Red Skelton Festival & Parade 2026

9:30 AM Red Skelton Sites Tour with Doug Carroll $$
Visit many sites around Vincennes that were important in Red’s life, including his birthplace, places of employment and inspiration and his father’s gravesite.

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Tickets are $5
There are three tour options: please select which tour you would like to take.

11:00 AM Red Skelton Shrine and Clown Parade
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12:30 PM Holy Clown Prince! talk with Mark Kratzner
Holy Harlequins! The Clown Prince of Comedy meets the Clown Prince of Crime. The Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy is celebrating the Batman TV show’s 60th anniversary by remembering Batman villains who guest starred with Red Skelton. Cesar Romero, known as the Joker, was on the Red Skelton Show 13 times between 7957-7970.

2:00 PM Red Skelton Sites Tour with Doug Carroll $$
Visit many sites around Vincennes that were important in Red’s life, including his birthplace, places of employment and inspiration and his father’s gravesite.

3:30 PM Proposed Japanese Garden talk with Mark Glover of Nature by Design

5:30 PM Dinner with Mrs. Skelton $$
In the new Lothian and Red Skelton Gallery of Fine Art‍

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Dinner tickets include a ticket to the Remembering Red: Red Skelton Tribute Show‍

Ticket Prices:
Donor Circle Member (members at the $150 level or above): Complimentary
Red Skelton Museum Members: $40
General Public: $50

7:00 PM Remembering Red: Red Skelton Tribute Show with Brian Hoffman $$ Opening Act – Mr. Puppet

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Tickets are $15 and are general admission.
If you purchased a ticket for the Dinner with Mrs. Skelton, your ticket is included and you do not have to purchase a separate ticket.

Free Film Festival

11 a.m. A Southern Yankee

1 p.m. The Fuller Brush Man

3 p.m. Merton of the Movies