BayHaven Food & Wine Festival’s Juneteenth celebration rescheduled for fall — what to know
Update: BayHaven’s Juneteenth Kickoff Carnival has been rescheduled. Details are below.
The BayHaven Food and Wine Festival is set to return to Charlotte on Oct. 19-23. A Juneteenth Kickoff Carnival has been rescheduled to October 21. Tickets purchased for the June event will be refunded through Eventbrite.
New tickets will go on sale on June 19 for the October event. A full festival lineup will be announced the same day.
WHEN: Oct. 19-23
WHERE: Camp North End, 1774 Statesville Ave., Charlotte, NC 28206
TICKETS: Tickets will go on sale on June 19 at bayhavenfoodandwine.com. No ticket sales are available at the door.
WHAT: Entertainment will include a Ferris wheel, petting zoo, vendors, Black-owned food trucks such as What the Fries and more.
BayHaven Food & Wine Festival details
The five-day festival will be a celebration of Black foodways and will be themed “Homecoming,” with inspiration from historically Black colleges and universities. Events held at BayHaven restaurants throughout Charlotte will include multi-course dinners, a tasting event and a tailgating celebration.
“We learned a lot in that first year,” said Subrina Collier, founder of BayHaven Wine & Food Festival. Collier is a 2020 James Beard Foundation Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellow and co-owner of BayHaven Restaurant Group with her James Beard-nominated husband, chef Greg Collier. “We can’t wait to get back to it — bigger and better — in year two.”
Chefs who have signed on to participate include: Matthew Raiford, Tanya Holland, Kristi Brown, Keith Rhodes, Ederique Goudia, Lawrence Weeks, Adrian Lipscomb, Greg Williams and Jamie Barnes.
Bayhaven Food & Wine Festival
Festival: Oct. 19-23
Tickets: https://www.bayhavenfoodandwine.com/
This story was originally published May 19, 2022 at 12:11 PM.