From Moody Ques president Allison Moody:

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait until BBQ Fest this year. I wanted to give you guys an update on the status of The Moody Ques, Inc. and the plans for this year’s event.

We are truly excited and grateful to have WordPress as our sponsor. We would not be able to accomplish any of our plans for the tent this year without the generosity and contributions from WordPress. Our other main sponsor is Holliday Flowers. We also have the Double J Saloon sponsoring us and volunteering as the Pit Master. We are also currently considering a sponsorship from the Blind Bear.

For the tent, Brent Long is in charge of the structure and design. Brent is in the works of creating a custom, 2-story structure that will be built, installed at the festival, and removed by a third party. We may still need volunteers to assist Brent before, during, and after the event.

For food, we have selected the owners and chef at Double J Saloon: Jeff Stamm, John Harris, and downtown legend Demitrie Phillips (former Chef of Stella and Bardog). For the daily food, we are excited and honored to have Lauren Parton back with us, cooking for the team members.

For the busy Thursday and Friday nights at the tent, we are planning to have professional bartenders serving drinks and off-duty MPD working security at the door to make sure every team member gets to enjoy the tent.

As far as the organization, this year we created a C Corporation, “The Moody Ques, Inc.” and opened a separate corporate account. The corporation itself is organizing the BBQ fest and all funds will be tracked through the corporate account. Frank Howell is the treasurer and will maintain the books for the company. The following are the officers and directors of The Moody Ques, Inc.: Allison Moody (President), Clay Thompson (Vice President/Secretary), Frank Howell (Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer), Win Bonner (Chief Communications Officer), and last, but not least, Brent Long (Chief Design Officer).

Team Member Dues: This year the team member dues are $250 per person. There is a married couple’s discount, which is $350. The website is up and running, www.moodyques.com, and there is a Paypal link on the site. We will add more content and information to the website soon. Invited members can pay the membership dues through the paypal link (with a small fee) or by check, made out to “The Moody Ques, Inc.” (You must be invited in order to join the team.) We have not set a deadline for the dues, but would like to have it all by the beginning of April. When you pay the dues, please send an email to moodyques@gmail.com, and include the date you submitted your payment and your T-shirt size.

If anyone has any questions, please contact any of the officers and directors listed above or email the team’s gmail account. We will send out more emails in the coming weeks and would like to have a team meeting soon to open the floor up to ideas on the day-to-day organization of the tent.