International Bar-B-Q Festival

The sights, smells and sounds of the 39th Owensboro International Bar-B-Q Festival will be taking over downtown this weekend, but one staple cooking team will be missing that’s participated for all 39 years.

The tristate's premiere talent contest, The Battle for the Big O, returns THIS Saturday.  We are holding our first audition of the season at the International Bar-B-Q Festival in downtown Owensboro.  It's going to be an amazing day and it gives YOU the chance to perform at the Bar-B-Q Fest AND get a shot at winning $1,000 and opening the 2017 Big O Music Fest at Reid's Orchard, July 8th.

It is International Bar-B-Q Festival week here in Owensboro and we're celebrating with a fun poll!  We want to know, past or present, what is the best barbecue restaurant in Owensboro, Kentucky?  Vote now!

Did you know there's an International Bar-B-Q Festival-inspired version of the Zodiac?  Well, here it is!  So, throw on a bib, get your Wet-Nap and find out what your Bar-B-Q sign is!

As summer creeps closer, festival season is about to kick in to high gear. Check out this complete list of festivals in Kentucky this summer.

This is awesome!  Our friends at Tanner+West just released new 3-minute video that captures every delicious moment of the International Bar-B-Q Festival!  This is a must watch!

This year's International Bar-B-Q Festival will give a whole new meaning to the term "mutton glutton."  The annual Owensboro event will feature the World Mutton Slider Eating Championships and some of the most famous professional eaters in the world will be here to compete.

It seems like it always rains and storms at the International Bar-B-Q Festival in downtown Owensboro and this year was no exception.  There were two big bouts of rain on Saturday.  And Friday kicked off with a bang as storm clouds rolled in and started to swirl right above the festival.  Check this out!  I happened to have my iPhone handy and things were looking a little sketchy.

It didn't take long for Jaclyn and I to find the most popular item at this year's International Bar-B-Q Festival in downtown Owensboro.  As soon as we started our broadcast yesterday, word was already spreading around the streets about the Red Velvet Funnel Cake.  Naturally, Jaclyn and I reacted like bloodhounds and immediately sniffed it out.  WATCH!

The International Bar-B-Q Festival gets underway tomorrow in downtown Owensboro and Kizzy is excited.  In fact, she called The WBKR Waking Crew this morning to tell us she is standing on the edge of glory!  LOL!  Listen.

The International Bar-B-Q Festival is Friday, May 9th and Saturday, May 10th in downtown Owensboro.  And, if you have official business at the Daviess County Courthouse, you may have to reschedule.  There are plans to close the building early Friday.

You can't haze people in college.  But we can sure do it here at WBKR!  And that's exactly what Jaclyn and I did to our brand new intern, Jordan Roos, a senior at Brescia University.  His first day on the job was last Friday, which just so happened to be the first day of the International Bar-B-Q Festival here in Owensboro.  Naturally, we invited Jordan along for a crash course in live, on-locatio