Events • Owensboro is the “Barbecue Capital of the world”; it holds its International Bar-B-Q Festival and competition every second weekend in May. • Owensboro hosts “ROMP”, “River of Music Party”, a bluegrass music festival. ROMP has grown to 20,000 visitors a year, and won the Governor’s Award for Community Arts in 2013. • Lanham Brothers Jamboree is an event held every second Saturday from April through September at the Diamond Lake Resort Theater in Owensboro.
• During the summer, the city offers “Friday After 5”, a free 16-week series of outdoor concerts on the downtown riverfront. • The “Owensboro PumpkinFest” is held each September at the Sportscenter/ Moreland Park complex. The festival includes food vendors, crafts people, carnival rides, children and adult activities and games, and contests using pumpkins. The event was started by the Glenmary Sisters to raise awareness and funds.
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