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Stephen Foster - The Musical
Bardstown, KY · Arts & Culture
- When
- June 12 – August 7, 2027
- Where
- J. Dan Talbot Amphitheatre, My Old Kentucky Home State Park · Bardstown · KY
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
An outdoor Broadway style musical built around the songs of Stephen Foster, performed most summer evenings at the amphitheater in My Old Kentucky Home State Park. It has run since 1959 and is one of the longest running outdoor musicals in the country. The show typically runs from mid June through early August. (2027 dates approximate.)
The history within reach
- Kentucky Bourbon Festivalsame spot
Tastings and distillery talks in a Nelson County town that has been aging whiskey since before Kentucky was a state..
- Stephen Foster - The Musicalsame spot
An outdoor Broadway style musical built around the songs of Stephen Foster, performed most summer evenings at the amphitheater in My Old Kentucky Home State Park.
- The Bourbon Trailsame spot
Congress declared bourbon a distinctive product of the United States in 1964.
Stephen Foster's cousins owned this house, and tradition says he wrote the song after visiting.
- Barton 17920.8 mi
The oldest fully operating distillery in Bardstown, the town that calls itself the Bourbon Capital of the World, drawing on the Tom Moore spring since 1879.