Look back of 2021 New Year’s Eve Celebrations, Paris, France

New Year’s Eve and the first day of the new year are exceptional moments, and Paris is always full of ideas to celebrate the New Year. New Year’s Eve is an opportunity for everyone to celebrate the arrival of the new year, usually with family or friends. Spend a magical New Year’s Eve in the most beautiful city in the world. To celebrate the New Year in Paris, the choice is wide as it should be, all kind of luxurious, musical, theatrical, festive New Year’s Eve were offered..

From fireworks at midnight to partying with locals on the streets, the New Year’s Eve in Paris is a memorable experience. You can enjoy a dinner cruise on the Seine River, watch a cabaret show, enjoy the light show at Eiffel Tower, and do a lot more to make this New Year’s celebration unforgettable. But the year 2021, none of these traditional celebrations can be held.

When we look back to this special year, New Year’s celebrations for 2020-21 in Paris was not the same as in other years. There was an 8 p.m. curfew in place throughout the country, which was in effect on December 31, 2020. Many festivities have been cancelled due to the entertainment venues and bars had to closed. No dinner at the restaurant, no outdoor shows and even fewer club evenings to celebrate the transition to 2021. The citizens of Paris have to stay at home, but they are not alone, because there are some unique new forms of Celebrations.

Paris has not lost its lively atmosphere. It was this unique year that Paris used enough imagination to host a number of special New Year’s Eve celebrations and concerts, exciting fireworks display, beautiful singing and dancing, wonderful performances, culinary excellence, the trendy shows of the moment, or a festive atmosphere. Parisians have held a number of simultaneous online and offline celebration parties and concerts to celebrate the arrival of the New Year with millions of spectators while not violating the restriction on gatherings. Thanks to advances in technology, these ideas can still be watch back and admire now and in the future.

A few musical events have been sure to hold, such as the virtual concert by Jean-Michel Jarre or “La grande soiree du 31 at Versailles”. To be continued on France 2, on New Year’s Eve, this evening will take place from the sumptuous Palace of Versailles and has some beautiful musical surprises in store for you. From Versailles. The icing on the cake, a fireworks display from the castle is planned to celebrate the transition to the new year.

Jean-Michel Jarre performed live from Studio Gabriel near the cathedral in Paris, while his avatar played inside a virtual Notre-Dame. The 50-minute concert, featuring tracks from Jarre’s most recent album Electronica, as well as new reworked versions of his classics, Oxygène and Equinoxe – gave the world a virtual inside look at the legendary landmark in a futuristic and festive way.

After raising $1.5 million (USD) for charities and amassing over 50 million views in Miami and New York, “United At Home” continues from the iconic city of Paris with a phenomenal production in front of the Louvre museum’ glass pyramid. In an effort to unite people around the globe, David Guetta is inviting everyone to join him in celebrating NYE and spreading the holidays spirit to benefit UNICEF, Les Restos du Coeur and the Musée du Louvre.

Palace of Versailles – The Great Evening
The Palace of Versailles has decided to open its doors for a popular and festive New Year’s Eve, hosted by Stéphane Bern accompanied by many artists, singers, musicians, comedians, acrobats, jugglers. This evening event will celebrate hope, art and culture. Forty artists responded present.

To close this very special year 2020, a popular and festive New Year’s Eve evening at the Palace of Versailles, one of the favorite monuments of the French, listed as a World Heritage Site. For the occasion, Stéphane Bern will be accompanied by many artists, singers, musicians, comedians, acrobats, jugglers…

A great unique moment of sharing and celebration and a tribute to our everyday heroes, who have mobilized so much throughout throughout the year to come to the aid of the French and accompany them. In order to give an even more symbolic character to this evening, the transition to the year 2021 will be marked by an exceptional fireworks display offered to the French and European public.

Guests: Amir, Hugues Aufray, Chimène Badi, Bénabar, Amel Bent, Boulevard des Airs, Dany Brillant, Patrick Bruel, Claudio Capéo, Gautier Capuçon, Collectif Métissé, Dadju, Dave, Imen Es, Faudel, Patrick Fiori, Gims, Kendji Girac, Bilal Hassani, Hatik, Camélia Jordana, Khaled, Les Frangines, Ibrahim Maalouf, Mika, Emmanuel Moire, Pascal Obispo, the Royal Opera Orchestra, Florent Pagny, Catherine Ringer, Olivia Ruiz, Slimane, Keen V, Valentina, Vianney, Vitaa, Laurent Voulzy, Julie Zenatti, the Moulin-Rouge and Paradis Latin troupes, the Bouglione and Gruss winter circuses…

Notre-Dame de Paris – Welcome to the Other Side
Jean-Michel Jarre took fans into the New Year 2021 with a live-stream trailblazing concert-spectacular set in the virtual environment of the planetary landmark Notre-Dame de Paris. The live show combined life-like concert visuals in VR with a real live studio performance. The groundbreaking production left many viewers wondering which parts were real, and which were virtual.

Jarre’s virtual concert-spectacular invites us all to ring-in the New Year together and social virtual reality gives the possibility to party together, wherever we are, including all who are socially or geographically isolated. With “Welcome To The Other Side” Jean-Michel Jarre once again manages the equally perfect combination of a live performance and an extraordinary virtual show. Jarre’s spectacular New Year’s Eve concert “Welcome To The Other Side”, which he gave in front of a record-breaking 75 million viewers in the virtual backdrop of Notre-Dame de Paris.

In partnership with the City of Paris, and under the patronage of UNESCO, Electronic Music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre teams with French VR start-up VRrOOm to take us into the New Year with a Live-stream trailblazing concert-spectacular set in the virtual environment of the planetary landmark, Notre-Dame de Paris. The unique visual world created by Jarre in VR will also be in the official midnight party from the City of Paris.

“Welcome to the Other Side” is a one-off exclusive, worldwide and open-to-all, free concert experience whose ambition, beyond celebrating the New Year in a futuristic and festive way, is to send a message of hope for 2021: a digital and virtual invitation from Paris, the City of Light, vibrant metropole of the Arts and of Culture and home to the most famous cathedral in the world. Notre-Dame has a unique place in the collective imagination, it is a symbol of the strength and of World Heritage that binds us together.

Louvre – United At Home
David Guetta host a massive “United At Home” charity stream on New Year’s Eve 2020 in Paris. The superstar French record producer David Guetta boosted his achievement to a whole another level. The artist was crowned the title of world’s number 1 DJ, thanks to his breathtaking live streams and his game-changing contribution to the rise of future rave as a genre.

The barnstorming dance music superstar raised a whopping $1.5 million with his first two “United At Home” streams, which went down in Miami and New York, respectively. 50 million global viewers tuned in to watch him break the Guinness World Record for the most-watched DJ set on Facebook.

“United At Home” continues from the iconic city of Paris with a phenomenal production in front of the Louvre museum’ glass pyramid. In an effort to unite people around the globe, David Guetta is inviting everyone to join him in celebrating NYE and spreading the holiday spirit to benefit UNICEF, Les Restos du Coeur and the Musée du Louvre.

The Paris edition of the event series will benefit UNICEF and Restos du Cœur, a major French charity organization that distributes food packages and hot meals to those in need. To bring the event to life, Guetta teamed up with PS5 and Xiaomi.