The 41st annual Shoals Catfish Festival royalty was crowned Friday evening, July 3rd. The Festival kicked off Thursday, July 2nd, with a Benefit Auction, and concluded Sunday afternoon, July 5th, with the Gospel Sing.<\/p>\n
Shown above are the 2026 Catfish Festival royalty, which was crowned at the Stage, at the Recycling Center. Pictured, from left to right, are Jr. Miss Queen Anniston Taylor, daughter of Tony and Allison Taylor; Queen Albanye Crim, daughter of Adam Crim and Carlye Fisher; Pre-Teen Queen Kenna Bearden, daughter of Ashley Bearden; and Little Miss Queen Oaklyn Jones, daughter of Corey and Mackenzie Jones.<\/p>\n
Thanks to event Chairperson Kindra Hovis, and her entire staff of assistants, for another great pageant. These beautiful young ladies will represent our community very well during the coming year.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Shoals News Photo by Audra P. Deckard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 41st annual Shoals Catfish Festival royalty was crowned Friday evening, July 3rd. The Festival kicked off Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,12,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-291001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}