Ring in 2016 right with these parties!
21c NYE Party [4]
21c Museum Hotel [5]
$59/21+
Celebrate the New Year with the Red Penguin! This bash is held in the Atrium Gallery. GlitterTitzGjz, [6] dancing, bubbly, and a cash bar! Ticket includes two cocktails. The best part is if the bubbly is flowing a little too strong, you can book a room!
WFPK’s New Year’s Eve Prohibition Era Dance Party [7]
$20 advance/$25 door/18+
Feeling like a bash from the past? This dance party delivers. One of Louisville’s best jazz bands, Billy Goat Strut Revue, will serve as the house band with special guests Zach Longoria and Carly Johnson. WFP DJ’s Matt Anthony and Woodrow will be spinning the vinyl. That’s not all! Burlesque troupe, Vaudeville Louisville, will be entertaining too. This party also includes a photo booth and balloon drop!
Discotheque Downtown New Year’s Eve [9]
Meta [10]
$5/21+
You should be dancing, yeah! Start channeling your inner Bee Gee. This is one far out disco themed party promising champagne, crazy visuals and lots of The Hustle.
New Year’s Eve with Tony & the Tan Lines and DJ K-Dogg [11]
$75/21+
Ain’t no party like a Tony & the Tan Lines [13]party! This is an all-inclusive ticketed event featuring top shelf open bar, appetizers, and champagne toast. DJ K-Dogg [14] will also be partying down.
NYE Live! [15]
Fourth Street Live
FREE!/21+
Marketed as Louisville’s “biggest New Year’s Eve celebration.” Ring in 2016 with live music, balloon drops, confetti cannons, and a screening of the Times Square ball drop. This is a free event, but tickets are available for exclusive access to bars and nightclubs.
New Year's Eve Blackout Affair & Let the Good Times Roll [16]
Galt House Hotel [17]
Pricing varies / 21+
Image Courtesy of Galt House Hotel
Have an extravagant New Year’s with the Galt House. They’re offering not one, but two different parties. Packages for the different events vary in price and exclusives, check them out [16]!
Animal Mask-querade [18]
FREE!/21+
No Cover New Year’s [20]
FREE!/21+
In the music hall, live performances from:
Sketching (10:30PM)
The Deloreans (11:30PM)
James JaLin Lindsey (12:30am)
At the front bar, DJs keep the party going
Midnight Hour Sound System (8-11 p.m.)
Kindred DJs (11pm-12:30)
DJ DUFFY (12:30-1:30am)
Dj Narwal (1:30-3:30am)
Plus free photobooth, early evening drink specials and cocktails before 10pm, and more special guests to be announced!
The catch? There is no catch and there is no cover!
Get there early or come for the late night afterparty.
Sketching (10:30PM)
The Deloreans (11:30PM)
James JaLin Lindsey (12:30am)
At the front bar, DJs keep the party going
Midnight Hour Sound System (8-11 p.m.)
Kindred DJs (11pm-12:30)
DJ DUFFY (12:30-1:30am)
Dj Narwal (1:30-3:30am)
Plus free photobooth, early evening drink specials and cocktails before 10pm, and more special guests to be announced!
The catch? There is no catch and there is no cover!
Get there early or come for the late night afterparty.
Coatcheck Presents: New Years Evil [21]
Kaiju [22]
$10/21+
"Hosted by your favorite sequined party prince Bryan Whiteman, we've got the same summer DJ's you love spinning your favorite jams up front all night. Sam Sneed and Alex Bell from Night Visions Radio, McKinley from Rad Tantrum Radio and Vane from Saving Our Style will soundtrack your night at the bar. In lieu of a pool we have some of the best acts in town in the theater to get you sweaty. ANWAR SADAT will be fresh out of a week at La La Land and hitting the stage for the first time in quite a while. It's gonna be special. Idol Mind and Atomo will get things going with some Shoegaze and electro goodness. Come get rowdy." - NYE at Kaiju [21]
New Year’s Eve at 8UP [23]
$10
This part will also feature a chef's exclusive one-night-only NYE specials, complimentary champagne toast at midnight, balloon drop and more!
New Year’s Eve 2016 [25]
The Ice House [25]
$20/21+
Dead Room Cult New Year at The Ton [26]
Louis’s “The Ton” [27]
FREE!/21+
According to the Facebook event, there will be "special one-night-only champagne cocktail menu, test kitchen food specials and the most sonically satiating songsmiths in the city" at this party.
Irish New Year’s Eve [28]
Flanagan’s Ale House [29]
$3/21+
New Year's Eve Party Featuring The Decades [30]
Captain’s Quarters [31]
FREE!/21+
Roux Year's Eve 2016 [32]
Roux [32]
FREE entry/21+
Roux will have $1 Fresh Shucked Oysters, $2 Char-Broiled, and $3 Oyster Shooters all night long! In addition, there will be live music, a full dinner menu, and complimentary champagne toast!
New Year's Eve at Galaxie [33]
Galaxie [33]
FREE!/21+
Walk-ins are welcome at this NYE bash, and DJ Mo Money will be spinning!
Cover image courtesy of Giphy.com, here [34]! Images within article credited (linked!) in headings.