First Night® Flathead venues are stores and businesses that host the artistic performances throughout New Year’s Eve. Their participation is the key to success of First Night. They are staffed by their regular employees who sell their products and services during the evening to audience members.
   Our venues are served by FNF Volunteers at the door verifying that the incoming audience has admission buttons and selling buttons to those who wish them, assisting the business staffs in monitoring the audience for full house capacity, and are thoroughly versed in all emergency response procedures. First Night Flathead has never had any crowd problems, emergency events or arrests, or a single downtown DUI infraction in its 12-year history.