LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Blind Feline is the first local band featured in the First Friday on Main event, put on by Alicia Otero of Lou Rae Riverside. They hope to bring more Louisvillians to Museum Row, drawing them with Louisville flair like the blues-funk-jazz fusion Feline provides.
"This is not just a Cover Band city. This is not just Nashville. This is Kentucky. We have original art here," Oliver Sayani, the band's guitarist," said.
On tap, the event had local brews from Apocalypse served out of an old fire truck. However, 30 different bars, restaurants and entertainment venues offer special deals while the event goes on.
"If this was just us, by ourselves, in a garage, we'd still be doing it," Sayani said.
But at the Urban Sports Park, they can draw in the crowd.
"I was just at the Muhammad Ali museum and we just heard the music. It moves me. I heard the music, so I came down," Kameron Anson said.
She visited Louisville from Elizabethtown to see her sister, and the Frickled Pickle's savory bites drew her in too. Between that and her education on Ali, we'll call her a local anyway, though you don't have to be one to visit.
"If you see something, just drop by and check it out. You might be surprised. We were definitely surprised," she said.
And it could surprise you too.
The event runs from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the first Friday of each month, all the way through the rest of the year.
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