Nashville’s Televised New Year’s Eve Celebration To Feature Moon Taxi And The Shindellas

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Moon Taxi. Photo: Dune Baydoun

Nashville’s 2020 New Year’s celebration, Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight: New Year’s Eve in Nashville, featuring indie rock band Moon Taxi and powerhouse trio The Shindellas, will be televised on WTVF Channel 5.

Nashville-based Moon Taxi will play for 40 minutes just before midnight. The Shindellas, who fuse jazz, soul and R&B, will perform a 20-minute set earlier in the show.

For the first time in the event’s 12-year history, the New Year’s Eve show will be limited to a televised broadcast and livestream to be watched from home, and there will be no public concert, Note Drop or spectators this year due to COVID-19 restrictions. The show will air from 10:30 p.m. to midnight CT locally, and will include highlights from previous years. CNN will feature the countdown live from Nashville as the central time zone rings in the New Year. Click here for more information on the livestreamed event.

“Music City has consistently hosted hundreds of thousands of spectators to ring in the New Year, and while we are sad to ask the crowds to stay home, we are ecstatic about the opportunity to say goodbye to 2020,” said Butch Spyridon, president and CEO, Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. “We hope everyone will tune in to enjoy the live music and the start of 2021. You can expect us to be back next year with the biggest show ever. We have some making up to do.”

Last year, Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight attracted a record attendance of more than 200,000 and generated a record $26.2 million in direct visitor spending with the free concert and Note Drop at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. The show and headliner Keith Urban were featured on two national broadcasts: NBC’s New Year’s Eve 2020 and CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. 

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