Dogwood Festival Warns It May Not Survive Without City Funding
The Dogwood Festival says it may not return in 2027 unless the city helps cover rising production costs that have pushed the longtime downtown event into financial crisis.
Jury awards $100 judgment in Dogwood Festival defamation lawsuit
Malia Allen must pay $100 to Carrie King for comments made on TikTok. She could owe $10,000 more in lawyer fees
Country stars Drew Baldridge and Josh Ross to headline star-studded 2025 Dogwood Festival
This year’s Fayetteville Dogwood Festival will be held from April 25 to April 27, featuring a new cookoff event and country star headliners.
Fayetteville Dogwood Festival hires new director ahead of 2025 festival
The organization announced on social media on Friday that Kaylynn Suarez will take the helm of the city’s major spring festival, which has drawn as many as 250,000 people downtown in recent years.
New director of Fayetteville Dogwood Festival resigns after 10 days
The sudden departure on Thursday of Jim Long Jr. is the latest twist in a challenging and drama-filled period for the city’s major spring festival.
Column: Mayor, council members grill Dogwood Festival director about diversity
Now the mayor and some City Council members want to be in the entertainment business. That’s just what Mayor Mitch Colvin, Shakeyla Ingram, Larry Wright and Courtney Banks-McLaughlin were saying Monday night at a council work session.
Music, food and fun on tap for downtown festival
It’s been almost a year since Sarahgrace Snipes came on board as executive director of the Fayetteville Dogwood Festival. In that time, she’s been busy with the Fayetteville After Five summer concert series and the Dogwood Fall Festival. But she has yet to get a spring festival under her belt. That is expected to change…

