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The Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ Festival is an annual, two to three-day music festival, produced by Thumper Entertainment and sponsored primarily by Boone County National Bank, first held in 2007. The festival is held in The District, downtown Columbia, Missouri. The festival includes multiple stages of live music, a barbecue contest and a half marathon.

History
The Festival began in 2007 as _. The Festival began charging for tickets in 2008 to cover costs of the event.

Activities
Available to the Bonnaroo public throughout the week are various activity tents. These tents become most popular with the night crowd, with such activities set up as The Silent Disco tent and several other club or bar themed venues. The Silent Disco allows for participants to enjoy the excitement and fun of a dance club but without disturbing nearby campers. Each person upon entering the tent is given a set of headphones that syncs with the DJ and the music, so everyone is listening to the same song through the headphones while appearing from the outside to be dancing to no music at all. Other activities include the Comedy Tent where comedians from Mike Birbiglia to Flight of the Concords have performed. The Cinema tent showing a variety of mainstream and independent movies is also popular as it is one of the air conditioned tents. Activities like these provide an easy and fun way to hang around the Centeroo in between music performances. In 2009, Bonnaroo debuted the Bungaloo community art project which consisted of all festival-goers being invited to paint a small tile which was then affixed to 10 foot water droplets which were suspended between The Other Tent and This Tent. For each tile painted, the festivalgoer was allowed to vote for the charity of their choice, upon which Bungaloo, a new online paint company, would make a $1000 donation.

Barbecue Competition
BBQ

2007 Headlining Acts
The Blind Boys of Alabama, Taj Mahal, Jerry Douglas.

2008 Headlining Acts
Buddy Guy, Jerry Douglas, The Henry Clay Band.

2009 Headlining Acts
The Blind Boys of Alabama, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Booker T Jones.

2010 Headlining Acts
Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Dan Tyminski.