TOBEHONEST takes New Year's Eve at Celine Orlando

The Los Angeles tech-house DJ will be behind the decks when 2026 runs out, with Caleb Dent on the bill and tickets from $22.

Every year Orlando's New Year's Eve question comes down to the same thing: where are you when the clock hits zero? For house heads, there is now a clear answer. TOBEHONEST has been announced for Celine Orlando on Thursday, Dec. 31, with Caleb Dent also on the bill.

The night is listed for a 10 p.m. start, so this is a proper late one, built to carry straight through midnight and out the other side. Tickets run $22 to $37 through Eventbrite. The booking went public on Nov. 3, which leaves about seven weeks for the cheaper tiers to disappear, and on New Year's Eve they tend to go first.

TOBEHONEST is a DJ and producer working in house and tech house. In a Gray Area interview he is described as an artist who blends Latin grooves with European house, and that is the short pitch for why he works on a dancefloor: the drums swing, the low end is built for a big system, and the tracks are made to be mixed long. Booking platform Discotech calls him one of the most exciting names in the new wave of tech house, and Dance Music NW titled its interview with him around the idea that he is just getting started.

The catalog backs that up. His take on "Hey Ya" got a write-up at EDMTunes in early 2025, and his collaboration with Biscits, "I Am The One," was picked apart as a bass-house deep dive by Audiojacked. He also turned up on the 2026 lineup for Groove Cruise, the long-running floating dance-music festival, which is a decent sign of how promoters see him: someone who can hold a crowd that has been dancing for days.

New Year's Eve is the one night a DJ's whole job is to make one moment feel enormous.

That is the real test of a countdown set. Plenty of selectors can play a good two hours; fewer can build toward midnight so the drop lands at exactly the right moment and the room still has somewhere to go afterward. A producer whose sound leans on groove rather than pure peak-time pressure is a smart pick for that, because the set has to breathe on either side of the countdown.

Celine Orlando gives the night a club footing rather than a ballroom-gala feel. That matters on Dec. 31, when a lot of the city's options are dressed-up parties where the music is background. This one is a ticketed DJ booking with a headliner and support, which means the sound is the point.

A few practical notes. Plan your ride home now; New Year's Eve surge pricing is not a surprise anyone enjoys. Get there early enough to catch Caleb Dent warming the room, since the opener on a night like this sets the tone for everything that follows. And if you are rounding up a group, buy together while the lower price tiers are still around.

Then go find a spot near the booth, and see 2027 in the way the dance floor always has: loud, sweaty and on the beat.

Sources: JamBase: TOBEHONEST at Celine Orlando (jambase.com); Eventbrite tickets (eventbrite.com); Gray Area: Quick Takes With TOBEHONEST (grayarea.co); Discotech: TOBEHONEST at Realm PDX (app.discotech.me); Dance Music NW interview (dancemusicnw.com); EDMTunes: TOBEHONEST - Hey Ya (edmtunes.com); Audiojacked: Biscits & TOBEHONEST - I Am The One (audiojacked.com); Groove Cruise 2026 lineup: TOBEHONEST (groovecruise.com)