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Smithfield VA Bacon & Bourbon Music Fest

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 Saturday, October 5, 2019
12:00 pm -  5:00 pm

*11:00 am entry for VIP Tix, Early Bird Indiv Tix,
 Sponsors & Premium Tables


Windsor Castle Park,
​Smithfield, VA 
21 & up only. No infants/pets.
SOLD OUT
 See event rules & FAQ by clicking here
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60-70 Amazing bourbons to choose from. Click image to enlarge.
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Great location for an event in the historic riverfront of Windsor Castle Park. Click to enlarge.
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Pick up your 1/2 lb. of bacon and then take it to the Bacon Condiment tent! Click to enlarge.
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Click on the table tabs below (turn red) for info on various event details for the 2019 event.
  • Tix Info
  • Bourbons
  • Brews & Wines
  • Bands
  • Bacon & Food
  • Retail
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Bacon & Bourbon Ticket Info:


Event Features:
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Bourbon Ticket Upgrade includes: 
  • (10) Half oz. tastings of small batch, hard-to-find, high-end and specialty Bourbons (with $25 Bourbon ticket upgrade). Bourbon tix must be purchased in advance, you cannot upgrade at the festival. 
 
Both Bourbon & Non-Bourbon Ticket include: 
  • Unlimited tastings from Virginia Craft Breweries
 
  • Lots of Big Bacon - each ticket holder gets 1/2 lb. (about 8 thick Smithfield Premium Cut slices)
 
  • Eat your bacon hot off the grill, or take it to the Bacon Condiment Tent and dress it up - make a BLT Wrap, Bacon Nachos, or Dip/Shake a variety of great seasonings on it
 
  • Live Music on two large stages and also on Manor House Lawn Stage
 
  • Unique Retail Vendors
 
  • Additional Food, Wine, VA Brews and Bud Light also for sale. Bourbon is tastings only, it is not for sale. Water/Soda also for sale. 
 
  • Enter for your chance to be in the Bacon Eating Contest - Win a Year of Bacon! Register by 1:00 at the Event Shirt/Merchandise Booths. 
 
  • Designated Driver Tickets are available day of event at the Will Call Booth.  $25 Cash Only.  Includes Bacon & Bacon Condiment Bar.  Even if event is sold out, DD Tix are always available. May not drink or taste at the event. If caught consuming alcohol, will be escorted out with a cow-bell. Still must be 21 & up. 
All festivals are 21 & UP ONLY.
​No infants/pets. 

Ticket Prices & Release Dates
Bacon/Bourbon: 

SOLD OUT
Bacon & Bourbon
General Admission Tickets & Non-Sponsor Tables: 


​Go on sale at two releases: 
  • 1st Release - Wed, July 24, 7 AM
 
  • 2nd Release - Thur, July 25, 8 PM 
 
  • On-line purchase only
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$50 - Non-Bourbon ticket

$75 - Bourbon ticket (special wristband with 10 bourbon tabs for tastings)

$550 - Non-Sponsor Table, come with (8) General Admit Non-Bourbon Tix. Can upgrade any tix to bourbon for $25 upgrade. Location preference is taken, but not guaranteed.  For more info on tables, click here. 

$25 - Designated Driver Tix - sold day of event at the Will Call Booth. Available even if event is sold out. Bring Cash. Still must be 21 & up. ID Required.


Bacon & Bourbon
​Early Bird Tix w/ VIP Perks: 
  • Purchase starting July 1st. Limited number available. 
  • Early Entry at 11:00 AM thru VIP Gate. 
  • If purchase (2 or more) get a VIP Parking Pass. 
  • $50 Tax Deduction
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$100  Early Bird Non-Bourbon Ticket

$125  Early Bird Bourbon Ticket


For more info on ticket types
​ or SEASON TICKETS to all (3) of our festivals, check out the 
Indiv Tix Tab
See all event rules & FAQ by clicking here

Bourbons:

CLICK HERE to see 2019 Bourbon List
HOW DOES BOURBON TASTING WORK?

If you purchased the Bourbon Ticket, you will get a special wristband with (10)  tabs on it when you enter the gate. You also get a pretty cool souvenir tasting glass to use for both your Bourbon or Brew tastings. You can redeem these tabs at the Bourbon Tasting Stations. There are eight stations with a total of  60-70 high-end, small batch or interesting bourbons to choose from. We also offer some of the  trendy flavored bourbons/whiskeys, along with featuring some VA Distilleries. 

