Seventh annual event features over 20 wing cookers and free concerts from Country’s hottest rising stars A Thousand Horses and Lindsay Ell

Over 20,000 pounds of chicken wings are being prepped for the seventh annual Biggest Little City Wing Fest, presented by THE ROW, July 5 & 6 in the Heart of Reno. Over 20 wing cookers will slather and season their wings to perfection and compete for the accolades of best sauces and new found fans. Popular flavors of the past include strawberry cheesecake, maple bacon bourbon, peanut butter and jelly, garlic buffalo and ghostpepper. Bibs are optional.

This year’s #WingFest will feature free concerts on Friday from A Thousand Horses, who deliver an authentic fusion of southern rock and contemporary country mixed with rowdy jams and on Saturday from Lindsay Ell, who is lauded as “one of the most exciting and talented young artists in country music.” The full, free entertainment line-up for Biggest Little City Wing Fest is:

Friday, July 5

1 p.m. – Jake’s Garage 5.0

3 p.m. – Dusty Miles & the Cryin’ Shame

5 p.m. – Southern Cut

7:15 p.m. – A Thousand Horses

Saturday, July 6

11 a.m. – Valentine Rodeo

1:00 p.m. – Southern Cut

3:00 p.m. – Dusty Miles & the Cryin’ Shame 

5:00 p.m. – Jake’s Garage 5.0  

7:15 p.m. – Lindsay Ell

*Schedule subject to change*

What started as an event with local restaurants and caterers, is now attracting cookers from all over the country including California, Colorado and Montana. Wing cookers will set-up shop along Virginia Street and compete for Reno’s tastiest honors with their most creative sauces. In fact, many returning cookers will use this opportunity to debut a brand new sauce during the two-day event. As of press date, the following cookers and vendors have confirmed:

• Slater’s Ding-a-Wing
• Paulie’s Pizza
• Aloha Shack
• OnStreet Concessions
• V Concessions
• Wingredient
• Wing of Fire
• Wing Doctor
• Mother Clucker’s
• Cal Neva
• Boulevard Pizza
• Git’R Smoked
• Wing King
• Redneck Wings
• Maui Jane’s Hawaiian BBQ
• Alltaken
• Wing Master
• Koko’s Terriyaki
• Docs Q-in Pit Stop
• Off Da Rocca

In addition to wings, THE ROW will serve fried calamari with citrus-garlic aioli, chili-loaded fries, burgers and fries and chicken, carne asada and carnitas tacos from El Jefe’s Cantina. Wash down the spices and sauces with ice cold beverage including berry vodka lemonade, strawberry basil margaritas, pineapple chili margaritas, watermelon mojitos, whiskey peach tea, Moscow Mules, very berry mules and a variety of beers.