Event Calendar
Lovers of craft beer, world music and winter fun won’t want to miss the first annual Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival taking place under heated tents on the Clubhouse grounds at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa on Friday, February 12, 2010, from 5PM – 10PM. Tickets can be purchased at Oryana, Old Town Coffee, North Peak and the Resort’s Lobby Marketplace beginning Monday, December 21. Tickets will also be available online at tcbeerfest.com and porterhouseproductions.com.
The TC Winter Microbrew & Music Festival will kick off the Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest, a weekend-long festival scheduled for February 12-14 featuring three days of activities at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa, downtown Traverse City and Mt. Holiday Ski & Recreation Area. See www.winterwonderfest.org for more details.
The TC Winter Microbrew & Music Festival will take place outdoors next to the Resort’s Clubhouse. Guests will step out of the lodge into a winter wonderland featuring the main brew tent with live music from Euforquestra, an eight piece “Afro-Caribbean-Barnyard-Funk” dance band from Fort Collins, CO, the rockabilly honky-tonk of Delilah DeWylde and the Lost Boys, local favorites Levi Britton and Rachael Davis & Josh Davis with members of Steppin’ In It, and the bagpipes and drum ensemble of GT Pipes and Drums. Bonfires and free sleigh rides will encircle a frozen winter pond surrounded by three tents showcasing dozens of craft breweries, local & national musicians and special activities throughout the night.
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The Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest is a four-day winter celebration of music, food, and fun that takes place each year on President’s Day Weekend. There’s so much going on that we couldn’t fit it all into a single location, so there are events and activities happening all around the Traverse City area!
Just look:
In the “Winter Fun Zone” at the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa you can choose from rides on ponies, dogsleds, snowmobiles and horse-drawn sleighs, sledding, ice skating, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and a selection of competitive events that range from the familiar (the Running Fit Frosty 5K foot race and a kid’s snowshoe race) to the unlikely (a “frozen fish toss” and a “Polar Plunge” event where daring swimmers jump into an icy pond to raise money for charity). There are bonfires, films, live music, fireworks, and lots of festive food and beverages.
Nearby at the Mt. Holiday Ski Area, there’ll be such offbeat competitions as a snowboarding “rail jam” event, a Downhill Dash race down the ski hill (on skis, snowboards, even bikes), a “Big Air” Championship, and the Cardboard Bobsled-o-Rama in which competitors must use sleds made only with cardboard, tape and paint.
Meanwhile, in charming Downtown Traverse City, there’ll be ice carving and snow sculpture displays, a “frozen bed race” through the streets and the popular “Soup’r Bowl” competition where you’ll get to slurp up soups created by our best local chefs and cast ballots for your favorite. Later in the day, there’ll be more fun competitions – like the Brain Freeze ice cream eating contest and the Monster Dog Pull, where your canine pal can show just how strong he is!
A portion of the Winter WonderFest proceeds goes to support the programs of Special Olympics Michigan and the TCCVB Education Foundation Scholarship Fund.
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