Sevierville's 6th Annual Bloomin' BBQ & Bluegrass festival, held May 14 and 15 in downtown Sevierville, gave 30,000 local and out-of-town guests a great opportunity to enjoy great food and world-class bluegrass music.
     Fifty-four cook teams attended the Bush's Best Tennessee State Championship Barbeque Cook-Off held during the event, with cook team Learn2Q.com (Fultondale, AL), claiming Grand Champion for the second year in a row.
     One of the vending cook teams, Carolina BBQ Company (Hildebrand, SC) earned the Reserve Grand Champion award.
     "This year turned out to be the best attended Bloomin' BBQ to date," said Sevierville Chamber of Commerce Marketing Director Amanda Maples Marr. "We were thrilled about the number of people who traveled from out of state just to come to this event and hope to add more ancillary activities to stretch the overall event and create more opportunities for people to stay longer and enjoy the area."

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