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Festivals
and Concerts, Outdoor Theatre and Themed Train Rides
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Plan a small-town
summer getaway to beautiful Bardstown, KY
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Bardstown,
KY – May 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / With festivals, concerts, theatre
under the stars, train excursions through Bourbon Country, locally-owned
restaurants and shops, and 17 individually themed bed and breakfast inns
(including cottages, a Bourbon Manor and a log cabin), Bardstown, Ky. –
the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” and the Bourbon Capital of the
World, makes a perfect summertime escape. Plan your adventure here.
Thomas
the Tank Engine™, train robberies and a whodunit on the rails
All
aboard for Kentucky Railway Museum’s summer fun train excursions: Day Out
With Thomas – June 6-7 and 13-14; Civil War Train Robbery – June 20-21
and July 12-13; Dining Excursions – June 20 and Aug. 1; and Murder Mystery
Theatre – June 27, July 25 and Aug. 15. Details, tickets and more themed
excursions at www.KyRail.org.
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More excursions
are offered aboard My Old Kentucky Dinner Train: Bourbon Run Dinner – June
20; Murder Mystery – June 27, July 25 and Aug. 29. Enjoy restored vintage
dining cars and gourmet food service. Details and tickets at www.KyDinnerTrain.com.
Festival
fun and music
Come
to Bardstown for music and festival fun: Stephen Foster Festival/Downtown
Bardstown Presents Doo Dah Days in honor of “The Stephen Foster Story’s”
opening night, June 13; catch the Stephen Foster singers in Old Bardstown
Village at 5 p.m.; Kentucky Music Week , June 21-26; Moonlight Big Band
Concert at My Old Kentucky Home State Park Rotunda, 7:30 p.m. June 29;
Stephen Foster Story 4th of July Celebration with fireworks; (free) Bourbon
City Street Concert, July 12; Buttermilk Days Festival, Aug. 20-22, with
lots of music and activities.
Bardstown’s
Live at the Park concert series takes place at the amphitheatre in My Old
Kentucky Home State Park on June 22, July 20 and Aug. 3 and 21. Fridays
are for weekly free band concerts – featuring everything from swing to
military band to folk music – at the Bardstown Community Park and the Bardstown
Opry at the Bluegrass Entertainment & Exposition Complex. Saturdays
are for monthly Whiskey City Cruiser shows (June 27, July 25, Aug. 22).
Your
old Kentucky home
Get
tickets to Kentucky’s Official Outdoor Drama, Broadway-style musical, “The
Stephen Foster Story,” 8 p.m. select dates June 13 to Aug. 15. Plan
your getaway to catch this show and the amphitheatre’s other production,
“All Shook Up,” featuring the hip-swiveling hits of Elvis. Showtime: Thursday
and Saturday evenings, July 9 through Aug. 1.
Combination
tickets with tours of antebellum Federal Hill Mansion (aka My Old Kentucky
Home) and/or Old Bardstown Village and The Civil War Museum are available.
Hot
summer hauntings
Spend
Friday evenings at Wickland, Home of Three Governors and experience its
history and mystery – and multiple spirits – on a 90-minute paranormal
tour. This family-friendly tour includes an opportunity to interact through
a psychic medium with the friendly spirits who once lived here – and test
out the divining rods.
Channel
more chills on Saturday evenings with a Bardstown Ghost Trek led by internationally
renowned paranormal investigator Patti Starr. Depart from the Old Stable
Restaurant for the Jailer’s Inn, Pioneer Cemetery and the Talbott Tavern.
Bring camera, audio recorders and camcorders to collect evidence in what
Starr considers one of the most haunted locations she has ever experienced.
Choose
your summertime fun and click www.VisitBardstown.com
to find your perfect overnight among Bardstown’s 17 bed and breakfasts
– including ones that accommodate families traveling with children – and
well-known chain hotels with swimming pool.
Media
Contact:
Dawn
Przystal, Vice President
800-638-4877
x 114
Bardstown-Nelson
County Tourist & Convention Commission
Photo:
Thomas the Tank Engine™ returns to Bardstown, Ky., for summer excursions.
Credit:
Kentucky Railway Museum
Hi-
and Low-Res photos available.
About
Bardstown, KY
Located
in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead
of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown
is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home
to five distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery, and
these three Kentucky Bourbon Trail distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark
and Jim Beam. Major attractions include the outdoor musical, “The Stephen
Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State Park, the highly regarded Civil
War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, The Kentucky
Railway Museum and Whisky Magazine’s Visitor Attraction of the Year
– the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Additionally, Bardstown has
four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries, two haunted tours and numerous
religious attractions. Fodor picked Bardstown as one of “America’s Best
Small Towns” and AARP named it one of its “10 best small towns.” It led
TheCultureTrip.com’s list of the “10 Most Beautiful Towns in Kentucky”
and was named the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” in the Rand McNally/USA
Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest. Bardstown landed in the top 20 of
“America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure|–|which
also recognized it as having one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town Squares.”
In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural District,
one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY |