Easter Seal Benefit entertainment and information show, with 15 continuous hours of live music with features, client interviews, including national and local musicians, performers and actors.

Each year in June as part of the McCracken County Fair, Purchase Area Master Gardeners Garden Club (PAMGA), Paducah, KY sponsors a standard flower show featuring both horticulture and design competition.

The Lone Oak Lions Club Annual Gas & Steam Engine Show, now in its 32nd year, is a much anticipated tradition in Western Kentucky. In the 22 years since it was started, the show has grown enormously, hosting exhibits of about 800 restored farm machines, antique gasoline and steam-powered machinery, tractors, automobiles, railroad motor cars, wagons, and stagecoaches.

Annual lighted trail proceeds through the historic areas of Paducah – Downtown, Lowertown, Jefferson Street and Noble Park. Each year, Paducah Power System sponsors a magnificent display of Christmas lights in Noble Park.

Holiday Parade in downtown Paducah sponsored by Parks Services Department. Parade begins at 14th and Broadway and disbands at 2nd and Broadway. Evening parade with floats, bands and of course, Santa. River City Mardi Gras: Held late February. A weekend celebration featuring a parade, children's activities, music and masquerade ball.

More than 15 tons of chicken and pork is smoked, grilled, and barbecued at this community charitable event. Live blues entertainment, arts & crafts, and sidewalk sales. Also, Marine Industry Days and children's events on the riverfront. An annual event in which local volunteers donate proceeds of barbecue sales to charities and non-profit organizations of their choice.