Celebrate Life on the Mighty Cumberland River! Stay Tuned for 2024 Details!
The River Festivus is a community event that was created to celebrate life on the mighty Cumberland River in Burkesville, Kentucky. This annual multi-day event offers multiple ways to have fun.
August 16-17 • 2024
Featuring The Marshall Tucker Band!
The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they’ve been in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe ever since. Plus, the band’s mighty music catalog, consisting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over. A typically rich MTB setlist is bubbling over with a healthy dose of hits like the heartfelt singalong “Heard It in a Love Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can’t You See” (the signature tune of MTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell), the testifying “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of “Long Hard Ride,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin,’” to name but a few.
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Schedule of Events
Friday August 16
4:00 pm • VENDORS OPEN
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm • REGISTRATION FOR EVENTS OPEN
6:00 pm • BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Saturday August 17
7:30 am • 5K REGISTRATION
9:00 am • 12 MILE RIVER RUN
9:30 am • 7 MILE RIVER RUN
10:00 am • VENDORS OPEN
10:00 am • RIVERBOAT REVUE
10:30 am • FESTIVUS FLOAT
10:00 am - 4:00 pm • CRUISE-IN
12:00 pm- 4:00 pm • TROUT FISHING TOURNEY
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm • KID’S CASTING DERBY
12:00 pm • JEEP RIDE
1:00 pm • CROSSCUT SAW COMPETITION
2:00 pm • DRY LAND BOAT RACE
4:00 pm • RIVERBOAT REVUE
6:00 pm • BATTLE OF THE BANDS WINNER
8:00 pm • THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND
Featured Events
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