If you are heading down High Street this weekend and you smell barbecue, you might want to turn down Beacon Street and join in the festivities at the sixth annual Riverside Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival at Beacon Field.
The festival happens from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 8 and 9. Admission is $5 and free for children ages 10 and under with an adult. Entry to the beer saloons is additional.
It features a New England Barbecue Society Grilling Contest, a Kansas City Barbeque Society Contest (the official state championship), as well as beer, blues music, a keg toss, a beer sampling and contests for pie-eating and . . . mustaches!
The event is officially sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society with professional BBQ teams competing.
As a state championship competition contest, the festival is a qualifier for two of the biggest BBQ contests in the nation, The Jack Daniel’s and the American Royal.
Parking for the Festival will be available at the 48 Sanderson Street lot (across from the Hospital) and at the Greenfield Middle School lots. The Greenfield Trolley will provide shuttle service from these locations to Beacon Field.
For more information, go to www.riversidebluesandbbq.com