The Superior Plumbing Kennesaw/Big Shanty Festival has been voted Best Festival event for Cobb County by readers of the Marietta Daily Journal. Our event features over 250 Arts & Crafts booths, 30 food booths, two entertain-ment stages, Civil War Encampment, free ground acts and a huge interactive kids zone as well as live acoustic music throughout the weekend. Something for the entire family!

A parade will kickoff the festival at 9:30 a.m., on Saturday April 16

th. Crowds

line the streets of downtown Kennesaw to cheer on the more than 2,000 kids that participate. These kids represent every sports association and school in the area. Local businesses, the winners of various beauty pageants, and Al-latoona, Kell, Harrison, Kennesaw Moun-tain and North Cobb High School march-ing bands also add to the festivities.

Tuesday - April 12: KBA Luncheon (located at KSU Con Ed Center - monthly luncheon)

Wednesday - April 13: Sponsor Luncheon (located at Kennesaw Community Center and catered by Carrabba’s Italian Grill - honoring our Big Shanty sponsors)

Thursday - April 14: Big Shanty Alive After Five (located at Trackside Grill - 5:30 - 7:30 - Low Country Boil with music and drinks - kick off to Big Shanty - please join us - it’s free!!)

Saturday & Sunday - April 16 & 17: Superior Plumbing Big Shanty Festival - downtown Kennesaw, GA

The gate lifts, the bell rings and Robin-son's Racing Pigs and Paddling Porkers run wildly around a track and then com-pete in a special water course snout to snout for the title of swiftest swimming swine - all for an Oreo cookie! See them Satur-day at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:30 & 4:30 and Sunday at 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Lew-e’ Comedy Circus will delight young and old as he mixes a special blend of silly comedy and magic!! Action-packed juggl-ing, audience participation and high energy - the little ones will love this show!! Watch him Saturday a 11 a.m., 1, 3 & 5 p.m., and Sunday at noon 3 and 4 p.m.

Not only does she wield the stilts like they are her own legs, she also juggles, dances, and creates an at-mosphere of fun and excitement. She is outgoing and interactive - attracting attention and creating fun! Catch her roaming the festival daily!

Kachunga and the Alligator Show - using only is bare hands Kachunga captures the alliga-tor placing him on a deck for a fun and educa-tional lesson on alligator anatomy. Catch the shows on Saturday at noon 2, and 4 p.m., and Sunday at 1, 3 and 5 p.m.

The Kennesaw Business Association (KBA) partners with the City of Kennesaw to bring you the Superior Plumbing Big Shanty Festival each year downtown. The festival is the major fundraiser for the KBA, as you will see listed below it enables the KBA to do great things in our community. And it does more, creating a vehicle for local businesses to market to their community and is a major fundraiser for several community partners including Kennesaw UMC, St. Catherine's of Siena Men’s Club, Kennesaw Optimist Club, Marietta Lions Club to name a few. The Superior Plumbing Big Shanty Festival also provides quality of life for citizens and a great sense of community with over 14 school choruses performing each year.

The KBA also partners with the City to bring you the Superior Plumbing Taste of Kennesaw. In addition to another quality event for the citizens of Kennesaw, every single penny after expenses goes right back into the community. Please note the donations and gifts made in 2015 are a direct result of these events:

City of Kennesaw Donations

Museum Donation 4,000.00

Kennesaw Police Department 500.00

Youth Council Trip to D.C. 250.00

Mark Mathews Mayor Luncheon 1,000.00

Teen Center Donation 2,000.00

7,750.00

Back to School - Teacher Appr. Lunch 4,000.00

Back to School - Teacher Appr & Workday Lunch 1,000.00

Back to School - Teacher Gift Cards 2,709.89

Baker Elementary School 350.00

Bells Ferry Elementary School 350.00

Big Shanty Elementary 350.00

Bullard Elementary School 350.00

Chalker Elementary School 350.00

Harrison High School 1,700.00

Hayes Elementary School 300.00

Kell High School 1,000.00

Kennesaw Elementary School 550.00

Kennesaw Mountain High School 3,200.00

McClure Middle School 350.00

North Cobb Christian School 500.00

North Cobb High School 1,200.00

North Paulding High School 500.00

Palmer Middle School 350.00

Pine Mountain Middle School 400.00

Scholarships - Eighteen Scholarships Awarded 9,000.00

Art & Entertainment School Programs 400.00

Partners in Education Teacher Luncheon 1,110.35

30,870.24

Gifts and Donations facilitated by KBA (approx.)

Back to School-Teacher Gift Bag total approx. value 30,000.00

KPD approx. donation gathered at KBA Luncheon 4,000.00

Community Donations

The Giving Kitchen 200.00

Miss Cobb County Pageant 300.00

Cobb County Police Department 250.00

Cobb Fire Explorers 250.00

Georgia Defense Force 500.00

KSU Police 250.00

Amer Heart Assn/Atl Food Bank 350.00

Special Needs Dev. Group 500.00

2,500.00 Taste of Kennesaw Donations

Jerry Worthan Foundation 3,146.30

NC American Legion Post 304 3,146.30

Shop with a Longhorn 3,146.30

Shop with a Mustang 3,146.30

Shop with a Warrior 3,146.30

Cook-Off Scholarships 3,000.00

18,731.50 Partners In Education

Allatoona High School 500.00

Awtrey Middle School 300.00

Contact Information

Tod Miller, JRM Management, 770-423-1330 (cell - 404-925-7139) Bill Watson JRM Management, 770-423-1330 (cell - 404-925-7140)

(Manage both events - on-site office located to left of Depot - JRM tent)

Marlon Longacre, Big Shanty Festival Chair, 678-462-5919

Michael Everhart, Taste of Kennesaw Chair, 678-793-8435

2016 GENERAL VENDOR RULES FOR EVENT

1. ONLY THOSE ITEMS (PRODUCT OR SERVICES) LISTED IN YOUR APPROVED APPLICATION ARE ALLOWED TO BE DISPLAYED OR SOLD.

2. FOOD AND WATER MAY NOT BE GIVEN AWAY (WE WILL HAVE A BOTTLED WATER SPON-SOR FOR THE EVENT – SPONSOR WATER IS THE ONLY WATER ALLOWED TO BE SOLD).

3. ROAMING OR WALKING AROUND PROMOTING OR SELLING ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE WITHIN THE BOUDARIES OF THE FESTIVAL IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED UNLESS PRIOR PER-MISSION IS GIVEN.

4. FESTIVAL BOUNDARIES ARE DEFINED BY BARRICADES AND STREET CLOSURES. ALL STREETS, CITY OWNED PARKING LOTS / PROPERTY AND SIDEWALKS ARE PART OF THE FESTIVAL.

5. SPACE ASSIGNMENT IS NON-TRANSFERRABLE.

6. EXHIBITORS MUST PROVIDE ALL DISPLAY TABLES, STANDS, CHAIRS, ETC. FOR DISPLAY OF THEIR WORK.