The Downtown Countdown schedule of events

Following is the lineup of Downtown Countdown events leading up to the annual midnight ball drop at West Market Square. Events are listed by venue:

. Bangor Opera House – 4 p.m., “The Iron Giant”; 7 p.m., live folk music with Generations; 8 p.m., “A Looney Tune New Year!”; 8:30 p.m., Generations; 9:30 p.m., “A Looney Tune New Year!”; 10 p.m., Generations; 11 p.m., “A Looney Tune New Year!”

. Unitarian Universalist Church – 5:30-7 p.m., spaghetti dinner ($8 adults, $5 kids, $20 family of four); 7:30-8 p.m., contradance instruction; 8-11:30 p.m., contradance featuring Ladies of the Lake.

. Bangor City Hall – Bangor Center Corp. presents: 6 p.m., John Bapst Chamber Chorale; 7:15 p.m., Maximum Blue (Max and Jeff Silverstein); 8:30 p.m., Elizabeth Ellis, traditional Irish fiddling; 9:30 p.m., In Other Words, jazz, blues, pop and folk.

. Bangor Public Library – 6-10 p.m., 125th birthday celebration and costume party; 6:30-8:30 p.m., RetroRockerz; 6:30-9 p.m., dance lessons with Robinson Ballet; 9:30-10:30 p.m., RetroRockerz.

. Hammond Street Senior Center – 8-11:30 p.m., 1940s and 1950s live piano music with Betty Severance, dancing, games for all ages.

. Bagel Central – 7-11:30 p.m., live blues and rock with Ragged Moon.

. Union Street Brick Church – 7-8:30 p.m., WKIT, funk and rock music, dancing; 8:30-11:30 p.m., live music with Big Time.

. Lippincott Books – 10-11 p.m., hot cider and poetry readings featuring Bruce Pratt and Anne Britting Oleson.

. The Maine Edge tailgate party, 21 Main St.

. Columbia Street Baptist Church – 8 p.m., food and games for children by New Life Ministries; 10 p.m., video about outer space followed by live Christian rock with Nealleys Corner.

. Hammond Street Congregational Church – 6-9 p.m., fun and games for children; 7-8 p.m., dance lessons for children.

. Maine Discovery Museum – 4-5:45 p.m., making hats and noisemakers; 6 p.m., early New Year’s kid-style “count up” and museum parade, Fairmount Park Band featuring the Picone family (free admission after 3 p.m.)

. Briar Patch – 6:30-11:30 p.m., board games for ages 8 and up.

. Bangor Symphony Orchestra instrument “petting zoo” and other children’s activities at BSO office at 51A Main St.