I'm staying home with my family will watch Ball drop on TV...
too many years away from them playing in the trenches.
Everyone enjoy your NYE gigs take pics/videos for us..
The baton has been passed.

Very liitle going on around here for NYE. I mentioned it to some places I go here and they're answeres were about the same. "Not worth the bother" That Holiday has really taken a nose dive from the big deal it was and its reputation of "Amateur Night" I did steady gigs for over 30 years and never really liked it. All I miss is the big paycheck from that night. Never saw a cop or roadblock either when coming home but they sure do scare people form being out late. Good old NJ diners were always packed as I passed by.
I probably won't even stay up till 12. No big deal, I did the Times Square thing once in my stupid youth. It wasn't much fun then and much worse now with all the security, no drinking, etc.
Happy and Healthy NY to everyone.

Frogs are all hibernating, so can't go gigging.
I'll be at my regular job though!
Happy New Year!

The big $ NYE gigs dried up for me about 4 yrs ago. This year it is one afternoon and an early evening senior gig finishing at 6pm. Two musician friends, scheduled to play an animal club and a condo community here, were canceled due to lack of interest and poor ticket sales.
Eddie

We had a HUGE night Christmas Eve, packed with people waiting for tables most of the night. Not sure about NYE but I expect it will be busy. I know one of my "big guns" is coming so the night will be successful not matter what!

Snowy and very cold here and our NYE gig is less than a mile from home. Seniors' residence, 6:30 - 7:30 and almost double the money. What's not to like? Have a great new year everyone!

For 26 years with the band I missed playing one year - while I was on active duty in the Army ... Some crazy nights back then - I've only played a couple NYE nights since then , one was going into the year 2000, when everybody was concerned the world was going to stop ... come to think of it, maybe it should have ...
This year I have an early gig at the Town Senior Center one town over from us, then its dinner at home with my wife's sister and b-i-l ... probably watch the ball drop, toast the new year with some nice Prosecco, and call it a day ...

I hate not working on NYE, and I was getting concerned by mid October because no offers were coming in. I started calling agents and places we’ve worked but got a lot of responses similar to what Bill described. So I had kind given up and tried to be at peace of just having a nice evening at home. But out of the blue last week a new fairly high end Mexican restaurant called offering a pretty good offer. We’re very happy to work on NYE and have been rehearing all week. In fact we just made a Spanish language, salsa version of Auld Lang Syne which I’ll try to record and post later.
Happy New Year to all my SZ buds!

Paul I hope dinner is included?

¡ Claro que sí! 👍