Even if you aren’t a runner, you can still have a good time in downtown Danville as the 2023 Bourbon Chase relay passes through town. More than 3,000 runners will participate in this year’s race, which begins at the Jim Beam distillery in Clermont on the morning of Friday, Oct. 6 enroute to the finish…
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Fall is for festival fun in Boyle County
Before the leaves even begin to fully turn, Boyle County goes all in for fall festivals, beginning with September’s nod to Kentucky arts, crafts and music, continuing into October with two commemorations of a major historic event and ending on a nostalgic note at month’s end with good, old-fashioned family fun times. Mark your calendars…
Norton Center talks 50th anniversary and bringing top-name entertainers to Danville
Centre College’s Norton Center, home to a world-class performing arts series of professional touring artists, marks a milestone in 2023 and plans to celebrate turning 50 all season long. A special exhibition, “A Retro Perspective: Revisiting Prints from the Permanent Collection,” opens Monday, Aug. 14. A free community concert by the Louisville Orchestra as part…
Kosher Lutherans comedy play to close out Pioneer Playhouse’s 2023 season
Pioneer Playhouse, Kentucky’s oldest outdoor theatre, will end its regular play season with Kosher Lutherans, a modern comedy that playwright William Missouri Downs says was inspired by one word: happiness. “Many years ago, I was looking up a name in the phone book and saw the word ‘Happiness’ and a phone number beside it,” explains…
The Second Show at Pioneer Playhouse Opens with a Bang
Pioneer Playhouse of Danville opens the second show of its 74th season, Farce of Nature, with a bang on Tuesday, July 4th. “It’s a little unusual starting on July 4th,” admits Heather Henson, managing director of the theatre her father, Col. Eben C. Henson, founded in 1950. “There will definitely be some fireworks in the background, but that’s…
Waldo returning to downtown Danville on July 1
Where’s Waldo? All over downtown Danville, that’s where. From July 1-20, the iconic character will be hanging out and hiding inside of 26 different downtown businesses, waiting to be found and documented for prizes. Each business will have a 5-inch-tall cutout of Waldo displayed somewhere inside. Stop by Plaid Elephant Books – 116 N. 3rd…
A Premiere Original Opens Season 74 at Pioneer Playhouse
Pioneer Playhouse of Danville will open for its 74th season under the stars on June 9 with the world premiere production of Blood Suede Shoes: A Sergeant Elvis Presley Murder Mystery, written by Robby Henson, artistic director of the historic theatre his father, Eben C. Henson, founded in 1950. Blood Suede Shoes: A Sergeant Elvis…
Pro tips for attending the 2023 Great American Brass Band Festival
About GABBF The Great American Brass Band Festival gears up for their 33rd year this June. With the mission to preserve and share brass band music and its cultural impact, the festival has brought some of the most talented brass artists from around the country to play right here in Danville, Kentucky. Where to stay…
Free live music coming up April-October during Downtown Downbeat concert series
The Great American Brass Band Festival – in cooperation with the Danville/Boyle County Chamber of Commerce and the Danville-Boyle County Tourism Office – is proud to announce a new concert series coming to downtown Danville. Presented by Farmer’s National Bank, the City of Danville, and the Boyle County Fiscal Court, Downtown Downbeat (as it is…
If These Walls Could Talk
One would think that the town that witnessed the birth of Kentucky would have a comfy seat from which to watch history as it happened. And one would be correct. For inside Danville buildings, American’s first documented serial killers were once held, the Father of Abdominal Surgery performed a Hail Mary on a dying woman,…