Located in-front of the Bourbon Stations, is the Bourbon Info Tent and Bourbon Ice Station.  There are some Bourbon Hosts on hand  along with some of bourbon distillers (or they may be pouring their bourbons at a station). You can also stop by the info tent and pick up a bourbon card.  It has a list of which bourbon are at each station and some small pencils for you to use to mark/track your favorites. 

We do provided complimentary small cups of ice to folks with bourbon wristbands if you want to pop a piece in your tasting glass. We  don't provide mixers, nor do we sell additional bourbon at the event. It is just a tasting event.  If you want a full cup of ice and a soda, to mix your bourbon with, you can purchase those from the Water/Soda booths. 

Some bourbons will run out before others, so check out what is available and make a plan to taste the hard to get ones first!  Some types we have lots of, others that are hard to get, may only have a few bottles and they will run out early.  You can do "double pours" by turning in two of your tabs, EXCEPT FOR AT STATION #1 (HARD TO GET) or STATION #8 (HIGH END).  WE ONLY DO SINGLE POURS FOR THOSE TWO STATIONS. 

Don't forget -  you get the VA Brew Tastings also - just take your tasting glass over to the Brew Village and sample some of the hottest VA Breweries around. Additional Food, Brew & Wine are for sale at the event. When you come thru the gate, you will also get a souvenir stadium cup. You will use it when you purchase a cup of beer. 

Breweries:

Some of the hottest Virginia Craft Breweries will be at the fest, featuring over (30) brews for you to sample or purchase by the cup or growler.  All Ticket holders, both Bourbon Tickets and Non-Bourbon Tickets get to sample the VA Brews. Scroll down to see list of featured breweries. Bud Light is also available for purchase. 

Tastings: When you enter the fest you will receive a small brew tasting glass.  Take it to any of our featured breweries and sample as many brews as you like. Rinse Stations are available. 

Purchase Brew: You will also get a stadium cup when you enter the fest. In an effort to cut down on plastic, we do not provide "solo cups" at each booth, so you will need to take your stadium cup to the booth if you are going to purchase brews. So,  hit up the drink ticket booth, buy your beer tickets and head on over to the brew tents.  

We sell VA Brews and Bud Light, by the cup or by the SVAEvents Growler (we only honor our SVAEvents logoed Growler!) You can bring one of our growlers you bought at one of our other events, or we will have them for sale at the drink ticket booth the day of the event. Drink tix booth takes cash or credit cards.  There also is an ATM on site.

We do have a few "wandering drink tix sellers" walking around the site, they take cash only. 
Tastings and purchase of brew tickets start at 11:00  AM when the VIP GATE opens and end at 4:00 PM.

You can continue to use your drink tickets until 4:30 PM.  

All brew sales/pouring stops at 4:30. Not all brews will be available all day, and some will run out earlier than others. ​

We only honor SVAE logoed growlers and all growlers must come and leave empty.  You can bring your empty SVAE Growler back to any of our events.  

Use the stadium cup for purchasing brews and your beer tasting glass for tastings.

Drink Tickets & Growlers: 

Get unlimited tastings of VA Brews in your official tasting glass you get at the gate. To buy beer, or fill your growler you will need to stop by the Drink Ticket Booth and purchase drink tickets. Booth is located near the Brewery Tents. 

$5 Single Beer - Takes (1) Drink Tix and use the stadium cup you get at the gate

$30 New SVAE Growler with a fill (4 Drink Tix) 

$20 - Refill SVAE Growler (4 Drink Tix) 

$10 - SVAE Empty Growler

** We only honor our logoed growlers.  You can bring them back (empty) and use them at any of our events.  All growlers for any of our events, must come in empty and leave empty.  You may not take beer home in your growler. 

Wines: 

A nice selection of wines are available for purchase by the glass or the bottle at the Wine Booth located next to the SHIRT BOOTH in the Bourbon Village. Wine Bottles will be uncorked with you purchase them and must be consumed on site. Cash or credit cards accepted.  ATM on site. 

