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In 1995, Downtown Columbia Business & Professional Association conceived the Fall Festival with the goal of bringing a higher awareness of downtown to the community. Over the years the festival has become an anticipated annual event for the community.
In 2004, the association decided it was time for the event to step up a notch. To do this, the Saturday night entertainment went from local entertainers to a top recording group from the past, The Drifters. Attendance to the two day festival soared to approximately five thousand.
With the success of the 2004 festival and looking forward to Columbia’s projected growth of the near future, the association moved the festival to the next level in 2005. The festival was reborn as the Southern Fried Festival with big name entertainment, a Recipe/Cook-off contest, Dessert Sampling area and much more. The goal was to draw not only the local community to downtown Columbia, but also people from all of Middle Tennessee. The goal was accomplished with a crowd near eight thousand for the two day event.
The Southern Fried Festival continues to grow bigger and better each year with crowds reaching ten thousand in the last couple of years. The two main attractions continue to be top notch entertainment and scrumptious foods.
The Southern Fried Festival should draw record crowds to downtown Columbia in 2009 and only continue to grow in the future. |
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