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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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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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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