VaVa Vaudeville; Ghost Horse; Murder Train

What: VaVa CarniVale
Where: Headliners Music Hall
When: Friday, December 27 and Saturday, December 28, 7 p.m.
"Show us your tassels" say the Va Va Vixens, Louisville, Kentucky's largest and most popular burlesque troupe with over 25 performers, both male and female. "With a vaudevillian flair," the VaVa event may include "dance, acrobatics, aerial acts, striptease and singing."

What: Ghost Horse Comanche & Iamis
Where: Zanzabar
When: Saturday, December 27 and Sunday, December 28, 9 p.m.
Rob Collier, Jason Lawrence, Madison Stubblefield and Chet Vincent appear with Shawna Dellecave and Jason Cox, "who have been perpetrating their psychedelically twisted Folk Rock on an unsuspecting public for the past six years."

What: Murder Mystery Excursion
Where: My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, Bardstown
When: Sunday, December 28, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
This train ride through the Kentucky countryside provides a "four course meal and a theatre production of a murder mystery."