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No countdown. No bands. No fireworks.
For the first time in more than 20 years, London’s Victoria Park will be dark and silent on New Year’s Eve, the yearly free festivities another casualty of the pandemic.
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Londoners are used to heading to the downtown park to ring in the new year with a free concert at the bandshell, but that won’t happen this Thursday.
The traditional lineup of local bands, plus a CanCon favourite such as Honeymoon Suite, usually attracts tens of thousands of people to the core. Since Ontario entered a provincewide lockdown on Boxing Day, that many people crowding into Victoria Park isn’t allowed because of distancing protocols.