Delta Hot Tamale Festival

Name: Delta Hot Tamale Festival
Start: 2026-10-16
End: 2026-10-17
Location: Downtown Main Street

Greenville, MS · Food & Drink

When: October 16–17, 2026
Where: Downtown Main Street · Greenville · MS
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Downtown Greenville celebrates the Mississippi Delta's hot tamale tradition with tamale vendors, chefs, live music, and literary programming. It was named the top specialty food festival in the country in a 2026 national vote.

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Delta Hot Tamale Festivalsame spot
Downtown Greenville celebrates the Mississippi Delta's hot tamale tradition with tamale vendors, chefs, live music, and literary programming.
Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival0.1 mi
The oldest continuously running blues festival in the country, held since 1978.
Jim Henson0.2 mi
Born in Greenville and raised partly in Leland, where he played on the banks of Deer Creek, the model, he said, for Kermit's swamp.
Doe's Eat Place and the hot tamale0.7 mi
A grocery that became a restaurant where the kitchen is the front room and steaks are cooked on the same stove the family used.
Greenville and the Delta Democrat-Times2.0 mi
Hodding Carter ran a paper in the middle of the Delta that argued against the poll tax and for returning Black veterans, and won a Pulitzer for it in 1946.