Singer Jimmie Allen To Highlight Rose Parade Grand Finale

PASADENA, CA —The Pasadena Tournament of Roses announced Friday that a performance by country singer Jimmie Allen will highlight the Grand Finale of the 133rd Rose Parade on Jan. 1.

Allen will be performing his hit "Good Times Roll," from his Bettie James Gold Edition album, and he will be joined by his four-piece band, Rose Parade Dancers, the Mark Keppel Dance Company and the Rose Parade Flag Bearers, according to parade organizers.

Allen was voted New Male Artist of the Year at the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards and New Artist of the Year at the 2021 Country Music Association Awards. He is nominated for the Best New Artist at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, which will take place in January.

Allen began his career with consecutive No. 1 hits off his 2018 debut album, Mercury Lane. His debut single "Best Shot," was No. 1 on country radio for three weeks. Allen already has amassed more than 1 billion on-demand streams.

Prior to Allen's performance —as the parade's two-hour mark approaches —organizers have announced that four members of the Golden Knights, the United States Army Parachute Team, will drop from the sky and onto the street. The quartet will then do a "live football toss from the parade route to the Rose Bowl stadium."

The Golden Knights' descent will be accompanied by drummer Timothy Fletcher, who has made a name for himself on Instagram and TikTok, according to parade organizers.

The Pasadena Tournament of Roses also announced on Thursday that the parade will feature a mid-parade performance by Laine Hardy, the season 17 winner of the American Idol.

Hardy will perform "Born on the Bayou" and be joined by the Hot 8 Brass Band, the New Orleans-based group that blends hip-hop, jazz and funk styles with traditional New Orleans brass sounds.

Earlier last week, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses announced that musician LeAnn Rimes will kick off the parade with a performance of her 2020 song "Throw My Arms Around the World," which will be re-mixed and re-mastered specifically for the parade's Opening Spectacular.

The 133rd Rose Parade is scheduled to last from 8 a.m. to noon.

The five and one-half-mile parade begins at the corner of Green Street and Orange Grove Boulevard. It then travels north on Orange Grove at a leisurely two-and-a-half mile-per-hour pace before turning east onto Colorado Boulevard, where the majority of the parade viewing takes place.

Near the end of the route, the parade turns north onto Sierra Madre Boulevard and concludes at Villa Street.

At 2 p.m. on Jan. 1, the 108th Rose Bowl Game will feature No. 7 Ohio State taking on No. 1o Utah.