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FEBRUARY
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Art Show
Steven Nakamura
Painting with Wine
Castoro Cellars Primitivo Label
Painted in Primitivo
ARTIST'S RECEPTION
SATURDAY, FEB. 4, 2PM - 5PM
Talk to the artist and enjoy performances
by JJ's Habibi Dancers and Ascend Tribal
Minion belly dancers! Shows at 2:30pm and 3:30pm. Wine and appetizers will be served.
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Steven Seizo Nakamura is a California based artist who specializes in techniques that utilize Red Wine as a medium. He studied fine art and illustration at CSUN and has competed in several Plein Air competitions in Southern California. His first one man show "Colors of Wine" will be featured here at the Castoro Cellars Tasting Room in our gallery throughout the month of February.
In 2009, Steven was enjoying an elegant meal and a glass of fine wine from Paso Robles with his wife, on their Lake Forest balcony. Steven, a Trader Joe's wine specialist, began describing this wine as "dark and inky." His wife Chris, asked what does that mean? Steven walked into his art studio and placed a brush into his wine glass and began the first strokes of his art career.
"Colors of Wine, is a personal art journey and story. I explore the flavors of wine through it's complex pigmentation and concentration. The wine becomes as much of the story telling process as the subject and the artist. It is a passion for exploration and for living life, holding special memories and now a way to share them." Steven invites you enjoy his artwork with a splash of wine. See more of Steven's work here.
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Saturday, February 11
7:00pm
$22
SOLD OUT
Knights of Columbus
Indoor Benefit Concert
Snap Jackson & the
Knock on Wood Players
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Come out and enjoy an evening of great music and support a fine organization! Snap Jackson and the Knock on Wood Players are an acoustic trio hailing from Stockton, CA. They create their own sound, a fresh, energetic blend of Bluegrass, Americana, Soul and Old Time music. They're sure to entertain you and make an impression you won't soon forget!
An array of desserts will be served at intermission and Dam Fine Wine will be available for purchase.
Visit the band's website here!
All tickets are non-refundable.
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Saturday, February 18
Sunday, February 19
11am to 4:30pm
$21.99
A Benefit Event for "Zoo to You"
Tickets available now online at
brownpapertickets.com
& participating Hwy 46 West
Winery Tasting Rooms.
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Join Castoro Cellars and the Highway 46 West Wineries group on President's Day Weekend for a great fundraising event to benefit "Zoo to You," in Paso Robles.
Purchase a Wine Safari passport for only $21.99 per person with $20 of every ticket going to Zoo to You! Here's what you'll receive when you purchase a ticket:
- free tastings at any or all of our 13 participating wineries (see list below)
- visit with a wild animal at each winery between 11am and 4:30pm both days
- help support a local non-profit organization while enjoying the adventure of great wine, good company and exotic animals
Zoo to You is dedicated to wild animal rescue, preservation and public education. Find out more about Zoo to You, their programs and tours here!
Turn in your receipt at any of these wineries to receive your passport to AN UNFORGETTABLE WINE TASTING ADVENTURE:
Berardo Wineyard, Croad Vineyards, Castoro Cellars, Doce Robles, Donati Family Vineyard, Donatoni Winery, Eagle Castle, Grey Wolf, Hunt Cellars, Midnight Cellars, Peachy Canyon Winery and Veris Cellars.
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Saturday, February 18
11am-2pm
FREE - Club Members Only!
Wine Club Pick-up Party
Not a member? Join today and come party with us!!!
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There are many benefits to being a Castoro Cellars Wine Club member, great wines, discounts on wine and events, exclusive offers and of course, the free wine club only parties!
Come out and enjoy food, live music and taste the current club wines. Pick up your shipment and get the chance to take home a few extra...we always have something Dam Fine on sale for the event!
Want to bring along friends and treat them to a little Castoro Cellars club hospitality? Club Guest tickets are only $12.50/pp (plus CA sales tax) and if your friends decide to join the wine club we will gladly refund the ticket price!
