2024 NCRF Events | North Carolina Rice

2024's festival lineup expanded to four events! It was an unforgettable experience filled with music, food, and fun...rain or shine!

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2024 North Carolina Rice Festival Expands Lineup to Four Events, Defies Inclement Weather to Shine Light on North Brunswick’s Rice and Gullah Geechee Heritages

By Kamili Anderson; photographs by Cedric Brooks and Alan Cradick and courtesy of the North Carolina Rice Festival, Inc. Since 2019, the...

Day 1 of the 2024 celebrations began with a free screening of two NCRFI-produced video-documentaries on the history of rice cultivation in the NC and the importance of rice to Gullah Geechee cuisine.

Titled “Introducing…the North Carolina Rice Festival,” that program was held in Leland at the headquarters of WWAY TV-3, the Festival’s...

The introductory event was followed on February 29th by the NCRFI’s second annual Ancestry Reveal, held at the Navassa Community Center.

That event, cohosted again this year by African Ancestry Inc.—the world leader in tracing maternal and paternal lineages of African...

THE NORTH CAROLINA RICE FESTIVAL

2024's festival lineup expanded to four events! It was an unforgettable experience filled with music, food, and fun...rain or shine!

Check it out below!

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