16th Annual NC Blackberry Festival set

LENOIR, NC (June 30, 2017)…The 16th Annual NC Blackberry Festival will be held July 6 – 9th. The event will be full of music, drinks, food, activities, and fun for everyone!

The Blackberry Festival will kick off on July 6th with a ticketed event on Main Street in Downtown Lenoir at 6 PM with An Evening of Everything Blackberry. There will be Blackberry-infused food, drink, music by the Starlighters, and dancing in the streets! There is limited seating available for this event so get your tickets today! Tickets: $35 per person.

Festivities will continue on Friday, July 7th, with a Blackberry Preheat party beginning at 6 PM. During the Preheat event, held on the Square in Downtown Lenoir, attendees will experience the Blackberry Belle Pageant Preliminaries, a Front Porch Pickin’ Songwriters Competition, Blackberry Recipe Contest, and a Glow Run 5K throughout the city of Lenoir.

The 16th Annual NC Blackberry Festival begins at 10 AM on Saturday, July 8th. The time has come to get your berries in a row. There will be vendors, food, children’s activities and Blackberries from 10 AM to 4 PM. Live music will be featured on four stages across the festival. Experience a taste of the World’s Largest Patchwork of Cobbler. Join in the Colossal Cobbler Parade Brigade celebrating Caldwell County’s favorite fruit. Visit the NC Blackberry Festival website at ncblackberryfestivalnc.com for a full list and schedule of our events.

This year we will have our first Blackberry Jazz Brunch at 1841 Café beginning at 10 AM. Join in the continued celebration of the NC Blackberry Festival. Enjoy a brunch buffet and a local jazz band. Tickets include a breakfast buffet. Specialty drink options will also be available during the event. Tickets: $20 and $12 for kids 10 and under.

With all these events, don’t just come for the day come to stay.

For a full list of our events, to purchase tickets, and to find additional information please visit the NC Blackberry website at www.ncblacberryfestival.com

Addition inquiries about the festival can be made by contacting the Caldwell Chamber of Commerce at (828) 726 – 0616.