A HUGE crowd rang in the new year in Kerang, with a family-friendly celebration drawing people from as far as the Mornington Peninsula.

Kerang Progress Association has been running the annual December 31 event for the past 10 years, and said organising this year's event had already started.

President Angela Teasdale estimated the crowd at more than 1000.

There was live music from Jeff Tynan &am...