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930 Blues Café’s New Year’s Eve Bash featuring Rick Lawson, “The Baby of the Blues.” Call 601-948-3344 for more info.

BRAVO! will offer a prix fixe menu with seatings at 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. $65 per person for early seating, $85 per person for late seating. The late seating includes champagne and indoor fireworks. Music by the Greg Robinson Trio. Call 601-982-8111 for reservations.

Club Mardi Gras opens its doors at 9 p.m. for a new year’s extravaganza that will include free food, free champagne and a cash balloon drop. Must be 21 to enter. The first 50 ladies are free.

Dick & Jane’s Club is hosting their second annual Masquerade Ball. Minimum age 18, with a $20 cover charge. $15 for 21 years and older. Call 601-944-0123.

Fenian’s Pub offers a New Year’s Eve party with karaoke and no cover charge. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Free champagne at midnight. Call 601-948-0055.

A Venetian Masquerade New Year’s Eve fund-raising gala will be held at the Mississippi Museum of Art; $100 covers dinner, dancing, cocktails, champagne and fireworks. The party starts at 8 p.m. Call 601-960-1515.

Ro Chez will serve one of their exciting new menus during 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. seatings. Call 601-503-8244 for reservations.

Schimmel’s will offer an early seating at 5:30 p.m. with the regular menu and a late seating at 8:30 p.m. with a special New Year’s menu for $95 per person. The late seating includes music by Willie King and his electric blues band. Complimentary champagne. Call 601-981-7077 for reservations.

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