Fresh off their triumphant three-night stand at Indio, California’s FESTIVAL 8, the reunited Phish have announced plans to play their first New Year’s Eve concert since 2003 when they take over Miami’s American Airlines Arena for a four-night residency December 28th thru the 31st.The New Year’s Eve show will be a three-set extravaganza at the same Miami arena where Phish and their Phans last rung in the New Year together six years ago. Phish also celebrated the dawn of the new millennium in the Sunshine State with a festival in Big Cypress, Florida on December 30th and 31st, 1999.
While Phish had a stint in the '90s as the de facto Madison Square Garden house band for New Year's, they began to favor Southern Florida in the 2000s, beginning with the largest "new millennium" concert in the world on December 31, 1999. Phish famously played one long eight-hour set from midnight until dawn on New Year's Day in an open field at the Big Cypress Indian Reservation in the Everglades along Florida's Alligator Alley. The band has often claimed that night as being the pinnacle of their career.
Phish will be at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida... December 28, 29, 30 & 31, 2009.
