Keep Hall Beautiful
Main Street Gainesville
and the
Gainesville-Hall County Convention & Visitors
Bureau
Present
the Fourth Annual

 

Spring Chicken Festival

Press
Access North Georgia
Gainesville Times
Mainstreet Gainesville Newsletter
Links
The History of Chicken in Georgia


Sponsors

The Fourth Annual Spring Chicken Festival will be held
April 11-26, 2008


Buy Advance Tickets:

Buy your tickets in advance for the great lineup of activities scheduled for the closing day of the festival, April 26th.

Why buy a ticket in Advance?
Your ticket will allow you to breeze through the wristband line. Just exchange your ticket for a wristband. Also, your ticket makes you eligible for a prize drawing for a Brinkman grill, courtesy of Home Depot.

Where to buy advance tickets:

For a $2.00 donation to Keep Hall Beautiful Tree Replacement Fund, get a chance to have your name drawn to win a tree donated by Full Bloom Nursery. The drawing will be the last day of the festival, April 26th.


The Results are In!

Congratulations to the Winners!

Chicken City Spring Chicken Cook-Off Results 2007

Best of Show - Team Hirneisen ($500) Best of Show Runner Up Shane’s Rib Shack ($100) People's Choice - Boss Sauce (Framed Certificate)

Wings
1st Team Hirneisen ($125)
2nd Billy Hendrix (Team Little and Davenport) ($100)
3rd DeMolay ($75)

Specialty Chicken
1st Shanes Rib Shack ($125)
2nd Christian Motorcycle Assn. (Unchained Chicken) ($100)
3rd Say It In Stone ($75)

Whole Chicken
1st Shanes Rib Shack ($125)
2nd Boyd Kelley ($100)
3rd Team Hirneisen ($75)


2007 chickEkiden Relay Race Results

Click this link to register for the chickEkiden 26.2 Mile Relayrace

Ekiden Parking for the race is available at Ekiden Transition/Parking area, which is the parking lot of First National Bank of Hall County at 311 Green St NW # 100 Gainesville, GA 30501 next to The Times. Click here for a map.

For more chickEkiden information click this link the Lanier Running Club


Events

  • Children's Activities

  • Chicken Cook-off

  • Plaques will be awarded

  • $1,500 in prize money

  • Sampling

  • ChickEkiden relay race


Festival Parking is at the Georgia Mountains Center, 301 Main St. adjacent to both Roosevelt Square (cook-off) and Main St. Square (children’s activities). These two adjacent areas encompass the festival area. Click here for a map.


2008 Cook-off brochure

2008 Festival Flyer

2008 Event Schedule

2008 Wrtistband Purchase Rewards

Dinner and Movie with your Peeps


2007 Winner:

Team Hirneisen

 

2006 Chicken Pardoning

L to r: Rep. Carl Rogers; Randy Bruce, Mar-Jac (and Clarabelle); Sen. Brian Kemp (candidate for State Ag. Commissioner); Councilman, George (chicken man) Wangemann.

 

Head cook, Unchained Chicken


Sponsors

Proceeds benefit
Keep Hall Beautiful Tree Replacement Fund
723 Washington St.
Suite 3
Gainesville, GA 30501
Phone: 770- 531-1102
Fax: 770-534-1440
Website


For further information, e-mail Cindy

Updated March 23, 2008

The Inaugural Cook-Off was held
Saturday, April 23, 2005

And the 2005 winners are...

Results of the Second Annual Chicken City Spring Cook-Off

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