Community
23 December, 2024
New year fireworks in the CBD
A FREE concert and fireworks are planned for New Year’s Eve celebrations on the Cairns Esplanade.
Live music and family-friendly entertainment and fireworks will be held at three locations to ring in 2025.
Cairns Regional Council is inviting the community to bring a blanket, a chair and your dancing shoes and enjoy a free concert on the western events lawn at the Cairns Esplanade from 5pm as part of the celebrations.
The four-hour concert will feature the upbeat rhythms of DJ Chooky and DJ Bart, along with the melodic harmonies of the local Anais Campbell Trio.
Family fireworks will be held at 9pm to give the expected sell-out crowd from the Cairns Taipans home game time to make their way from the Cairns Convention Centre to the Esplanade.
A second fireworks display will be held at midnight to welcome in 2025.
Additional fireworks will be held at 8.30pm at Walker Road Sports Precinct in Edmonton and the Palm Cove jetty.
Mayor Amy Eden said New Year’s Eve was an opportunity for the community to come together, reflect on the past year, and look forward with optimism for the next 12 months.
