Spring in Tennessee means it’s time for smoky aromas, sizzling grills, and the sounds of Southern rock filling the air as the Boro BBQ Festival returns to celebrate its 13th year of bringing the community together through great food and music.
The Murfreesboro Breakfast Rotary Club presents its 13th annual celebration of community, the Boro BBQ Festival, scheduled for Saturday, April 26, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Hop Springs Park. The event is free and open to the public.
The Dr. George Smith KCBS BBQ Brawl brings together professional and backyard competitors from across the Southeast U.S. who will haul their smokers into Murfreesboro, prepare rubs, bastes and sauces, then smoke chicken and ribs in Rutherford County’s only Kansas City Barbeque Society-sanctioned event. The total purse is $6,200.
KCBS is the national BBQ championship authority, and by rule the organization says the public can’t eat the competition meats, but the Breakfast Rotary found a way to let the public judge the cookers! For $15, attendees can taste six two-ounce pulled pork samples (that’s 12 ounces of pork! Many pork BBQ sandwiches include only 3 ounces) and vote for their favorite. Many competitors covet this award even more highly than those from the certified KCBS judges.
The event will include live music from the Jeff Woods Band and Allman Brothers Band tribute act The Midnight Riders. These talented performers will keep the energy high throughout the day.
Don’t forget the food trucks—offering barbecue, hot dogs, kettle corn, shaved ice, and a plethora of other food for sale—as well as craft vendors, bounce houses, a petting zoo and more family fun.
The Boro BBQ Festival is the Breakfast Rotary Club’s top annual fundraising event, with proceeds supporting Rutherford County nonprofits.
For more information, visit borobbqfest.com or facebook.com/borobbqfestival.
The Murfreesboro Breakfast Rotary Club is a part of Rotary International, a worldwide organization of business and professional men and women dedicated to providing humanitarian services, encouraging high moral standards, and promoting peace throughout the world. Through its many diverse missions and projects Rotary also seeks to encourage its members to engage in active public service, public welfare, and to exemplify sound standards of conduct in local civic and community affairs. Rotarians strive to impact the community in which they live with manpower, talent, leadership, guidance and financial support.
