Event Calendar
Ski, Music, Wine, Folk Tales - Forty-Five North Vineyard & Winery - February 20, 2010
Categories: Entertainment, Events, Featured, Recreation, Ski, Wine
Join us at 2p.m. with a Leelanau Conservancy guided ski, snowshoe, or walk. Then come into our NEW tasting room and enjoy some wine and music by locals Norm Wheeler and Pat Niemesto! After everyone’s warmed up gather around the fire with your glass of wine and enjoy old folk tales told by Norm and Pat. A great way to spend your Saturday! Bring the whole family!
Tickets are $15 a person
Call and reserve your spot!
231-271-1188
Forty-Five North Vineyard & Winery
Saturday, February 20, 2010
2:00pm - 8:30pm
45 North- Lake Leelanau
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Toast the Season - Leelanau Peninsula Vintners - Nov. 7 & 8, Nov. 14 & 15
Categories: Entertainment, Events, Wine
Toast the Season - A Wine & Food Celebration with Holiday Themed Gifts
It has become a Northwest Michigan holiday tradition - the Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association’s Toast the Season wine tour. Once again, two consecutive weekends of tasting and touring will be offered, November 7 & 8 and also on November 14 & 15. The tour is self guided and you may visit 16 of the member wineries (up to 8 per day) in any order at any time between the hours of 11am to 6pm Saturday, or noon to 5pm Sunday.
“This is a great time for families and friends to gather to celebrate the upcoming season and even get started on their holiday shopping,” says Adam Satchwell of Shady Lane Cellars. “Wines and other items from Leelanau Peninsula tasting rooms are the perfect gift for the holidays. Our wines compliment holiday meals, cocktail parties or any gathering and they make great gifts!”
The annual Toast the Season wine trail tour features a special wine pour, accompanied by holiday themed gourmet food, at each of the 17 Leelanau Peninsula member wineries. At your starting winery you will be given a commemorative glass, a unique holiday ornament and a holiday gift basket from the members of Sleeping Bear Gourmet (a group of local, fair trade and organic food producers).
“We’re excited to participate in Toast the Season. It’s the perfect opportunity to celebrate the rich culinary heritage of this region and aligns perfectly with Sleeping Bear Gourmet’s commitment to a local food economy,” said Timothy Fitzgerald Young of Food For Thought. Comprised of small family owned and operated businesses, Sleeping Bear Gourmet members all share common values that represent the highest gourmet standard in each respective category as well as common commitment to sustainable business practices.
Toast the Season Food Drive
This year in conjunction with Toast the Season, LPVA will work with the Father Fred Foundation (fatherfred.org) to collect canned food. Just bring your canned food donation to any of the 17 LPVA wineries and drop it in the collection box to help families in need in the Grand Traverse region this holiday season.
Tickets
Tickets for Toast the Season are $50 per person or $75 per couple (couple ticket holders receive two glasses, pours and food at each winery, but only one gift basket and ornament).
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Check out this set of photos from the 2008 event!
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Harvest Stompede - Annual Vineyard Run & Walk - September 19 & 20, 2009
Categories: Entertainment, Events, Fall, Recreation, Wine
The annual Harvest Stompede Vineyard Run & Walk and Wine Tour will be held September 19 & 20, 2009.
The weekend features a race through Leelanau’s vineyards and a wine tour of LPVA member wineries featuring wines, gourmet pastas and other culinary delights. This event sold out in 2008 so get your tickets now! You’ll want to sign up for the LPVA Email Newsletter (in the sidebar to the left!) to be notified of additional details and also about upcoming events.
Register for the 2009 Harvest Stompede 7mile run, 5K run/walk
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The Homestead - Water Color Painting Workshop with Tony Couch - September 14 to 18, 2009
Categories: Entertainment, Events, The Homestead
The Glen Arbor Art Association sponsors Tony Couch’s Watercolor Painting Workshop from Monday September 14th to Friday, September 18th at Mountain Flowers Lodge at The Homestead.
This will be an immersive workshop with Tony doing a full sheet demonstration painting each morning, plenty of time for afternoon painting and a critique at the end of each day. He’ll unravel much of the mystery surrounding design, make color much simpler and show you how to make your paintings fresh and crisp. May students have said they have learned more in one day at a Tony Couch workshop than in four years of art school!
Tuition: $445 for the five days. Accommodations not included in tuition. Special accommodation prices are available at The Homestead.
For workshop registration e-mail info@glenarborart.org or call 231.334.6112.
For accommodations at The Homestead call 231.334.5100.
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The Homestead - Autumn Dunes Eco-Photo Tour Weekend - October 16 to 18, 2009
Categories: Entertainment, Events, Fall, The Homestead
The favorite Great Lakes Photo Tour for alumni! Participants are treated to one of the most beautiful areas in Michigan. The splendor of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the quaintness of the Leelanau Peninsula offer outstanding scenic view of sweeping dunes, vast Lake Michigan shorelines and Wyeth-like farm scenes, all accented with the colors of the season. You’ll be guided on tour by naturalist photographer, Mark S. Carlson and digital expert, Bob Grzesiak.
Complete tour package includes: tuition, two nights’ lodging in a Fiddler’s Pond guest room. For more information or reservations, please call Great Lakes Photo Tours at 517.230.1655 or visit http://www.markscarlson.com/glpt/tours/tours.html.
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The Homestead - Harvest Wine Tour Weekend - October 23 to 25, 2009
Categories: Entertainment, Events, The Homestead, Wine
A best seller… this package includes two nights’ lodging, breakfast each morning, a tasting tour of three Leelanau County wineries on Saturday with transportation and lunch provided. That evening, you’ll enjoy a five course meal prepared by Chef John Piombo at Nonna’s at The Homestead.
Offered in Fiddler’s Pond, Little Belle and The Inn from only $135 per person, per night, based on double occupancy. Space is limited. Call 231.334.5100 for reservations.
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The Traverse City Wine & Art Festival will take place on Saturday August 22 from 5-10 PM at the Grand Traverse Commons in front of Building 50 on the lawn under the big tent. (click to view the poster)
The inaugural festival is being organized in order to create a landmark celebration of the wine, food and culture of northwest lower Michigan and Michigan’s wine coast for years to come. The evening will feature wines from 22 wineries from the Leelanau and Old Mission Peninsulas and a selection of Traverse City and Leelanau restaurants serving food & desserts. Unlike many other wine festivals which function primarily as tasting events, the Traverse City Wine & Art Festival will feature full pours of area wines.
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July 25 - July 25, 2009 - Suttons Bay Blues Festival - Tickets are $20/person
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Manitou Music Festival - July & August
Categories: Entertainment
Founded in 1991 by members of the Glen Arbor Art Association, the Manitou Music Festival takes place in the pastoral splendor of Leelanau County, in the Northwest corner of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.
JULY PERFORMANCES
Northport Community Band - FREE - July 3
Mulebone - July 8
Shout Sister Shout - Steppin’ In It with Rachael Davis - July 12
Blue Origami - July 15
Josh White Jr. - July 22
Photographers & Kat Eggleston - July 26
Jeff Haas & Friends - July 30
This “Land of Delight” has long attracted artists, writers, musicians and vacationers with its dramatic settings of towering dunes, pure inland lakes, lush hardwood and pine forests and the majesty of Lake Michigan.
The Manitou Music Festival presents exciting and diverse concerts featuring national and regional performers of classical, jazz, and folk music in idyllic outdoor & family friendly locations. See you this summer in Glen Arbor!
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