The National Cornbread Festival is a celebration of cornbread and cornbread-related activities. The festival, held in South Pittsburg, Tennessee from 1997 to 2019 during the last full weekend in April, will resume in 2022. Among the attractions featured at the National Cornbread Festival are: In the year 2000 the National Cornbread Festival was selected as one of the top 100 events in North America by the American Bus Association. The COVID-19 pandemic was to blame for all cancellations since 2020; the 24th was deferred to April 2022.