New Year’s Eve 2023 In Leesburg: Black Light Yoga, Masquerade Dinner

LEESBURG, VA — New Year's Eve is coming, and Loudoun County will have plenty of celebrations to welcome 2024.

From five courses meals to masquerade balls and ball drops, there's something for everyone this New Year's Eve. Here are a few of the events planned around the region:

• New Year's Eve Celebration
  • Lansdowne Resort
  • Starts at 5 p.m.
• Family Friendly Noon Year's Eve
  • Hal and Bernsi Hanson Regional Park
  • Starts at 12 p.m.
• British Themed New Year's Eve Party
  • Vanish Farmwoods Brewery
  • Starts at 7 p.m.
• Masquerade Dinner with Dueling Pianos
  • Rai's Rendezvous
  • Starts at 6 p.m.
• New Year's Eve Black Light Sculpt
  • YogaSix Ashburn
  • Starts at 4:30 p.m.
• Noon Year's Eve Countdown
  • Monkey Joe's
  • Starts at 10 a.m.
• Anchor Bar New Year's Eve Party
  • Anchor Bar
  • Starts at 8:30 p.m.

The end of one year and beginning of another is often celebrated with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” a Scottish folk song whose title roughly translates to “days gone by,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica and History.com.

The history of New Year’s resolutions dates back 8,000 years to ancient Babylonians, who would make promises to return borrowed objects and pay outstanding debts at the beginning of the new year, in mid-March when they planted their crops.

According to legend, if they kept their word, pagan gods would grant them favor in the coming year. If they broke the promise, they would fall out of God’s favor, according to a history of New Year’s resolutions compiled by North Hampton Community College New Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Many secular New Year’s resolutions focus on imagining new, improved versions of ourselves.

The failure rate of New Year’s resolutions is about 80 percent, according to U.S. News & World Report. There are myriad reasons, but a big one is they’re made out of remorse — for gaining weight, for example — and aren’t accompanied by a shift in attitude and a plan to meet the stress and discomfort of changing a habit or condition.