A new year is upon us, and a live stream of the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square is available for those looking to celebrate it at home.
Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls, Happy Howlidays, Season’s Greetings From Cherry Lane and The Plus One) and Jeremy Hassell, a live event and celebrity interview host who has worked with the celebration since 2016, are returning as this year’s hosts.
The New Year’s Eve ceremony is set to begin at 6 p.m. ET with the lighting and raising of the New Year’s Eve ball on One Times Square. The Sino-American Friendship Association will present a Chinese cultural performance called “A Spring Festival Celebration.” The celebration will also include more live performances, hourly countdowns, behind-the-scenes stories and celebrity interviews all while the countdown to midnight’s famous ball drop occurs.
The Jonas Brothers, Rita Ora, Carrie Underwood, Mark Ambor, Megan Moroney, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, TLC, Greeicy, Mickey Guyton, De La Ghetto and Kapo are all set to perform. Ambor will sing “Belong Together,” “Good to Be” and “Our Way,” while Guyton will perform her tracks “My Side of the Country,” “House on Fire” and “All American.”
Times Square has been the place to celebrate New Year’s Eve for more than 120 years. The first ball-lowering celebration took place in 1907.
This year’s webcast will start at 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 31 and end at 12:15 a.m. ET on Jan. 1. Viewers can watch the event through the VNYE website and below.