Live music all night on New Year’s Eve

Beginning at 8pm ET (Eastern Time)

Each New Year’s Eve for 30 years, NPR and WBGO have teamed up to present live concerts at some of the best music venues from coast to coast.

Tune to WBGO 88.3 in Newark, log on to wbgo.org on New Year’s Eve, or check local listings to find your Toast of the Nation station.

Join us and raise a glass to the future with Toast of the Nation, New Year’s Eve beginning at 8pm. It’s going to be a party!

Search here for your local station.

8PM LIVE – Anat Cohen at Berklee Performance Center in Boston, produced by WGBH Radio/Boston.
Reedwoman Anat follows her muse from "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" and "Jitterbug Waltz" to dances from Cuba, Argentina and Brazil. The Jazz Journalists Association named her Clarinetist of the Year.
9:30PM LIVE – John Pizzarelli’s
"Dear Mr. Sinatra" at the Kennedy Center
in Washington, DC.
When guitarist, singer and radio host Pizzarelli used to open for Sinatra, he "would appear in the wings, swinging and clapping and smiling. He would come onstage and cheer for us." We’ll cheer John and band, Swing Seven, playing songs of Frank and more.
11PM LIVE with Eastern Time countdown – The Bad Plus at the Village Vanguard in New York.
Power jazz with tremendous chops meets indie rock in the acoustic trio of Reid Anderson, Ethan Iverson and David King. The outcome can be very beautiful, also very funny. WBGO’s Josh Jackson hosts.
12:15AM LIVE with Central Time countdown – Grammy nominee Irvin Mayfield from New Orleans at the Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant in Minneapolis.
The young trumpet star and co-founder of Los Hombres Calientes and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra is the Minnesota Orchestra’s first Artistic Director of Jazz. Produced with American Public Media. Toni Randolph hosts.
1:30AM LIVE with Mountain and Pacific Time countdowns – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy from Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles.
Dance to music from BBVD’s How Big Can You Get? A Tribute to Cab Calloway -- a high-voltage jolt of feel-good energy for a country slogging through tough times, a selection or two from the BBVD Christmas record, and all the favorites.
The party continues with more music
until 5:00AM.

Produced by WBGO and NPR Music.