GREAT VIEWS AT TWO THUNDER CHOW WAGONS

2003-04-01T15:42:50


Additional entertainment, air show commentary and more at the Chow Wagon

The Derby Festival Chow Wagons will be open on Saturday, April 12 for viewing for Thunder Over Louisville and reopen on Thursday, April 24 for a 10-day run ending Derby Eve, Friday, May 2 and special bonus days on April 18th and 19th.  Both the Waterfront Park and Belvedere locations will open Noon - 11 PM on Thunder Day.

The Thunder Chow Wagons will offer a comfortable setting for Thunder fans including easy access to Thunder pots, live concerts and sound towers carrying the entire air show commentary and fireworks soundtrack.  Admission is a 2003 Pegasus Pin ($3 sponsorships available at the gate). 

The Waterfront Chow Wagon will feature local, regional and national entertainment on the Budweiser True MusicTalent Stage.  The national line-up includes:

On the Belvdere stage the concert schedule includes:

Begun in 1972, when Philip Morris brought its "Marlboro Chuckwagon" mobile kitchen to downtown Louisville for a Derby breakfast, the Chow Wagons have become one of the most widely recognized and popular Derby Festival Week activities. Remaining free to the public with a Pegasus Pin, the community turns out to celebrate the Derby Festival with traditional Chow Wagon foods and nightly entertainment. Chow Wagon locations have moved throughout the city over the years as different properties became available.

The Chow Wagon is one of the more than seventy events produced by the Derby Festival in the spring. The Derby Festival is an independent community organization supported by 4,000 volunteers, 325 businesses and civic groups, Pegasus Pin sponsorships and event participation.  It entertains more than 1.5 million people in a two- week period and has a local economic impact of more than $90 million.  This involvement has made the Festival the largest single attended event in Kentucky and one of the leading community celebrations in the world.