NASHVILLE – The Music City Hot Chicken Festival presented by Piedmont Natural Gas is accepting applications for its Amateur Cooking Competition the festival website www.hot-chicken.com. The competition spices up the annual festival each year and is judged by select hot chicken connoisseurs, including former and festival founder Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell. Five teams will be selected to compete.
The event will be held Thursday, July 4 in East Nashville’s East Park. Just before the festival begins, the day commences with Hot Chicken Festival Fire Truck Parade beginning at 10:30 at 8th and Woodland and marching to the East Park festival location.
The festival will open with free hot chicken samples provided by numerous Nashville hot chicken establishments. Past hot chicken samples have been available from Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, Bolton’s Spicy Chicken and Fish, 400 Degrees, Party Fowl, Chicken Shack Express, Pepperfire, and Party Fowl. The festival will continue until 3 p.m. bringing comradery, hot chicken activities, and entertainment for hot chicken aficionados, families and first-timers.
WHAT: 2019 Music City Hot Chicken Festival
WHO: Nashville’s hot chicken establishments, amateur contestants and hot chicken lovers
WHEN: Thursday, July 4, 2019; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Parade begins at 10:30.
WHERE: East Park | 700 Woodland Street | Nashville
Sponsors of the event have included Piedmont Natural Gas, Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation, Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp., Vanderbilt University, Yazoo Brewing Company, Nashville Electric Service, Anderson Benson Insurance, Free At Last Bail Bonding, Metro Nashville Airport Authority, H.G. Hill Realty, Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Premier Parking Management, Village Real Estate, Bell & Associates Construction, Weiss Liquors, East Nashville Self Storage, and Metro Parks and Recreation.
For more information, please visit www.hot-chicken.com. Follow the Hot Chicken Festival on Twitter at www.twitter.com/HotChickenFest and “Like” us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/musiccityhotchickenfestival.
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