Red Frog Events
Red Frog Events, LLC was a privately owned (one-member LLC with Joe Reynolds as the sole member) event production company founded in 2007 and based in Chicago, Illinois. The company's events and services included Warrior Dash, Firefly Music Festival, ShamrockFest, American Beer Classic, EventSprout, and Red Frog Food and Beverage. Joe Reynolds and Ryan Kunkel were the co-CEOs. History. Mirroring the television show "The Amazing Race", Joe Reynolds organized and launched Great Urban Race, LLC, and hosted the first race on September 15, 2007 in Chicago. In December 2008, Reynolds brought on four event  coordinator interns ("Tadpoles") and moved the business into an office in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood to help keep up with the planning and organizing of Great Urban Race. In 2009, Ryan Kunkel joined Reynolds to expand Great Urban Race and develop new events. In the summer of 2009 the company was renamed Red Frog Events, LLC, and the first Warrior Dash was held in Joliet, Illinois. In 2010, Red Frog Events moved from the Lincoln Park office to the current location at 320 West Ohio Street. On November 13, 2010, the first Beach Palooza (later rebranded as Beach Dash  to maintain consistency with the Warrior Dash race series) was held at Daytona Beach, Florida. In 2011, Red Frog Bar Crawls were launched. The first event, a Halloween costume bar crawl called Nightmare on Clark Street, occurred on October 15, 2011 in Chicago. Snow Day in Washington D.C. was the next in the series, on December 17. Two more bar crawls were introduced in 2012: Bright 'N' Tight in San Diego, California, and Derby Days in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2012 the Firefly Music Festival was launched in Dover, Delaware, and Farm to Fork, a "farm style dinner," took place  on September 22 at McDonald Farm in Naperville, Illinois. In 2013 Red Frog launched three new running events: Iron Warrior Dash, Urban Warrior Dash, and Illuminite Run. It also launched the American Beer Classic beer festival and the Candy Cane Express. In 2014, Red Frog launched the Bacon Chase in Atlanta, Georgia on March 22, 2014. It also bought DC-based ShamrockFest from GoCity Events and began offering its ticketing platform, EventSprout, to third-party event organizers. In 2015, Red Frog Events launched Big Barrel Country Music Festival and bought DJ's National Food Services which was renamed to Red  Frog Food and Beverage. On July 21, 2015, Red Frog laid off 29 of its roughly 105 employees. In Aug 2019, Red Frog Events ceased to operate. Closure. As of July 31, 2019, Red Frog events announced their closure and has ceased operations.