Despite a chilly night, thousands of revellers packed Nathan Phillips Square Monday night into Tuesday morning, ringing in a brand new year.
The party featured live music from some top Canadian artists, including Kardinal Offishall, Shawn Desman, Jully Black and The Canadian Tenors.
One woman who spoke to 680News said she was saying goodbye to a very good year.
“I had a great 2012, I graduated college which was great, and now I’m working at a great job and I’m really looking forward to a good 2013,” she said.
Toronto-native Kardinal Offishall, who has performed at the bash several times, got the crowd pumped up with his high-energy performance.
Ontario pop star Shawn Desman joined him with a strong performance, along with Toronto-native Jully Black.
Also performing were the Canadian Tenors and Bridgit Mendler.
The free outdoor concert was hosted by Citytv personalities Gord Martineau, Kevin Frankish, Dina Pugliese and Tracy Moore, and was simultaneously broadcast on Citytv.
The annual bash at Nathan Phillips Square is one of the longest running, largest and most popular New Year’s Eve parties in Canada.
This year marked the 28th year for the bash.
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Hey that’s me with the gold top hat. Thanks to CityTV and 680 for a great party. VIP pit was sic. Great meeting Shawn Desman. My wife’s face was “electric” The people complaining must have been in the large crowd behind us. It was GREAT! Thanks Rudy Blair, a very gracious reporter.
There are a lot of complaints… but what do you expect?
When the performers were on it was super fun!
And commercial breaks are 2 minutes.. so who cares
I had a blast! I was front row.. and stood there since 4 in the afternoon… we didn’t expect to get good spots going even that time!
I have been to the one in new york.. and this one was way better.. although the performers may not be as famous as the ones in NYC. In new york your gated off into sections and are not allowed to leave, this means no bathroom and we stood there since 11am before. Also, NYC is set up mostly for the tv audience because people who are there can’t even see the performers because the stage is raised so much.
This one was like a concert!!!! I thought it was conducted fairly well.
The only thing that suck was music was not put on until 9pm so for 5 hours of waiting we we’re all just standing there!
It was great fun! Planning to go again next year!
Very poor show. Crowd was treated as only props for the TV audience. Even at commercial breaks, no music or entertainment was going on for those attending. No excitement in crowd, just were waiting for the fireworks. Won’t repeat next year.
was there and I was disappointed,we left early,sorry.
The show c+. The people on stage were mailing it in. It seemed they wanted to be elsewhere. Maybe 680 should “balance” it coverage to show other events not being run by the Rogers minions. When you only cover yourself rogers this becomes advertisement not news
I am going!