Louisville, Kentucky City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Louisville, Kentucky Travel Guide has been your connection to Louisville's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Festivals & Cultural Events
 Louisville offers an array of great festivals and activities each year, so check the local Louisville calendar and plan ahead to catch one of these memorable events. The most popular of which is the Kentucky Derby Festival (including over 70 events). The impressive "Thunder of Louisville" fireworks display is just the beginning of an entertaining two-week festival that features a parade, hot air balloon race, marathon, steamboat race and much, much more. Other festivals, to name a few, include the Abby Road On The River (the largest Beatles tribute festival in America), the Kentucky Bourbon Festival and the Kentucky Music Weekend (the largest traditional and folk music festival in the region). A free performance of Shakespeare at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Central Park hosts a series of concerts on the first Sundays of May through October, so bring a blanket and relax on the lawn as the music fills air. Of course, horse lovers must attend the most prestigious horse race in America always held on the first Saturday in May, the Kentucky Derby. |
