The Louisville Independent Business Alliance (LIBA) will host the 6th Annual Buy Local Fair on Sunday, May 18th at The Water Tower Park, 3005 River Road, from 12:00pm - 6:00pm.

This year's fair has expanded to include over 170 booths showcasing goods and services from a variety of local businesses, artists, community organizations, and farmers. The event will also feature a Cooking Competition between defending champion Joe Benet from RYE on Market and Rising Star Award winner Annie Petry from Decca, a craft beer tent sponsored by ValuMarket featuring beers from the Kentucky Guild of Brewers, a raffle area, a farmers market, many creative artisans, an H2O Kids Zone sponsored by Louisville Water, and live entertainment from area Zumba instructors and bands including Bookshelf, Karston Nelson, Small Time Napoleon, and Field of Kings.

The mission of the Buy Local Fair is to provide a venue that fosters cooperation, cross-pollination and strength in numbers for locally-owned, independent entities. By bringing together customers of various businesses, farms, craftspeople and bands unique to the Louisville-area, we expose a variety of endeavors to new audiences and increase business for all.

The 2014 Buy Local Fair Sponsors are Louisville Metro Council, Amish Hills Furniture, Eclipse Bank, Rainbow Blossom Natural Food Markets, Stock Yards Bank, Streamline Payment Processing, Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville Label, Dine Company, Heaven Hill Distilleries, VO2 Multisport, The Plant Kingdom, Louisville Stoneware, M2-Maximum Media, Scott of All Trades, Oak St. Production Group, ValuMarket, LEO Weekly, Louisville Water, Louisville Magazine, Louisville.com, Maloney Outdoor Advertising, and Louisville Public Media.

Contact Kristen at kristen@keeplouisvilleweird.com for any questions or information on volunteer opportunities.

About the Louisville Independent Business Alliance
The mission of LIBA is to preserve the unique community character of the Metro Louisville area by promoting locally-owned businesses and to educate citizens on the value of buying locally. LIBA celebrates 10 years of "Keeping Louisville Weird" in 2015.