Make sure you notify us when your RSVP if you normally have your wines shipped but want to pick them up this time.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
RSVP by Feb.10 to
events@castorocellars.com
or call 1.888.DAM.FINE
Members may purchase GUEST TICKETS HERE
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Sunday, February 26
1pm-4pm
FREE
Steve Williams
Indoor Bistro Concert
Outside food welcome! Castoro Cellars wine will be available for purchase.
No outside alcohol allowed.
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Steve Williams is a unique musician. Whether playing rock, soul, country or blues, his magic combination of smooth vocals and refined guitar skills will have you loving both his original music and his memorable adaptation of familiar classics. Steve will be joined on vocals by his wife Sally, also a seasoned professional performer. This concert will be well-rounded, laid back and perfect for a Sunday afternoon!
Steve describes himself this way: "Take equal parts Motown, Beatles, Country & Blues. Add generous portions of playing and singing from the heart. Beat (but not for too long; mixture must remain chunky & funky). Simmer for a few decades. Serve hot." Steve Williams is currently performing on a regular basis in the Ventura area, which is home to a very vibrant music scene. You can read more about Steve and hear his music here.
You won't want to miss this performance, so mark your calendar. Join us for an afternoon of great music, friends and Dam Fine Wine in our intimate indoor gallery setting.
Outside food is welcome, but if you aren't prepared, It's a Wrap and More Catering will come by with gourmet boxed lunches for sale. You can pre-order with Michelle @ 805.610.4875.
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MARCH
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Art Show
Maeve Croghan
Oil on Canvas
Maeve's work will be on exhibit in the Castoro Cellars Gallery during the months of March and April.
Read more about Maeve and see her work on her website here.
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Expressionist nature painter Maeve Croghan has a unique interpretation of the traditional subject of nature painting. Maeve grew up living every summer on a remote island in Northern Michigan and it was here that she developed a deep reverence for the lakes, woods the surrounding lands and nature. Her love of the land, and now her connection to the magnificent beauty of California, is expressed through her energetic, color-filled paintings.
Maeve's oil paintings are begun outside as she observes the environment and finished in the studio from personal interpretation and memory.
The recipient of numerous juried awards, Maeve's paintings are shown and collected throughout the country. She recently participated in museum showings at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Alaska, as well as the Laguna Beach Museum of Art in California. Castoro Cellars in Templeton, CA, has chosen her work to grace their award-winning wine-bottle labels. Maeve's artwork has been chosen for bottles of Paso Robles 2002 Zinfandel Winemakers Collaborative Blend, Castoro Cellars Paso Robles 2000 Late Harvest Muscat, and Castoro Cellars Paso Robles 1999 Late Harvest Zinfandel.
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Saturday, March 3
7:30pm
$20
Doors open at 6:30pm
Jayme Stone
SLOFolks Indoor Concert
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
All tickets are non-refundable.
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Join us for a night of varied and innovative folk banjo with musician Jayme Stone. Jayme's music can best be described as "what the future of the banjo looks like." He has been called the "Yo-Yo Ma of the banjo," and according to country musician George Straight, Jayme's music is spirited and his talent large.
Jayme Stone's new album, Room of Wonders is based on folk dances from around the world: reels, rachenitsas, morescas and sambas from Norway, Sweden, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Tunisia and North America. His third solo recording, following the international breakout success of Africa to Appalachia, features fiddle pioneer Casey Driessen, gravity-defying guitarist Grant Gordy, former Punch Brother Greg Garrison and special guests: Nick Fraser (drums), Kevin Trucotte (trumpet), William Carn (trombone) and Olov Johansson (nyckelharpa).
"Stone's scope is far-reaching, connecting seemingly disparate cultures with a passion for music that runs through bluegrass, jazz and the grit of roots music to West Africa."
Boston Globe
"Stone combines a jazz musician's sense of timing and sureness of touch with a pop musician's brevity and directness."
The Guardian
Visit Jayme's website here.
