Category Archives: Music

Rye’s Back Porch Sessions are back y’all, and this year’s schedule is oozing with talented acts from right here in Louisville. Last year, 23 String Band was the host of Back Porch Sessions, and made Rye’s monthly event  the hottest live music happening in NuLu.   The bluegrass phenoms collaborated with other local musicians and [...]

Old Louisville is adding yet another community event to a social calendar that includes the St. James Art Show and Shakespeare in the Park. After debuting last year as a one-day event, the Old Louisville SpringFest is adding an evening of music, arts and food. Also, the SpringFest has landed top acts for 2013 including [...]

The KFC YUM! Center announced it has landed this era’s Michael Jackson. That’s right everybody, Justin Timberlake himself is coming to the Bucket in 2013, and the YUM! folks better have EMS teams galore, as hearts are sure to stop when King of Pop starts to rock. Timberlake is touring the world this year and [...]

Why fix it if it ain’t broke? The Louisville Free Public Library will try to replicate last year’s How-To Festival’s success by sticking to last year’s formula: 50 things. 5 hours. 1 day. 100% free. Last year’s event attracted more than 1,000 people knowledge-hungry people. This year’s event will take place at the Main Library [...]

In the last weeks, we saw three – Ben Sollee, Jim James and Houndmouth – of the Louisville music elite shine bright under the big lights. Wax Fang joined in this week, as USA Today previewed this week’s American Dad episode. The big guns are doing their part to focus national media on our beloved [...]

(Editor’s note: This post is courtesy of Larry Cooper at the Louisville Jazz Society.) When you’re ready for a break from the horses, get out and hear one of our fine Louisville jazz groups. Major events include the Tracy Brazilian Ensemble at Iroquois Park Sunday and the Liberation Prophecy CD Release Party Thursday at Headliners. You can [...]

Welcome to Louisville. In case you’re wondering; yes, traffic is always like this, yes we always wear these hats and sport coats, yes our bars are always open until sunrise. OK, bars close at 4 a.m. every night other than Derby weekend. My pick of this weekend are, of course, the Kentucky Oaks and the [...]

It was a year ago – Derby Week, 2012 – that we found out Uncle Pleasants in Germantown would be open for the Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Oaks. Former attorney Steve Claypoole was behind that effort – an effort that apparently didn’t stick. Now, another crew is planning to reuse the space, but not the [...]

All last week and this week, Mark Coomes has been writing an amazing series taking you “on the backside” at Churchill Downs before the Derby. This past weekend, I got to see the ponies from an even different perspective, a perspective typically enjoyed by only one guy–  Steve Buttleman, the official bugler of Churchill Downs. [...]