Events CAN’T-MISS EVENTS • • • • • • • • • • • APR MAY JUN JULY AUG SEPT OCT AQS Quilt Week, Paducah (APRIL) Kentucky Derby Festival, Louisville (APRIL) Kentucky Derby, Louisvill e (MAY) Railbird Music Festival, Lexington (JUNE) Great American Brass Band Festival, Danville (JUNE) ROMP Bluegrass Roots & Branches Music Festival, Owensboro (JUNE) Festival of Learnshops, Berea (JULY) Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Bardstown (SEPT) Goettafest, Newport (JULY & AUG) Louder Than Life, Louisville (SEPT) World Chicken Festival, London (SEPT) MORE TO ADD TO YOUR CALENDAR Hillbilly Days , Pikeville GypsyMoon Marketplace , Bowling Green Land Rover Three-Day Event , Lexington BBQ & Barrels , Owensboro Benton Farm Craft Spring Fling , Walton Adairville Strawberry Festival , Adairville Mountain Laurel Festival , Pineville W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival , Henderson Poke Sallet Festival , Harlan Kentucky Highland Renaissance Festival , Eminence Master Musicians Festival , Somerset Summer Motion , Ashland Shelbyville Horse Show , Shelbyville Old Beach Beer Bash on Kentucky Lake , Gilbertsville Hot August Blues Festival Kenlake SRP , Hardin Small Town American Festival , Mt. Sterling Dog Days of Summer Fest , Auburn Gaslight Festival , Jeffersontown Manchester Music Festival , Manchester Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration , Rosine Lincoln Days , Hodgenville Daniel Boone Festival , Barbourville Foothills Festival , Albany Hickman Pecan Festival , Hickman Patti’s Festival of Lights , Grand River Winter Wonderland of Lights , Ashland ChristmasTime at the Ark Encounter , Williamstown Christmas at Panther Creek , Owensboro Christmas Island , Burnside Southern Lights , Lexington Lights Under Louisville , Louisville SCAN THE QR CODE FOR MORE FESTIVALS AND EVENTS. Above: St. James Court Art Show, Louisville Opposite page, left to right: Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Bardstown; W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival, Henderson; Oktoberfest, Covington NOV-DEC kentuckytourism.com 45
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