Festival Highlights April 19 Not only is there great wine at the Vintners’ Festival, but a full roster of sensory delights! This year, there are over three dozen food booths- a cornucopia of wine country gastronomy! Local restaurants, caterers and specialty food purveyors offer exquisite samples of their cuisine. Make sure you stop by and try what they’ve created, and if you’re making a long weekend of it, why not drop in for lunch or dinner?

The live and lively sounds of two local bands, both favorites among vintners will be keeping your toes a-tapping at the very least. We are pleased to welcome House Red and Unfinished Business back to the Vintners’ Festival. House Red performs ‘vintage’ Rock, Soul and Blues classics and Unfinished Business is all about 1960’s Rock and Roll

Proving that Lompoc is “The City of Arts & Flowers” are local artists displaying their work.

And don’t miss our Silent Auction, chock full of big bottles, verticals, horizontals and special wine country treats. The proceeds from the Silent auction provide scholarships at local high schools.

Artists

As our host city Lompoc is the “City of Flowers and Art”, the Festival will of course feature some local artists! Make sure to stop by the artists tents to visit:

Angie Hamlin, acrylic painting

Carol Oliveira, oil painting

Collette Christel, photography

Vicki Anderson, acrylic painting

Bands

The House Red Band performs 'vintage' Rock, Soul and Blues classics and original tunes blended and aged in vocal harmonies. We can get a crowd dancing! Best of all; we have what no other band has: lead vocalist Mary Welsh—this woman can flat out sing-- her voice has a smoky richness that reminds us all of Bonnie Raitt. We also have the luxury of having Terry Lawless, sax/and keyboard, on many of our gigs. Terry is currently working with U2 as their Keyboards/Programmer and has been around the world (and elsewhere) with them..

Unfinished Business is a Central Coast band originally formed in 2003 and specializing in what is arguably the best music of all time: 1960s rock 'n' roll. All of the members of Unfinished Business played in local bands in California and Iowa during that era and still have a passion for performing the great hits. Now, more than 40 years later, the "unfinished business" of this band is to return to that music and to recreate during each performance the excitement and authenticity each member recalls about how that great music was performed live back in the 1960s.

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