When “My Old Kentucky Home” plays at the track, who doesn’t get a little choked up? It’s tradition, its nostalgia, it’s pure Kentucky. The man behind that iconic song, Stephen Foster ...

Composer Stephen Collins Foster in an 1859 daguerreotype. At right, the first edition sheet music of "My Old Kentucky Home," published in 1853.

Composer Stephen Collins Foster in an 1859 daguerreotype. At right, the first edition sheet music of “My Old Kentucky Home,” published in 1853.

T he state of Kentucky dedicated a shrine to Stephen C. Foster, composer of My Old Kentucky Home and other songs typically American. This dedication has a flavor of sentiment about it; the shrine ...

Opinion: KY's state song, 'My Old Kentucky Home,' evokes a racist past and should be banished to the archives of historical shame. We need a new song.

Churchill Downs Racetrack will continue its tradition of playing “My Old Kentucky Home” at the start of the Kentucky Derby despite criticism of the song about American slavery. The Kentucky ...

Classic Louisville-based band The Monarchs are set to return to the stage at My Old Kentucky Home State Park in Bardstown on Monday, Aug. 4. The show is part of ...

A state-of-the-art theatre located in a natural wooded setting on the grounds of My Old Kentucky Home State Park. Seats 1450. Built by the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the Stephen Foster Drama ...

My favorite moment of the Kentucky Derby is when the horses come onto the track and the crowd sings My Old Kentucky Home — a song I’ve always found more ...

Front cover of the book “My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song” written by author Emily Bingham. The book was published by the Knopf Doubleday ...

Country artist and Garrard County native Alex Miller performs his rendition of "My Old Kentucky Home." The song by Stephen Collins Foster is the official state song for Kentucky and is played ...