We tried to warn you…
Nashville celebrated the new year with their annual New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash celebration, welcoming an estimated record crowd of over 250,000 to downtown Music City to ring in 2026.
This year, the event was headlined by Jason Aldean, Lainey Wilson and Bailey Zimmerman, and is of course punctuated by a music note drop and fireworks show at midnight. The celebration used to be held on Broadway, but a few years ago was moved to Bicentennial Park near the Tennessee State Capitol, a few blocks away from the bars and honky tonks in downtown Nashville…