It's Time to Get Your "Q" On at the Annual Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa Horsin' Around BBQ Showdown & Festival

YOUNG HARRIS, Ga., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BBQ and Memorial Day Weekend are synonymous, so come out and join Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa for the Fourth Annual Horsin' Around BBQ Showdown and Festival on Saturday, May 28th from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.  The BBQ competition, with its 40 teams of semi-pro cookers, is officially sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society and is part of the Georgia BBQ Championship Series.  Guests who turn out for the festival will be able to participate in the popular Peoples' Choice contest which allows you to be your own judge and taste the award winning BBQ from 11:30 a.m. until the BBQ runs out.  

The family friendly, day-long event takes place in the horse pasture at Brasstown Valley Resort.  It is open to the public, and is $5 for adults and free for children under 5, and includes complimentary parking.  In addition to the BBQ there will be a Kids Fun Zone, Pony Rides, food for sale, live music featuring Stephen Phillips & Midnight Express and The Georgia Highlander's Bluegrass Band, a silent auction and raffle, as well as the All American Arts & Crafts Festival.  New this year:  The Winged Ambassador Birds of Prey Show and a display by the Classic Wheels Car Club.  And at 6:30 guest are welcome to stay for an evening of Contra Dancing till 10 p.m.  For more information and driving directions visit:  www.BrasstownValley.com.

About Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa

Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa is only two hours north of Atlanta on US Highway 76.  It is deep in the Appalachian Mountains near the foot of the state's highest peak, Brasstown Bald. The resort includes 102 lodge-style guestrooms in the main lodge and 32 guestrooms in eight lodge cabins.  It features the 7,500 square foot holistic Equani Spa and a Denis Griffiths' designed 18-hole championship golf course, as well as a heated indoor-outdoor pool, tennis courts, and meeting facilities that can accommodate groups of up 330 people in its 14,298 square feet of state-of-the-art conference space and unique special event venues.  For more information & reservations visit www.BrasstownValley.com or call 800.201.3205.

SOURCE Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa