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Jelly Roll hugs his guitarist, screaming during his performance, at Railbird Music Festival on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at Red Mile in Lexington, Ky. Photo by Christian Kantosky | Photo Editor

PHOTOS: Railbird Music Festival

Country music artists, including Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey, Riley Green and others, along with rock and soul groups, performed for tens of thousands of people during the Railbird Music Festival,...

Weezer performs on Saturday, June 3, 2023, during the Railbird music festival at the Red Mile infield in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Abbey Cutrer | Staff

PHOTOS: Railbird Music Festival 2023

Abbey Cutrer, Managing Editor June 5, 2023

See it: The Railbird Music Festival at Red Mile June 3-4, 2023.

A fan cheering on for her pick of the race to win on College Scholarship Day at Keeneland on Friday, October 20, 2017 in Lexington , Kentucky. Photo By Genna Melendez | Staff

Inaugural Railbird Festival coming to Lexington in August

Hailey Peters April 8, 2019

Music. Bourbon. Equine.These three trademarks are the foundations of the new Railbird Festival coming to Lexington this summer.“Railbird” is a horse racing term for people who go to the track often...

The Blind Corn Liquor Pickers of Lexington will bring Appalachian blues to the Moonshiner's Ball.

Region’s best readying for Moonshiner’s Ball music festival

Matt Wickstrom April 15, 2016

As we leave the dark days of winter behind and blossom into spring, some Kentuckians are beginning to open their calendars to May in anticipation of not the Kentucky Derby, but the Moonshiner’s Ball...

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