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Texas Pete Twin City RibFest Returning to Downtown Winston-Salem

 Winston-Salem, NC – AKA Entertainment & Media is pleased to present its fourth annual Texas Pete Twin City RibFest, www.twincityribfest.com a 3-day food festival event in downtown Winston-Salem June 12 through June 14. Last year’s event attracted 30,000 people and was featured in the June, 2007 issue of Bon Appetit magazine and also on Martha Stewart.com. The festival will run from 11am – Midnight daily. Admission at the gate is $6 for adults and children free. Advance $4 discount ticket s can be purchased at any area Lowes Foods store.

The 2008 RibFest will once again be located in the parking lot at 200 North Cherry Street in downtown Winston-Salem. There will be seven nationally known “ribbers” at the event; including Pigfoot (OH), Chicago House of Ribs (IL), Joey’s Texas Thunder (TX), Sgt. Oink’s (OH), Checkered Pig (VA), and Carolina Rib King. (SC). For the first time in its history this year’s RibFest will have a local contender.

Chef Tim Grandinetti, Executive Chef of Winston-Salem’s Twin City Quarter will field a team. Grandinetti is known in the barbecue world as “Dr. Brownstone”. The festival will also include two performance stages. The main stage will have daily themes, “Earthy Thursday”, “Funky Friday” and “South of Disorder Saturday”. It will showcase regional and national music acts including “The Everybodyfields”, “Yo Momma’s Big Fat Booty Band”, “Key West Band” and many others. The second stage, also known as “Foxy Moxy’sCity of the Arts Sideshow Stage” will offer a smorgasbord of musical, cabaret and performance art acts including the nationally known “Sideshow Benny”. Rounding out the festivities is a new “Fun Zone” and Marketplace.

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