Posts Tagged ‘Beer’

Ocean Beach Music and Art Festival, Saturday Sept. 11th

The Jazz88 Ocean Beach Music & Art Festival is happening this Saturday, September 11th. Ocean Bean always puts on a good show and the location, right on the water at the OB Pier, couldn’t be better. There’s nothing like drinking a few beers in the nice San Diego sunshine on a lazy Saturday.

Tickets are $30 and give you access to 6 stages and the Craft Beer garden, sponsored by Pizza Port and Ballast Point breweries.

The festival has been expanded to seven stages, 26 musical acts, and up to 60 fine art vendors.  Stages will be located at locations along Newport Avenue, including Winstons, Gallaghers, The Harp, and at the foot of the OB Pier, among other locations.  The art vendors will be located all along Newport Avenue between Cable and Bacon.

Music acts include Maceo Parker, Marcia Ball, Bonerama, Charlie Hunter Trio, Justo Almario, Geoffrey Keezer Trio, Ernie Watts Q uintet, Gilbert Castellanos Latin Jazz Quintet, Luther Hughes and the Cannonball-Coltrane Project, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Holly Hofmann/Mike Wofford Trio, San Diego State University All Star Big Band with Special Guest Bobby Shew, Nathan James Band, 4 Queens of Boogie Woogie (featuring Sue Palmer), Agua Dulce, Jazz88 All Stars, ESP, Cynthia Hammond Trio, Lady Dottie & The Diamonds, B-3 Four, Bedford Grove, StyleTones, MLK Community Choir, The Mission Bay High School Dixieland Band, Tribute to our U.S. Military

For more info, visit http://obmusicfest.org/

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16th Annual San Diego Festival of Beer, Friday Sept. 10

The 16th Annual San Diego Festival of Beer takes place this Friday, September 10th in downtown at Columbia and B Street. The festivities start at 6pm and last until 11pm.

San Diego Festival of BeerLive music and over 65 breweries are scheduled to participate.

Tickets are $40 and admission includes ten (4oz.) beer tastings. Inside the SDFoB there are food and munchies for sale in addition to a selection of fine wines for purchase by the glass. The first 6,000 guests will receive a free souvenir event logo tasting mug that is theirs to use throughout the evening and to keep when they go home.

Tickets will be available for sale the day of the event during setup, onsite at State and B Streets.

For more information, visit http://www.sdbeerfest.org/index.html

August is the time to drink fine brews and bet on ponies

What better way to kick off August then by tasting some fine handcrafted cervezas? Tomorrow, August 1, the Del Mar Racetrack is hosting the Craft Microbrew Festival & 94.9 Local Music Showcase—the first ever to boot.

Head over to the infield for frothy suds from over 25 breweries pouring over 50 different brews including many local brewmasters. Beer tastings are $15 for five 7oz. tasters. Beer selections from Ballast, Coronado Brewing, Green Flash, Karl Strauss, Left Coast, Stone, Blue Moon, Killian’s, Leinenkuegel’s and Oggi’s.

While you’re getting sauced, FM 94.9’s Local Music Showcase will feature performances in the Pacific Pavilion from:
Get Back Loretta
The Silent Comedy
Heavy Glow

Plus, there’s going to be free chili samples from the Western Regional Chili Cookoff.

Entrance to the event is free with racetrack Stretch Run Admission of $6.