Hardin County Mother's Day Weekend Events: May 6–10, 2026

Key Takeaways

• Mother's Day weekend (May 8–10) is the busiest weekend on the May calendar — brunch, a flower bar, tea, lunch at a winery, and live music spread across all three days.
• In-person excused absentee voting is open at the Hardin County Clerk's office Wednesday May 6 – Friday May 8 AND Monday May 11 – Wednesday May 13, 8 AM – 4:30 PM. The primary is May 19.
• Birdies and Burgers Golf Scramble Friday May 8 at Elizabethtown Country Club benefits the Down Syndrome Association of the Heartland — $400 four-person team or $25 lunch only.
• Free outdoor Shakespeare — The Tempest by Kentucky Shakespeare — Friday night at Radcliff City Park.
• Three live music nights: Keagan Hatton at Cosmic Golf Friday, V-Groove with John Langley at the Etown Wine Fest Saturday, and Casey and Romy at Bourbon Barrel Tavern Saturday evening.

Summary

Jon O'Brien's Mother's Day-week events list opens with two ongoing items worth flagging. In-person excused absentee voting is open at the Hardin County Clerk's main office at 150 N. Provident Way, Suite 103 in Elizabethtown — Wednesday through Friday this week, then Monday through Wednesday next week, 8 AM to 4:30 PM. The Hardin County primary is May 19, and Phil Taul gave a quick primer mid-segment on what qualifies for excused absentee. Nurses Week at Impellizzeri's Pizza Elizabethtown runs Wednesday through May 12 with 15% off for nurses, and the Hardin County Playhouse production of A Few Good Men runs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the ECTC Science Auditorium.

For Hardin County residents trying to plan around Mother's Day on Sunday May 10, this is a weekend where every day has something on it — and most of it is happening at locally-owned venues. That tracks with the show's National Small Business Week framing: the events themselves are how a lot of Hardin County's small businesses pay their bills.

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Jon called this week one of his fuller Mother's Day-week lineups, and the calendar bears it out. Wednesday opens with Wild Roots Homeschool's Leaf Classification at Saunders Springs at 10 AM, and Cousins Maine Lobster pulls its truck into the Bomgaars parking lot in Radcliff from 11 AM to 7 PM. (Jon's note: order on the Cousins app to skip the line.)

Thursday is split between the Garden Club's May meeting at 9:30 AM downtown — "The Invaders and Their Impact on Us," with Robert Bean, Forester for Kentucky — and a 6 PM Intro to Mountain Biking Part Deux at Saunders Springs run by KyMBA Louisville and Lincoln Trails. (First-timers welcome — you don't need Part 1 to come.) Thursday evening also has the Mom Fuel Girls Night Cookie Decorating Class at the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce — built-in mom's-night-out at 6 PM, tickets at krazykookies.net.

Friday May 8 is the heaviest single day of the week. The 5th Annual Birdies and Burgers Golf Scramble at Elizabethtown Country Club benefits the Down Syndrome Association of the Heartland — DSAH — which serves families across seven counties: Hardin, Larue, Hart, Meade, Grayson, Nelson, and Breckinridge. Phil Taul flagged it during his open-floor announcement: $400 four-person team, or $25 just-for-lunch from 11 to 1 with Bussin Bites burgers and a silent auction. Local-business sponsor levels start at $100 for a hole sign and step up through Aces, Eagles, Birdies, and Par. Sign up at dsheartland.org/support, or email Tonya at [email protected] for an invoice.

Friday afternoon is Mother's Day Brunch at Aspen Alcove at 1108 Regency Way (10–11 AM, RSVP with the front desk). Friday afternoon into evening is The Secret Garden Flower Bar at Birdwhistell Books — 110 N. Main Street, 2 to 6 PM, $30 for 12 stems. Make her a bouquet. Friday night is also free outdoor Shakespeare — Kentucky Shakespeare's production of The Tempest at Radcliff City Park starting at 6:30 PM (rain space: Colvin Community Center). And on the comedy side, Wellington Ojukwu Live Comedy at the Saber and Quill on Fort Knox runs $10 advance / $15 at the door — open to the public. CASA of the Heartland's Light the Night 5K Walk/Run for vulnerable children steps off at 7 PM at 1401 W. Park Rd. in Elizabethtown. And Cosmic Golf has Keagan Hatton live at 8 PM.

Saturday is the Trojan Cruise-In at North Hardin High School from 10 AM to 1 PM — a Beta Club fundraiser, $10 suggested donation, with trophies in six categories. Mother's Day Tea at CleanGoodEats in Radcliff runs 10 AM to noon. The Etown Wine Fest at Freeman Lake Park runs Saturday afternoon — $30 gets ten tastings, a souvenir glass, and a swag bag, with V-Groove featuring John Langley on stage. Saturday evening, Casey and Romy are at Bourbon Barrel Tavern starting at 5 PM, and Thurman Landing has a Shrimp Boil and Bluegrass Night at 7 PM with The McDonald Road on stage — $35 per person, reservations at 270-268-6218. Cosmic Golf has the Rockin CowboyZ at 7:30 PM.

Sunday May 10 is Mother's Day. Lunch at J&H Farm and Winery in Vine Grove (7015 Flaherty Rd.) runs 2 to 4 PM — meal by Tiffany's Cafe, chicken parmesan or roast beef plus sides and homemade banana pudding. Tickets are at square.link. Nate visited the J&H couple in person this week — they're already thinking about ways to bring more local restaurants and venues into rotation, which is exactly the small-business-week through-line that's running across the whole show.

If you can only pick one thing this weekend, Jon's pitch was the J&H Sunday lunch — "a beautiful atmosphere, gets mom out of the kitchen, and you actually get to sit down."