Ring In New Year In Style Aboard USS Hornet

ALAMEDA, CA – If your New Year's Eve dance card is empty, consider this bash to welcome in 2019: the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum's New Year’s Eve Big Band Dance Gala.

Held aboard the ship museum on Monday, Dec. 31 from 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., the fundraising gala benefits the museum’s education department and will feature three dance floors on the ship’s enclosed, heated hangar deck, plus free dance lessons by Jim Truesdale, a former Fred Astaire instructor.

Performing for the evening will be 3 O’Clock Jump Big Band, an 18-piece band specializing in such Swing Era standards as In The Mood, Moonlight Serenade, Route 66, Tuxedo Junction, Pennsylvania 6-500, 1 O’Clock Jump, 2 O’Clock Jump and more, and the The Swingin’ Blue Stars, best known for their vocal renditions in three-part harmony of WWII-era songs, especially those made famous by such groups as The Andrews Sisters and McGuire Sisters.

Count down to midnight with the band on the ship’s Flight Deck with full view of San Francisco fireworks.

Also planned are a silent auction and no-host bar and food concessions. Parking is free, and tickets range from $60 to $99. For more information, click here.

ALSO GOING ON NEARBY:

• 'Winter Walk' Holiday Promenade 2018: Union Square, San Francisco
• Duettos New Year's Eve with Arts Foundation 2018: Castro Valley
• Conservatory Of Flowers' 'Night Bloom': San Francisco
• New Year’s Eve 'Beach Blanket Babylon' 2018: San Francisco
• Holiday Ice-Skating Rink 2018-19: Oakland

--Image courtesy of USS Hornet