There’s a total of 25 teams listed as competitors in the boat races on Saturday, while festivities begin at 5 p.m. on Friday with TK Cowboy and David Rasico performing at 7 p.m.
The teams competing are:
10 Fitness: Motor Boaters
Arkansas Chinese American Association: ACAA Flying Dragon
Arkansas Community Foundation: Arkansas Community Foundation
Arkansas Department of Human Services/Division of Children and Family Services: Winging This!
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation: Coop Spirit
Arkansas Heart Hospital: Arkansas Heart Hospital
Arkansas State Police/CACD: Knot on Duty
Baldwin & Shell Construction No. 1: Hard Hat Legion No. 1
Baldwin & Shell Construction No. 2: Hard Hat Legion No. 2
BKD, LLP: Assets Afloat
Briggs Equipment: Briggs Brigade
Centers for Youth and Families: Clinical InOARvention
Cornerstone Specialty Hospital of Little Rock: Cornerstone Conquistadors
DataMax: Toner Pirates
First Security Bank: First Security Bank
Garver: Garver
Heart Hospital: Lettuce Turnip the Beet
Hospice Home Care: New Kids on the Dock
Kimberly Clark Corporation: Pandemic Pirates
Med Evolve: Oar We There Yet
Pinnacle Pointe Hospital: Pinnacle Pirates
US Bank Team No. 1: Ka Ching No. 1
US Bank Team No. 2: Ka Ching No. 2
And community teams: Boats & Rows and Row-A-Rita-Ville
Admission is free and proceeds from the team entry fees will benefit the Children’s Protection Center.
Food trucks and yard games will be available on Friday and Saturday, with a fireworks show to close out the festival at 9:10 p.m. on Friday night. Races will start at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.
For more information, click here for the festival’s website.
Schedule of events
Friday
Noon: Athlete’s Village team set up begins
4:45 p.m. Athlete’s Village closes to all vehicles
5 p.m. Team check-in begins, Team practices on the water, food trucks and yard games open
6 p.m. Children’s Area Opens
7 p.m. Music, fun from the stage
8:30 p.m. Practices finish
9:10 p.m. Fireworks Show
Saturday
7:30 a.m.: Athlete’s Village opens, all paddlers arrive, sign waivers and receive wristbands
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Here be Dragons: Festival at Lake Willastein this weekend
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The annual River Cities Dragon Boat Festival will be this Friday and Saturday at Lake Willastein in Maumelle.
The event wasn’t held last year due to the ongoing pandemic.
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There’s a total of 25 teams listed as competitors in the boat races on Saturday, while festivities begin at 5 p.m. on Friday with TK Cowboy and David Rasico performing at 7 p.m.
The teams competing are:
10 Fitness: Motor Boaters
Arkansas Chinese American Association: ACAA Flying Dragon
Arkansas Community Foundation: Arkansas Community Foundation
Arkansas Department of Human Services/Division of Children and Family Services: Winging This!
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation: Coop Spirit
Arkansas Heart Hospital: Arkansas Heart Hospital
Arkansas State Police/CACD: Knot on Duty
Baldwin & Shell Construction No. 1: Hard Hat Legion No. 1
Baldwin & Shell Construction No. 2: Hard Hat Legion No. 2
BKD, LLP: Assets Afloat
Briggs Equipment: Briggs Brigade
Centers for Youth and Families: Clinical InOARvention
Cornerstone Specialty Hospital of Little Rock: Cornerstone Conquistadors
DataMax: Toner Pirates
First Security Bank: First Security Bank
Garver: Garver
Heart Hospital: Lettuce Turnip the Beet
Hospice Home Care: New Kids on the Dock
Kimberly Clark Corporation: Pandemic Pirates
Med Evolve: Oar We There Yet
Pinnacle Pointe Hospital: Pinnacle Pirates
US Bank Team No. 1: Ka Ching No. 1
US Bank Team No. 2: Ka Ching No. 2
And community teams: Boats & Rows and Row-A-Rita-Ville
Admission is free and proceeds from the team entry fees will benefit the Children’s Protection Center.
Food trucks and yard games will be available on Friday and Saturday, with a fireworks show to close out the festival at 9:10 p.m. on Friday night. Races will start at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.
For more information, click here for the festival’s website.
Schedule of events
Friday
Noon: Athlete’s Village team set up begins
4:45 p.m. Athlete’s Village closes to all vehicles
5 p.m. Team check-in begins, Team practices on the water, food trucks and yard games open
6 p.m. Children’s Area Opens
7 p.m. Music, fun from the stage
8:30 p.m. Practices finish
9:10 p.m. Fireworks Show
Saturday
7:30 a.m.: Athlete’s Village opens, all paddlers arrive, sign waivers and receive wristbands
9 a.m.: Opening Ceremony & Drummer’s Parade
9:15 a.m.: Marshalling & Races Begin
11:30 a.m.: Dragon Cup Race
1 p.m.: Championship Round
2:45 p.m. Awards Ceremony