Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the second annual Snake Oil Festival! Snake Oil is the premier event in the South dedicated to preserving the art forms of the the traveling medicine shows of the 19th and 20th Centuries! SOF takes you on a journey back in time to an era when traveling carnivals crisscrossed the United States bringing joy to the masses by exposing them to circus arts, sideshows, freak shows, burlesque, comedy, vaudeville and music.