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Please find our attached 2014 Press release and spread the word!

For Immediate Release

Hogging Up BBQ & Music Festival Returns to Virginia

Interactive BBQ Tour, Sample Tent , and Low Cost Kids Area Aims to Please

May 16, 2014

Clear Brook, VA – The Frederick County Fairgrounds again hosts the 2^nd Annual Hogging Up BBQ & Music Festival June 27-29^th 2014. The event features a Kansas City Barbeque Society cookoff and help three non-profits including the Winchester/Frederick/Clarke SPCA, Clear Brook Assembly of God’s Youth Mission and the Winchester Exchange Club. Big Fat Daddy’s Organizer Wayne Schafer promises this year’s festival will be bigger and better. Schafer says, “We’ve worked really hard on making changes that the public will like. Our BBQ event will be more interactive this year.”

Friday night promises a two stop barbecue tour. Schafer indicates, “The BBQ tour is where these Professional teams will be giving lectures giving away free tips and tricks that the home barbecue guru can use. This is really interesting as the public gets to interact and ask questions. They normally don’t do this kind of thing, and I’d like to thank the teams for supporting our cause.” Featured artist is country performing artist Michael Palmer.

Saturday’s most anticipated change is the People’s Choice Sample Tasting Tent, from 11am-2pm (or when samples run out.) Schafer says, “We worked hard with the health department and the teams to make this work. Teams will be cooking pork and numbered samples sold to the public who will judge and cast their numeric vote into the It Works Official Voting Booth”. The day’s events include performers Cosette Gobat, Burnt Orange Band and Rule-G in addition to a three stop barbecue tour including the return of TLC’s Pitmasters TV Show Season 2 Stars 3 Eyz BBQ . During the day dozens of professional BBQ teams will compete for fame, glory, some as far away as Ohio. Prizes will be given to the public throughout the day at the Vacation Village / Massanutten tent, and one lucky couple will win dinner with Professional Team Hog-It-Up BBQ on Saturday night.

Sunday’s events include a Backyard BBQ Contest for Adults (15 and up) and Kids (8-14) which Schafer says “It’s a great idea for family bonding time bring your meat and grill and come out!” Entry is $20 per adult team entry and $10 per child team, with adults present to light fire and oversee activities. Performing artists Brian Buchanan and Gary Smallwood will be taking the stage in addition to Evel Speed Motor Sick’l Shop of Inwood hosting a Bike & Car Show. Additionally, there is a Certified BBQ Judge class being taught by the KCBS on Sunday on the fairgrounds. All registration information can be found on the website.

All three days promise tasty food, merchandise vendors and a kids zone. Schafer says, “Most of the kids activities are run by the church and will be donation based. Home Depot will bring their free Kid’s Workshop out on Saturday.” Some cost based rides for kids include a mini train, and a fee for pictures inside the Blue Angels Phantom F4 cockpit (it was grounded last year) and an adult mechanical bull ride. Admission to the event is $5 on Friday (4pm-9pm), $8 on Saturday (10am-9:30pm) and only $1 Sunday (11am-5pm). Kids under 12 are always free. The SPCA encourages donates cans of cat food, dog food, and kitty litter at the gate as well. For the samples, tasting tickets may be purchased Friday or Saturday while supplies last at the gate. Hatfield, CF Sauer, Carlyle & Anderson, and Marriott Courtyard Winchester are some of the businesses helping the event survive in addition to being named a 2014 Good Sam Event destination. Schafer indicates they are no major money sponsors, and they are in need. Organizers are currently planning a Hogging Up West Virginia to be held in Great Cacapon, WV in October 2014.

About the Kansas City Barbeque Society

The KCBS is the largest non-profit group dedicated to the art and joy of hardwood smoking, and sanctions several hundred contests each year. KCBS is the most respected judging and sanctioning body in America because of its blind judging process that uses a weighted scoring index to ensure a level playing field for all competitors. More information at http://www.kcbs.us

About Big Fat Daddy’s

Big Fat Daddy’s has been featured in such publications as Rachael Ray Magazine, Steven Raichlen’s BBQ USA, The New York Times and Saveur Magazine. Schafer is a Pitmaster by trade, and a lifetime member of the KCBS.

For more information or media inquiries please contact:

Wayne Schafer, Big Fat Daddy’s

300 Shady Lane Manchester, PA 17345

Office: (717) 793-2124 Cell: (410) 908-9241 BigFatDaddys@verizon.net

Blue Angels Plane Comes to Wincheter…Col. Steve A. Blevins …..

