The Stephen Foster Story Fill up on masterworks – Native American, African, European and American, from ancient to contemporary times – at Louisville’s Speed Art Museum and the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art . Still hungry for more creativity? Make a beeline to Paducah and be dazzled by the fi nest quilt and fi ber art in the country at the National Quilt Museum . Get a taste of art in a more natural setting at the Downing Museum at Baker Arboretum in Bowling Green, steward of the fi ne art of internationally renowned Joe Downing. See John James Audubon’s masterwork, “The Birds of America,” at the Henderson state park named for him – then discover natural treasures in the new Audubon Wetlands . featuring world-acclaimed musicians from New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg. Forecastle is a three-day extravaganza of musical acts in Louisville’s Waterfront Park . Danville’s Great American Brass Band Festival reminds us that brass music sets the soul soaring. And Somerset’s Master Musicians Festival presents a musical world view with blues, bluegrass, newgrass, rock ’n roll, jazz, country, Americana, Celtic, Haitian and more. Join the circle at Jammin’ on the Porch at The Bookstore in downtown Horse Cave and strum out bluegrass, country and old-time music. Go classic country at Renfro Valley Entertainment Center in Mt. Vernon. And meet the “Father of American Music” during Bardstown’s “The Stephen Foster Story,” a Broadway-style musical staged steps from My Old Kentucky Home State Park . For more information on Kentucky’s music and art, visit: kentuckytourism.com/ things_to_do/music_arts.aspx frontier through Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Middlesboro and at Fort Boonesborough State Park in Richmond. Learn about a Boone contemporary (James Harrod) at Harrodsburg’s Old Fort Harrod State Park . See where Kentucky became the 15th state in 1792 at Danville’s Constitution Square Historic Site . Civil War buff ? Meet the man who would be president during America’s war-torn years at Hodgenville’s Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park . Walk the grounds where the Union Army tasted one of its fi rst decisive victories at Mill Springs Battlefi eld in Nancy and where the South staged its last serious attempt to gain possession of Kentucky at Perryville Battlefi eld State Historic Site , site of the bloodiest Civil War battle in the state. kentuckytourism.com Sounds of the Bluegrass No matter the genre, Kentucky rocks it with authentic music: bluegrass, country, swing, chamber, rock and more. Grab a chair or a piece of lawn and keep the beat. Festival-happy Kentucky delivers the goods with the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass , A Storied History Follow Daniel Boone’s footprints on explorations of the Kentucky 37
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