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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

BBQ and Bluegrass in Spruce Pine

July 20-21 Spruce Pine BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival This event features a sanctioned professional BBQ competition, a wings contest, public tastings, live bluegrass music, a cornhole tournament, championship clogging teams, craft vendors, BBQ equipment and supplies vendors, local food vendors, the Spruce Pine Skedaddle 5K and Fun Run, a kids play-area.

The highlight of the weekend is a professional BBQ competition, sanctioned by the Southern BBQ Network. Competition categories include pork butts, pork ribs (spare ribs or baby back ribs only), and chicken wings. BBQ Bucks will be sold to the public for the purchase of wings, BBQ sandwiches, BBQ plates, and BBQ by the pound.

One of the featured bluegras bands is Balsam Range,

2011 Winner IBMA Song of the Year and performer of the #1 Bluegrass hit "Last Train to Kitty Hawk." Based in Haywood County, North Carolina, Balsam Range consists of five men native to the region. Lucky Streak, Ron and Minnie Powell, have been together as a couple for over thirty years, and have been singing as a duo for almost twenty years. Barefoot Movement is a group of talented musicians from North Carolina and Tennessee whose music successfully melds Americana influences with the invigoration of acoustic modern rock and jazz.

Get a link for the Spruce Pine BBQ and Bluegrass Festival on the Spruce Pine NC Visitor Guide

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