HARDY, Bert Kreischer to Host ‘New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash’

Country singer-songwriter HARDY will join forces with comedian-actor Bert Kreischer to cohost New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, which will air live on Wednesday, Dec. 31, on CBSand stream on Paramount+ from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET/PT and 10:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. ET/PT.

“Celebrating New Year’s Eve in Music City is always a blast,” HARDY said in a statement. “It’s great to be back playing NASHVILLE’S BIG BASH and I’m stoked to cohost this year with one of the funniest dudes I know.”

“You hear people say, ‘I’m honored and privileged to be working with a certain group of people,’ but in this case, I am blown away that I’m allowed to work with these people. This lineup is insane,” Kreischer said in a statement. “This event, which I was a very small part of last year, is so much fun. To be working with my buddy HARDY … it feels like I should be paying CBS to do this. I can’t wait. I hope I keep my shirt on, and I promise not to drink until the stroke of midnight, unless you want me to drink earlier.”

Social media star Haley Baylee will serve as a correspondent from New York City and will count down with the East Coast at midnight for new York City’s ball drop, while HARDY and Kreischer will keep the party going strong through midnight CT, featuring Nashville’s Music Note Drop at the Bicentennial Stage.

In addition to performing, HARDY will also perform live at Bicentennial Park in Nashville, with previously announced headliners Jason Aldean, Lainey Wilson and Bailey Zimmerman, along with special guests CeCe Winans and the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The five-hour special will also be highlighted by performances from Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Riley Green, Marcus King, Megan Moroney, Zach Top, Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson and Stephen Wilson Jr., performing from various venues across the city. Other special appearances will be made by comedian Dusty Slay, Entertainment Tonight’s Cassie DiLaura, SiriusXM’s Buzz Brainard and UFC champion Kayla Harrison.

Dwight Yoakam and Marcus King will perform at Luke Combs’s Category 10, serving as the home of the official New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash watch party, with guests Cody Alan and Caylee Hammack. The watch party is free and open to fans 21 and older, with a first-come, first-serve basis, with doors opening at 6 p.m.