Your weekend plans: Let's Fest, Indy LaborFest, Fishers Blues Fest and more
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This long Labor Day weekend, lighten your load with a few laughs.
Driving the news: The sixth annual Let's Fest is underway, bringing four-days of standup to Fountain Square.
- Performances, live podcasts and showcases from local and national comedians will play out across seven venues.
- In addition to the jokes, music will be provided by Victor Jones, and Warped Tour-featured alt/pop act ADDIE ADDIE ADDIE.
Zoom in: The festival is produced by Indiana's Let's Comedy, which has hosted more than 1,000 events across over 50 venues and 10 states since 2015
- Last year's Let's Fest welcomed more than 2,300 attendees.
If you go: Let's Fest runs through Sunday.
- See the full schedule and purchase tickets for each show here.
More weekend picks:
🎲 Enjoy three nonstop days of board games, demos and tabletop tournaments during Who's Yer Con at Indianapolis Marriott East, 8am Friday-4pm Sunday.
- Tickets start at $10.
🖼️ Explore Eiteljorg Museum for free during a First Friday gathering with music, local artists, games and DJs. 3-7pm Friday.
🎻 Fall into the final Symphony on the Prairie weekend with Tom Petty, Phil Collins and Eagles tributes under the stars at Conner Prairie.
- Free Fallin starts at 8pm Friday, The Phil Collins Experience starts at 8pm Saturday and EagleMania starts at 8pm Sunday.
- Tickets start at $12.
🎸 Groove with Australian blues-rock guitarist Taj Farrant at The Vogue, 8pm Friday.
- Tickets start at $23.
🌳 Join the Indianapolis Bonsai Club as it showcases its specimens at Garfield Park Conservatory and Gardens, 10am-5pm Saturday and 1-5pm Sunday.
- Tickets are $7 per person or $15 per family.
🥳 Celebrate Labor Day with music, food trucks, a kids zone, mascots and a drumline during the free Indy LaborFest at Morris Bicentennial Plaza, 12-6pm Saturday.
🎹 Support a long running live music celebration when the free Fishers Blues Fest returns to Nickel Plate District Amphitheater for its 14th year. 5-10pm Saturday and Sunday.
⚽ Attend an Oktoberfest celebration at Carroll Stadium when the Indy Eleven host Birmingham Legion FC, 7pm Saturday.
- Tickets start at $12.
🤘 Rock out with Japanese metal-pop trio BABYMETAL at Ruoff, 7:20pm Saturday.
- Tickets start at $28.
🥃 Spend Sunday afternoon tasting tequila during the Indy Tequila Festival at Military Park, 2-8pm.
- Tickets start at $25.
😱 See two heavyweight shock-rockers team up when Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson perform at Ruoff, 6:15pm Sunday.
- Tickets start at $41.