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No pets at Hog
Day, please
Saturday's Featured Performers
Jim
Quick and the Coastline Band
That old shagging kind of music - Beach music favorites
will perform at noon
NANTUCKET
One of eastern North Carolina's favorite rock bands
of the 80's will perform at 2:00 pm
To see who
else is performing on Saturday, click here.
Friday's Concert will be a ticketed
Event featuring The
Flabbergasters
Admission $5, 12
and under free. Advance tickets are available at locations around
Hillsborough or at the gate
Hillsborough
Hog Day 2008
Friday, June 20, 6 pm to 10 pm
Saturday, June 21, 9 am to 6 pm
Downtown Hillsborough, North Carolina
What is Hillsborough Hog Day?
A better question would be "What isn't Hillsborough Hog Day?"
Now celebrating its 26th Anniversary, Hillsborough Hog Day
offers family fun, good food, live music, crafters, merchandise
vendors, games and rides, and the area's largest classic auto
show.
The festival starts on Friday night, when 36 pig cooking
teams from all over the state roll into town. For the next
12 hours, hams and pork shoulders roast on the cookers and
tall tales are exchanged. The gates will open at 6:00 pm for
a concert beginning at 7:00 pm featuring local a great performer!
When day breaks on Saturday, Hog Day is already bustling with
activity. While vendors, who sell everything from video games
to handpainted stained glass, set up in the General Merchandise,
Food, and Craft areas, you hear a persistent "thunk, thunk,
thunk" and you know the pig is ready. The cooking teams chop
all their cooked pig and sauce a portion for the Barbecue
Tasting Judges. Led by Chief Judge David Hunt and Assistant
Judge Donna Baker, the judges will compare notes and make
their final decisions as to the top 5 barbecue cooking teams.
They are to be saluted for tasting 36 different barbecues
at 8:30 am!
The rest is shuttled to the main tent, where it's made into
sandwiches and pounds of the freshest barbecue in the state.
Cash prizes and trophies are awarded for best barbecue (click
here for an Application).
There will be classic and vintage cars and tractors, a children's
stage, more than 60 crafters set up to sell their handcrafted
wares, and Chamber members man booths to promote local businesses.
There are rides and games and entertainment for the young
ones.
On the stage, the band is warming up for a day full of fine
music. In 2007, we welcomed The Doc Branch
Band, The Craig Woolard Band, Might Lester, Terry Anderson
& the OAK Team, and American Idol Contestant Heather Cox!
Past performers have included The Derek Trucks Band,
The Two Dollar Pistols, Coastline Band, Stillhouse, Tres Chicas,
Chatham County Line, Mike Cross General Johnson and the Chairman
of the Board, and many other locally and nationally famous
performers. Come early to get a good seat for the performers!
And the best part: admission to this festival is $3 per person,
kids 12 and under free. What an entertainment bargain!
Orange County's largest festival, with attendance of up to
35,000 people, is always held on the 3rd Saturday of June,
so mark your calendars.
Hillsborough Hog Day is presented by
the Hillsborough/Orange County Chamber of Commerce.
For more information about the Chamber, click here, or call the Chamber at 919-732-8156
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Hog Day 2008 is going ZERO WASTE
It's not trash until
you throw it out! Click here
for more information
Want to Sponsor the 26th Annual Hillsborough
Hog Day?
Click here for sponsorship
opportunities
Want to Volunteer
to help on Hog Day?
Click here
for volunteer form.
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2007 Logo
Created
by Sam Scott
of Greenville, NC |
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In 2007, Winner Trophies sponsored By:
Hillsborough Moose Family Center,
Lodge # 1893
2007 Cookoff Winners
1st Place
Charles & Sonja Ritch, Efland, NC
2nd Place
Freddy Cole, Perry McLelland, Jeff Brown, Rougemont,
NC
3rd Place
Billy Martin and Clay Moore, Bahama, NCh
4th Place
David Lee Burch and Chip Lewis, Rougemont, NC
5th Place
Chuck and Jen McLean, Durham, NC
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