The city of Bastrop, Texas, and the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa are going New Braunfels one better and staging their New Year's celebration a whole day early.The New Orleans New Year Celebration is Dec. 30.
And the party starts at 9 a.m. with the year-end Downtown Market Days.
New Orleans soul singer Irma Thomas and Texas-born composer and jazz trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe are the featured performers at an evening concert at the resort. Proceeds benefit the restoration and renovation of Kerr Community Center in Bastrop.
In addition, a New Orleans-style second-line parade begins downtown at 1 p.m. Music and festivities continue at Kerr Community Center Park until 4 o'clock. A dinner (reservations required) at the resort begins at 5:30, followed by the concert at 7:30.
Concert tickets: 1-866-443-8849; www.Gettix.net. Dinner, hotel reservations and packages (some include concert): 512-308-1234; www.visitlostpines.com. Bastrop is about 33 miles east of Austin.
Mercury News
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