Columbia’s “Famously Hot New Year” Will Not Return

After a decade of hosting South Carolina’s largest, free New Year’s Eve party in downtown Columbia, Famously Hot New Year’s (FHNY) board of directors announces the event will not return in 2022.

“It’s hard to see FHNY come to an end,” said Sam Johnson, president of the Famously Hot New Year board of directors. “For the past 10 years, we have looked forward to bringing visitors from outside of the Midlands together with locals to showcase all that the City of Columbia, Richland County, and the region have to offer. After nine years of hosting phenomenal live, in-person events with national acts including George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, The Wallflowers, Kool & the Gang, The O’Jays, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave, Sister Hazel, Elle King, En Vogue, and Salt-N-Pepa, as well as a virtual event in 2020 featuring Arrested Development and Hootie & the Blowfish, and playing it ‘famously safe’ by forgoing the event in 2021 due to COVID-19, we encourage visitors and locals alike to create new traditions around the holiday that include enjoying all that our vibrant region has to offer.”

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