The 2026 North Carolina Rice Festival "Pre-Festival Party"

This year, instead of the traditional Gala dinner we've sold out five years in a row, the NC Rice Festival organizers are kicking back and letting popular local brewery/restaurant Brunswick Beer & Cider play host to a lively, come-as-you-are night of food, fellowship, and fundraising. This relaxed-atmosphere event promises to bring together friends, visitors, local, VIPs, and sponsors of the Festival to celebrate Gullah Geechee culture while enjoying live entertainment, Lowcountry-inspired appetizers and other menu items as well as the on-site brewery's award-winning Carolina Heritage Gold Lager rice beer. (With the exception of party appetizers, meals and drink at this event are self-pay.) Come get a taste and an earful of what's to come the night before the Big Event--the Saturday March 7th North Carolina Rice Festival!

ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA RICE FESTIVAL EVENT ORGANIZERS: The 501c3 nonprofit North Carolina Rice Festival Inc. (NCRFI) strives to attract families, history enthusiasts, educators, cultural tourists, and residents alike to the northern Brunswick County area with programs and events designed to educate the public and celebrate the region’s rich and diverse peoples and cultures related to its once-thriving rice-growing heritage.

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