Discount tickets available for SHOWdown LEX, benefiting Kentucky Children’s Hospital
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 25, 2023) — Students, faculty and staff across the University of Kentucky community are being offered discounted tickets for SHOWdown LEX, a special UK Football pregame party the night before Homecoming, Oct. 13.
SHOWdown LEX is a unique concert event concept pairing fans’ passions for college football and live music. This concert features some of country music’s biggest stars, including Darius Rucker, Ashley McBryde, Ashley Cooke and Halfway to Hazard.
UK students can visit showdownlex.com and enter code UKSTUDENT for $20 off tickets.
UK employees can visit showdownlex.com and enter code UKHEALTH for $10 off tickets.
This event begins 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, at Rolex Stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park. Parking is free and $2 from every tickets sold will benefit Kentucky Children’s Hospital.
As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing, a place where ingenuity unfolds. It's all made possible by our people — visionaries, disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs, a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class medical center, all on one campus.
In 2022, UK was ranked by Forbes as one of the “Best Employers for New Grads” and named a “Diversity Champion” by INSIGHT into Diversity, a testament to our commitment to advance Kentucky and create a community of belonging for everyone. While our mission looks different in many ways than it did in 1865, the vision of service to our Commonwealth and the world remains the same. We are the University for Kentucky.