Last year we had 7,000 people who helped raise $100,000 for the fight against pediatric brain cancer. In 2012, we are moving to a bigger locale so more people can join the fight.
This year your donations will help choose the Fundraising champion and we will be implenting an easy way for our patrons to vote for a ‘Fan Favorite.’
This is a family affair so bring your kids, dogs, and most importantly your appetite!
More parking, more music, more shade and more pork! Together, we can do something great!
You can check out the winners from past competitions here.
Do you really think you can cook a pig like no other? Do you have what it takes to be crowned Louisiana’s best pork chef? Not only will you have the opportunity to prove you are a Boss Hog at cooking, but you will enjoy some of the best live music around.
Amateur cooks, restaurant chefs, and BBQ Masters will all be competing for the title of the 2012 Hogs For The Cause Grand Champion. The party starts on Friday afternoon and keeps going all day on Saturday.
The Entry fee is $100 a team for early registrants (until February 15) and $125 a team for late registrants (up until the day before the event - March 24), and that gets you five passes into the event.
Spots are filling up fast, so register soon before it's too late.
We’re going to have 60 teams competing in the following porky categories:
This year fans will be able to vote for their favorite to crown the 2012 Hogs for the Cause Fundraising Champion. Each team will supply samples of their delicious fare to attendees. Whichever team fills their piggy bank with the most donations from you, wins.
Sign up today! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask us.
Each team will supply samples of their delicious fare to attendees. Whichever team fills their piggy bank with the most donations will be crowned fundraising champion.
Returning champs Team Swine Krewe have vowed to repeat as Champions, but the strong rookie performance of Team Company Burger begs a second look.
This year, fan favorite joins the other categories. We are booking bands as we type.
In order to accommodate the demand for more teams in the competition and parking, we have slightly moved City Pork to the other side of the Interstate to the Frisbee Golf Fields, across the tracks. Parking will be available at last year's site, the Rugby Fields and throughout the area. More shade, more teams, more pork, more beer, and even more good times!
Though you can probably just follow the scent of all that delicious pork, this map can serve as a quick guide.
| Time | Band Lineup | Cookoff |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 | Gates Open | |
| 11:00 | Mississippi Rail Company | Competitor Sampling |
| 12:15 | Stooges Brass Band | |
| 1:45 | Marcia Ball | |
| 3:45 | The Gourds | |
| 5:15 | BBQ Winners Announced | |
| 6:00 | Voice of the Wetlands All Stars | |
| 8:00 | Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue |
All bands will be playing on the NOLA Brewing Stage
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue stirs together old-school New Orleans jazz, funk and soul, laced with hard-rock power chords and hip-hop beats.
Since the release of their Grammy®-nominated 2010 debut album, Backatown, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have grown creatively while winning hordes of new fans performing nonstop on five continents.
Watch Videos of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue on their website
Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, Johnny Vidacovich, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Johhny Sansone, and Waylon Thibodeaux have teamed up to raise money and take an active role in driving awareness to restore the wetlands from a local to a national level..
Watch a clip of the VOW All-Stars Performing Download Music by VOW All-Stars
The Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist/vocalist/songwriter is famed worldwide for igniting a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she strolls on stage.
Ball's groove-laden New Orleans boogie and rollicking Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite with music fans all over the world.
Congrats to Ms. Ball on her 2012 Grammy nomination for Best Blues album.
Austin, Texas’ The Gourds have never been much on sentiment. Since the band started defining Gourds Music, as it has come to be known, they have chugged through America fueled by music and a near-pathological need for a good time. And while they have almost single-handedly made a place for deep thought in a genre of “Honky Tonk Badonkadonks” they have, for the most part, shied away from the tear-in-my-beer ballads that made country music a commercial powerhouse over the last 50 years.
The Stooges Brass Band has been a premier New Orleans Brass Band since 1996. While appealing to the emotions of traditional jazz, the brass band uses their hip-hop influence to create a new sound. Their innovative incorporation of hip-hop sound to the traditional styling of New Orleans brass band music has set them apart from other New Orleans bands
The business of Mississippi Rail Company is moving music forward via a vehicle of the past. Their music is an experiment in irony, embracing New Orleans roots music, rock ’n roll, folk, and blues traditions while refusing to fall subject to any of their claims. Their music breaks wholly new ground, rejecting any pull toward a simple re-hash of past musical genres. There is nothing tired, tried, or weary about their sound as it re-thinks (and re-shapes) a century of American musical traditions. In short, it manages to sound as if it could have been produced in 1920, even as its content and structure are a decade ahead of its time.
*** Due to overwhelming demand and a lengthy wait list we had to close registration for 2012. Thanks!***
