Events

Cost: $25 Non-Members, $15 Members  

Sip and stroll your way across Historic Downtown Frankfort as we regale you with local tales of drunkenness and debauchery, corruption, and criminal activity – stories not safe for the history textbooks! Learn about the inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe’s only written play, stories of the mafia in Kentucky, and connections to the legendary E.H Taylor. Taste the history with special historic drinks available for purchase when we stop in at the local pubs in The Mix District. Come have some fun with history!   

Must be 21 to participate.  Alcohol is optional (of course), and if you prefer to sip as you walk, the local pubs participate in Frankfort’s MIX District. The cost does not include drinks, which can be purchased at the local establishments on the tour.

Meet outside the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History. Tours require a minimum registration to take place. If that number is not met, an alternate tour date will be offered, or a full refund will be given. For groups of 10 or more, book a private experience here: Tours | Visit | Kentucky Historical Society.

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Kentucky Shakespeare is a nonprofit, professional theatre company, the Official Shakespeare Festival of the commonwealth and the largest in-school arts education outreach provider in Kentucky. Since 1990, Kentucky Shakespeare has served over 1,000,000 students in all 120 Kentucky counties and beyond with in-classroom arts workshops and residencies and full school performances and assemblies.

Downtown Frankfort is the place to be this summer! The 2026 Summer Concert Series features an exciting lineup that will rock your socks off with incredible live music all season long. Enjoy evenings filled with great bands, delicious food, cold drinks, and the vibrant atmosphere that makes downtown Frankfort such a special place to gather. Bring a chair, bring your friends, and experience the sound of summer on the riverfront.

Join us at the Juniper Hill Aquatic Center for Family Day!!!

Mary Hamilton travels throughout Kentucky and the nation telling stories and teaching others about the art of storytelling. Through her repertoire of stories suitable for varied ages and venues, Mary entrances with fairy tales, chills with haunting tales, provokes thought with first person autobiographical tales, enhances appreciation of Kentucky folklore with a truly wide sampling of Kentucky folktales, engages the youngest listeners with joining in telling, entertains older citizens with an art form many fondly recall from their earlier days and much more.

Join us for a memorable evening of music, nature, and immersive art that delights all the senses.

Families can explore the sculptures while discovering fruity samples of Ale-8-One along the Fruity Twists Trail, accompanied by live performances from musicians of the Louisville Folk School.

Guests ages 21+ can enjoy the Castle & Key Cocktail Stroll, featuring handcrafted drink samples paired with curated sculptures and live music throughout the grounds.

As night falls, experience a special performance by Ben Sollee. Later wander through illuminated art installations paired with electronic music during our nighttime lite sculpture tour.

Arts activities, a tie-dye station, local beer, and delicious food trucks will be available throughout the evening, creating plenty of ways to relax, explore, and enjoy the night.

Musicians Ben Sollee, M. Lightsmith, na Skylark, Lilianna Fischer, and more will play throughout the evening.

When Val Goldman asks Barbara Keely to be his wife, he can't possibly envision the chaos it will create between their parents. Val's dad is gay nightclub owner Armand, and his "mother" is Armand's permanent life partner, Albert, better known by his stage name Starina. Barbara's parents, Senator Kevin Keely and his wife Louise, want to meet Val's "parents", who decide the best plan is for Albert to pose as a woman.

In the past few years Cherry Poppin’ Daddies have become the kind of band that you would want to book if you were throwing a soiree at the Gatsby mansion. Penning elegant, lush, pitch perfect arrangements of much of the great American songbook, from Cole Porter to Frank Sinatra, the Daddies have surprised many- likely familiar with them from the early 90’s- whose limited exposure to the band undoubtedly consists of an image of spray painted vans careening across the US as an  iconoclastic, misfit part of an already marginalized punk/ska scene.

Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds have created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Sowers’ commanding stage presence. With influences ranging from Fats Domino and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Aretha Franklin and Tom Waits, the band is converting audiences one show at a time, from Vancouver to Miami and across Europe.

Downtown Frankfort is the place to be this summer! The 2026 Summer Concert Series features an exciting lineup that will rock your socks off with incredible live music all season long. Enjoy evenings filled with great bands, delicious food, cold drinks, and the vibrant atmosphere that makes downtown Frankfort such a special place to gather. Bring a chair, bring your friends, and experience the sound of summer on the riverfront.

After learning that a stranger has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton), Vern Tessio (Jerry O'Connell), Chris Chambers (River Phoenix) and Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman) encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.