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In a few weeks, we’ll all be able to yell “Happy New Year’s” and welcome 2018. Helping us bring in the New Year on the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest will be Portugal. The Man, Shawn Mendes, Khalid, Kelly Clarkson and Fitz and the Tantrums.

The countdown will have a regional appeal, as Walk the Moon and Imagine Dragons will be live from New Orleans, counting down to the new year in the central time zone as part of the central time zone countdown celebration.

The late Dick Clark began the countdown on NBC in 1972 and carried courageously on air after a stroke impaired his speech a few years before he eventually retired from the annual event. The celebration begins December 31 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.


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