{"id":77212,"date":"2017-10-06T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=77212"},"modified":"2017-10-06T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:32:14","slug":"entertainment-schedule-pig-pickin-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2017\/10\/entertainment-schedule-pig-pickin-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment schedule for the Pig Pickin&#8217; weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 32nd annual Pig Pickin&#8217; weekend kicks off today (Oct. 6) at 5 p.m. with a slate of live entertainment at Statesmen Park.<\/p>\n<p>DJ Howl will take the stage first, followed by the Jason Miller Band at 7:30 p.m. JMB will\u00a0deliver a southern country rock sound.<\/p>\n<p>The fun continues Saturday with performances on stage throughout the day. Several Delta Music Institute bands will perform, including B4Y2K, Delta Rox and Ol&#8217; Skool Revue. Delta State University President William N. LaForge will also share his musical talents along with his band,\u00a0President LaForge and the Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>At 3:30 p.m., the Delta State University Marching Band, Delta State cheerleaders, and the Delta Belles dance team will lead the way for the pre-game pep rally.<\/p>\n<p>While the crowd awaits the judges&#8217; decisions on cooking competition winners, the CE Allstars will take the stage to present a high-energy cheerleading, tumbling and gymnastics show.<\/p>\n<p>After Pig Pickin&#8217; award winners are announced at 5 p.m., tailgaters will be prepping for the 6 p.m. kickoff as the Statesmen take on the\u00a0University of West Alabama. To purchase game tickets, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deltastatetickets.universitytickets.com\/user_pages\/event.asp?id=342&amp;cid=40\">http:\/\/deltastatetickets.universitytickets.com\/user_pages\/event.asp?id=342&amp;cid=40<\/a> or call DSU Athletics at 662-846-4300.<\/p>\n<p>Other Saturday events include the annual Pig Pickin&#8217; Golf Classic, the third annual cornhole tournament and the Hog Run 5K. For more information or to sign up, and to purchase food plate tickets, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsupigpickin.com\">www.dsupigpickin.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, download the Delta State Alumni app and follow these social media sites: Facebook (Statesmen Graduates), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni), LinkedIn (DSU alumni), Instagram (alumni) and You Tube (dsualumni1). Make plans for this year\u2019s Pig Pickin\u2019 (Oct. 7) and Homecoming (Nov. 11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 32nd annual Pig Pickin&#8217; weekend kicks off today (Oct. 6) at 5 p.m. with a slate of live entertainment at Statesmen Park. DJ Howl will take the stage first,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":77216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1408,10],"class_list":["post-77212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","tag-alumni","tag-pig-pickin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77239,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77212\/revisions\/77239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}