At Nashville’s annual “Music City Midnight” New Year Eve celebration, guests will count down the seconds and ring in 2018 – at 6 p.m.?

Don’t worry, the real countdown still happens at midnight, during a performance from headliner Keith Urban. But this year, the city’s holding an additional early celebration at 6 – because that’s when the clock strikes midnight in the United Kingdom.

British Airways is presenting the ceremony to celebrate its new direct flights from Nashville to London, beginning May 4, 2018.

British-born rocker (and Nashville resident) Peter Frampton will join Mayor Megan Barry onstage for the raising of the city’s “Music Note” – Nashville’s answer to the Times Square “ball” – and the countdown to the London new year.

This year’s show will also open with a performance from the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who established Nashville and England’s musical connection back in 1873 when the group performed for Queen Victoria.

The airline has also partnered with the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp to host a “pop-up” English pub at the New Year’s Eve event, located at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park.

The free concert includes performers Urban, Maren Morris, Cheap Trick, Carly Pearce, Jonny P, Larkin Poe and the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Learn more at www.visitmusiccity.com/newyearseve