Blue Ridge Barbecue Festival - North Carolina State Barbecue Championship in Tryon offers craft fair, music, and festivities. Includes the annual cookers' competition and scheduled entertainment. Spruce Pine BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival - Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Annual event offering professional competition, music and entertainment. Includes schedule, sponsorships, vendors, press kit, location. Hog Happnin' - Barbecue competition in Shelby, North Carolina. Includes past winner, map, dates, teams, judges, and schedule. Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down - Rocky Mount, North Carolina barbecue competition. Lists dates, directions, events, forms, past winners, and teams. Butts and Bean BBQ Challenge - Hickory, North Carolina barbecue competition. Provides dates, location, prizes, contacts, plus event and competitor information. Biker Blues and BBQ Rally - Salisbury, North Carolina competition. Includes dates, forms, news, location, awrds, rules, schedule, and teams. Mountain High BBQ and Music Festival - Franklin, North Carolina competition. Provides dates, location, prize money, event schedule, forms, teams, and past winners. Peak City Pig Fest - Apex, North Carolina competition. Presents location, past winners, event information, teams, and schedule. Jiggy with the Piggy BBQ Challenge - Kannapolis, North Carolina competition. Feaures dates, directions, news, teams, photographs, past winners, and entertainment. Pig in the Park BBQ Celebration - Goldsboro, North Carolina. Lists directions, dates, news, schedule, tickets, and forms. BBQ Festival on the Neuse - Kinston, North Carolina. Includes news, dates, map, schedule, rules, and results. When Pigs Fly - Fayetteville, North Carolina. Includes map, dates, past champions, tickets, rules, and prizes. Twin City RibFest - Winston-Salem. Features news, event map, entertainment schedule, competition information, and teams. Port City RibFest - BBQ and music festival that takes place in early August at the USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial. Lists news, teams, event details, photographs, and schedule. Southern Sauce - Charlotte. Features dates, directions, teams, schedules, and past champions.