The three-day St. Joseph Spring Festival opens Thursday in Shelbyville.

Hosted by the St. Joseph Catholic Church, 125 E. Broadway St., the festival offers food, music and amusement rides.

“Faith, family, food and fiesta all at one time,” said Fr. Mike Keucher, pastor at St. Joseph Catholic Church, during an interview with GIANT fm Real Radio. “That’s what we are all about.”

The festival runs Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m., Friday from 5 to 11 p.m. and Saturday from 3 to 11 p.m. All the revenue from the event supports the church’s ministries.

La Cocina will offer authentic Mexican food each night and a beer garden will be open throughout the festival.

On Thursday, there will be a pulled pork dinner with music by Digital Monkey Music Mobile DJ Entertainment.

Friday is the festival’s Fish Fry. There will be a live Mariachi band for entertainment.

Saturday night will feature a pork chop dinner and music from Ghost Radio as well as Betty Duval & the Chord Strokers.

Ride tickets are currently on sale at four locations – the parish office, Knights of Columbus, Mathies Landscaping and Dean’s Cleaners. Twenty ride tickets can be purchased for $18 up through the start of the festival at 5 p.m. Thursday.

There will be a raffle running throughout the festival hours with the prize drawing Sunday night during a fried chicken dinner at the Knights of Columbus.

First prize in the raffle is $2,000. Second prize is a BBQ package estimated to be worth $1,000. Third prize is a $300 gift certificate from Mathies Landscaping.

“What it means to the community … we are blessed with a great location and it’s a place everyone can come together and just have fun and be together,” said Keucher.