BBQ Competition & Sign Up
Registration for 2023 is full at this time. To be placed on the waitlist email: Dallas Long
Backyard BBQ Competition
Space is limited! Don’t wait to register! Applications are processed as first come, first serve with full payment. The waiting list will also be first come, first serve!
- Deadline to register is, Friday, September 29th at 4PM
- This is a Backyard BBQ Competition
- Cash awards for each category:
• Pork – 1st and 2nd place $500/$250
• Ribs – 1st and 2nd place $500/$250
• Anything But – 1st and 2nd place $500/$250 (shrimp, chicken, bacon etc.)- Peoples Choice Award – $350/$100
- Deserts – $350
- Pig Master Grand Champion – $750 (must compete in pork, ribs, & anything but)
- Cost – $100 – Small Space (10×20) or $200 – Large Space ( Larger than 10×20). Includes tickets to Friday’s concert and ability to participate in all categories
- Competitors may only use wood and/or charcoal for competition.
- Teams MUST provide their own meat with the exception of the Boston Butt for the peoples choice award which will be provided by PigFest
- NO electricity or water will be provided to competitors

- Cost – $100 – Small Space (10×20) or $200 – Large Space ( Larger than 10×20). Includes tickets to Friday’s concert and may participate in all categories.
- Competitors may only use wood and/or charcoal for competition. No electric pellet smokers.
- Teams MUST provide their own meat. Boston Butt is provided for entry into the People’s Choice category.
- NO electricity or water will be provided to competitors
Register online by completing the registration form. After completion the Hendersonville Parks office will send you the payment link via Eventbrite.
Entry includes the following:
- All four (4) competition categories
- 4 Friday night concert tickets (More may be purchased online)
- (2) Free T-shirts
For more information or general questions, please contact Dallas Long at dallaslong@hvilletn.org
Deadline to Register is Friday, September 29th by 4PM
2023 PigFest Current Competitors
- 4th Quarter BBQ
- Ace Hardware Hendersonville Cooking Team
- Big Daddy Dave’s BBQ
- Big James kitchen
- Big Red Machine
- Boujee Barbecue
- Bullhogs BBQ
- Buckshot Malone’s Pig Shack
- Cock & Heifer BBQ
- D&G Swine (Kimbro Air)
- Dad and Daughter
- Electro-Que-EEted
- Feeding Frenzy BBQ
- Four Fathers BBQ
- Hogs B Hatin’
- Hiller Plumbing Team
- High Lonesome Smokers
- Holy Smoke
- Holy Smoker’s
- I Only Smoke When I Drink
- Jones Bros
- KILLER “B” BACKYARD BBQ
- Low Smokin’ Loners
- Lowefin’ and Smokin’
- Manos al Fuego BBQ Team
- Master Baster BBQ team Nashville
- Melton Off The Bone BBQ
- Myke’s BBQ
- Nice Butt
- Pigs Gone Wild
- RTQUE
- Shackle Island Smoke
- Smoke A Fatty BBQ Nashville
- Smoke It If You Got It
- Smack Yo Meat
- Smokin Daddies BBQ
- Smoke On The Water BBQ
- Smokey Dokey
- Smokin Hot Guys BBQ
- Swinetastic
- Sweet Butts
- The Big B Barbecue Company
- The Big Orange Smokers
- The Blazers
- Tuck Concrete
- Underbite BBQ
- Unkie’s BBQ
- VanBand BBQ
- Weekapig Groove