Highmark First Night 2023 Features Fireworks, INEZ, and Fun Events and Activities (12/31/22)

The New Year’s ball rises in Pittsburgh. (photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)

Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2023 is the biggest New Year’s Eve party in the ‘Burgh, and happening all over the Downtown’s Golden Triangle. Musical highlights include INEZ (Highmark Stage in the Cultural District, 10:45 p.m.), 4-YAADI (Dollar Bank Stage, Cultural District 6:30 p.m.), and First Night Jazz Lounge Featuring Noël Quintana (Trust Arts Education Center, 6:30 – 8 p.m. and 9 – 10:30 p.m.) The entertainment and attractions lined up for First Night are amazing: a parade, singers, art exhibits, Laurel and Hardy shorts, O’Ryan the O’Mazing Juggling and Stiltwalking, children’s activities, caricature artists, and magicians. Oh, and of course, fireworks! And there’s even an ice maze to weave your way through.. The revelry starts at 6 p.m. and goes until midnight.

Soul/R&B/hip hop performer INEZ is the musical headliner for First Night 2023. (Photo: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)

Art on the march in the Cultural District: Giant people-puppets from Studio Capezzuti highlight the First Night Parade.

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