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South Carolina BBQ - Shag Festival

April 23 - 25, 2009

Hemingway, South Carolina

 

We would like to invite you to the 21st annual South Carolina Bar-B-Que Shag Festival - the hottest social event in South Carolina. We have something for the young as well as the young at heart. Lots of fun for everyone!

Events start on Thursday night with wristband night where the kids ride again and again with the purchase of a $12.00 wristband. On Friday we have the taste of the Low Country with some of your best Southern favorites.

This year we will have an outdoor section for the guys with hunting and fishing supplies as well as that new boat you might be looking for. The night sky will be lit up with the fireworks show while the cookers prepare their hogs for the $3000.00 cookoff.

The D.J. will be playing all your favorite beach music while the crowd dances away on our wooden dance floor. Food vendors and crafters will be selling their wares as the crowd enjoys old friends and makes new ones. Saturday brings the car show, more dancing and entertainment, the grand arrival of the Swingin' Sows and other celebrities, as well as the announcement of the B.B.Q. cookoff winners.

There are plenty of things to do for everyone, so come to Hemingway and spend your weekend with us.

South Carolina Bar-B-Que Shag Committee

For more festival information call Dennis Miles at 843-344-2527 or Brooke Cockfield at 843-344-2884, or Brenda Sessions at 843-621-8023.

 

2006 festival photos

2007 festival photos           So -- who won?

How the festival came to be - Reminiscences of the founders

Application for the cookoff (PDF file - print, fill and mail in)

Application for small vendor space(PDF file - print, fill and mail in)

Application for large vendor space(PDF file - print, fill and mail in)

Application for town vendor license (PDF file - print, fill and mail in)

Cookoff rules, Page 1

Cookoff rules, Page 2

"Anything that" contest rules

DHEC application

Maps to Hemingway

Places to visit on the Internet

SCIway - The South Carolina Internet Highway

Hemingway Home Page - The Barbecue Capital of the World

Williamsburg County Home Page
Williamburg Chamber of Commerce
Georgetown County Home Page
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce
Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce
Pee Dee Country, South Carolina

 

Sponsors and contributors

Haselden Brothers Ford
Williamsburg First National Bank
Anderson Brothers Bank
Tupperware
Stuckey Brothers Furniture


Some of the photographs on this site are courtesy of The Weekly Observer, PO Box 309, Hemingway, SC 29554. All rights reserved

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