NEWS RELEASE

Kentucky Horse Park Welcomes the Return of the Festival of the Bluegrass

LEXINGTON, KY (June 1, 2007)  Perennial and pretty as lightening bugs, and as deliciously anticipated as Silver Queen corn, the second weekend in June also always celebrates the return of the Festival of the Bluegrass to the Kentucky Horse Park campground as a rite of summer.

This year’s festival will bring another impressive line-up of world-class Bluegrass musicians including J.D. Crowe, IIIrd Tyme Out, Mountain Heart, Lewis Family, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Seldom Scene, Blue Highway, Kentucky Blue, Stringtown, Sassafrass, The Dillards, Grasstown, Kentucky Blue and more.

Introduce your children to an important part of Kentucky’s rich cultural heritage during several days of great music, food, fun and socializing in a family-friendly atmosphere.

Festival of the Bluegrass guests are invited to bring a lawn chair or blanket to soak up the sunshine, moonlight and music in an easy, family-friendly atmosphere that harkens back to a time when summers were longer and less complicated. By day, festival performers are accompanied by campground Meadowlarks; evening concerts are chorused by crickets during an event that has enthralled generations of music lovers for more than 30 years.

Check out the full schedule and get ticket information at www.festivalofthebluegrass.com or contact Bob and Jean Cornett at 859-846-4995.

Park Hours and Rates: From March 15 through October 31, the park is open seven days a week.  Admission is $15 for adults, $8 for children 7-12.  Children six and under are always admitted free of charge.  Admission includes the International Museum of the Horse – In Association with the Smithsonian Institution - and the American Saddlebred Museum.

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The Kentucky Horse Park is a working horse farm/theme park and equine competition facility dedicated to man’s relationship with the horse.  The park is an agency of the Kentucky Commerce Cabinet that hosted nearly 900,000 visitors and campers, as well as 15,000 competition horses in more than 100 special events and horse shows in 2006.  The park is home to the National Horse Center which comprises more than 30 national and regional equine organizations.   Located at Exit 120, Interstate 75, just north of Lexington, the Kentucky Horse Park is The place to get close to horses.   Open daily March 15 to October 31, and Wednesday through Sunday, November 1 to March 14.

CINDY RULLMAN

Marketing and Public Relations Dept.

KENTUCKY HORSE PARK

www.kyhorsepark.com

4089 Iron Works Pkwy, Lexington, KY  40511

859-259-4209 ext 209  fax 859-233-9924

Did you know... the Carriage Round-Up, the Ohio Valley Stock Dog Trials and the Standardbred Pleasure Horse demonstrations will all take place at the park June 2-3?  For more information, go to the calendar of events on our website!

KENTUCKY HORSE PARK

Home of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010TM

4089 Iron Works Pkwy   Lexington, KY  40511   859-233-4303   www.kyhorsepark.com