SUMMER'S FIRST BIG PARTY IS HERE - The Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine
Festival is this weekend and they've announced that LIVE’S EdKowalczyk has been added to the show and will perform on the main stage at 5:30
pm on Saturday, June 2 performing all the hits including “Lightning Crashes,”
“I Alone,” “All Over You,” “Selling The Drama” and more. The entire lineup
includes Lifehouse, Phil Vassar, Chris
Cagle, Gloriana, Soul Asylum and John Waite.
A new foodie event has been added giving guests tips on cooking with premium
beer and how to pair beer with foods. Food pairing events include four
courses each paired with a beverage, plus chef demonstrations and recipes, pairing
tips. Food and Beer pairing includes cuisine from The American Culinary
Federation. Wine
and Food Pairing includes gold and silver medal winning wineries with paired
with cuisine from local executive chefs preparing Italian, California Cuisine,
Cajun and fine pastry desserts.
Opening night, Friday June 1, 3 p.m. is a crowd pleaser as families pour into the
Festival in anticipation of the evening balloon “Glow” at 8:30 p.m. A visual spectacle that coordinates the
"flicker" of the hot air balloon
flame, with a musical beat, makes the hot air balloons appear to dance. Staying
tethered to the ground, the giant colorful orbs delight young and old. This is
repeated Saturday evening, June 2.
Country Friday
at the Festival features Phil Vassar, Chris Cagle, and Gloriana in
concert. A prolific songwriter and
versatile performer, Vassar has recorded
six albums. His debut album, “Phil Vassar," was released in early 2000 and produced five hit singles on the U.S. "Billboard" country singles charts and was certified
gold in the United States. Hits include “Carlene,” “Just Another Day in Paradise,”
“Six-Pack Summer,” “American Child,” "That’s When I love You,” “In A Real
Love,” “I’ll Take That as a Yes (The Hot Tub Song),” “Last Day of My Life,” and
“Love is a Beautiful Thing.”
Chris Cagle hit
the country charts in 2000 with the hit single “My Love Goes On and On" from his 2001
debut album "Play It Loud." The first album had two more hits
"Laredo" and "I Breathe In. I Breathe Out." Since then his
hits include “Chicks
Dig It,” "What a Beautiful Day,"
"Miss Me Baby," “What Kinda Gone," and “Got My Country On” .
In 2010, Gloriana won the Academy of
Country Music’s Award for Top New Vocal Group and was nominated for a Teen
Choice Award for “Choice Country Group.” The best-selling debut
country act of 2009, Gloriana debuted at #2 on the Billboard Country Albums
chart and #3 on the Top 200 chart. The
album spawned the hit single “Wild At Heart.” The group has a new album "A Thousand
Miles Left Behind" due to be released this summer. The single “(Kissed
You) Good Night” from the album is climbing the country charts.
Lifehouse, the L.A. based alternative rock
band known most recently for their hit "All-In" will headline the Festival
on Saturday, June 2 of the three-day event.
The Main Stage is sponsored by Pechanga Resort and Casino.The band hit
mainstream prominence in 2001 with the hit single "Hanging by a
Moment" from their debut studio album, "No Name Face.” The single won a Billboard Music Award for Hot
100 Single of the Year, beating out Janet Jackson and Alicia Keys for the #1
Single of 2001.
Lifehouse released the album "Smoke & Mirrors" in 2010
which spawned the hit song "Half Way Gone,” "All In" and
"Falling In." The album was #2 on the Billboard Rock Album Charts for
2010. Combined album sales are over five-million and Lifehouse singles have
sold over three-million copies online including #1 hits "Hanging by a
Moment" and "You and Me."
Lifehouse singles "First Time,“ “Whatever It Takes," and
"Broken" have also achieved major chart and sales success. The band's hits maintain chart positions on
iTunes, years after their initial release and their video streams are at 70
million and counting.
The Festival's Rockin' Saturday lineup includes
Soul Asylum. Formed in 1983 in Minneapolis, MN, Soul Asylum has maintained
their reputation for honest, heartfelt rock from their beginnings through their
commercially successful days on A&M and Columbia Records (where they scored
a Grammy for the monster hit single "Runaway Train").
Get the entire stage schedule, and wine stage schedule at www.temeculacalifornia.com
John Waite headlines the Wine Garden stage on Sunday, June 3. Waite,
an English singer/songwriter first hit Billboard Charts in 1977 as the lead
singer of The Babys with the hit "Everytime I Think of You." After a few hits the band broke up launching
Waite into a successful solo career. On
September 22, 1984, he found himself at number one on the hit parade with
“Missing You.” The song topped the
international charts. Twenty years on,
this classic remains a radio staple around the globe.
Sunday
will also feature The Metal Mulisha FMX Show featuring freestyle motocross champions, Metal Mulisha teammates, and an
international cast of dare devil riders.
Riders who have performed in the past include Jimmy Fitzpatrick, Todd
Potter, Taka, Ox-Jeff Cargola, Wes Agee, Ryan Hagy, Australian riders Jackson
Strong and Robbie Alberg and Cito Vascas from Brazil. There are always surprise guests at this
show. Last year Metal Mulisha founder Brian Deegan came out to support the
riders.
Check out theBrewens Empire Trolley and RIDEBOB.com for rides to the Festival. Both are offering shuttle service. Bob's buses pick up at 14 Southern Californian Von's stores and empiretrolley.com has pickups in the Temecula Valley.
Wine tasting from 20 plus wineries is Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with reserved wine tasting packages also offered. Cost for standard is $15 with 6 tastes and souvenir glass. Reserved is $25 with six tastes and larger souvenir glass. The event is sponsored by the County of Riverside and the City of Temecula. Tickets and reserved
packages are still available at www.TVBWF.com for Friday and Saturday's evening concerts. For
information visit www.tvbwf.com
For more information:
Chris
Cagle www.chriscagle.com
Phil
Vassar www.
philvassar.com
Lifehouse www.lifehousemusic.com
Soul
Asylum www.enterthesoulasylum.com
Festival www.tvbwf.com
Temecula
Wine Growers www.temeculawines.org
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