Indoors, outdoors, day, night - First Night does it all. You don't need a button, or special glasses, to enjoy the outdoor events First Night has to offer, but the purchase of a button is what helps support and make them happen every year. Below are all the events and performances occurring outdoors this year.
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Midnight Fireworks
Sponsored by Frank Ward and Cape Dairy
The skies above Boston Harbor transform into a brilliant tapestry of light, color and sound at midnight to celebrate the New Year. Zambelli Internationale creates this spectacular display for First Night 2010.
Locations and Times:
Boston Harbor :
12:00 AM - 12:10 AM
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Black Taxi
Sounding like a Tarantino film in stereo, BLACK TAXI seduces with the seediness of a pulp fiction novel; a decaying sideshow that's as sexy as it is punk rock. Lyrics paint woozy pictures of Kerouac-ian misadventures, featuring a rotating cast. A cavalier concoction of carnival trumpets, swaggering bass lines and smoldering guitar, BLACK TAXI plays like a vintage spaghetti western dressed up in neon lights...the soundtrack to that desert roadtrip you should have taken back when your girl dumped you.
www.blacktaxi.com
Locations and Times:
Copley Square :
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM
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Boston HarborWalk Tour
225 State Street, Boston Enjoy a 45-minute walking tour of the new “Norman B. Leventhal Walk to the Sea” by The Boston Harbor Association Meet outside of Sel de la Terre Restaurant, 255 State Street
www.bostonharborwalk.com/
Locations and Times:
Boston Harbor :
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
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Cruise Boston Harbor on New Year's Eve
Sponsored by The Boston Harbor Association and Mass Bay Lines with support from the Boston Redevelopment Authroity
Join The Boston Harbor Association for a one-hour harbor cruise, free to First Night button holders for the best seats to the Frank Ward and Cape Dairy Midnight Fireworks over Boston Harbor. Tickets distributed to First Night button holders beginning at 9:30pm. Boarding begins at 10:30pm. Ship departs at 11:30pm
Locations and Times:
Boston Harbor :
11:30 PM - 12:30 AM
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Donald Chapelle / Brilliant Ice Sculpture
“Michelangelo Sculpting David”
Return to Michelangelo’s studio in Florence in 1504, where he completed his most famous work, the Statue of David.
Created by Donald Chapelle/Brilliant Ice
www.brillianticesculpture.com
Locations and Times:
Boston Common :
12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
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Dynasty Productions / Caribbean Bandleaders
These perennial Boston parade favorites dance down Boylston Street in their Carnivale finery, creating a scene that symbolizes the mystical and the magical of the Caribbean.
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www.bostoncarnivalvillage.com/dyn.htm
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Eric Fontecchio & Alfred Georgs
Eric Fontecchio and Alfred Georgs create two monumental ice sculptures in Copley Square
“Venus”
Eric Fontecchio and Alfred Georgs recreate in ice some of the most famous work of Botticelli, one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance
“Fisherman”
This sculpture is an adaptation of Winslow Homer’s classic 19th century painting set into ice by Eric Fontecchio and Alfred Georgs.
Created by Eric Fontecchio & Alfred Georgs/Brookline Coal and Ice Company
www.brooklineice.com/gallery_large.html
Locations and Times:
Copley Square :
12:00 PM - 12:00 AM
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First Night Countdown to Midnight with Fatal Flaw
Boston’s The Fatal Flaw has been gaining momentum with a playful juxtaposition of biting cynicism and shameless pop sensibility earning them distinction as a Band Worth Watching. Engaging, energetic, and thought-provoking, The Fatal Flaw captivates each successive audience they face, presenting some of rock’s catchiest songs with a brutally honest worldview
Locations and Times:
Boston Common :
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM
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First Night Frogs at the Tadpole Playground
Come see First Night's newest ice sculpture. The Frogs from the TADpole Playground next door will be set into ice. See them all lined up and lit at night. For more info on the TADpole Playground, visit www.tadpoleplayground.org/
http://www.tadpoleplayground.org/
Locations and Times:
Boston Common :
12:00 PM - 11:59 PM
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Ice Effects
Time Travelers from 2000 BC
Master carver Steve Rose will recreate one of the MFA’s famous 4,000-yearold Egyptian sculptures, the original of which is on view in the family-friendlyexhibition, “The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC.” (First Night visitors can check it out during the MFA’s free community day on December 31).
