Bluegrass and BBQ at Boone Hall

Sunday marks the return of the Piggly Wiggly BBQ and Bluegrass Festival at in Mount Pleasant.

Rhonda Vincent, hailed by promoters as the “Queen of Bluegrass” headlines with a 5:30 p.m. performance. Festivities begin at noon and wrap at 9:15 p.m. with a fireworks display.

Tickets are $30 at the gate, $25 in advance. Tickets for kids, ages 6 to 12, are $8 in advance and $10 the day of. Tickets are available online, at locations and at the on U.S. Hwy. 17.

Rhonda Vincent and the Rage are the hot ticket in bluegrass music. Hailed as “the new queen of bluegrass” by the Wall Street Journal, Vincent has received honors including Entertainer of the Year from the International Bluegrass Music Association and seven consecutive IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year awards.

She’ll share billing with Grammy-winning mandolin player Sam Bush. He performs just after Vincent and the Rage.

Earlier in the day, Homeboy Reunion Bluegrass Band will perform. So will Common Ground, the celebrated Charleston bluegrass band. Next Best Thing, the bluegrass duo that includes Vincent’s two daughters, will also perform.

The event also includes a 2:30 p.m. rib-eating contest and a barbecue cook-off at 4:45 p.m. Barbecue is served throughout the day, but food is not included in the ticket price.

The BBQ and Bluegrass Festival also features a mechanical bull-riding contest and a celebrity-dunking contest.

The event takes place under the shaded oaks of , one of the oldest farms still in operation after 300 years. The mile-long avenues of oaks and its period slave quarters have been the backdrop to motion pictures such as “Queen” and “The Notebook” along with the TV miniseries “North and South.”