PEORIA, Ill. – For the second year in a row, the Peoria Riverfront will be host to a family-friendly three-day event.
Park-A-Palooza from the Peoria Park District will take place from June 6-8 on the riverfront.
Park District Executive Director Emily Cahill says around 12,000 to 15,000 people attended the three-day event last year, and says it generated a good amount of attention for Peoria.
“The conversations that people have around these kinds of events are something that we always love to be a part of. It changes people’s perspective, it changes their attitudes, and it was a really good shot in the arm for Peoria,” Cahill said.
This year’s Park-A-Palooza features a concert on June 6th with Joe Nichols with The Stone Cold Cowboys, and Everclear with Cole Hollow on June 7th. New activities this year include a mobile ninja course and a soda tasting experience on June 8th with more than 75 different flavors. June 8th will also feature the return of a 300-light drone show.
State grant money is helping fund the festival. State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth (D-Peoria) says Park-A-Palooza is something that can bring a big city experience to central Illinois.
“It gives people who live here the opportunity to get excited about things that are fresh and new, things that often times they would only be able to see in some of your larger, metropolitan cities, like a Chicago or some of the larger suburbs,” Gordon-Booth said.
Cahill is estimating the festival to have an economic impact of around $500,000.
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