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🌽 Join us at The 2026 Arkansas Cornbread Festival on November 7th for food, fun, and community 🎉! Live music and other fun activities round out the day.

The Arkansas Cornbread Festival builds community by raising awareness and funds for local nonprofit organizations while celebrating Southern culture and heritage through food, artisan crafts, and music. Music, enticing aromas, and the promise of family fun has drawn thousands each year to downtown Little Rock. Bonding over cornbread is a southern tradition, and once you’ve had a taste of South Mai

n in Little Rock (SoMa), you’ll have to come back for more. Cornbread and side dish entries are judged by everyone attending the festival as well as a panel of celebrity judges.

08/30/2026

Like so many of you, we've been sitting with the loss of Dolly Parton this week 🤍.

Cornbread and Dolly Parton make sense together. Both are rooted in the South. Both are simple, honest, and nourishing in a way that goes way beyond food or music. She fed people - with her voice, with books, with a kind of generosity that never asked anything in return. She just brought people to the table and made everyone feel like they belonged.

Rest easy Dolly. 🌽

08/26/2026

Friendly reminder that the amateur cornbread contest application is OPEN and spots will fill up🌽!
We've already had some incredible home cooks throw their hats in the ring. Family recipes, secret ingredients, years of perfecting a craft - the competition is going to be fierce!

Don't let someone else's grandmother beat yours! Get your application in today 🏆! Link in bio/comments!

*image by Eugenia Pan'kiv on Unsplash

08/21/2026

In case you're new here, welcome! Let us tell you what we're about 🌽!

The Arkansas Cornbread Festival started in 2011 on South Main Street in Little Rock, AR as a celebration of Southern food, community, and the magic of a neighborhood coming together. What began as a modest gathering grew into thousands of people showing up every year for cornbread, music, art, and each other.

After a year away we are back, November 7, 2026! Free admission. Live music. Amateur AND professional cornbread competitions. A vintage market. Arkansas Foodbank as our partner. And so much more still to announce!

Follow along. You won't want to miss this one🌽!

08/18/2026

Hey musicians, dancers, poets, performers, this is your invitation🎶!

The Arkansas Cornbread Festival stage is one of the best audiences you'll ever play for - thousands of people in a great mood, ready to move and groove. This year we're opening up showcase opportunities for local artists who want to share their talent with the SoMa community.

It's a chance to gain real visibility, connect with new fans, and be part of a Little Rock tradition that's been bringing people together since 2011.

If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you! Performer interest form is open now🌽🎵!

https://www.arkansascornbreadfestival.com/activities/

08/15/2026

We are building something a little different this year and we are EXCITED to tell you about it 🌽.
The 2026 Arkansas Cornbread Festival is being organized into distinct areas designed to create a real sense of discovery as you move through SoMa. We're talking a vintage market, makers and artisans, food, art, and more - each section with its own feel and its own flavor.

We want this year's festival to feel like an experience, not just an event. And we think you're going to love it!

Vendor applications are open now! Whether you make it, bake it, thrift it, or craft it, if your work connects to Southern tradition, community, and creativity, we want you there!

https://www.arkansascornbreadfestival.com/vendors/

08/09/2026

To all the chefs, restaurants, caterers, and culinary pros in Arkansas, we see you. And we are calling you OUT 👀!

The professional cornbread competition returns to the Arkansas Cornbread Festival this November and we want you in it. Compete in front of thousands of festival-goers and a panel of judges for bragging rights, prizes, and the title of Arkansas's best cornbread!

If you think you've got what it takes (and we think you do!) applications are open now. Link below🌽🏆!

08/05/2026

Okay home cooks, this one is for YOU!👏🌽

The amateur cornbread contest is BACK for 2026 and we want your recipe in it. Yes, yours. The one your grandmother made. The one you've been perfecting for years. The one you've never told anyone about👀.

This is your moment to put your skillet where your mouth is and let Little Rock decide who makes the best cornbread in Arkansas.

Applications are open right now! Spots are limited so don't sleep on this.

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Apply here->https://www.arkansascornbreadfestival.com/compete/

Photo credit: Photo by Holly Spangler on Unsplash

08/02/2026

Hey Little Rock 👋🌽!

We know it's been quiet around here since April and you might have been wondering what's going on with the Arkansas Cornbread Festival.

Trust us, we have been BUILDING!

Behind the scenes we've been putting together something really special for November 7th and we are finally ready to start sharing it with you.

We've got competitions opening up, vendor applications live, performer showcases to announce, exciting new partnerships, and some fresh additions to the festival that we think you're going to love.

We're just getting started and it's going to be a good fall Little Rock! Stay tuned🌽!

04/22/2026

🌽 Happy Earth Day Little Rock!

One year ago today, we shared some hard news - the Arkansas Cornbread Festival would be taking a pause for 2025. Today, on the very same date, we're back with something much more fun to say:

The Arkansas Cornbread Festival is returning November 7, 2026!

Mark your calendars, dust off your cast iron, and stay tuned! More details are coming soon and we can't wait to see you at the table!

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Little Rock, AR
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+15013969587

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http://arkansascornbreadfestival.com/

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