​$5.00 per glass
$15-$25 per bottle

Bud Light: 

For the non-craft brew drinker, we do offer Bud Light.  Located at a booth in the Brew Village. You can purchase it by the cup or SVAEvents Growler.  There are no tastings for Bud Light. 
Featured Breweries:
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Ale Werks Brewing Co. 
Back Bay/Farmhouse Brewing Co.
Sly Clyde Ciderworks
Bold Rock Hard Cider Co. 
Cape Charles Brewing Co. 
New Realm Brewing Co. 
Wharf Hill Brewing Co. 
(also serving Bud Light - No Tastings)  

Entertainment Schedule
Bacon & Bourbon Music Fest

Amphitheater Stage: 

11:00 - 1:30 -  Brasswinds

1:30 - 2:00 Bacon Eating Contest
Register for a chance to be selected as (1) of the (10) contestants by 1:00 pm at one of the shirt booths (located in Brew or Bourbon Village). Be at amphitheater stage at 1:30 to see if your name is called. 

2:20 - 5:00 Carolina Soul Band


Brew Village Stage:

11:00 - 1:30 Bobby Black Hat Blues Band

2:20 - 5:00 Wonderland 



Manor House Lawn Stage:

11:00 - 1:30 Lewis McGehee

2:30 - 5:00 Troy Breslow & Sean Parker


Bacon & Bacon Condiment Bar:

BACON. REAL BACON. LOTS OF BACON……in the TOWN THAT KNOWS HOW TO DO BACON. 

Most other bacon events give you small, sometimes overly creative, tiny snippets of bacon. Then,  if you want to eat MORE BACON, you have to buy it.

Not here. Not in Smithfield, VA. That is not how our bacon works. We were bacon before bacon was cool. 

Everyone who enters the gate will get a two part "Bacon Ticket" that entitles them to a half pound of Smithfield Bacon. (pre-cooked weight).  Cooked, its about 8 big premium cut thick slices. Turn in one part of your Bacon Ticket to get the bacon, and the other part for your trip  thru the Bacon Condiment Bar. 

Once you get your bacon, you can eat it hot off the grill, or you can take it over to the Bacon Condiment Bar and dress it up anyway you please.  There are wraps and fixin's to make a BLT Wrap.  Get creative with nacho cheese, peppers, onions, sour cream and turn it into bacon-nachos. There are dips, shakes and yes, even some pancakes & syrup. 

Please be patient  with our volunteers who are cooking the bacon. Preparing over a TON, (seriously we are not kidding, we cook over a legit TON of it for this event) does  take some time. We promise we will NOT RUN OUT OF BACON, we have enough for everyone to get their 1/2 lb. If the line is long, just wait a bit and come back. We will do our best to get everyone served their fresh cooked bacon as quickly as possible.

Water/Soda:

Support Isle of Wight Academy Booster Club! Water and soda are available at two booths, one in Bourbon Village and the other in the Brew Village.  
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Other Food Vendors: 

Located in the Brew Village: 
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Located in the Bourbon Village: 

VFW Post #8545
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Retail Vendors
​Bacon & Bourbon: 

As you stroll around the festival, check out our upscale, unique, hand-crafted retail vendors. Located in both the Bourbon & Brew Villages, there is something for everyone! 

BOURBON VILLAGE:

Bacon & Bourbon Fest - EVENT SHIRTS & MERCHANDISE 

EMERSON CIGARS 

BREW VILLAGE: 

Bacon & Bourbon Fest -  EVENT SHIRTS & MERCHANDISE

SPLIT RAILS

STERLING PEACOCK

CHRISTOPHER MIZE STUDIOS

WOOGWORKS 

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Smithfield VA Events is a 501 (c) (3) public charity.  All events are 21 & up only. No infants/No pets. See Event Rules & FAQ for details.
Event Address: 
Windsor Castle Park
705 Cedar Street
Smithfield, VA 23430 
Mailing Address: 
Smithfield VA Events
PO Box 133
Smithfield, VA 23431
SVAE Headquarters: (at the fest site)
Smithfield VA Events
​302 Jericho Road
Smithfield, VA 23430
Contact Us: 
Event Questions Email:   Tickets@SmithfieldVAEvents.com

Volunteers Questions Email: Volunteer@SmithfieldVAEvents.com

General Info: Call the Visitor Center at 757-357-5182

Chalets, Premium Tables & Sponsorships or Other:
Contact Gina Ippolito, Festival Director
Gina@SmithfieldVAEvents.com
757-869-0664

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