Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 In Leesburg

LEESBURG, VA — New Year's Eve is coming. For those looking to celebrate the new year, there are a variety of events and parties scheduled around the Leesburg area.

Notable events include an 80s themed party, live music, and a grounding yoga event.

Here are some of the New Year's Eve events scheduled throughout Leesburg:

• The Reagan Years New Years Eve Party at Tally Ho Theater
  • The party begins at 8 p.m.
• New Year's Eve Dance Party at Vanish Farmwoods Brewery
  • The festivities begin at 5 p.m.
• New Year's Alcothon at Loudoun Club 12
  • The free event begins at 9 p.m.
• New Year's Eve Bash at Delirium Cafe
  • Festivities begin at 4 p.m.

In the United States, one of the most popular New Year’s Eve traditions is, of course, the dropping of the giant ball in New York City’s Times Square. Various cities have adopted their own iterations of the event — the Peach Drop in Atlanta, the Chick Drop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the giant Potato Drop in Boise, Idaho.

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.