www.southshoreweddings.com/iceeffects
Locations and Times:
Boston Common :
12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
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Jordan Valentine and the Sunday Saints
Boston-based Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Saints resurrect the raw rhythms of 60’s R&B, southern soul and New Orleans funk, recalling a time when songs were alive, beats blew your mind and a horn line could make all hell break loose
www.thesundaysaints.com
Locations and Times:
Boston Common: Parkman Bandstand Parkman Bandstand:
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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Neil Horskey
Fluxusignment 57: a Bicycle Powered Shadow Puppet Theater
This installation engages First Night participants in a collaborative performancethat is both whimsical and nostalgic. One participant rides an exercisebicycle equipped with a generator light that illuminates a miniature stage.Adjacent to the stage is a diagram of numerous hand positions for shadowpuppets. Using this diagram and their own imagination, another participant performs a shadow puppet play cast upon the stage’s back panel.
Locations and Times:
Boston Common :
12:00 PM - 12:00 AM
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New England Aquarium Ice Sculptures
Six larger-than-life rockhoppers will greet visitors on the Aquarium's plaza. Come visit the newest members of the penguin colony (both icy and feathered) during December school vacation week!
www.neaq.org
Locations and Times:
New England Aquarium :
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Park Street Studios
“Beacon to a Better Year”
As humans have for millennia, we look forward with hope to a better year. The “Beacon” is a large-scale installation designed to attract a better, happier vibe for the year 2010, the beginning of a new decade. The three 20-foot sculptures are composed of bamboo armatures skinned with white shrink wrap plastic. All materials will be recycled afterwards including the shrink wrap. During the day the beacon is a stunning white, silver and mirrored machine of good will and hope. At dusk, with theatrical lighting it transforms into a magical jewel lighting up the night.
Locations and Times:
Boston Common :
12:00 PM - 12:00 AM
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Sidewalk Sam
"Bringing in the New Year"
Participate in this art program with Sidewalk Sam! Adults and children can get involved in sidewalk drawings done with brightly colored chalk.
www.sidewalksam.com
Locations and Times:
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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The Fatal Flaw
Boston’s The Fatal Flaw has been gaining momentum with a playful juxtaposition of biting cynicism and shameless pop sensibility earning them distinction as a Band WorthWatching. Engaging, energetic, and thoughtprovoking, The Fatal Flaw captivates each successive audience they face, presenting some of rock’s catchiest songs with a brutally honest worldview.
www.myspace.com/rockthefatalflaw
Locations and Times:
Boston Common: Parkman Bandstand Parkman Bandstand:
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM
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Trolley Shuttle
Sponsored by The Boston Harbor Association and Old Town Trolley Tours, with support from the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Free continuous shuttle service for First Night button holders along Boston’s waterfront and Seaport area departing approximately every 10-15 minutes.
Locations and Times:
Boston Harbor :
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Waterfront Trolley Tours
 
The Boston Harbor Association and Old Town Trolley Tours provide free shuttle service along the waterfront to First Night button holders. The shuttle will loop from Christopher Columbus Park to the Institute of Contemporary Art, with stops at the New England Aquarium, Boston Children’s Museum, and the Moakley Courthouse.
Locations and Times:
Moakley Court House Dock:
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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WBZ-TV Countdown to Midnight
Countdown to Midnight with WBZ-TV and Black Taxi
Join WBZ-TV Anchors Lisa Hughes and Jack Williams as we welcome in the New Year from the steps of the Boston Public Library. Televised live on WBZ-TV.
Black Taxi
Sounding like a Tarantino film in stereo, Black Taxi seduces with the seediness of a pulp fiction novel; a decaying sideshow that’s as sexy as it is punk rock. Lyrics paint woozy pictures of Kerouacian misadventures, featuring a rotating cast. A cavalier concoction of carnival trumpets, swaggering bass lines and smoldering guitar, Black Taxi plays like a vintage spaghetti western dressed up in neon lights...the soundtrack to that desert road trip you should have taken back when your girlfriend dumped you.
www.wbztv.com
Locations and Times:
Copley Square :
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM
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