Family Fireworks on New Year's Eve in Boston

by Winnie
(Cambridge)

Are the Family Fireworks definitely scheduled? They are not on the official First Night schedule. If they are occurring, what time are they scheduled? City of Boston says 7:00 and on this website it says 6:45.
Thanks!
Winnie

Susan's reply: Hi Winnie - Thanks for raising this question, as there's been quite a lot of confusion around this. The Family Fireworks show appears to definitely be scheduled for New Year's Eve, and the time that is being now given by the City of Boston website is 6:45pm. Here is a url for the most recent notice (December 28) giving this information from the City of Boston website that I can find: http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=5424

Although this recent announcement lists the time as 6:45pm, I believe there were earlier announcements that gave the time as 7pm. I'm assuming that the schedule must have changed a bit. I have a friend who's performing in the 6pm ice show at Frog Pond who said that performance had originally been scheduled to take place a little earlier, and then it got pushed back to 6:30.

My understanding is that the Frog Pond ice show, the free family skating event afterward, and the Fireworks are separate events sponsored in part by Mayor Menino and the city, and are therefore not officially part of the First Night events, which would explain why they're not listed on the First Night schedule.

During this same general time period, First Night's Grand Procession Parade, which kicks off at the Hynes at 5:30 will be making its way down Boylston, Charles, and Beacon Streets. Also, NECN (the New England Cable News channel) does a broadcast of the ice show, fireworks, and other First Night events starting at 6pm - so there's a lot going on during this same time period.

Anyway, based on the City of Boston information, it sounds like the Family Firework show on the Common - at least at this point - is scheduled to take place at 6:45. You might want to keep checking at the cityofboston.gov website just to make sure because I'm sure something could happen to change the schedule. My thought is: better to be there a little early rather than a little late.

Have a great time, and Happy New Year!

Susan
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