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The latest news from the Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival

WSPA partners with Barbecue Festival

The Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival announces it has partnered with CBS affiliate WSPA to promote the 2012 festival.  The event will be held June 8th and 9th at Harmon Field in Tryon.

BBQ Festival sets 2012 schedule

The 2012 Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival will be held June 8-9, 2012, according to Chairman Chuck Britton.

Wicked Que top squad at 18th BBQ Festival

Jeff Campbell's Wicked Que team from Watkinsville, Ga. earned top honors at the 18th annual Blue Ridge BBQ competition in Tryon, N.C., besting an 84-team field filled with some of competition barbecue's top cooking competitors.

2011 Blue Ridge BBQ Festival competition results

Results of the 2011 Blue Ridge BBQ Festival competition

Ultimate BBQ Showdown winners to compete at Barbecue Festival

The two top winners of a new barbecue TV show are coming to the Blue Ridge Barbecue & Music Festival, June 10 and 11, in Tryon, North Carolina.

Festival again named NC BBQ state championship

North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue has again decreed that the Blue Ridge Barbecue & Music Festival "shall be known as a North Carolina State Championship," and June 10-11, 2011, "shall be 'The Blue Ridge Barbecue Festival Days' in North Carolina."

Craft Fair deadline for entries extended

The deadline for accepting deadlines for the 2011 Foothills Craft Fair to be held in conjunction with the Blue Ridge Barbecue & Music Festival has been extended to Friday, April 29.

Volunteers are heart of BBQ Festival

The music is great. The barbecue is the best. But it's the volunteers who make the Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival work.

BBQ Festival cookers to get taste of Waffle House

There will be more than the smell of barbecue slowing cooking in “Hog Heaven” during this year’s 18th Annual Blue Ridge Barbecue & Music Festival.  There will also be the smell of waffles, thanks to Waffle House in Columbus.

Chuck Wicks to headline 2011 BBQ Festival

Country music is coming back to the Blue Ridge Barbecue & Music Festival in Tryon, N.C., and according to entertainment committee chairs Benton Wharton and Brook Hannon, it’s coming in grand style.