Hilton Head seafood festival to return after COVID-19 cancellation. Here’s the schedule
Make sure your oyster shuckers are ready for the dayslong Hilton Head Island Seafood Festival. The event is returning this February after being canceled due to COVID-19 last year.
The festival runs from Feb. 21 to 27, according to its website.
The yearly event, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary, raises money for local organizations such as the Coastal Discovery Museum and the Port Royal Sound Foundation, among others, said Andrew Carmines, owner of Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks and president of the David M. Carmines Memorial Foundation, which hosts the festival.
“I didn’t realize how much I missed it,” Carmines said of the festival, which celebrates Lowcountry cuisine and the South’s food culture. “It’s really just a labor of love.”
Most of the festival this year will be held outdoors in different spots around Hilton Head, Carmines said in a Monday interview. There will be “very little indoor activity.”
“It’s just a stacked lineup,” he added.
Carmines hopes to raise at least $150,000 for local nonprofits in 2022, which would bring the David M. Carmines Memorial Foundation’s total giving to $1 million since 2004, he said.
Tickets for the festival’s most-popular event, the Pig Pickin’ & Oyster Roast on Feb. 25, from 6 to 9 p.m., have already sold out, Carmines said.
But tickets are still available for the main event on Feb. 26 — “nearly 100 food, beverage and artisan booths” at Shelter Cove Harbour & Marina. There also will be fireworks that evening.
The festival’s full schedule and ticket prices can be found online: bit.ly/SeafoodFestivalHHI
