The then First Night Worcester Board President Kallin Johnson said at the time, “The Board is confident it has reached the correct business decision, but we’ll miss setting the stage for thousands of smiling faces on New Year’s Eve.” In May 2107, an announcement was made that “After careful review, we have decided the 35th would be our last event." And as always the event exuded plenty of charm as you saw individuals or groups of people out on sidewalks identifiable by their First Night Worcester buttons heading determinedly to the next event on their respective program lists.īut as psychic mediums Deborah Livingston and Katherine Glass (a popular attraction at First Unitarian Church, 90 Main St.) may have already known, this would turn out to be the final First Night Worcester. Although First Night Worcester was not exactly the large-scale happening it had been in its heyday, the 2016 event still had more than 80 performers (rock musicians, folk singer-songwriters, country music , youth orchestras, children's chorus, chamber music singers, theater, acrobats, psychics … ) at venues mostly in the upper Main Street, Salisbury Street and Grove Street areas of the city. Petty followed by a performance by Sasha the Fire Gypsy. The event got underway outdoors at Institute Park at the Levenson Concert Stage with opening remarks by Worcester Mayor Joseph M.
Five years ago on New Year's Eve, 2016, First Night Worcester celebrated its "35th Anniversary Spectacular."
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