Monte Everhart, our favorite World’s Biggest Leprechaun.
“I’ve been asked quite a few times in the last few days if Hot Springs is going to have ‘that St. Patrick’s Day Parade’ this year. The short answer is that heck yeah, we’re marching March 17 at 6:30 p.m.” The speaker is Monte Everhart, The World’s Biggest Leprechaun.
Steve Arrison, CEO of Visit Hot Springs and one of the founders of the internationally famous parade, said “The parade is on. Cheech Marin and Danny (Machete) Trejo have had their bags packed since 2020 to serve as the celebrity grand marshal and official starter of the parade. Razorback Coach Sam Pittman and his wife, Jamie, are ready to be our parade king and queen.”
Everhart will be joined this year by a new leprechaun buddy, Arkansas radio personality Roger Scott, a Hot Springs native, who will help whip up the crowd as the parade’s official leprechaun duo.
There will again be two free public music concerts associated with the parade. Immediately following the parade on March 17 will be an appearance by Foghat at the Bridge Street Stage, and on March 18, Sugar Ray will hold a free public concert. No chairs or coolers will be permitted at either concert.
The parade, which began in 2003, annually attracts crowds of upwards of 30,000 people to watch an insanely zany collection of Irish Elvis impersonators, green Irish wolfhounds, marching units such as Paddy O’Furniture, Irish belly dancers, and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, as well as other unique units cover the 98-foot length of Bridge Street, the World’s Shortest Street in Everyday Use.
For more information, call Steve Arrison at 501-321-2027.
