Now that Rock the Block, an annual music festival, has helped successfully revitalize downtown Winston-Salem offerings for the past 12 years, T W Garner (maker of Texas Pete Hot Sauce) will sponsor a new annual culinary festival in the Arts District. Rock the Block was wildly popular, drawing as many as 20,000, but organizers have determined it has run it's course, and something new is forthcoming.
Rock the Block run is over; new festival to take its place - Winston-Salem Journal: Local News