Thursday, May 10, 2012

Valley Cultural Center Food, Wine and Microbrew Festival
Had a great time shooting the Valley Cultural Center Food, Wine and Microbrew Festival on April 19. Thanks to Les Sumpter of A Rental Connection, the venue was amazing and a good time was had by all. If you weren't there, you missed a great time too!
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Yes, that's me on the boom lift, shooting the aerial view of the venue. Thanks to Rafael Posada for skillfully piloting the lift, and to Curt Gorlick for shooting this great image. Thanks also to Greg Coulas of Westfield for loaning us the boom lift.
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Rose Goldwater greets happy guests arriving at the Valley Cultural Center Food, WIne and Microbrew Festival
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Elva and Nelson Tucker from "The Wine Guy" pulled together most of the wineries for us, and put on a great display with amazing wines! Thanks Nelson!
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Over the last couple of months Matt Stadelman from the VCC Board has been working with a group from Napa Valley and on Thursday evening we announced the VCC wine label! For every bottle you purchase at http://www.torchlightcellars.com/vcc a portion of the purchase price is donated to the Valley Cultural Center.

Matt and I tasted the wines and we narrowed the offerings to four tasty selections and named them:
VC Chardonnay, Virtuoso Viognier, Symphonic Syrah, and Cultural Cabernet Franc.

These are solid Napa Valley wines. No two-buck-chuck here! Please visit the website and check it out: http://www.torchlightcellars.com/vcc
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Glenda Patton talked with guests all about VCC's wonderful new wines.
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Wendi Gladstone (center) from the VCC staff, along with Vicky Gordon (next to Wendi on the right) from the VCC Board enjoyed the wines too!
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Joe Hesse and the L.A. Rhythm Crew provided the music for the evening and they sounded fantastic! Many thanks to Joe and the band for donating their time and talent!!
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VCC CEO Jim Kinsey takes a last-minute check on our live auction items with our auctioneer.
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