2025 NC Liver Mush Festival: Mush, Music & Mutts

Starts on Saturday, October 18th, 2025

Shelby, North Carolina, United States

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About the event

Join us for the 2025 NC Liver Mush Festival on Saturday, October 18th from 9 AM to 4 PM in beautiful Uptown Shelby! Recognized in regional and national media including Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods, this festival celebrates the unique regional delicacy and local food staple known as liver mush. Festival highlights include a liver mush eating contest, recipe contest and cookoff, live music, and more than 80 craft, food, and beverage vendors. Featured partner RollOver Pets presents the "Mutts" portion with a pet costume contest and parade, K9 demo and trick shows, musical sit contests, and more! Enjoy freshly prepared liver mush sandwiches and dishes proudly served by local producers of this well-loved "delicacy"! Free to attend, pets welcome, and fun for the whole family!

Dates

Oct 18, 2025 · 9:00 AM - Oct 18, 2025 · 4:00 PM(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

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Location

North Carolina, United States

118 S. Washington Street, Shelby, North Carolina 28150, United States

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Parking instructions

The festival is held in the heart of Uptown Shelby. For general mapping, map to 118 S. Washington Street – you won’t be able to drive to that spot as it is within the festival area but once near the festival, you will see various places to park or you can ride a shuttle. Free Parking is available around Uptown Shelby. Some of these are in areas beyond the boundary of the festival so please follow all traffic and pedestrian safety signals. Accessible Parking - Vehicles must display either a NC DMV-issued disability placard or license plate to enter and park. Cars without this may be towed. Accessible parking is available on a first come first serve basis at : ACCESSIBLE PARKING ONLY: HomeTrust Bank – 224 E. Warren Street located on the corner of Dekalb and Warren St, right at the edge of the festival. Wells Fargo Bank – 231 S. Washington St located at the corner of Washington and Graham Street. Enter the lot on Graham Street. PLEASE NOTE: There are businesses that state their parking is for their guests only... unless it says festival parking, we recommend you not park there. Some of those businesses will have your car towed.