- Fox 16
- SPARSE CROWD: At Zoo Jam
The Zoo Jam Sunday at War Memorial Golf Course, with headliner Toby Keith, to raise money (tickets were priced $50 to $85) for the Little Rock Zoo was an apparent flop. Attendance was only 2,000 to 3,000, with many more anticipated.
Fox 16 reports that a couple of vendors that helped put on the event say they have not been paid because of a shortfall in ticket sales and the Little Rock Zoo said yesterday that it also had not been paid.
The problems may run deeper than unpaid bills to a couple of vendors. I got a note last night from someone familiar with the event. He said off-duty cops weren’t paid in cash as contracted. He also said the vendor that set up the stage could not remove the stage from the No. 12 fairway until the company was paid because he needs several thousand dollars worth of labor to take it down. Its presence will interfere with ongoing golf course revenue. The course was rented for the event only through Monday. The event promoters owe the city $10,000.
UPDATE: David Koon has more details on the jump. And, yes, the golf course is still blocked.