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The Pig in the Park Barbecue Festival and Cook-Off will be held in Williamston’s Mineral Spring Park this weekend, May 15 and 16. The event is sponsored by the Williamston Masonic Lodge and is celebrating its fifth year. According to organizers, cooking teams from all over South Carolina and two from North Carolina are registered for the cookoff.
The activities begin on Friday with barbecue and food, craft vendors and a children’s play area from 12 noon until 9 p.m. There will be live music from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with the Original Out of Towners.
On Saturday activities will run from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. with barbecue and food sales, craft vendors, live music and a children’s play area. Music with the Original Out of Towners will go from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Judging of barbecue will begin at 10 a.m. Presentation of Barbecue championship awards will be at 2:30 p.m..
Beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday, the Williamston Masonic Lodge will be selling wrist bands for all-you-can-eat samples of competitors barbecue for $10.
The following competitiors are participating in the Championship Barbecue Cookoff:
Palmetto Smoke BB, Kevin B Gleen, Simpsonville;
Swig-n-Pig Andrew Massey Williamston
Piggy Fins BBQ Jeremy Smith Fountain Inn
Outlaw Bar-B-Q Michael Cooke Blacksburg
Bold Branch Bar-B-Q Boys, Joe Hilliard, Anderson
High on the Hog BBQ, Matt Talbot, Belton
Blind Swine BBQ, Mike Sanders, Greenwood
ALL SAUCED UP, Rockey D. Burguss, Williamston
BOBO’S QUE, Bobby Owens, Clayton NC
Blue Suede Que, Thomas Thomason, Hodges
R & R BBQ, Ronnie Neely, Pelzer
J V BBQ, Keith Windham, Sumter
In the Army Que, Tony Sadler, Charlotte NC
Smoke-N-Hope Lew Robertson, Charleston
Pimp My Pig, Dean Price, Leeville
Backwoods Bar-B-Que, Gene A. Culbertson II, Trenton
The Smokin’ Grill, Kenneth Scales, Williamston
On the Spot BBQ, Ronnie Bishop, Greenwood
Sponsors for this year’s event include:
All About Fabrics; Brady’s Screen Printing & Embroidery; Cox & Cole Attorney at Law ; Ellison Service Center, LLC; Foothills Gun & Pawn, Inc.; Foster’s Meat; In Memory of Sammy Ellison; Saluda Quick Stop; Southern Touch Tree Services, Inc; Steward’s Towing; The Journal; Toney Creek Plantation; Town of Williamston; Waste Connections and WESC.
Pig in the Park Barbecue Festival and Cook-Off is a charity event with net proceeds going to Christian Learning Center, Operation Care and Williamston Masonic Lodge No 24.
Visitors are invited to “Bring a lawn chair and enjoy a fun-filled day of entertainment, food and good family fun,” a spokesperson said.
More information can be found on their web site at williamstonpiginpark.com.
