Worldfest

Love me some worldfest! Vendors for shopping, music and dancing, every ethnicity of food. Can spread out. A parade! Has a little bit of everything for everyone. Park at the galt house and wander over. Easy peasy.

WorldFest is back on the Belvedere. If visiting I highly recommend parking at the Galt House, on the hotel side. Reasonable rates by the hour and super convenient walk from there to the festival.It runs over Labor Day weekend, Friday-Monday. The schedule is nicely booked for music and performances to represent various cultures. In between is often a DJ spinning music. I noticed two staging areas this year. The crowd was busy this year. A lot of booths and food vendors packed into the space. A little overwhelming, as I was hoping for a more relaxing atmosphere to sample food and browse booths. Also less restaurant participants than I remembered from the past years; and much of the space was replaced with margarita stations or cocktail bars.

It was great weather-for the most part, this year. Very crowded. Three different stages with a variety of music and performances. The vendors seemed to be all the same. With African clothes to mexican/Cuban food. Most vendors were cash only.

WorldFest is one of my top favorite events in the city! I used to go a lot when I was in high school. It's still a wonderful, family-friendly event. It features a lot of different vendors selling all kinds of cuisines, as well as jewelry, clothes, henna, decor, etc.While Louisville is not the most diverse city on the map, this event definitely reminds you how culturally diverse we actually are. And growing! Yay!I loved the performances a lot more in the past, but am not as interested in most of it anymore. I still go just to see flamenco though!As others have mentioned, you do see the same vendors every year. This could be a plus or minus for you. For me, I don't purchase stuff here anymore since I've gotten what I've wanted in years past. It's still worth checking out. It's a free event that runs for a few days during Labor Day weekend.Parking isn't all that hard to find, in my opinion. There are tons of places to parallel park or garage options. For the most part, it's a place to socialize. I think that's what makes this event the most enjoyable. Make sure you bring water with you! It'll help to cut the costs since you'll want to buy food or a trinket. It's usually hot out whenever I've been to this event. And as other have mentioned, there isn't always tons of shade.

Different foods from different countries as well as merchandise. Lacking as many local merchants as there it used to be. Free entertainment from different cultures. Good way to experience different cultures in one place.

What an amazing showcase of all of the different cultures we have here in Louisville. There was so much to take in. Let's start with food. Thai, Cuban, Jamaican, Mexican, Filipino, Greek...literally almost any cuisine imaginable was available this year. Bands were playing on stage, there was an extremely talented blues singer on one stage. We walked a little farther and found some men playing bongos. Very cool.There were a couple of different groups dancing while we were there, one square dancing, another performing a traditional dance from Assumption Greek Orthodox Church.A variety of booths were set up selling items ranging from authentic clothing representing their countries, to sunglasses, a variety of jewelry, and products made from Shea butter.Definitely a festival you must attend if you have never been.

2nd year in a row going, sadly this is once a year Labor Day weekend event in Louisville. Liked walking around and seeing different cultures come together. It was hot but not humid this year vs. it was unbearably hot last year. Here you can buy different things from the stands made in their country. There are also many food options here. We went with Cuban food of course of all places. Even went with water that was only $2. There were other options for drinks but were a tad overpriced. I look forward to going next year although it is a very long wait. I highly recommend if you're living or staying in Louisville Labor Day weekend. I will miss this festival until next year.

Haven't been to Worldfest in a couple of years. Always enjoyed it and with the pandemic, wanted to get out in some fresh air and wide open and see people enjoying themselves again. It was refreshing with a singer right at the entry of Worldfest and the water for keeping cool and young one to play in. The set up was very nice and there was so much in display from food to clothing to Jewelry and hats, almost anything you could image. The stages were well positioned to maneuver and the sounds of one location didn't impede upon another. The foods were good, however there seemed to be lesser varieties then past years. (We skipped a few years attending). I'd like to have seen more European and Asian cuisines in the mix. I've given it a 5 star if more diversified nationalities, but it was well laid out and organized. But all in all the entertainment was good and it was a beautiful day. Sunny and mid 80's, can't get any better.

Welp. Time to update this bad boy. I don't know who is running the World Fest, but they've done a great job. What once was a very small event that sold extremely unsanitary food is now quite a large thing, and virtually everyone has shored up any concerns I (or anyone) has with food hygiene. I'm very impressed. For free, I don't know that this event can be beaten by anything of it's ilk. Learn about different cultures, try their food, buy their clothes and jewelry... Just immerse yourself in the globe and multiculturalism.I'll be going back to the World Fest every year, moving forward.

Granted when we went it was blistering hot but there's not nearly enough free access to water or shade as there should have been. Not enough places to sit. They have one water station and it's all the way at the entrance. The entertainment was mediocre - poorly rehearsed from what I saw. Theres alot of food options (a lot of Mexican food in particular), lots of booths (but not a ton of variety, not a variety of cultures in booths. Mostly just African clothes/jewelry). Would've loved more cultures to have had a presence and something called "worldfest." Basically no Europe representation, for one example. For what it is, it's amusing.