About
The Come-See-Me Festival
The Come-See-Me Festival is Rock Hill’s annual salute to spring. Each year, this ten-day festival brings over 60 events and activities to over 100,000 attendees. Loaded with frogs, music, and fun, the festival brings together friends, neighbors, and festival-lovers from all over the United States and the world.
Our Generous Supporters
Festival Sponsors
This year’s official festival sponsors are Comporium, Piedmont Medical, the City of Rock Hill, Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and Williams & Fudge. Their generous support allows the festival to provide events at minimal or no charge.
2019 South Carolina Event of the Year
Award Winning Festival
An award-winning festival, Come-See-Me was named the 2019 South Carolina Event of the Year. It’s also ranked as one of the Southeast Tourism Society’s Top 20 Spring Festivals for more than a decade.
Our Roots
Festival History
Come-See-Me debuted in the spring of 1962 as a community project to encourage tourists, relatives, and friends to visit Rock Hill during its most beautiful season. What started as a weekend event has grown in popularity and expanded to 10 days.
Created by C.H. “Icky” Albright, a former Rock Hill Mayor and State Senator, Come-See-Me also was nurtured by Rock Hill resident and nationally acclaimed illustrator Vernon Grant. Grant created Kellogg’s® celebrated gnomes, Snap, Crackle and Pop®. He also created the Come-See-Me Festival’s mascot, Glen the Frog®, of which Grant designed more than 30 different styles. Each year the festival chair selects a new logo and updates its design and colors.
Be sure to visit the historic, award-winning Glencairn Garden, created by Dr. David A. Bigger to experience the beauty and spirit of where the Come-See-Me Festival was born.