St. Cecilia Labor Day Festival

Independence, Kentucky - 2025 St. Cecilia Music Festival

2025 St. Cecilia Labor Day Festival

For over 100 years, Independence has been home to the St. Cecilia Labor Day Festival. This festival has grown in prominence over the past 15 years and is now the top ranked festival in Northern Kentucky. The festival is loaded with great food, rides, and unbelievable concerts. The festival is always family friendly and closes with a traditional family style chicken dinner on Monday (Labor Day).

Saturday, August 30, 2025
5:00pm - 11:30pm

Location: 5313 Madison Pike, Independence, KY 41051
Festivities begin at 5:00 pm directly following mass. There will be games of chance, food, beer, alcohol, kids rides and much, much more...
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St. Cecilia Concert Stage

Concert starts about 9:00pm

Sunday, August 31, 2025
4:00pm - 11:30pm

Location: 5313 Madison Pike, Independence, KY 41051

Festivities begin at 4:00pm on Sunday afternoon. There will be games of chance, food, beer, alcohol, kids rides and much, much more...

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St. Cecilia Concert Stage

Concert starts about 9:00pm

Monday, September 1st - Labor Day
1:00 - 10:00pm

Festivities begin at 1:00pm on Monday afternoon. There will be games of chance, food, beer, alcohol, kids rides and much, much more. Monday is family day and our famous chicken dinner will be served. Monday also closes the festival with a fireworks show at 10pm.

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Grand Raffle

This year's grand prize is a TBA. You will have a 1 in up to 8,000 chance to win this or $50k in cash (max 8,000 tickets sold).

Grand Prize drawing will be LIVE on Sept. 1st up on the festival stage after the fireworks.

Side notes for 2025

There are expectations for 12-15k people per night.

The concerts and admission are free. It would be much appreciated to support the festival by purchasing raffle tickets for the Corvette. The winner will be drawn live on Monday night.