{"id":65763,"date":"2025-11-26T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65763\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:59:14","slug":"city-announces-headliner-for-austins-new-years-celebration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65763\/","title":{"rendered":"City announces headliner for Austin&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin\u2019s New Year&#8217;s celebration will usher in 2026 with food, a drone show and headlining band The Head and The Heart at the city\u2019s iconic Auditorium Shores.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Austin announced Monday that the free event will occur Wednesday, Dec. 31 from 7 p.m. to midnight. Along with The Head and The Heart, performers Chaparelle, The Point and Tameca Jones will also take the stage.<\/p>\n<p>A drone show, presented by Arca Continental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages, will light up the sky at 11:40 p.m. and serve as a pre-show to the midnight fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees can purchase food and drinks from local food trucks, which will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austintexas.gov\/department\/austins-new-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis celebration captures what makes Austin so special \u2014 a place where everyone can come together to enjoy great music, local food\u00a0and a sense of belonging as we welcome a new year,\u201d Mayor Kirk Watson said in the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin\u2019s New Year&#8217;s celebration will usher in 2026 with food, a drone show and headlining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3564,132,134,133,5604,3565,30432,27],"class_list":["post-65763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-community","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-community-news","tag-hannah-maguire","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}