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Peabody gets party started

Jim Harris
Arkansas Times
April 21, 2005

Those three Peabody-Little Rock Rooftop parties that proved quite popular last year will be back in weekly form through the summer starting May 6 and with a new name. They’re not really on the rooftop like they are at Memphis’ Peabody, but they are about a stone’s throw from the river (an advantage over Memphis), so the Peabody Little Rock settled on “RiverTop Party” for a name.

The names of bands scheduled to play outside on the Peabody’s second level upper terrace each Friday night will begin trickling out, with popular Memphis band Venus Mission, which makes a Little Rock club stop every so often, likely being the inaugural Friday band. The Odds, a Fayetteville-based band that won the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase earlier this year, will land somewhere on the schedule as well. Many of the scheduled bands will be playing the night before at Memphis Peabody’s Rooftop Party, which is the happening event in downtown Memphis during the summer.

The organizers also surveyed many partygoers to best decide how the RiverTop Party should operate, and when. They settled on Friday nights, giving people a chance to get home from work, change, and hit the Peabody and the local clubs in the River Market. There is a sense of working together between the Peabody and the other entertainment organizers this year. The shows won’t clash with the three Big Downtown Thursday parties in May, and the hours (from 7 p.m. to midnight) will allow overlap so revelers can visit other hotspots downtown or on the River Market.

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