RiverFest isn’t coming back in 2019. The festival organizers announced today that that the event will not be held this year. It was slated to be held at Julius Breckling Riverfront Park on the Arkansas River. However, the organizers plan…
Riverfest
RiverFest is a long running arts and music festival in downtown Little Rock. Originally founded in 1978 by Junior League of Little Rock, it has played a key role in developing and growing Little Rock’s downtown area. The announcement that…
Riverfest is back, and it’s bringing a lineup of nationally known and local artists to downtown Little Rock during Memorial Day weekend. Young the Giant, Young Thug, Kip Moore, Jamey Johnson, Highly Suspect, LANY, Margo Price, Echosmith, Steel Union and…
Riverfest officials announced at a Monday news conference that Riverfest, the long-running Little Rock music festival, would return in 2018. After the festival celebrated its 40th anniversary in June 2017, the event was suspended. Universal Fairs, a production and promotion…
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Verizon Arena Keeps Rocking as Fulcrum Festival Prepares for Debut
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaRumors of live music’s death in central Arkansas have been greatly exaggerated. According to executive management, Verizon Arena will close 2018 having hosted 20 concerts, the “magic number” in the words of Michael Marion, longtime general manager. And while that’s…
Little Rock’s annual music festival, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in June, has been suspended, our sister publication AY Magazine reports. “We can no longer deliver the experience that Riverfest fans have come to expect,” DeAnna Korte, Riverfest’s executive director,…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK 4 News) – The 39th annual Riverfest celebration will take on a new, expanded format with “Springfest” offered free on Saturday, April 2, and the traditional Riverfest music experience, minus the family activities, presented Friday through…