We would like to invite you to the 20th 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 $10.00 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.

Ntranze will be playing all your favorite beach and party 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, poker run, and the announcement of the B.B.Q. cookoff winners.

Saturday night tops the festival with the B.B.Q. Shag Dance, featuring the Mighty Kicks. First place prize of $1000.00 will be given to the first place pro shag dancers. Amateur winners will take home a $250 first place prize.

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 Dexter Stuckey at 843-933-0997, or Brooke Cockfied at 843-558-3632.

Photos of past festivals

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)

DHEC Application (PDF file - print, fill and mail in with your cookoff application)

Cookoff Rules (Word file)

The Dance Contest (calling all shaggers)

The Poker Run (To be announced)

Application for small vendor space       Application for large vendor space  

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

Places to visit on the Internet

SCIway - The South Carolina Internet Highway

Hemingway Home Page - The Barbecue Capital of the World

Sandlapper Magazine Story on festival in Spring '07 issue
Williamsburg County Home Page
Williamburg Chamber of Commerce
Georgetown County Home Page
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce
Florence County Home Page
Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce
Pee Dee Country, South Carolina

Sponsors and contributors

Haselden Brothers Ford
Williamsburg First National Bank
Big Country Chevrolet
Anderson Brothers Bank
Tupperware
Don's Car Crushing
Stuckey Brothers Furniture
DNR Transport, Inc
Law Office of Holly H. Wall

H & H Builders, Conway, SC

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