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Friday, March 16
"All In for Zin" Party
6:30PM
$47.50/pp $40/Wine Club
(sales tax will be added)
Purchase Tickets HERE
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Saturday, March 17 &
Sunday, March 18
Tasting Room Open House
10AM-5:30PM
$5 Tasting Fee/Free to Wine Club
Join the festivities and discover
the wonders of Zinfandel!
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FRIDAY, 6:30PM - "All In for Zin," a party for those who truly adore zin-fun-del! Enjoy a divine gourmet dinner by Chef Jeffrey Scott, created to pair perfectly with Castoro Cellars Zinfandels (click here for menu), great live music by the soulful Brian Black Duo, plus Zins from the bottle and the barrels. AND all of our Zinfandels will be on sale! Space is limited so get your tickets early.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 10AM-5:30PM - Open House at the Tasting Room...it's always a great celebration at our Zin Fest Open House, and it's one of the best deals around. Local favorites Sweetwater the Trio will perform both days. (Check out Jim Sweetwater's YouTube Video here.) No reservations required - just drop by!
- Wine Tasting including Barrel Samples
- Live Music from 12-4pm
- A Variety of Vendors, including crepes by Lemoine Creperie and clam chowder by Splash Cafe.
- All Castoro Cellars Zinfandels on Sale
- No reservations required
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APRIL
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Saturday, April 14
10:30am
$75
5th Annual
Wine Club Blending Session
Tickets on sale now...CLICK HERE!
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Wine Club Members - Don't miss your chance to learn the skill of winemaking from the best team of winemakers around and compete for the honor of Castoro Cellars' Wine Club Winemaker of the Year!
The morning begins with our panel of owners and winemakers sharing their secrets and teaching you the techniques you'll need to craft your very own blend. Then you get a chance to choose from the wines selected by our team and practice blending until you get one you like. Samples of the blends created that day are turned over to our experts for judging and one blend is selected to become the next Castoro Cellars Dam Fine Red. The blendmaster's name even goes on the bottle! And, you'll get to take some of your creation home so you can show it off to your friends!
Blending works up quite an appetite, so lunch will be served following the session and the owners and winemakers will join you for delicious food, wine and conversation.
It's your chance to go down in winemaking history and have a great time doing it!
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Saturday, April 21
7:30pm
$25
Doors open at 6:30pm
Eric Andersen
SLOFolks Indoor Concert
Purchase tickets here or call 1.888.dam.fine.
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Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Blue River, Eric will be featuring songs from this album. He will also perform songs which span other albums including his early classics "Thirsty Boots" & "Violets Of Dawn" as well as new songs.
Eric Andersen first came to prominence as a performer in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and immediately became part of the Village Folk and songwriter scene along with Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk and Bob Dylan. He has co-written songs with Bob Weir, Townes Van Zandt, Rick Danko, and Lou Reed. His songs have been covered by many artists including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Judy Collins, Fairport Convention, Linda Ronstad, Peter Paul and Mary, the Blues Project, Gillian Welch and Linda Thompson.
Over the past 45 years, Eric has released over 25 CDs of original music. His first live album Blue Rain (released in 2007 on appleseed Recordings) was recorded at a concert in Oslo with members of the blues band, Spoonful of Blues.
Read more about Eric Andersen and his music on his website.
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MAY
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Art Show
Paul McCLoskey
Fine Art Photography, Pigment Prints & Photo-Paintings
"Painting with Light"
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Paul McCloskey attempts to portray his works with a painter's eye, capturing and communicating the beauty of nature as well as it's ambiance and spirit using natural light to help "paint" his pictures in camera.
Composition, color, texture and "atmosphere" are key elements to all of his images. "Being in nature brings a sense of wonder and inner joy that is sometimes difficult to communicate in words, but done so eloquently by environmentalists/writers such as Thoreau and Emerson, Muir and Abbey, to name but a few. I also have a deep respect and love for nature and hope these images inspire the same feelings in others. "
Visit Paul's website for more information and images of his work here.
