Do y'all direct maintain what it takes to last a Kentuckiana Idol? You tin audition Sabbatum for a panel of judges at 4th Street Live!, where they volition select the overstep 5 singers — 4 finalists who volition learn the run a peril to skip to the caput of the line of piece of occupation when the American Idol motorbus tour auditions come upward to Louisville on August 30, in addition to i finalist who volition learn straight to the minute circular of American Idol auditions. If singing is non your rigid suit, thus from galas in addition to concerts to fair rides in addition to partying on the street, there's enough of fun to last had past times y'all in addition to your family.
Check below for our weekend picks:
- Frankfort Avenue betwixt Lexington Road in addition to Bauer Avenue volition last transformed for the St. Matthews Street Festival, featuring bands, food, vendors, in addition to activities for both adults in addition to children. Family fun in addition to activities include the costless Kids Zone, Fun Zone, in addition to Wellness Fair.
- Make a large splash to assistance kids cared for at Norton Children’s Hospital inward the Splash 'n' Dash 5k Walk/Run at Louisville Waterfront Park. Runners in addition to walkers tin select to splash their agency through a 5k course of teaching or a 1k Family Fun Run. After the race, relish the "Just for Kids" Zone, featuring a stone wall, H2O slides, inflatables, in addition to more.
- Brightly colored street rods in addition to vintage automobiles volition roar dorsum into town for The National Street Rod Association’s (NSRA) Annual Street Rod Nationals at the Kentucky Exposition Center. Up to 15,000 street rods, classics, in addition to musculus cars from the 50s, 60s, in addition to 70s volition last on display at the 4-day event.
- Check out Kiss Me Kate, directed past times John Leffert, the side past times side offering of the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival.
- What causes a solar eclipse in addition to what’s the best agency to safely lookout it, whether y'all are able to drive to regard its totality or direct maintain to rest hither in addition to lookout a partial (96% inward Louisville area)? As the total solar eclipse draws nearly on August 21, volunteer Tom Bibb volition answer this enquiry in addition to to a greater extent than at The Great American Solar Eclipse at the Falls of the Ohio State Park.
- The Kentucky Humane Society's 24th annual Tuxes & Tails Gala is sold out, only y'all tin notwithstanding buy tickets for the Emerald City Lounge, where y'all tin brand it later on the gala dinner in addition to relish appetizers, desserts, drinks, soundless auction bidding, in addition to adoptable pets.
- Depending on your musical tastes, banking concern tally out James Taylor & His All-Star Band alongside particular invitee Bonnie Raitt at the KFC Yum! Center, singer Idina Menzel at the Louisville Palace, or Lyle Lovett at Iroquois Amphitheater. If dancing is your thing, see Bring It! LIVE, featuring dancing from the the world of hip-hop majorette competitions. The TV show, Bring It!, at in i lawsuit inward its tertiary flavor on Lifetime, focuses on the Dancing Dolls of Jackson, Mississippi, a grouping founded inward 2001 past times Dianna Williams, or "Miss D."
- Enjoy the sights in addition to sounds of a galaxy far, far away at Star Wars Night at Slugger Field. There volition last particular Star Wars themed jerseys in addition to the chance to encounter your favorite characters during the game.
- Make wishes come upward truthful past times attention the Louisville BIG Wish Gala at the Seelbach Hilton Louisville. All donations from this outcome volition assistance grant the wishes of local kids.
- The 2017 Oldham County Fair is expected to last the largest fair inward county history. Come for a total rodeo, truck in addition to tractor pull, lots of midway rides, pageants, food, in addition to more.
- Spend an eve nether the stars in addition to relish the Disney pic Moana, playing at the Jeffersonville RiverStage, Free Dive-In Movie Night at Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center,
and Clarksville's Gateway Park. Before the pic at Gateway Park, your kids tin learn upward unopen in addition to personal alongside the cool trucks in addition to structure equipment they regard on the route every hateful solar daytime at the annual Touch-A-Truck event. Vehicles include police clitoris cruisers, burn downward trucks, structure equipment, limousines, box trucks, in addition to more.
Have a peachy weekend!