Cultural aspects of Kentucky include horse racing, bourbon, moonshine, coal mining, My Old Kentucky Home State Park, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, Southern cuisine, barbecue, bluegrass music, college basketball, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Abraham Lincoln, Muhammad Ali and Colonel Sanders are a few of the legends who called Kentucky home. Trace their legacy at museums and landmarks. Get to know the state through its famous exports: Thoroughbred horses, craft bourbon and bluegrass music.
Appropriately set in Kentucky’s Caves and Lakes region, it is home to loads of spectacular scenery and nature, with countless caves, chasms, and caverns on show.
LEX 18: Country artist Alex Miller performs "My Old Kentucky Home" on Best of the Bluegrass
For nearly every year since 1936, "My Old Kentucky Home" has been played at the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville.
Country artist Alex Miller performs "My Old Kentucky Home" on Best of the Bluegrass
You'll hear My Old Kentucky Home sung at Churchill Downs as you usually do before the Kentucky Derby, but did you know that the Kentucky state song is actually controversial? You will now. The ...
When “My Old Kentucky Home” plays at the track, who doesn’t get a little choked up? It’s tradition, its nostalgia, it’s pure Kentucky. The man behind that iconic song, Stephen Foster, never saw a ...
The Courier-Journal: Emily Bingham wins prestigious award for examination of 'My Old Kentucky Home'
Louisville author Emily Bingham won the 2025 Music in American Culture Award for her book about the song "My Old Kentucky Home." Bingham's book examines the song's history and its connection to ...