LOUISVILLE TRIPLE CROWN OF RUNNING - 15K RACE DATE: April 1, 2022 START TIME: 7:30 a.m. RACE LOCATION: Waterfront Park – South Great Lawn (222 E Witherspoon St, Louisville, KY 40202) Packet Pickup and Race Day Parking: FREE at Louisville Slugger Field (401 E Main St, Louisville, KY 40202) Packet Pickup: Louisville Slugger Field – […]
The Alpha Omega Mu chapter of Mu Phi Sigma National Percussion Fraternity Inc. and the Louisville Drumline Academy in partnership with Louisville Waterfront Park bring you an electrifying drumline battle!
The Derby Festival’s annual cycling experience – the PNC Tour de Lou – is a unique way to tour Louisville on two wheels and celebrates its 10th year in 2023.
Waterfront Park is thrilled to welcome back a favorite Sunday tradition, Bark & Brunch by the Bridge starting in April featuring food trucks, live jazz music, and drink specials.
To some, it’s the official kick-off to the Kentucky Derby Festival. To others, it’s the unofficial beginning of spring. But to all, it’s simply one of the largest annual fireworks shows in North America and the setting for some of the most memorable moments you’ll ever share.
Louisville Broadcast integrates music and contemporary urban life beyond the concert hall tradition on a huge scale. This 40-50-minute site-specific performance composed by Lisa Bielawa will engage multiple musical communities and celebrate the public life that now animates this wonderful city. It will be free to the public and happen around and among the regular public uses of city space without any added electrical equipment, seating, or ticketing.
WFPK Waterfront Wednesday!
Presented by 91.9 WFPK and Waterfront Development Corporation with support from Friends of the Waterfront and is always FREE to all.
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L&N Federal Credit Union Great BalloonFest: Great Balloon Glow
One of the most anticipated events of balloon race weekend is the Kentucky Derby Festival Great Balloon Glow. This year, for the second straight year, it takes place at Kroger’s Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront.
The GE Appliances Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon & Marathon is a long-standing tradition held every spring in Kentucky. It has become the largest annual day of road racing in the state.
The Ken-Ducky Derby (KDD) is an annual fundraising rubber duck race held in Louisville, KY and is an official Kentucky Derby Festival event. KDD has been “duckin’ out” Louisville for 19 years!
Every year, thousands of rubber ducks are dropped into the Ohio River and raced to the finish line.