SIRIUS Satellite Radio will ring in 2006 with broadcasts of exclusive performances New Year's Eve by Jimmy Buffett, G. Love & Special Sauce, Patti Smith & Her Band, Sheryl Crow, and of course... Elvis Presley.
Check out full concert details after the jump...
SIRIUS will broadcast a rare intimate concert (recorded last week at Belly Up in Aspen, Colorado) with Jimmy Buffett on Radio Margaritaville (SIRIUS channel 31) on New Year's Eve at 9:30pm ET. Jimmy took the stage as his alter ego, Freddy and the Fishsticks, the moniker Buffett uses for his special under-the-radar performances and recordings.
For the second year in a row, SIRIUS will broadcast Patti Smith live on New Year's Eve from NYC's Bowery Ballroom. Patti Smith and Her Band will begin their live concert at 10pm ET on SIRIUS Disorder (channel 24) New Year's Eve.
Blues-rock artist G. Love & Special Sauce will broadcast a live performance for your New Year's celebration starting at 10:30 pm Mountain Time, January 1st, on The Spectrum (channel 18). G. Love and his band, Special Sauce, will take the stage at The Belly Up in the upscale party mecca of Aspen, Colorado.
Sheryl Crow's concert, recorded at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC, features songs from her Grammy nominated album "Wildflower", and will air on The Pulse (SIRIUS channel 9) starting at 10pm ET on New Year's Eve.
And, don't miss out on this one kids, because who can forget Elvis live, in concert. If you weren't alive or sober enough to remember, go ahead and celebrate the ringing in of 2006 as Elvis Radio (SIRIUS channel 13) will present non-stop Elvis Live In Concert tracks and performances starting New Year's Eve at 7pm ET.
Old-school MTV Veejays turn SIRIUS Hosts Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn will also ring in the New Year on The Big 80s (SIRIUS channel 8) with a special countdown to midnight in each time zone, a feat they first made famous on MTV.
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