Edmonton New Year Eve Celebrations 2025

Join CBC Edmonton in Churchill Square Countdown 2025. It’s going to be a celebration that brings together Canadians from coast to coast to coast with familiar faces and a few surprise guests.

This year’s New Year’s Eve celebration will include an early fireworks show at 8 pm for families as well as a traditional midnight fireworks display. The fireworks show which will be approximately 10 minutes in length will be launched into the skies over the pyramids of City Hall.

Enjoy an evening of free activities and entertainment including live music cultural performances fire twirlers skating food trucks fire pits and more. Explore the beautiful art installations created by the Winter City Festival Group to celebrate and promote Edmonton’s winter festivals. 

Emcee Kevin Flesher will kick things off with some great beats followed by performances by Next Stop Otago! Sauvage Plain Selfish Bodies and Rule of Nines and exciting fire performances by Flowarrior.

Bring your skates and get your groove on as you take a spin around on the City Hall Plaza ice rink*. Free skate rentals and skate aids will be available on a first-come first-served basis and the skate change room will be open from 6 pm to midnight. (*Weather and ice conditions permitting.) Warm up in one of three Warming Domes. 

Purchase a warm meal or snacks from a variety of on-site food trucks including Spaghetti Cone Food Truck Big Waynes Mini Treats Canadian Kettle Corn Flipside BBQ Soner Donair and Canadian Maple Shack which will give the first 1000 people a free maple stick!

Join Mayor Amarjeet Sohi in the countdown to the fireworks at midnight.

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