picking/finding festivals

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Smoke Blower
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Jul 6, 2010
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B'ham Alabama
So what is the best way to find festivals in your state or surrounding states, I have a couple of websites that I look at but they have none of the 2012 festivals up yet.   I am really want to crank up my festival jobs this comming year.  Thanks
 
First off.. it would help if you would update your location in your profile so that people could see where your from and then they could give you some feedback... that would help tremendously... thanks and good luck finding what your looking for
 
Updating your location will help us find resources to assist you. Also - please let us know what it is you do at these festivals so we can steer you in the right direction 
 
Sorry all.  I have updated my profile.  I am in Alabama and lookign for festivals in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennesse.  Thanks!!
 
Sorry all.  I have updated my profile.  I am in Alabama and lookign for festivals in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennesse.  Thanks!!


What is it you want to do at these festivals?  BBQ - sandwiches - sausages and do you have a food vendors lic?  

Here is a link to festivals in Alabama in 2012 - What I did was go to Google and enter "Festivals in Alabama 2012" and I got a whole page of responses. This seems to be the best of the links 

http://www.festivals.com/alabama.aspx

Hope this helps 
 
Just getting in the door to one seemed to be the key to picking up more for us. We did our first one at the end of September and that has led to 3 more. It seems to me these festival organizers all know each other and travel to each others' to see what they have.
 
Just getting in the door to one seemed to be the key to picking up more for us. We did our first one at the end of September and that has led to 3 more. It seems to me these festival organizers all know each other and travel to each others' to see what they have.
That was our experience too. We did sausages at festivals for a couple of years and started small then got into the bigger festivals. We had a real advantage in that our partner owned a deli and what ever we did not use he sold in the deli so we made a profit from the get go
 
We do a couple of festivals a year.  Our primary is BBQ samches but like mentioned it is hard to get into alot of festivals since alot of people already have the Q locked up.  We do alot of different things from BBQ to fried oreos.  That way if they don't need a BBQ then we can get in with something else  
 
We do a couple of festivals a year.  Our primary is BBQ samches but like mentioned it is hard to get into alot of festivals since alot of people already have the Q locked up.  We do alot of different things from BBQ to fried oreos.  That way if they don't need a BBQ then we can get in with something else  


OOOOH! Fried oreo's! OMG!!
 
Someone did deep fried butter at a festival in the midwest. I saw it on Good Morning America.  People are frying everything  
 
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