TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR FIRST ANNUAL TRAVERSE CITY
MICROBREW & MUSIC FESTIVAL BENEFIT
Traverse City, Mich., August 7, 2009 – Lovers of craft beer, world music and local harvest won’t want to miss the first annual Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival Saturday, August 29, in the historic trees and on the front lawn of the Village at Grand Traverse Commons. Tickets are available at Oryana, Right Brain Brewery, Old Town Coffee, North Peak or online at tcbeerfest.com and porterhouseproductions.com.
A $25 ticket includes seven bands, education, and entitles attendees to eight pours with more available, from breweries including: Right Brain, Short’s, Founders, Bell’s, Jolly Pumpkin, Tri City, New Holland, Magic Hat, Sierra Nevada, Michigan Brewing Company, Three Sergeants, Red Hook, Goose Island, Stone, Arcadia, Keweenaw and others, plus regional mead, wine, cider, nonalcoholic ales and specialty brews. There is a $50 Brewers’ Happy Hour ticket that enables participants to meet the brewers for a two-hour early entry, enjoy inclusive catered food-and-beer pairings and receive limited-edition festival merchandise.
This event is the first such in Michigan that pays 100 percent for beer, waives all table fees. Also it supports the brewers and their families with rooms at the Grand Traverse Resort,a presenting sponsor supporting craft beer and busy brewers. Ticket buyers must be over 21.
Blues, zydeco, acoustic folk, bluegrass, gypsy jazz, funk and rock musicians, as well as Scottish bagpipers will perform on two stages. The lineup includes the legendary Buckwheat Zydeco Band, Clumsy Lovers, Caravan of Thieves, Mike Moran & Levi Britton, Delilah DeWylde & The Lost Boys and Luke Winslow-King.
Master of ceremonies is Chris O’Brien, award-winning author of “Fermenting Revolution: How to “Drink Beer and Save the World,”breworganic.com and beeractivist.com. A dining tent will feature local food for sale, demonstrations by “Lord of the Gourd” carver Pat Harrison, and workshops educating attendees about local hops, home brewing and mead making.
“Our goal is to establish a long-standing tradition that celebrates great beer, music,
culture, local food and sustainable practices with northern Michigan patrons and vendors,” said festival creator and owner of Porterhouse Productions Sam Porter. “The long-term vision is to create an anchor event with the Microbrew and Music Festival to support a community non-profit week-long annual Epicurean Harvest Festival celebrating food and craft beverage as well as arts and culture for all ages. We also aim to raise funds to support local youth empowerment programs through the Good Work Collective (GWC) and Little Artshram,” he added.
The festival will be a “green” event, with Porterhouse and 350.org, a Michigan Land Use program, providing support including compostable serving ware, eco merchandise, green printing and even a wind-powered stage, lights and sound.
The Village at Grand Traverse Commons is on 11th Street a block west of Division Street just west of downtown Traverse City.
Porterhouse Productions is now accepting applications and ideas from breweries, artists, sponsors, vendors and volunteers via info@porterhouseproductions.com
Since 1997 Porterhouse Productions has created awarding-winning beer festivals, concerts and events across the northern Rockies and is now operating and producing events throughout northern Michigan.
