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National Cornbread Festival 2024

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April 15, 2024

From: National Cornbread Festival

The National Cornbread Festival is a weekend-long celebration of cornbread and many cornbread related activities for adults and kids. You’ll find us in the quaint town of South Pittsburg, Tennessee every year during the last full weekend in April.

Come and Enjoy
-National Lodge® Cast Iron Cornbread Cook-off
-Cornbread Alley (sample various cornbread recipes)
-Live music throughout the festival
-Arts and Crafts from area vendors
-Tours of the Lodge Cast Iron Foundry
-Cornbread 5K Race
-Cornbread Fondo
-Tours of historic South Pittsburg
-Cornbread Eating Contests

Schedule of Events:

April 27, 2024

Tower Community Bank Stage:
9:30 a.m. - 5K Road Race Results & Awards
10:30 a.m. - Cornbread Eating Contest
12:00 p.m. - Ice Cream Eating Contest (12:10)
12:30 p.m. - High Carbon Steel
1:30 p.m. - Buttermilk Chugging Contest (1:40)
2:00 p.m. - Le Gato
3:00 p.m. - Frozen T-Shirt Contest (3:10)

Lodge Cook-Off Stage:
9:30 a.m. - Baking Demo Karl Worley Biscuit Love
10:30 a.m. - Lodge Demo
10:45 a.m. - Cook-off Rules
11:00 a.m. - Contestant 1
11:15 a.m. - Contestant 2
11:30 a.m. - Contestant 3
11:45 a.m. - Contestant 4
12:00 p.m. - Contestant 5
12:15 p.m. - Contestant 6
12:30 p.m - Contestant 7
12:45 p.m. - Contestant 8
1:00 p.m. - Contestant 9
1:15 p.m. - Contestant 10
2:15 p.m. - Last Heat Ends
2:30 p.m. - Lodge Demo
2:45 p.m. - Winners Announced
3:15 p.m. - Lodge Demo
3:30 p.m. - Cast Iron Grilling Demo
David Olson
Live Fire Republic

K&K Waste Front Porch Stage:
10:00 a.m. - Cornbread Eating Contest
10:30 a.m. - Robert Lee
12:45 p.m. - Ice Cream Eating Contest (12:50)
1:00 p.m. - Jesse Black
2:15 p.m. - Trae Carlton

Builtwell Bank Stage:
3:00 p.m. - Lori Rayne
4:45 p.m. - Mae Estes
6:00 p.m.  - David Nail

April 28, 2024

Tower Community Bank Stage:

8:00 a.m. - Community Worship
10:00 a.m. - Cornbread Eating Contest
10:30 a.m.- The New Quintet
11:45 a.m.- Ice Cream Eating Contest
12:00 p.m.- Emerald Butler
1:15 p.m. - Buttermilk Chugging Contest (1:25)
1:30 p.m. - Mountain Cove Bluegrass
2:45 p.m.- Frozen T-Shirt Contest

Builtwell Bank Stage:

1:00 p.m. - Cassidy Lynn
2:15 p.m.- Alex Miller
3:30 p.m. - Emily Ann Roberts

K&K Waste Front Porch Stage:

10:00 a.m. - Cornbread Eating Contest
10:15 a.m.- Josh Burton
11:30 a.m.- Courtney Holder
12:30 p.m.- Ice Cream Eating Contest (12:35)
12:45 p.m. - Ryan Oyer

Lodge Cook-Off Stage:

7:30 a.m. - Rotary Pancake Breakfast
10:30 a.m.- Cooking Demo Lodge Chefs Kris Stubblefield and Shannon Van Dusen
11:30 a.m.- Lodge Demo
12:00 p.m.- 4-H Cook-off Heat 1
1:00 p.m.- 4-H Cook-off Heat 2
2:00 p.m.- Judges Deliberate
2:30 p.m.- Winners Announced

Date: April 27-28, 2024

Location: Various Location in South Pittsburg

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