Fame Fest

05/22/2026

Confederates, as Fame Fest closes in on tomorrow's eventful day of all of our demonstrations, vendor participations and other displays of Patriotism for the cause of Southern Independence and America250, we are closely watching the weather precipitation between the hours of 12:00pm and 4:00pm.

Some have asked if we have a rain date scheduled to postpone our festival, and we do not specifically because of our one day insurance policy to cover our artillery and our one day event permit from the City of Salisbury to utilize public property. Fame Fest will go on rain or shine with hopes for breaks in-between.

Provided shelter will be on site in the form of two 10x20 canopy tents in the event of rain and all vendors have been asked to utilize their own canopy tents per usual for outdoor events.

Our ancestors endured far worse environmental conditions in the thick of war in stormy weather to freezing cold, we'll follow:

05/17/2026

We are so thankful for our dedicated sponsors for this years Fame Fest and look forward to our opening remarks where we'll read off these names. It wouldn't be complete without our very own drop in the bucket either. Gloria Victis:

05/17/2026

We're officially one week away from the biggest day of the year for Fame Preservation Group as we will host Fame Fest on May 23rd in reverence of North Carolina's heritage defining moment of seceding from the United States to become an independent Republic and later apart of a new Union as a Confederate State with the understanding of life, liberty, and property, that cannot be constrained by any form of government by our constitutional values outlined by the American Revolution.

This next Saturday, we'll rock Salisbury with rifles, cannons, and the celebration of Southern Hospitality at the Fame Confederate Monument where we're happy to announce our official paid vendors that will be a key component of our festival event.

Vendors are to arrive between 9:00am - 11:00am to stage their numbered spaces which will be marked spaces in the order listed:

1) Pop & Kellie's Grill
2) Panther Creek Iron Works
3) The Virginia Flaggers
4) Rothell Family Craft
5) Gandy Bee Farm
6) Southern Made Signs
7) Rowan Rifles SCV Camp 405
8) Crazy David’s Discount Variety Store
9) Jerri's Jewelery Tree
10) Guiding Eyes Outdoors
11) 28th North Carolina Infantry Regiment

Come see us from 12:00pm - 4:00pm and have a Dixie Day!

05/17/2026

For the second year now, Southern Heritage is anticipated to be celebrated and honored around the date of North Carolina’s declaration of independence from overwhelming government intervention and authoritarian tyranny […]

05/13/2026

05/06/2026

This year's Fame Fest will feature a signature historical tour of Old Lutheran Cemetery beginning and ending at what it's all about, the Fame Confederate Monument, where we'll highlight her history, the 2020/2021 ordeal, and touch on various notable people buried in the Cemetery and highlight their Southern legacies. See the map for fast approaching May 23rd:

05/03/2026

Wanna save on those pesky gas prices? Travel NC By Train to Salisbury, NC's Amtrak depot to arrive blocks away from where Fame Fest will be hosted at Old Lutheran Cemetery downtown right next to the tracks. You might even see Fame on the way to the station from your seat:

05/03/2026

Celebrate heritage, commemorate their honor, and respect their patriotic deeds done in vain. Memoriam is upheld at Fame Fest, join us 🫡

05/02/2026

See the official Fame Fest event map for reference to where our vendors will be, how parking arrangements will be conducted, and exactly what new space will be designated for our living history Confederate reenactors as we bring Dixie to Downtown. Come join the action:

05/01/2026

It's officially May and we're making final adjustments ahead of Fame Fest, you're invited to be apart of the heritage celebration. Join us on May 23rd, 2026 at Old Lutheran Cemetery from 12:00pm to 4:00pm for a commemoration event to recognize the achievements and hardships which North Carolina's people endured near the date of our States secession, May 20th, 1861, through the representation of the Fame Confederate Monument.

This year we'll have bigger cannons, more space for living history to be showcased, and a quieter generator with our hired food truck to accommodate for our invited guest speakers.

Speeches will be given throughout the day while demonstrations will be presented in-between involving singing, headstone cleaning courses, and a historical tour of historic Old Lutheran Cemetery beginning and ending at the Fame Confederate Monument.

We're excited to be able to host this for a second year and are absolutely grateful for both our vendors and sponsors for contributing to our efforts to best honor the representation of Fame in whichever setting we have her in. And especially, a big thank you is deserved to the City of Salisbury for allowing this festival to take place primarily on their public street and on the grounds of their public cemetery.

This will be our spring festival ahead of our summer bash at Stars and Bars Tavern for our fifth annual Fame Preservation Group Barbecue Festival on August 22nd that will be packed with entertainment, good Southern Barbecue, and great vendors like the ones at Fame Fest:

04/26/2026

The Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis, was removed from the near center of downtown Salisbury in July of 2020 to be dismantled and placed in storage at their Public Works facility. In 2021, it was reinstalled in Old Lutheran Cemetery in August of 2021 exactly a year and a month from its removal.

Throughout that period of our history, FPG reimagined our goal as an organization, redefined why we existed, and reformed how we operated from being an activist group to keep Fame in its rightful location, to posing as a third party advocate alongside the owners of the Monument to justify the second chance it was given to still stand in the public eye.

Today since its relocation, Fame Preservation Group has grown around it, shaped its environment with the decoration of nearly every Confederate grave in Old Lutheran Cemetery, and justily ensured that we the people have the right to the representation of our military dead from the United States or the Confederacy through a Monument publicly dedicated to native Rowan County residents who served North Carolina honorably not for politics, nor greed, or any institution, but what their State asked of them in times of duty and sacrifice.

The relationships we've established, the friendships we've built, and the security we've provided to the Fame Confederate Monument through ground walk inspections and the organizing of a Monument Guard have all established the framework of what we represent and how we operate now not as an activist group, but as a historical society devoted to the Southern History showcased through Gloria Victis as it now towers over the hallowed Confederate Mass Grave at OLC.

The organized efforts of preserving and expanding the maintenance of this historic cemetery both for the benefit of visitors to the Monument and for those buried here is an honorable service to provide.

Hosting our second annual Fame Fest come May 23rd at this location is our way of giving back to the community that has helped our organization become a respectable leader in historical preservation initiatives specifically centered around Fame and we couldn't have gotten where we're at without y'all's support.

From Fame Preservation Group to yours, we hope to see many new and familiar faces this coming month for our vendors, speakers, reenactors, and special demonstrations, to promote our Southern History no matter what force tries to tell us that we can't and won't.

Deo Vindice, Gloria Victis