NYELA: Celebration at Gloria Molina Grand Park to feature global music

LOS ANGELES - What organizers bill as the West Coast's largest free New Year's Eve event will be Tuesday evening at Gloria Molina Grand Park, with local and international artists performing global music on two stages and a seven-minute art show projected onto City Hall as the midnight approaches.

Gloria Molina Grand Park's NYELA will begin at 8 p.m. and encompass the six blocks that comprise the park.

The Countdown Stage in the park's Block 4 between Broadway and Spring Street will be hosted by Novena Carmel from KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic," who will spin music from 8-8:45 p.m. and 12:02-12:30 a.m.

The hip-hop band Weapons of Mass Creation will perform from 8:45-9:35 p.m. followed by Puerto Rican producer and multi-instrumentalist Pachy "Pachyman" Garcia from 9:55-10:45 p.m. and the Brooklyn-based afrobeat band Antibalas from 11:05-11:55 p.m.

The Get Down Stage, on the Performance Lawn between Grand Avenue and Hill Street, will be hosted by the DJ-host-producer Midi Riperton, formerly known as Sammi G. It will have an all-female lineup of DJs spinning electronic dance music, beginning with DJ Sparkle and DJ Mak-10 from Girls Make Beats, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of female music producers, DJs and audio engineers.

The art show will highlight Los Angeles' beauty, diversity, culture and natural landscapes and seek to heighten Angelenos' "awareness of environmental green living," according to organizers.

"Light bites" and desserts will be available for purchase from more than 30 food trucks.

Alcohol is not permitted and will not be sold.

Parking will be available at the Music Center garage and the Walt Disney Concert Hall garage for $10 per vehicle.

Attendees are highly encouraged to take public transportation. Gloria Molina Grand Park is located at the Civic Center/Grand Park station on the Metro B (Red) and Metro D (Purple) lines.

Metro rides will be free from 4 a.m. Tuesday through 3 a.m. Wednesday.

There will be three specially marked entrances to Grand Park:

-- Hill and First streets;

-- Broadway and Second Street. and

-- Hill and Temple streets.

Additional information is available at grandparkla.org/nyela

Other New Year's Eve events in Los Angeles County include:

-- A fireworks and glow party at Burton Chace Park in Marina Del Rey that will include viewing of the East Coast and West Coast countdowns at 8:59 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. that will be followed by 10-minute fireworks shows; and

-- a family-friendly New Year's Eve ice skating experience with a countdown to midnight Eastern Time at Ice at Santa Monica at 1324 Fifth St.