Flood With Love music festival helps Eastern Kentucky flood victims [Video]

VERSAILLES, Ky. (LEX 18) — In Versailles, the community is stepping up once again through fundraising efforts. The district is the site of a free event, the Flood with Love Music Festival, spanning two days downtown starting Friday.

“If people can have fun while raising money, then I can’t think of anything better than that,” the festival’s co-coordinator, Robby Chadwell, said.

Flood with Love, now in its third year, started in 2022 when Chadwell and his team moved quickly organizing this event to help victims from the historic Eastern Kentucky floods.

“We planned it in ten days after the floods and raised like $5,000 for them and decided to do it again the next year,” Chadwell said.

This year, proceeds go to Freedom Tiny Homes of Kentucky, a non-profit building tiny homes for veterans, and another non-profit, Hindman Settlement School, out of Eastern Kentucky.

“We started two years ago when …