The first public concert will be held at the
Cincinnati Riverfront Park (CRP) Schmidlapp Event Lawn on Thursday, May 26. The Riverfront Fusion event will follow the Women’s Committee of Cincinnati Riverfront Park fifth annual ‘Hats Off’ Luncheon which will also be held on the event lawn.
Riverfront Fusion will run from 5:30pm to 9pm and include four live bands from the Cincinnati region, and feature a variety of musical styles including Jazz, R&B, Rock and Salsa. Event organizers say Riverfront Fusion will be the first of many similar cultural events for which the CRP was designed to feature.
“The impact of this park to drive tourism, business, real estate values and regional health cannot be understated,” Debbie Oliver and Helen Heekin, co-founders of the
Women’s Committee, said in a prepared release. “As more features in the park are completed over the next months, it will be clear that this park will become our city’s new front door.”
Organizers say that food and drink will be available for purchase from
Montgomery Inn, and that music will be provided by Acapulco, Groove Doctor, Triage and Second Wind.
Cincinnati Parks will oversee the planning, development and building of the park and subsequently sustain the Park as an enduring riverfront destination landmark. Construction of this destination park, located adjacent to The Banks development, is moving forward collaboratively but independently from the Banks project. The park will extend from the east at Great American Ballpark to Paul Brown Stadium—flanking the city’s beloved Roebling Suspension Bridge.
