Mobile New Year's Celebration Schedule

The City of Mobile Alabama Rings In The New Year With A New Feature - The Moon Pie

Tasha Lang, the reigning 2008 queen of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association, will serve as the mistress of ceremony for the City of Mobile New Year’s Eve celebration featuring the world’s largest MoonPie. The event will usher in the city’s Carnival season.

The event will be held in Cooper Riverside Park, beginning at 8:00 p.m. with a star-stunned lineup headlined by New Orleans jazz singer Charmaine Neville.

Timeline Schedule

“New Year’s Eve Celebration”

December 31, 2008

Time Group Location

8:00–8:20 p.m. The Dance Center Amphitheatre

8:20–8:40 p.m. Bishop State Community College Choir Park Stage

8:40-9:00 p.m. Melinda Leigh School of Dance Amphitheatre

9:00-9:20 p.m. Mobile Opera Park Stage

9:30-9:50 p.m. Murphy High School “Elements of Difference” Park Stage

9:50 p.m. Procession Begins At Fort Conde Village

1. Excelsior Band

2. Elected Officials

3. City of Mobile James Seals Band

4. Mobile Azalea Trail Maids

5. City of Mobile Thomas Sullivan Band

6. Antique Fire Truck

10:05 p.m. Procession Arrives at South Plaza

10:10 p.m. Speeches From Councilman Richardson/Chattanooga Bakery (55-lb

edible moonpie unveiled)

10:15 p.m. Headliner: Charmaine Neville Park Stage

11:55 p.m. “5” Minutes Until New Year

11:59 p.m. New Year Countdown

12:00 a.m. Electronic Moon Pie Raised

12:15-12:30 a.m. Headliner Concludes

The city has partnered with the Chattanooga Bakery Inc., the maker of the iconic MoonPie brand marshmallow sandwich, to enhance the New Year Eve's celebration with a 500-lb electronic moonpie that will light up Mobile's skyline at the stroke of midnight. Prior to midnight, officials from the Chattanoga Bakery, will serve up an edible 50-lb chocolate moonpie, dubbed the world's largest.

In addition to the 60-lb edible moonpie, the bakery will also hand out 5,000 of the tasty treats to New Year Eve's revelers.

Ingredients Of The World's Largest Edible Moonpie

* Six pounds of chocolate icing;

* Fourteen pounds of marshmallow;

* Nearly four feet in diameter;

Materials For The Electronic Moonpie

* 700-1000 LED golf ball-size lights;