A few hours before pop star Natasha Bedingfield was set to headline the 2025 Kentuckiana Pride Festival, she shared an Instagram selfie during sound check.
“Kentuckiana Pride, it’s all going down here tonight,” a smiling Bedingfield said in a sing-song voice in the short video, taken from the main stage at the Big Four Lawn at Waterfront Park in downtown Louisville on June 21.
Excitement and endless sights of rainbows, in the form of dresses, fans, stickers, hats, matching shirts, and many, many flags, bounced around the festival grounds on Saturday afternoon, ahead of the “Unwritten” singer’s set.
And the day-long celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community was building off the mega success of its 2024 record-breaking run, headlined by the then-rising pop sensation Chappell Roan. For the first time in the event’s history, tickets sold out in advance. Plus, photos and videos shared on social media of the “Pink Pony Club” performer went viral, especially those showing the huge crowd of thousands spanning Waterfront Park, as well as seemingly hundreds of people lining the colorfully lit-up Big Four Bridge for a peek at the show.

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