors at over 20 terrific downtown venues for an astounding array of entertainment presented by hundreds of talented performers.
A local traditional Irish band bringing a brimming basket of jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes, waltzes, airs and songs to this year’s First Night, featuring Tim Donoghue on concertina, Kira Jewett on fiddle, T.J. Ezold on flute and accordion, Adam Braunschweig on banjo and bouzouki, and Dave Meuser on guitar. Sláinte! (‘ardaigh’ = Irish Gaelic for ‘lift up’)
