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Future of ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ song in doubt at games

One has to wonder how much longer the singing of “My Old Kentucky Home” will occur at sporting events in the Bluegrass. Anything associated with slavery is a candidate for extinction, based on the current atmosphere surrounding racial issues.

The University of Louisville band, which has performed at the Kentucky Derby for a couple of decades, was still playing the music before UofL football games last season. Probably not going to happen this year, no matter how all the drama with Covid-19 pandemic pans out. Not that that would bother this Ohio-born observer all that much but the kids and grandchildren raised in Kentucky will miss the song.