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Greenville’s Euphoria Festival Set For September

Celebrate the 16th anniversary of Greenville’s Euphoria festival this September.

Euphoria is a four-day festival filled with delicious food, flavorful wine and entertaining concerts. This year’s event will feature seven different Michelin-starred chefs.

In a statement on the upcoming festival, Euphoria’s Executive Director Morgan Allen said, “We are really proud of our Michelin-starred chef lineup this year, particularly when it comes to the diversity they bring to the table.”

Some of the chefs that will be featured at Euphoria include Chef Val Cantu of Californios, Chef Simon Kim of COTE and Chef Ryan Ratino of Bresca. In addition to the mouth-watering meals that festival-goers will be able to enjoy, there will also be a Euphoria cookbook available for purchase that will feature recipes from over 60 chefs.

The festival will take place September 16 through September 19. Tickets to some of the festival’s events range in price from as low as $45 to as much as $400.

Click here to learn more about this year’s festival and to purchase your tickets.

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Spring to the Annual Pickens Azalea Festival This April

Spring has sprung, which means the Pickens Azalea Festival is just around the corner. This annual festival has taken place for over 30 years and is not only a way to celebrate the blooming flowers, but also to bring together friends and family.

According to the event website, the festival first began “in the spring of 1983 as a small, juried show called the Mountain Arts & Crafts Show and organized by the Pickens Civitan Club was held in the north end of Pickens.”

The festival allows people to admire the beauty of the azaleas “while strolling the streets of Pickens that are filled with artists offering a variety of their work and crafts, local organizations handing out important information on a series of topics, and an assortment of food that will entice even the pickiest of eaters.”

This year’s festival will take place on April 16th and 17th. It kicks off with a Cruise-in on Friday night, where a variety of classic cars will take the streets to welcome everyone to Pickens.

The Azalea Festival 5K will take place on the morning of Saturday, April 17 at the Doodle Park. You can register online to participate in the race. The remainder of the day will be full of family-friendly events.

Click here to learn more about the festival and what you can expect at this year’s event!

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Famous Columbia Crawfish Festival Taking Place in May

Mark your calendars! The annual Rosewood Crawfish Festival will be returning this year on May 1st.

The festival, which had to cancel their 2020 event, will take place at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds. It will be the first festival to take place in Columbia since the onset of the pandemic and will include a plethora of delicious crawfish, local vendors and live music.

On the decision to move forward with the festival, Dave Britt, one of the event’s promoters and event planners, said “I think that in order to find our way back in events someone’s got to do it, and start putting the model together….We just felt like with the pushing of the vaccine, the timing, it seems like we would probably be able to do it safely, and we just wanted to get some people back to Rosewood and get involved with events again.

To protect staff and patrons, the festival will require everyone to wear masks when they are not eating or drinking and will limit the number of people allowed in the venue.