3rd Annual Bolivar Barbecue Blowout & Music Festival Returns This Weekend – 2023
The 3rd Annual Bolivar Barbecue Blowout & Music Festival will be held in beautiful downtown Bolivar, Tennessee, on Friday and Saturday, October 27 and 28, 2023!
The event will include Memphis style BBQ, food trucks, a children’s carnival, vendors, a classic car and truck round up, hometown hero award, March of the Dogs parade, a corn hole tournament, and live concerts.
Hometown Hero Brigadier General Warner A. Ross, II will be honored on Friday, October 27, 2023, at 8 p.m. at the Court Square Amphitheater.
Hardeman County’s Bicentennial Celebration, which coincides with the festival, will kickoff on Saturday, October 28, 2023, at 11 a.m., with an opening ceremony on the Courthouse lawn. {find the full Bicentennial Celebration schedule here}
Weekend Schedule of Events
Friday, October 27, 2023
- 4 p.m. – BBQ Blowout opening Ceremony (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 4 p.m. – DJ’s Squared (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 6 p.m. – Carnival Opens (Green-space – Next to post office)
- 6 p.m. – Concert – Small Shack (Farmer’s Market)
- 6 p.m. – Corn Hole Tournament (Farmer’s Market)
- 8 p.m. – Hometown Hero Award Warner “Nubbin” Ross, III (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 8 p.m. – Concert Courtney Little Band (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
Saturday, October 28, 2023
- 8 a.m. – Bolivar Bike Ride (location TBD)
- 8 a.m. – Classic Car & Truck Roundup (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 10 a.m. – March of Dogs (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 11 a.m. – Bicentennial Ceremony (Hardeman County Courthouse Lawn)
- 11 a.m. – Carnival Opens (Green-space – Next to post office)
- 12 p.m. – Bicentennial Reception at The Columns (303 West McNeal Street)
- 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. – Tours of Select Historic Sites in Bolivar
- 12 p.m. – Bolivar Youth Cheerleaders (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 12 p.m. – Total Transformation line dance (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 1 p.m. – Concert – Southern Rose Band (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 2 p.m. – Concert – Stax on the Square (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 4 p.m. – Concert – Devin Crutcher (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 5 p.m. – BBQ Cookoff Awards (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 6 p.m. – Concert – Stephanie Bolton (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
- 8 p.m. – Blowout Block Party (Courtsquare Amphitheater)
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