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Axios
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Indianapolis weekend events: Rubber duck racing, Juneteenth exhibit, Bailey Zimmerman and more
The Broad Ripple Canal will once again host the "greatest spectacle in rubber duck racing" Saturday. Zoom in: The annual Broad Ripple Duck Race is back to see which swimming speed demon will claim the checkered flag. Before the race, the humans in attendance can get some exercise during a 5K and fun run through Broad Ripple Village. Participants are encouraged to dress in duck gear, so get quackin' folks. Plus: Free children's activities will happen on the Rainbow Bridge overlooking the Broad Ripple Canal on Guilford Avenue. If you go: The 5K starts at 10am. The duck race starts at 12:30pm. 5K and fun run registration is $35 for adults and $20 for kids 15 and under. Rubber ducks for the race are $6 each. Here are the rest of our picks for the weekend: 🍻 Go to a beer fest where history meets hops at History on Tap, 6pm Friday at Conner Prairie. Tickets start at $75. 🎵 Party with country star Bailey Zimmerman at Everwise Amphitheater, 7:30pm Friday. Tickets start at $117. 🛍️ Shop 'til you drop at the 48th annual Woodruff Place Flea Market, 8am-5pm Saturday and 10am-5pm Sunday. 🌳 Join the Indianapolis Bonsai Club as it showcases its specimens at Garfield Park Conservatory and Gardens, 10am-5pm Saturday and 1-5pm Sunday. Tickets are $6 per person and $14 per family. 🥃 Head to Fortville for the second annual Mash Bash at Moon Drops Distillery, noon Saturday. Tickets start at $35. 🍷 Try some award-winning wines and enjoy live music during the free Groovin' in the Garden event at Easley Winery, 2pm Saturday. 🏀 See Indiana's top high school basketball players face their Kentucky counterparts during an All-Star doubleheader at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, 5pm Saturday.
Indianapolis Star
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
Community enjoys annual History on Tap event at Conner Prairie
Attendees pick up glasses for drinks Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Cooper Reed makes laugenbrezel, German soft pretzels, on Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar A festival volunteer holds up a glass for drinks Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Mark Rodriguez leans on a fence Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Matt Nicholson (from left), Wendy Danner, El Creakbaum and Ryan Creakbaum chat Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Squirrel Butter performs Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Attendees make their way to booths Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Brian Boyle and Jeny Boyle of Noblesville walk across a bridge Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Sarah Withrow bakes laugenbrezel, German soft pretzels, on Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Griffin Brinkley with Field of Dreams Whiskey serves to attendees Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Attendees take a photo Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Tess Meyers with Mallow Run Winery in Bargersville pours wine into a glass Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar The Overgrown Pasture serves attendees Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Horizon Council board members Darrick Jones (from left), Melanie Sturgis and Celeste Jones laugh Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar The Overgrown Pasture serves attendees Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Laugenbrezel, German soft pretzels, bake Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Tess Meyers (left) and Anne Stillabower with Mallow Run Winery in Bargersville pour wine into glasses Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Grant Girard of Illinois plays frisbee with friends Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar Quaff On! Brewing Company serves attendees Friday, June 6, 2025, during History on Tap, a beer festival featuring local beverages and restaurants, at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Grace Smith/IndyStar
Indianapolis Star
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
IndyStar to join Conner Prairie for unique History on Tap craft beer experience
Indiana's craft breweries produced more than 233,000 barrels of beer in 2024, creating an economic impact of nearly $1.5 billion, according to the Brewers Association national trade group. Today, more than 200 craft breweries operate in the state, which experienced a near quadrupling in its craft brewer ranks since 2011. And while Broad Ripple Brewpub in Indianapolis is the state's longest operating microbrewery, having opened in 1990, Indiana's commercial brewing history dates back to 1819, when, according to the Indiana Historical Society, German settlers in New Harmony began selling their surplus beer in the town on the banks of the Wabash River. Now, regardless of whether we've just schooled you on Hoosier craft beer history, or if you can write a dissertation on the differences between Zombie Dust and Zombie Ice, IndyStar is proud to announce our partnership with an annual event that's sure to enlighten and entertain Central Indiana craft beer lovers. Conner Prairie's' popular History on Tap craft beer event returns in 2025 from 6-10 p.m. June 6. Attendees will sample the creations of more than 20 Indiana craft brewers while strolling the Fishers living history museum's grounds and taking in music, food, activities and historical reenactments centered on Indiana's long and lively brewing history. General admission tickets for the 12th annual History on Tap event run $75 for non-members and $65 for Conner Prairie members at with $20 admission for designated drivers. All participants must be age 21 or older. As a Growler Partner in this year's event, IndyStar will be on hand to enhance the fun. Attendees are encouraged to stop by our booth to meet our news and marketing staff, participate fun activities, and snap selfies at our interactive photo stations at the event. IndyStar readers can also look forward to some additional local brewery information from dining and drinks reporter Bradley Hohulin, your friend inside Central Indiana's culinary scene. Part of reporting on a community is being part of that community, and like last summer when IndyStar launched a reader advisory panel and held in-person events at Indiana Fever games and the Indiana State Fair, we're planning some fun community events as the weather heats up. This year, IndyStar readers can plan on hearing about another IndyStar night with the Fever, in-person events on our free ticket day at the fair, and a few other offerings that we'll announce later. Our dedicated news staff, both those new to the area and those who have called Indianapolis home for decades, are looking forward to meeting you out on the town. Thank you for reading IndyStar.
