Nashville’s New Year Jam

Nashville’s annual New Year’s Eve guitar drop, similar to the New York City midnight ball drop, turned into a big jam to ring in 2011 instead.

The 100-foot guitar drop stalled about 10 feet from the downtown stage but, as it tends to do, time marched on with the the clock striking 12 to fireworks and celebrations for the 25,000 attending the bash.

Attendance more than doubled last year’s 12,000 and surpassed the 20,000 expected.

Heather Middleton of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau, which sponsored the party, told the Tennessean that the jam didn’t hamper the party.

Julien Salley of the Hard Rock Café in Nashville, which sponsored the countdown, planned to check with the company that set up the scaffold and track to see what caused the problem.

Salley and Middleton said the guitar’s stopping short won’t end plans to carry on with the New Year’s Eve bash and guitar drop next year.