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Saturday, May 26
7:30pm
$20
Doors open at 6:30pm
Fishtank Ensemble
SLOFolks Indoor Concert
Visit their website here.
Purchase tickets here or call 1.888.dam.fine
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Formed in 2005, Fishtank Ensemble has played everywhere from the hippest LA clubs to festivals, cultural centers, museums, parades, and even on the street. This exciting band includes two explosive violins, the world's best slap bass player, musical saw, flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar, trombone, opera, jazz and gypsy vocals, accordion and one little banjolele. Tackling everything from French hot jazz to wild Serbian and Transylvanian gypsy anthems, Flamenco, and oddball originals, their performance is a not to be missed event for world music lovers. The LA Weekly calls them "cross pollinated gypsy music….one of the most thrilling young acts on the planet."
The dynamic quartet takes its roots from their own varied musical and national backgrounds, as well as from their adventures and travels. The singer Ursula sang opera on the streets and town squares of Italy, until she found a love of gypsy music...their French violinist voyaged around all of Europe in a handmade mule-drawn caravan for ten years, collecting music and experiences. Their Serbian bass player has spent time playing with gypsies as well as some of the rock and roll's legends, and the guitarist is a master of flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar who honed his craft in the gypsy caves of Granada, Spain. Expect a wild time from this band, but it will never match their out of this world performance!!!
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JUNE
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Sunday, June 17
1-4pm
Free
Martin Paris
Fathers Day
Lazy Locals Concert
Bring your Dad out for a relaxing day in the shade with great live music! Dam Fine Wine available for purchase and picnics are welcome.
Lawn chairs & blankets encouraged.
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Drawing on inspiration from California's pristine wine country, Martin brings his versatile array of original material. With solo and trio arrangements he blends styles of pop, folk, blues, ballads and Celtic arrangements. "The acoustic guitar inspires me to create a musical journey. My experimentation with alternate tunings has led me to some of the great finger style players." Some of Martin's musical influences include Acoustic Alchemy and Tommy Emmanuel. Current favorites include Peppino D' Agostino and Laurence Juber, who Martin opened for at Castoro Cellars. He also shared the billing with Karla Bonoff in a sold-out benefit concert for Escuela Del Rio at Castoro in 2010.
Martin's current Cd's "Guitarist Off The Vine" and "Turning Point: Deluxe Edition," are released on Solid Air Records, a Grammy award winning label that can be found at Acoustic Music Resource.
Paris will be accompanied by Kirk MacLane on bass and Jesse Hesch on drums. You can visit his website at www.martinparismusic.com.
Opening the show will be acoustic guitarist D' Angelo, performing instrumental pop tunes.
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2012 COMING EVENTS
Wine Festival - May 18-20
SLOFolks Concert: Giles Apap & the Translyvanian Mountain Boys - June 9
SLOFolks Concert: TBA - July
SLOFolks Concert: Peppino D'Agostino - August 11
Wine Club BBQ - September 15
SLOFolks Concert: Hot Buttered Rum - September 22
Harvest Festival - October 19-21
SLOFolks Concert: Chris Proctor & Brooks Robertson
Stay tuned to our website...there's always something happening at Castoro Cellars!
SPECIAL CONCERT AND EVENT INFORMATION
Thank you for choosing to attend events at Castoro Cellars!
Concert and event tickets are sold on a "will-call" basis. Please do not bring
outside food unless otherwise stated; no outside alcohol allowed.
SLOFolks Indoor Concerts begin at 7:30pm with doors opening at 6:30pm.
Seating is provided for indoor concerts; no food service provided.
SLOFolks Outdoor Concerts begin at 7:00pm, gates open at 6:00pm.
Some seating is provided but lawn chairs are recommended. No tall chairs
allowed in front. Catered meals available for purchase.
No dogs are allowed at paid concerts.
All events which include food will have CA sales tax added to the ticket price.
Please remember that there are no refunds on concerts and events -
all ticket purchases are final. Food and beverages are not included
in the purchase price unless otherwise stated.
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