Novato Arts, Wine and Musci Festival
Event Hours:
Saturday, June 10th 10am-7pm
Sunday, June 11th 10am-6pm
Location: Old Town Novato, right off highway 101 at the Downtown Novato/ DeLong Ave. Exit.
Vendor Booths: More than 200 booths will showcase the arts and handmade wares with fine paintings, sculptures, jewelry, photography and other finds. A community art booth, coordinated by North Bay Artists, will benefit School Fuel.
Food Booths: California Grill, Frank's Barbecue, Mary's Pizza Shack and Rickey's. There will also be Kettle Corn, Thai Cuisine, cheese steak sandwiches and calamari. Starbucks will also be pouring free coffee samples.
Wine: Commemorative wine glasses will be sold at the event for $5.00. A wide assortment of find wines will be available at the Festival of Art, Wine & Music including the Paradise View Wines from the Paradise Vineyard: Syrah, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir.
Origin Wines, a leading supplier of private label wine brands, will be pouring: Chilean Carmenere, Tempranillo, Argentine Malbec, Australian Chardonnay and Italian Pinot Grigio.
Hospitality de los Carneros will be providing an assortment of wines from the Carneros Valley.
The Other Guys, Don Sebastiani & Sons will be pouring Smoking Loon, Le Bon, Vin De La Napa Valley, Plungerhead and Hey Mambo.
Many other local and imported wines will also be available.
Beer: Beer lovers can enjoy the brewed suds from Moylan's Brewery, with new secret beer to be unveiled at the festival.
Children's Area: The children's area will have pony rides, a petting zoo, a rock-climbing wall and a bounce house. Enjoy the puppetry of California Puppets and the antics of Twee Twee the Clown.
Parking: Parking is at a premium so arrive early. Paid lots will be available through the Rotary Club of Novato with proceeds going to its service projects.
Music:
Saturday, June 10th
10am Battle of the Bands
11:45am Songbirds of Marin
1pm Solid Air
2:15pm Asher & Paige
3:45pm AC/Dshe
5:15pm Junior Brown
Sunday, June 11th
10am Sunday morning Jazz with Swingset
11am Borderline
12:15pm Zoo Station
1:45pm American Drag
3:15pm Eric Martin Band
4:15pm Commander Cody
Two Bay Area radio stations will add to the fun. Froggy 92.9 will broadcast live its country western programming on Saturday from 11am to 1pm. The station will bring its 20 foot inflatable frog. The river will rock the festival on Sunday. Both stations will be giving away promotional items.
