All ages welcome and everyone is encouraged to bring a chair - and dress warmly.

There are also fireworks in Carleton Place, starting with horse drawn sleighs, family skate, bonfire and hot chocolate at 4 p.m., culminating in the big show at 6, though fun continues to 7:30 p.m., Beckwith Park, 1319 9th Line Beckwith. at the Aberdeen Pavilion and Horticulture Building. The party is free but there is a VIP option for $50, which includes a coat check, backstage passes to meet performers, cocktails and nibbles in the Milestones Lounge and a swag bag of goodies. to honour the new year beginning in Scotland. Conveniently, young’uns can be taken home early after a countdown at 7 p.m. There will be dancing to live music from the visiting and infectious American Rogues (7:30 p.m.), locals Bobby Watt and Écosse, The Start and favourite Glengarry Pipe Band. The party has something for the young (kids’ zone with storytelling and magic show) and adults (whisky tasting!), culminating in fireworks, which is when being solely inside would be a bad idea. The Scottish Society of Ottawa’s annual Hogmanay celebration is back at its new home at Lansdowne Park, and will be (mostly) indoors this year - thankfully given the oddly wet and warm weather we’ve been having.

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