About the Festival:

When The Queen City of the Highlands Swarm downtown LaFayette for a day of music, food and fun! When our community celebrates Life and “Bee”-comes one!

The City of LaFayette is the proud home of the Annual Honeybee Festival. In 2017, the Honeybee Festival was born and proved to “Bee” a huge success for the area!

Protecting the Queen:
Honeybees are essential to life on our planet. If the honeybees were to ever disappear, so would life itself.

The City of LaFayette works to bring attention to the importance of preserving the honeybee population. We also see the importance of the honeybee population as a parallel to preserving the life of our own community.

In a Beehive, each bee has a responsibility to maintain the nest and protect the Queen.
Honeybee Square PictureWho is the Queen in our City? It’s the community. It’s our citizens, our family, friends and children. It’s our homes, businesses and industries. It’s our future. It’s us!

We celebrate the Honeybee Festival and see it as a way to “Bee” a positive change in our community.

The Buzz:
The Community and our Visitors are treated to a full day of Live Music, Special Events, Countless Vendors, Honeybee Education as well as Food and Fun for the whole Family.

The daylong event is free to the public and includes local musical talents as well as top headlining performers from the music industry.
The event also includes a Kid’s Zone for all the little youngsters, the Honeybee Festival BBQ Competition, Baking Contest, and Cruise-in which also features an array of antique tractors.

A multitude of unique Arts & Craft Vendors will “Bee” on hand as well as great festival food and a variety of other activities.

BBQ Competition:
When it's Barbecue Time in the City of LaFayette!

The Honeybee Festival is a Full Day of Music, Food and Fun that's Free to Attend!

This is a great opportunity for Professional and Beginner Barbecuers to bring their BBQ talents to town in an attempt to "Smoke" the competition. Competitors are also allowed to vend during the Honeybee Festival.

Each year, the Honeybee BBQ Competition takes place on the day of the Honeybee Festival, where thousands of Festival goers come out to enjoy the event. Competitors arrive on the Thursday or Friday evening prior to the Honeybee Festival, which is always held on the following Saturday, in preparation for the competition.

Beauty Pageant:
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Miss Honeybee Beauty Pageant

The Miss Honeybee Beauty Pageant began during the 2nd year of the Honeybee Festival and has grown into a successful event.

The Pageant is sponsored by the LaFayette High School Cheerleaders and money raised at the event supports the cheerleading program at the high school.

It's an opportunity for young ladies to shine and "BEE" in the spotlight.

During the 3rd Annual Honeybee Festival, the pageant included the first ever Queen Bee Pageant for women 50-years and older.

Each of the Pageant winners will "BEE" introduced on the Main Stage at the Honeybee Festival the following day.

The Pageant has several groups from 0-16 years old. There is also a Queen Honeybee division for 50 years and over.

Car Show:
-Roll into the Honeybee Festival in style with the Honeybee Festival Cruise-In & Antique Tractor Show!
-When you come to the Honeybee Festival, you will see a wide array of unique sportscars, truck, motorcycles and antique tractors.
-The Cruise-In always brings onlookers to check out not only the body of the ride, but what's under the hood!
-You'll see Cruise-In participants who take a lot of PRIDE in the presentation and detail of their "BEE"-loved vehicles.
-The Honeybee Festival Cruise-In is a must see during the day of the Honeybee Festival.

Education & Honeybee Awareness:
The Honeybee Festival is a great opportunity to discover the important role Honeybees play in our natural world. Without the honeybees, life would not exist. Honeybees are the world's largest pollinators of food crops and are vital to our food supply. When you visit the Honeybee Festival, you'll enjoy a Free to Attend Full Day of Music, Food and Fun and part of that is learning about the important role Honeybees play in our life.

During each Honeybee Festival, honeybee experts and beekeepers bring awareness and educate our Festival goers at the Honeybee Festival Education exhibits and demonstrations learning area.

Every aspect of the honeybee can "BEE" discussed during the Honeybee Festival Education exhibits and demonstrations. Subjects like sustainable beekeeping, the role of the honeybee, how to rear Queen Bees, what effects bees and bee colonies and how to control it, plus so much more.

Entertainment:
When the Honeybee Festival Brings Out the Best from our Local and Regional Music and Entertainment Scene!. The Honeybee Festival is a Full Day of Fun, Food and Music!.
When our Festival goers visit the Honeybee Festival, we want to bring a diverse array of talents onto the team to entertain the massive crowd.

We are looking to book musical acts, groups, street performers and magicians. The more diverse the better!

We are always looking to have a unique array of genres including rock, country, soul, jazz, gospel, bluegrass, hip-hop, etc.

Honey Show:
It's time to let your artistic flare show with the Honey Show Competition!

The Honeybee Festival Honey Show Competition is open to any festival attendee who wishes to enter one or more exhibits.

So, if you have a knack for Honey and want to compete for cash prizes, "BEE" sure to take part in the next Honey Show Competition at the Honeybee Festival.

Entries can range from extracted Honey, black jar Honey, chunk comp Honey, beeswax bars and/or candles.

Exhibits can also be submitted as Honeybee related artwork and crafts (like photographs, paintings or sculptures just to name a few), Honey Cake and Honey Confections (like pastry, pie, tart, candy, chocolate, or any other sweet food or delicacy made from local honey), bath and beauty products made from honey or beeswax and flowers, shrubs or trees grown by the exhibitor.

"BEE" sure to register for the next Honeybee Festival Honey Show Competition!

Honeybee Eve:
Warm up for the Honeybee Festival by coming out for the Free to Attend Honeybee Eve!

The Honeybee Festival is a Full Day of Music, Food and Fun! Events even start one day before during Honeybee Eve.
Honeybee Eve is where we get a taste of what is to come the next day as we host the Honeybee Steak Competition, where our Barbecue Competitors are invited to compete for 1st, 2nd and 3rd for Best Steak.

We also have some great musical talent perform that evening from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Honeybee Festival Barbecue Competitors are also known to vend during Honeybee Eve.