China Cats New Year's Eve Ball (Liquid Lights, Balloon Drop at Midnight)

Name: China Cats New Year's Eve Ball (Liquid Lights, Balloon Drop at Midnight)
Start: 2025-12-31T21:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
Location: The Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building

Schedule

Wed, 31 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm to Thu, 01 Jan, 2026 at 12:00 am

UTC-08:00

Location

The Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building | Santa Cruz, CA

Ring in the New Year 2026 with the China Cats New Year's Eve Ball at the Santa Cruz Veterans Hall on Wednesday, December 31, 2025! 🍾🥂💃
Doors 8:00 pm | Show 9:00 pm
$45 Advance | $50 Door
Tickets: mountainmusicproductions.com
Grateful Dead tribute and jam band goodness for all ages! Psychedelic liquid light show from Mad Alchemy, full NYE countdown and balloon drop from the rafters of the gorgeously restored 1930s era Chris Matthews Ballroom.
Dress to the Nines! Champaign, Shakedown Street vendor market, and a fully decked out evening of dancing and merrymaking. New Years Eve 2025 poster art by Lisa Sofranko! T-shirts and posters available for purchase!
The China Cats are the Bay area’s premiere Grateful Dead Tribute band, performing with the same lineup of players for more than 14 years. Over 200 songs from the Grateful Dead vaults and a collection of groovy jams from your favorite artists from the day.
"One of the premier tribute bands in Northern California. The group has spent years infusing the classic sensibilities of the Dead's catalog with their own flair and energy" - Good Times, Santa Cruz
"The China Cats aren’t a cover band," says Nicholas Meriwether, archivist of the Grateful Dead collection at UC Santa Cruz. "They approach the Dead’s work with the same kind of reverence and sophistication that the Dead themselves showed in their own forays into American roots music. “When you listen to the Cats," Meriweather adds, "old favorites take on new lives, revealing facets that will delight and amaze even jaded listeners. These guys aren’t copycats — their sets demonstrate how the Dead’s music now is a part of the great American songbook, alongside the giants who first inspired the Dead."
Artist sights and sounds: www.thechinacats.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thechinacats
Amazing poster by Lisa Sofranko! 🎨🖌️
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