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Austin360 blogs > Austin Arts: Seeing Things > Archives > 2009 > December > 02 > Entry
First Night Austin adds ‘The Long First Night’
First Night Austin and the Long Center for the Performing Arts are teaming up to provide a new party attraction for the New Year’s Eve arts-filled celebration.
‘The Long First Night,’ is a ticketed New Year’s Eve gala, from 5 p.m. to midnight on Dec. 31. It is co-sponsored by Sterling Affairs.
The event at the Long Center— utilizing both the outdoor City Terrace and the mezzanine inside the performing arts facility — will bring music, food and drink to the annual First Night Austin festivities.
First Night Austin, now in its fifth year, brings free visual and performing arts to downtown Austin for a public celebration that attracts up to 100,000 revelers.
Tickets for ‘The Long First Night,’ which is will be sold at a special advance rate until Dec. 18.
General admission tickets, which include access to the Long Center, cash bars and food, and all entertainment (which will include music from bands and DJs, as well as a children’s activities area), are $15 until the Dec. After that, tickets are $20.
Details of the entertainment offerings are TBA.
A limited number of VIP tickets, on sale for $95 until Dec. 18 and $110 starting the Dec. 10. VIP tickets include access to the Long Center and all entertainment, as well as access to open bars, complimentary buffets and chefs stations and a private VIP party.
Tickets for the event are available via the Long Center website (www.thelongcenter.org the First Night Austin website www.firstnightaustin.org.
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By Adam Loudermilk
December 26, 2009 2:59 PM | Link to this
Yes, I would also like to highlight that all the performers this night have been asked to perform for free.
I’m a musician who has recently moved from NYC, and I am astonished at this kind of treatment of artists in a city that is touted as a mecca for the arts in Texas and the southwest. I have forfeit not one but TWO New Year’s gigs in Austin due to the pay being shifted to $0. (comparatively, I’ve been offered $250 to go back and play in New York.)
I hear this is a problem in Austin: entertainment not getting paid. Times are tight, we all know, but NOT paying talent and expecting them to perform just for exposure is not just immoral, but borderline criminal.
-a
By ryan White
December 23, 2009 11:21 AM | Link to this
I understand that this party will be a Party and will include beer, wine and drinks. I love first night but it’s great to have a beer as well. Also does anyone know who this “international DJ” is going to be? Ferry Corsten plays the expo that night….who else is in town that night?
By deezer
December 3, 2009 4:54 PM | Link to this
i wonder if they are paying them a pawltry $200 for their services…an insult to austin artist……