Special thanks to …Col. Steve A. Blevins …..formerly of Dream Photo, is bringing his Blue Angel plane to Hogging Up BBQ & Music Festival. Col. Steve was grounded last year, but guess what folks, the AirShows are back! At this year’s Hogging Up Festival you can sit in the cockpit of his plane, taking your photo for a small fee, and the experience of a lifetime! Facebook

Carlyle & Anderson of Winchester

We think their tractor’s are sexy and we love them for helping us with our festival. Their gator comes in great use for our crew and judges to get around! Make sure you visit them for the best John Deere’s on earth. Ohhh yeahhh!

Carlyle & Anderson, Inc

Address:1752 Berryville Pike, Winchester, VA 22603

Phone:(540) 722-6638

KCBS Competitor Registration is Now Open

The forms you have been waiting for are up. First come, first served. We have compiled a competitor packet for you, and you can find it on the EVENT FORMS page. It’s available in DOC or PDF so choose your poison.

Hope to see you there!

Pop Pop’s Chicken and Pig

Welcome to Pop Pop’s Chicken and Pig, our 25th team who will be competing for fame and glory at this year’s Hogging Up festival. They come to us from Woodstock, Virginia where PItmaster Craig George and Mike Orsenigo will be grilling it up righteous!

June 30 Festival Virginia Flyer

Grand Slam BBQ from Warrenton, Virginia

Welcome Grand Slam BBQ from Warrenton, Virginia. Pitmaster Neil Pappalardo will be cooking with team members Anne, Emily (12) and Ryan (9). He will be smoking it up in Winchester to defend his home state title, and has the luck of youth on his side! Neil has been entered into the Best of the Panhandle contest!

Connect with Grand Slam BBQ on Twitter, on their website, or their facebook !

Winchester Blues House Festival

We are pleased to welcome our friends from the 4th Annual Winchester Blues House Festival

(Benefiting Habitat for Humanity of Winchester-Frederick County Va)

They will be giving out information about their festival, which takes place July 13th 🙂 Stop by their info tent and find out what great entertainment they have lined up! This year they feature Pat Travers Band!

Or visit them on Facebook or their website for more information!

Cornhole Tournament Winchester Virginia June Festival

Leave it up to MIK Woodworking to bring more excitement to the Hogging Up BBQ & Music Festival at the Frederick County Fairgrounds the end of June. There will be a cornhole tournament Saturday June 29th, 2013 at 1:00 until around 4:30, it will be $20 per team of 2 to participate. You must register here to participate. There will be cash prizes.

*Keep in mind entry into the festival is $8 for adults, kids under 10 free !

And We Are Back With Updates!

We’ve not been ignoring you. We have been busy!

Electric Generator and Better Pricing

We had to get things straight and map out the electric situation at the fairgrounds — originally having only a few spaces for the big rigs we thought about this, it’s going to be summer, and HOTTER than a pig’s nose with a fever. Most everyone is gonna want to have 30 or 50 amps, right? Our prices originally were higher towards big RVers, because we really didn’t want to have to bring in a generator.

Thanks to Mike Lackey’s advice (shout out to Bluemont’s own BBQ guy!) we’ve redone our application for better pricing to accommodate you big riggers. We will now be out pounding the sand and beating down the doors of some local businesses to help us bring in a generator for you guys.

APPLICATIONS WILL BE UP BY THE END OF THIS WEEKEND.

Governors Office

We’ve gotten things straight with the Governor’s office and hope to have our paper in hand soon.

Judge Emails

And now we have figured out how many competitors we can accommodate we will be emailing the judges official updates, BY THIS WEEKEND. Judges, make sure you have BigFatDaddys@verizon.net on your safelist or if not, check your SPAM FOLDER! If I don’t hear back from you by mid next week, I’ll be calling you up!

Sound Proposals & Music Contracts

We are still negotiating with a sound person to work with our bands. We are interviewing everyone and want to go with the BEST who can accommodate such bands as Stoney Creek Bluegrass, Circa Blue, Dangerous Mood, Avey Music and Kirsten Sowers……..(and more). We also want to make sure it’s someone who can work with us each year.

To our lovely bands, thanks for your patience and suggestions.

Top Secret Local Charity & Backyard BBQ for Sunday

We have approached a local non profit to help us with this festival. Although we want to donate to nationwide cancer charity CancerCare, we ALSO want someone who is in the town of Winchester or Clear Brook to benefit from this too. Once we have this firmed up we will tell you who our partner is.

We’ve also decided on a local Backyard BBQ for Sunday, so applications for that will be posted THIS WEEKEND.

Special Thanks

Special thanks for those of you who have helped with the victims of Hurricane Sandy. We know a few barbecue guys reading this have been there. We are from Baltimore and are sickened by what this has done to our neighbors in NJ and NY, many of whom are homeless or still without power.

More soon! Off to have a very busy HoggingUp Barbecue weekend!

Thanks for your patience.