KingFest, held annually the first Saturday in October at King Central Park, includes a variety of activities for all ages. Live music performed at the amphitheatre features 50's, oldies, bluegrass and gospel music. Also included in the day's events are arts and crafts, children's activities, a youth fishing tournament, a horseshoe pitching tournament, community-prepared country food, heritage demonstrations, miniature train rides, a classic cruise-in car show, kids' Olympics, a corn hole tournament, contests and prize drawings. Admission and parking are free, and parking is adequate for bus tours.
King Central Park, located on Kirby Road, is a 17-acre municipal park, with paved walking trails; a stocked fish pond; picnic shelters, restored eighteenth century cabins, a veterans' memorial and an amphitheatre.
Directions: From US Hwy 52, take exit 123 and go 1/2 mile toward King. Turn right onto Kirby Road and go 1/2 mile, just past P.B. Clark's Restaurant. King Central Park will be on the left. There is a sign and U.S. flag flying at the first entrance to the park. Public parking will be in the amphitheatre lot at the second park entrance.
PLEASE PATRONIZE OUR SPONSORS! Thank you to these local businesses who sponsored the 2012 KingFest
2012
Festival Sponsors
City of King and King Chamber of Commerce
Title Sponsors
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Unlimited Success/Partnership for a Drug Free NC
Stokes Partnership for Children
Allegacy Federal Credit Union
NewBridge Bank
McDonald's of King
Heavy Equipment Repair of King, Inc.
RJR Music Stage R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Little Folks' Tent Stokes Partnership for Children
NewBridge Express Train
NewBridge Bank
McDonalds's Kids' Olympics
McDonald's of King
Classic Cruise-In Car Show
Heavy Equipment Repair of King, Inc.
Kids' Zone
Unlimited Success/Partnership for a Drug Free NC
Allegacy Portrait Center
Allegacy Federal Credit Union
Associate Sponsors
Cornhole Tournament
Rotary Club of King
Family Safety Center
Forsyth Technical Community College
Heritage Demonstrators
Slate Funeral Home Stokes County Economic Development
Horsehoe Pitching Tournament
Stokes Family YMCA
Youth Fishing Tournament BB&T
David L. May, Jr. Nationwide Insurance Agency
Pumpkin Decorating
Stokes Tire and Automotive, Inc.
Windstream Communications
Scarecrow Contest
Unlimited Sucess/Partnership for a Drug Free NC
Volunteer Hospitality Tents King Lions Club
Christian Village, Inc.
Cannon & Company, LLP
Mark A. Johnson, D.D.S.,P.A.
THANKS TO ALL THESE WHO MADE KINGFEST POSSIBLE WITH THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT! and
Thanks To the 2012 KingFest Committee:
Zollie Smith, Co-Chairperson, Garry Merritt, Co-Chairperson,
Barry Amburn, Steve Carroll, Sherry Corson, Bill Davis, Derek Edwards, Mary Anne Hicks, Carolyn Landreth, Ricky Lewis,
David L. May, Jr., Deanne Moore, Dustin T. NIchols,
Fire Chief Steven Roberson, Taylor Vaden, Mayor Jack Warren,
and Dianna Wright.
Corporate Sponsors
Badcock Home Furniture & more
Bojangles'
Carroll Memorials, Inc. Cres Tobacco Company, Inc.
Duke Energy Corporation
Dairi-O
First Baptist Church of King
First Citizens Bank H & R Block
Helsabeck-Hall Insurance Agency, Inc.
Imperial Vault Company
James River Equipment Company
Jones & Jones Jewelers, Inc. LTD Farm & Garden Mitchell's Nursery and Greenhouse, Inc.
Mountainview Medical Center
Southern Community Bank & Trust Stokes Pharmacy, Inc.
Rocky Road Web Designs
