Photostory: Augusta Foodees Food and Culture Festival draws huge crowd
Hillbilly Bob's Homemade Soda, a concessions business based in Charlotte, N.C., offers its menu of handcrafted soft drinks to thirsty customers at the Augusta Foodees festival. Photo by Skyler Andrews.
More than 70 food trucks and more than 100 artisans and merchants served some 120,000 visitors along Reynolds Street over the weekend during Augusta’s third time hosting the Foodees Food and Culture Festival.
Some 120,000 people attended the Augusta Foodees Food and Culture Festival over St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Photo by Skyler Andrews.
Three Monkeys Photos, based in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., offered Foodees Fest Augusta attendees a chance to get their picture taken with three capuchin monkeys. Photo by Skyler Andrews.
The three-day bazaar launched in 2022, and has been organizing festivals throughout the Southeast since then, first making its way to the CSRA with the South Carolina fest in Aiken in April of 2023, and coordinated its inaugural Augusta counterpart in November of that year.
Jam Rock Jerk Spot of Rock Hill, S.C. serving Jamaician food from its truck at the Augusta Foodees Food and Cultural Festival. Photo by Skyler Andrews.Food truck for Spartanburg, S.C.-based Island Noodles at the Augusta Foodees Food and Culture Festival photo by Skyler Andrews.Worker chops fruit at the tent for House of Quarshie, an Augusta restaurant specializing in authentic African cuisine, at the Augusta Foodees Food and Culture Festival. Photo by Skyler Andrews.
The past weekend’s event, which started on Friday at 1 p.m., was originally slated for November of last year, but organizers postponed the festival amid Augusta burgeoning recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene.
Milbrandt Designs, from Summerville, S.C., offers custom T-shirts at the Foodees Food and Culture Festival in Augusta. Photo by Skyler Andrews. Children lining up for face painting at the Foodees Festival in Augusta. Photo by Skyler Andrews.
Ron Kennedy, co-owner of Foodees Fest, in a social media post expressing gratitude to Augusta for hosting the festival, and for its significant turnout—the previous Foodees fest attracted 100,000—mentioned plans to bring 200 food trucks to the next Augusta festival in November.
Hope Williams of Orangeburg, S.C.-based handmade jewelry pop-up 2 Beads of Hope at the Augusta Foodees Food and Culture Festival. Photo by Skyler Andrews.A line of vendors at the Foodees Food and Culture Festival. Photo by Skyler Andrews.
“We’re going to give you guys the most awesome experience that you could ever imagine when it comes to food and dining and the cultural arts and crafts,” Kennedy said. “We’re have our names written right there in the Guinness Book of World Records [for the] single largest food truck festival in history, taking place right here in these hallowed streets of Augusta, Georgia.”
Foodees Fun Park at the Foodees Food and Cultural Festival in Augusta, along the river. Photo by Skyler Andrews.Augusta’s The Good Eats food truck serves delectable Filipino dishes to customers at the Foodees Food and Culture Festival. Photo by Skyler Andrews. Sign urging passersby to try gourmet cotton candy from E & E Sweets, based in Asheville, N.C., at the Augusta Foodees Festival. Photo by Skyler Andrews.Ironhead Barbeque of North Augusta at the Foodees Food and Cultural Festival. Photo by Skyler Andrews.Foodees Food and Culture Festival, Augusta, March 2025. Photo by Skyler Andrews.
Skyler Andrews is a reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
Skyler Andrews is a bona fide native of the CSRA; born in Augusta, raised in Aiken, with family roots in Edgefield County, S.C., and presently residing in the Augusta area. A graduate of University of South Carolina - Aiken with a Bachelor of Arts in English, he has produced content for Verge Magazine, The Aiken Standard and the Augusta Conventions and Visitors Bureau. Amid working various jobs from pest control to life insurance and real estate, he is also an active in the Augusta arts community; writing plays, short stories and spoken-word pieces. He can often be found throughout downtown with his nose in a book, writing, or performing stand-up comedy.
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