Last weekend, we had the Garvin Gate Blues Festival in Old Louisville, featuring two days of free blues music. Sadly there was rain on Saturday, so turnout wasn’t as high as experienced in recent years. Here’s how local news reported on it.

From Sept. 17-20, Louder Than Life took place at the Kentucky Fairgrounds. Practically every hard rock band was there. Just click here to see the lineup. And here’s the promo video:

And on the following weekend, another huge music festival took place: Bourbon and Beyond. Here’s the promo for that:

You’d think by now we’ve had enough music festivals in Louisville.

You would be wrong.

This is happening this weekend (from Louisville Business First):

The Deadheads are coming back to Waterfront Park this weekend.

The three-day Grateville Dead Music Festival returns to the Brown-Forman Amphitheater Oct. 16-18. Organizers expect at least 1,200 attendees a day, up from roughly 800 last year.

No promo videos here, but let’s take a look at what happened in San Francisco last year in observance of the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary:

And we did have local news promote the event:

Kentucky is known for bluegrass, horses and basketball, but there’s also a vibrant music scene here that we shouldn’t neglect.