St. Joan of Arc Ethnic Festival in Spring Hill

Good day, Tampa Bay. Happy Thursday to you. I'm Charlie Belcher coming to you from Spring Hill, St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, where they're getting ready for their 33rd annual ethnic festival kicking off tonight. Five o'clock runs through the weekend celebrating cultural diversity through music, food, dance and all sorts of family fun. It's a big fundraiser for the church as well. Trish is here to give us a few more details. So 5 p.m. tonight it kicks off. Yes, it does. Very exciting. Big week this week. We have all kinds of entertainment. expect spectacular rides we have food we have games we have something for everybody this is big it's a big deal i mean it looks like a fair when i was passing by the road it is a fair we've been here 33 years we have a buy one get one tonight where you can come and buy one armband and get one free and we have great prices through the week we open at five o'clock tomorrow one o'clock on saturday and sunday and we're looking forward to seeing everybody the weather's going to be beautiful too what's it cost to get in it's free to come in free parking you can buy an armband or you can buy individual tickets which are a dollar and a quarter a piece each ride has a different amount of tickets to to ride and it's fun for the entire family you have something here for everybody all ages very nice it sounds fun you're right can we agree it's and it's the season for festivals oh it is it's the fall it's going to be a wonderful wonderful weekend with the weather you couldn't ask for anything better and they put on such a spectacular with the bands and the entertainment that they have here in the tent, all the cool food that's here. It's gonna be a nice weekend. And ultimately supports the church and its mission. Absolutely, 100 and people come out and support even if they're not from this church. They come from all over. Yeah, community. Exactly. All about community. Other communities too. Yeah, nice, nice. From all over. Trish, thank you very much. Thank you. And part of the food that will be celebrated here is being done by different food trucks. Greg and his lovely wife Ashley are here to tell us about their food truck. What's your food truck, Greg? Dowdy's Flavors. Dowdy's flavors. How long you been around? Two years, nice. And what kind of food you're serving up on Dowdy's? Mainly smash burgers And I just started smashed chicken. Oh my gosh. I got to go through this a little bit here What is that we're looking at right there over here on the end over there, so that's the blackened bacon jalapeño smash chicken that looks awesome, got infused Bacon in it and what's this one right here? It's the cordon bleu chicken cordon bleu So it's got ham and Swiss cheese in the middle. So you take it like a chicken breast and just pound and pound and pound and the heck out of it, Smasher? Yes. That's delicious looking. And it's a smash burger right there? Yes, that's the Volcano. What's on that? It's infused with bacon, got jalapenos, nacho cheese, and some special sauce I put over it. Nice. And then tell me about that one. That's the Gouda Melt, the Dowdy Gouda That one has Gouda cheese, applewood bacon, mushrooms, onion straws, arugula on the bottom with, I make the aioli sauce to go with it. Nice. What kind of cheese? A Gouda. That's right. It looks a Gouda. It looks a Gouda to me, Greg. Thank you very much. All right. Sorry. I just want to eat Smash Burgers now. It is the 33rd annual Ethnic Festival happening at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church. kicks off at five o'clock tonight, all weekend long, family fun. For more information, you can find them on Facebook. Just search St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Spring Hill. Charlie Belcher, Fox 13 News.