Lake
Placid, NY – June 2018 / Newsmaker Alert / Lake Placid will
emit a special aromatic scent from July 6-8 when the annual I
Love BBQ and Music Festival returns for the 13th time on the 1980
Olympic Oval. No matter the direction, either Routes 86 or 73, just follow
your nose to Main Street.
You will be brought directly
to the site, which is the Olympic Speed Skating Oval, site of Eric Heiden’s
five Olympic gold medals in 1980. The top barbecue pit bosses and teams
will once again return to this Adirondack resort village to raise needed
funds for the nearby Shipman Youth Center, located just down the street
from the barbecue festival venue.
Approximately $250,000 has
been raised thus far for youth programs since the inception of the festival.
The namesake of the Shipman
Youth Center, former Lake Placid police officer Thomas Shipman,
created this facility.
Organizers will offer special
invitations to members of the military, past and present, and their families,
as well as First Responders and families, to attend this event free of
charge with identification.
Event organizer Dmitry Feld,
of Lake Placid, marketing manager for USA
Luge, tweaks the festival each year. The Winter Olympic federation,
based in Lake Placid, organizes the annual event.
The 13th year of the festival
merges a worthy cause, great eats, barbecue competition, the region’s top
musicians and some of the most radical BMX exhibitions allowed by law.
“Each year we have to introduce
something new to the festival, and this year, we’re happy to announce the
inaugural Lake Placid North American BBQ Brawl,” said Feld. “This will
become an annual event among three randomly drawn barbecue teams each from
the United States and Canada.”
Specifically, on Saturday,
July 7 at 3 PM, the teams will be asked to blindly create a three-course
meal. The judging will likewise be blind. Each of the six teams will get
a score; the team total will win the brawl and have its name engraved on
the event’s perpetual trophy.
The festival has received
kudos from the Kansas City Barbecue Society, delish.com, Rachel Ray, Huffington
Post and an eighth-place finish in 2016 in USA Today’s 10Best BBQ Festivals.
There is a complete schedule
of events, including kids’ culinary competitions, World Championships and
musical acts at: www.ILBBQF.com/schedule-of-events.
Although a number of vendors
offer summertime barbecue fare at the festival, over the years there has
been an increasing demand from the public to taste the products from the
teams.
Feld has announced that on
July 7-8, The Best Ribs in the East will be offered for a nominal fee,
allowing the public to sample the best ribs of the participating teams.
In addition, the I Love
BBQ and Music Festival and the I Love New York Horse Show have
partnered to offer reciprocal admission. Anyone holding a pass to one of
these events will receive complimentary admission to the other.
Daily admission is $6, with
youngsters under 10 admitted free of charge. The festival is alcohol and
tobacco-free.
Tentative music schedule:
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The success of the I
Love BBQ and Music Festival is made possible by the following sponsors
and supporters: Champlain National Bank, Henry and Mildred Uihlein Foundation,
Robert and Doreen Imbriani, Best Western Adirondack Inn, NBT Bank, Bernard
and Karen Dayan, Norton Saint-Gobain, ORDA, Taylor family, WSLP 93.3 FM,
The UPS Store, USA Luge, Casella Waste Management, Cape Air, Cushman Productions,
Connecting Youth and Communities, Ward family, Lions Club of Lake Placid,
Free and Accepted Masons of Lake Placid, Lake Placid Central School District,
Community Bank, Lake Placid News, Bear Essentials, Coca-Cola, Saranac Beverages,
Cornell University Uihlein Forest, Lake Placid Summit Hotel, Placid Productions,
Price Chopper Supermarket, US Olympic Training Center, McDonald’s of Lake
Placid, Adirondack Bank, High Peaks Ford, Blue Moon Cafe, Lake Placid Family
Dental, Coakley High Peaks Hardware, Foreverwild.com, Guideboat Realty,
Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort, Lisa G’s, Meister Accounting, JDE Computer
Staffing, NEBS, Merrill Thomas Real Estate, Hannaford Supermarket, High
Peaks Resort, Burnham Benefit Advisors, Wildwood on the Lake, Tim Forman,
Greg Peacock, Adirondac Rafting Company, The Olive Oil Factory, Queen family,
Mountain Dental, Margaret Sears; Hotel North Woods. Visit www.ILBBQF.com
for more information.
Special thanks to the Village
of Lake Placid, Town of North Elba, Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department,
Lake Placid Police Department, Lake Placid Volunteer Ambulance Service,
Butch Martin and the North Elba Park District.
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