Garden State Wine Growers Association Schedules Wine & Music Experience at Horse Park of NJ on Labor Day Weekend
Cream Ridge, NJ (August 1, 2016) – This Labor Day weekend take a break from work by sipping wine, listening to great music and enjoying the company of family and friends when the Garden State Wine Growers Association hosts the Wine & Music Experience at the Horse Park of NJ on Saturday and Sunday, Sept 3-4 from noon to 5 p.m.(rain date Monday). After years of holding its Labor Day weekend event at Allaire State Park, the GSWGA has moved to the beautiful and spacious Horse Park of NJ in Allentown on Route 524 (exit 11 on I95) in order to provide customers with an expanded music and wine experience paired with award-winning New Jersey wines.
The event will feature two bandstands allowing for non-stop musical entertainment that will be headlined Saturday on the Main Stage by the famed Roomful of Blues Band, the American blues and swing revival band with a recording career spanning over 40 years. Long Gone Daddies will perform on the Local Stage and Burning Bridget Cleary will open on the Main Stage. Sunday’s musical entertainment will be headlined by The Slambovian Circus of Dreams on the Main Stage as well as Rogues on the Run performing on the Local Stage and Hot Jazz Jumpers opening on the Main Stage.
Advance discounted tickets are now on sale for $20 + fee on the www.newjerseywines.com website or by clicking here. This price will only stay in effect until August 14. Then, the advance price will be $25 + fee through August 28 and then $30 + fee the week of the event and on-site.
In addition, the GSWGA is also offering a special VIP opportunity for the Wine & Music Experience. Those customers purchasing one of the new GSWGA membership cards will receive special VIP treatment at the Wine & Music Experience. GSWGA card holders will receive the following:
The price for the card is $100. Buy two and get 25% off the second card. Cards can be purchased on www.newjerseywines.com or by clicking here. In addition to the festival package, cardholders can take advantage of special offers available only to GSWGA card members in August and other months by our wineries. All cards are numbered and members will need to show their card for admission to festival events and special winery offers.
The GSWGA is proud to announce that the Standardbred Retirement Foundation will be the official charity ofr the Wine & Music Experience. A percentage of each ticket sold will benefit the mission of the organization. The Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization created to care for, rehabilitate, and secure lifetime adoption of non-competitive racehorses to ensure their proper care with follow-up, and combine the needs of youth at risk with these horses in therapeutic equine programs to benefit both.
Following is the official band line up for each day of the Wine & Music Experience.
Band Line up for Saturday, Sept. 3
Sunday, Sept. 4
Advance discounted tickets are also now on sale as well for the GSWGA’s Jersey Fresh Grand Harvest at Fosterfield’s Living Historical Farm Oct. 1-2 and the Cape May Wine Experience at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum at Cape May Airport October 8-9. Visit www.newjerseywines.com or click here to order tickets.
Enter to win a pair of tickets here. Winners will be announced by Friday morning! Winners must confirm that they will pick up their tickets at the event.
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