Thanks to all who entered our contest to win two tickets for the Feb. 11 Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival, courtesy of Porterhouse Productions!
You guys offered up lots of excellent reasons on Facebook and on email on why you deserved to be the winner, and we thought you were all more than worthy, but as always, we left it up to the random number generator. Random.org picked KATHLEEN SWINEHART of Cadillac from the field of contestants. Congratulations, Kathleen!
Read on for more information on how you can buy tickets to this awesome event, which features, as the name suggests, plenty of beer, but also wine, mead and cider.
Celebrating its third year, the Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival will bring more than 40 breweries, wineries, cideries and meaderies together in a single location: The Village at Grand Traverse Common, the historic former mental hospital that's been redeveloped into a bustling hub of residences and retail.
The beverages may be the stars of the Feb. 11 show, but they're not the only appeal. There also will be local food vendors and cuisine pairings, fire dancers and bonfires. Funktion, Heatbox, Crane Wives, Dragon Wagon, Whitey Morgan and the 78's, Grand Traverse Pipes & Drums and Laith Al-Saadi, among others, will perform music ranging from Honky Tonk to dance to blues. And at the Silent Disco, patrons can don headphones and dance to music that passers-by can't hear. The entire event runs 4-10 p.m., but multiple downtown Traverse City after parties will cap off the night.
Attendees must be age 21 or older. The $30 per person ticket includes five 7-oz. pours, a tasting cup, all entertainment, and shuttles between downtown Traverse City and The Village. If, by chance, you don't win our contest, you can purchase your tickets to the festival online at http://www.porterhouseproductions.com or in person at Left Foot Charley, Oryana or Blue Tractor. Tickets at the door, if any remain, are $35 apiece.
Proceeds benefit Bay Area Recycling for Charities, a Traverse City-based nonprofit recycling service provider that allows consumers to designate the charities that benefit from BARC revenues.
