The International Bar-B-Q Festival is an event held in

Owensboro, Kentucky Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about southwest of Lou ...

, every second weekend in May since 1979, except 2020 when it was cancelled. The festival provides an opportunity for sampling many varieties of

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d meats, including chicken,

mutton Lamb, hogget, and mutton, generically sheep meat, are the meat of domestic sheep, ''Ovis aries''. A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton. Gen ...

, and

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. Cooking teams compete for the Governor's Cup, awarded to the team judged to have the best barbecued cuisine. Other attractions include

square dancing A square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances contain elements from numerous traditional dances and were first documente ...

, musical performances, and

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. The Kentucky Department of Tourism recently (in 2006) projected an expected attendance of 85,000 for the festival. The

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in 2020 caused the festival to go on hiatus until May 2021, when strict measures will be undertaken hereafter, such as

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and wearing masks.

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International Bar-B-Q Festival Home PageCommemorative Coca-Cola bottle for 20th anniversary of the festival
* ttps://archive.today/20080229015840/http://travelevents.discovery.com/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=111818 Festival featured by the Travel Channel Festivals established in 1979 Festivals in Kentucky Owensboro, Kentucky Barbecue Tourist attractions in Daviess County, Kentucky 1979 establishments in Kentucky Food and drink festivals in the United States {{Kentucky-stub

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