 This is Dave Britt. I'm the executive director for the Rosewood Merchants Association and welcome to Destination hometown May 12th We have the 13th annual Rosewood crawfish festival. We're bringing in 10,000 pounds of fresh Louisiana crawfish. It's grown in Louisiana One of the top chefs there brings it all the way from Louisiana alive and cooks them in his giant boiler and Yeah, something to see it's cool. It started several years ago at a restaurant called Rockways Which is still here on Rosewood. It was a small parking lot party and they brought crawfish there because no one really knew what it was and then in 13 years ago the city of Columbia started funding the crawfish festival through H-Tax and so the event was able to be Elevated through marketing more planning just it got much bigger. We had a national headliner come in It's important because there's nowhere to get the quality of crawfish that you get from this you know if you get it in it's either frozen or It's not necessarily prepared properly. They have to be purged and cleaned and so it takes some of the Familiar knowledge of how to cook them to really make them the best So this high quality crawfish comes to Columbia once a year and it's the only time you can get that quality here A lady of the bank told me today. She never had never come because she didn't eat shellfish I said well, we have 30 other additional food vendors from pizza tacos Everything you can imagine 30 food trucks We have five stages of live music Susto is our headliner this year from Charleston who's growing up. They're getting really huge right now We're excited to have them as part of the festival kids 12 and under are free We have a whole area dedicated to kids rides and kid vendors We have over 25 art vendors all with unique pieces of art So yeah, it's a great time for families to come and enjoy themselves They can stay all day and it's really laid back in a good time Advanced tickets are $10 instead of 15 at the gate So you can get those at Rosewood merchant locations like danos rockaways or Rosewood market So get them in advance to save yourself a little money and you'll be able to come right in through the gate Go to rosewood crawfish fest calm You can find out where it's at at time And again, you know crawfish aren't your thing. We've got tons of options lots of food out there There's a 5k dash that you can do in the morning. It takes place at 10 a.m Starts a city roots farm here off of Rosewood