#What’sHappening!! In Indy This Weekend- May 14- 15 Indy 500 – Chase 500 Festival Kids’ Day Enjoy Indiana’s largest free outdoor festival for kids! The Chase 500 Festival Kids’ Day offers fun, interactive, educational displays in a carnival-like atmosphere. Attendees can interact with local mascots, race mini cars, bounce in giant inflatables, get free kids […]

Six decades after they didn’t receive recognition after they made history, the members of the legendary 1955 Crispus Attucks High School Basketball team will get their ride and recognition around the Monument Circle and much more!  The Attucks Team is the 2015 Grand Marshals of the 58th IPL 500 Festival Parade, Saturday May 23rd Downtown.  […]

Yes, its cold and snowy, but in several months it’ll be spring again, and time for the activities of the month of May.  And that includes the events of the 500 Festival, the Indianapolis organization that presents the 500 Festival parade, the 500 Mini Marathon, the Festival’s Kids Day and Community Day and much more. […]

Bob Bryant is only the fourth head of the venerable nearly sixty year institution the 500 Festival, which for nearly sixty years has sponsored events and activities leading up to the Indianapolis 500 race.  Events that include a world class Parade, a Children’s Festival on Monument Circle, the famed 500 festival Mini-Marathon and the Community […]

In my nearly forty year Hall of Fame broadcasting career, I got to do something I’ve never done. While local radio and TV personalities are not allowed to ride in the annual 500 Festival Parade, we are allowed to “narrate” the parade. To help parade watchers know what’s coming down the parade route.  For the […]