Jekyll Island cancels Shrimp & Grits Festival for 2nd year
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Sunday, April 25, 2021
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (AP) - One of coastal Georgia’s biggest food festivals has been canceled for a second straight year.
Jekyll Island will forgo its Shrimp & Grits Festival this fall, The Brunswick News reported. The coronavirus pandemic forced organizers to pull the plug in 2020. Now a lack of funding from sponsors and fewer restaurants committing to participate prompted organizers to shelve the festival until November 2022.
“We don’t want to do anything that causes Shrimp & Grits not to be the premiere festival,” Jones Hooks, executive director of the Jekyll Island Authority, told the agency’s governing board Tuesday. “We don’t want it to be lackluster.”