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              Name: 28th Annual Watermelon Festival
              Date: July 14, 2024 - July 15, 2024
              Event Description:

              Click any link below for printable forms:
              Vendor Form | BBQ Cook-Off Form | Jr. BBQ Cook-Off Form | Parade Entry Form | Quilt Show Rule and Form | Queen's Court Application | Queen's Court Rules | Sponsorships | What-A-Melon Coloring Sheet

              7/13 THURSDAY
              • ​Carnival Opens 
              7/14  FRIDAY
              • Carnival Opens 5:00 PM
              • Jr. BBQ Cook-Offs 6:00 PM
              • Street Dance Depot Park 7:00 PM
              • Friday Night Band 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
              7/15 SATURDAY

              9:00 AM 
              • Watermelon Festival Parade
              • Quilt Show Starts
              • Vendors Open
              ​10:30
              • Opening Ceremonies - Gazebo Park
              • Queen Coronation
              • Parade Awards
              11:30 AM 
              • BBQ Judging Starts - Gazebo Park
              1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
              • Live Band Performing - Depot Park
              1:30 PM
              • Watermelon Eating - Seed Spitting Contest Starts
              2:00 PM
              • ​Watermelon Auction
              5:00 PM
              • BBQ Cook-Off Awards
              8:45 PM
              • Stop Selling Raffle Tickets
              9:00 PM -12:00 AM
              • ​​​​Street Dance Depot Park - The Brown Sugar Band

              9:30 PM

              • ​Raffle Drawing - Depot Park
              12:00 AM
              •    Shutdown









                           

               

              Event Sponsors:
              • Cajun Ready Mix
              • Edmonds Insurance
              • NewWave Communications
              • The City of Hempstead
              • Styers Construction Company, Inc.
              • Di Iorio Farms & Roadside Market
              • Brookshire Brothers
              • Prosperity Bank
              • Fuel Express
              • Tegeler Used Cars
              • Homeland Title
              • LBC Media
              Location:
              Hempstead Gazebo Park and Hempstead Depot Park
              Date/Time Information:
              Friday, July 14, 2024, 5:00 pm -11:30 pm
              Saturday, July 15, 2024, 8:30 am - 11:30 pm

              Saturday morning free concert.
              Music by TBD.

              Free street dance Friday evening.
              Music by TBD.

              Free street dance Saturday afternoon.


              Free street dance Saturday evening.
              Music by Brown Sugar
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