People's Choice Award Voting for Jug Tavern Festival Barbecue Cook-off is Today

The festival continues with live music, arts, crafts and food vendors, kids activities and more.

The winners in this year's Jug Tavern Festival barbecue cook-off will be announced between 5 and 6 p.m.  But before the awards are given, festival attendees can vote in the people's choice competition from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. — or until samples run out — under the Jug Tavern Park pavilion beside the Winder Community Center. Rules are provided in the PDF document to the right of this text and tickets to sample the offerings are $5 each. Today's live entertainment schedule is as follows:  For more information on the Jug Tavern Festival, which runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today, visit www.jugtavernfestival.com.  Subscribe to Barrow Patch’s newsletters, follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook.

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Jug Tavern Festival Kicks Off This Evening in Winder and Continues Saturday

The event will include arts and crafts and food vendors, a car and tractor show, hay rides around town and a barbecue cook-off.

Beginning at 5 p.m. today, the city of Winder will kick off a celebration of barbecue, music and more with the Jug Tavern Festival.  The event will include arts and crafts and food vendors, a car and tractor show, hay rides around town and a barbecue cook-off. This evening's live entertainment features music from the band Pop Roxx from 5 to 6 p.m., Joe Hall and the Bottom Line Band from 6:30 to 7:30 and Bill Gentry from 8 to 10.  New to the 2012 festival is the HOG Ride, sponsored by AMVETS. Proceeds will benefit the Winder Police Department’s Shop with a Cop Christmas program and the Winder Fire Department’s Empty Stocking Fund. The Barrow County Museum is also celebrating the festival and will be open extended hours during the event. …

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City Spotlight

Excitement Already Mounting for Two Local Summer Festivals

The city of Winder website now features vendor, crafter, competition team and judge forms available for download for this year's Lazy Daze and Jug Tavern festivals.

Forget spring fever. The planners of two great Southern festivals already have their gears turning for summer. With just a little more than five months to go before this year’s Lazy Daze Music Festival and a mere seven months between now and the launch of the 2012 Jug Tavern Festival and Chili Cook-off, the city of Winder has hit the ground running in the new year. Based on the popularity of both events among attendees, participants, volunteers and vendors, the city’s website now features applications for craft, gift, food, beer and wine vendors available for download for the Lazy Daze Festival on July 28, 2012. The city has also recently uploaded judges forms, barbecue teams forms, applications for performers, registration forms for car …

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Saddled Up: Winder Residents and Visitors Alike Enjoy a Festival Jug Tavern Style

The city of Winder paid tribute to its history with this weekend's festival, a two-day event that drew crowds.

Winder residents came out to enjoy the first day of the Jug Tavern Festival on Friday evening. In case you missed it, here are a look at some of the festivities through a series of photographs.

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Friday Night Festivities

Barrow Patch Editor Deanna Allen spent some time Friday evening at Jug Tavern Park. See photos from day one of the two-day event.

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Winder’s Jug Tavern Festival and BBQ Cook-off: The Entertainment

Performers hail from the surrounding areas playing music that ranges from blues and folk to rock and pop.

Here's the entertainment schedule for this weekend's Jug Tavern Festival in Winder. Musical performances will be on the Trax Side Stage. Friday, Sept. 9 Saturday, Sept. 10 The Barrow County Museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, extended hours for those attending the Jug Tavern Festival. Admission to the museum is free.

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Winder’s Jug Tavern Festival and BBQ Cook-off: The Fun

Find out what kinds of activities to expect at this weekend's event.

Winder will celebrate its 2011 Jug Tavern Festival this weekend and there's fun in store for all. Here's what to expect during this family-friendly event. Check back tomorrow for information on the entertainment that will take place during the festival. 

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Winder’s Jug Tavern Festival and BBQ Cook-off: The Basic Info

The two-day event will kick off Friday and continue Saturday.

Winder is gearing up for the 2011 Jug Tavern Festival and this is the pertinent information festival-goers should know. Check back tomorrow for information on the events and activities that will take place during the festival.

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City Spotlight on Winder: Countdown has Begun for Jug Tavern Festival

Only one week remains until the merriment of this year’s festival and barbecue cookoff begins.

Bearing the same name by which the city of Winder was originally founded in the early 1800s, The Jug Tavern Festival and BBQ Cookoff pays tribute to a long-standing and colorful history of community, good food, good music and good times over the course of a fun-filled weekend. The festival will be held from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. During the two-day event, the Kansas City Barbeque Society-sanctioned cookoff promises to send the heavenly aroma of slow-cooked barbeque wafting up into the air right along with the sound of live music from the Trax Side Stage. If barbeque isn’t your cup of sweet tea, there will be plenty of other food vendors on hand to satisfy just about any festival food…

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City Spotlight on Winder: Calling all Vendors and Barbecue Pit Masters

A few spaces remain for the upcoming Jug Tavern Festival.

With the popular Jug Tavern Festival a little over a month away, the city of Winder wants Patch readers to know the city is still accepting applications for food and craft vendors and barbecue cook teams. Interested vendor parties can mail a completed application — available in both PDF and Word formats online — and associated payments to City of Winder Events, P.O. Box 566, Winder, Ga. 30680. Space is extremely limited, so don’t delay! Full payments must be made at least 10 days prior to the event in order to participate. At the time of publication, only eight slots remained for barbecue cook teams for the National Kansas City BBQ Cookoff portion of the festival. Details, applications (PDF and Word) and Kansas City Barbeque Society Rules …

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