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Riverfront Pops Concert Moves to Arsenal Island

Quad City Symphony Orchestra

The 37th annual Riverfront Pops concert will not be held at LeClaire Park this summer. Due to damage from flooding, it will move to Arsenal Island. It was relocated to Modern Woodmen Park in 2008 and what is now the TaxSlayer Center in 1993.

Brian Baxter, the Executive Director of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, says there were around 15 possible alternative sites for this year's concert, but the island was the clear choice.

"It really preserves the experience of the event for our audience. And everyone will be able to do their normal Riverfront Pops thing, bringing their lawnchairs, bringing their coolers full of their wine and cheese and all of that. So we really felt that preserving the culture of the experience was important."

The Rock Island Arsenal will declare the concert a "public event" as it did with the Red, White and Boom event this month, so normal security procedures will not be necessary. Attendees who are 16 and older will just be required to show a driver's license or state ID.

The Quad City Bank & Trust Riverfront Pops concert on August 17th will feature the music of Queen, then finish the evening with fireworks set to John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever."