Wine & Music Experience

This Labor Day weekend take a break from work by sipping wine, listening to great music and enjoying the company of family and friends when the Garden State Wine Growers Association (GSWGA) hosts their Wine & Music Experience at the Horse Park of NJ on Saturday and Sunday, Sept 3-4 from noon to 5 p.m. (rain date Monday).

After years of holding its Labor Day weekend event at Allaire State Park, the GSWGA has moved to the Horse Park of NJ in Allentown on Route 524 (exit 11 on I95) in order to provide customers with an expanded music and wine experience paired with award-winning New Jersey wines. The event will feature two bandstands allowing for non-stop musical entertainment that will be headlined Saturday on the Main Stage by the famed Roomful of Blues Band, the American blues and swing revival band with a recording career spanning over 40 years. Long Gone Daddies will perform on the Local Stage and Burning Bridget Cleary will open on the Main Stage. Sunday’s musical entertainment will be headlined by The Slambovian Circus of Dreams on the Main Stage as well as Rogues on the Run performing on the Local Stage and Hot Jazz Jumpers opening on the Main Stage.

Seventeen leading NJ wineries will be sampling at the event. Participating wineries are: Bellview Winery,Cava Winery,Chestnut Run Farm,Coda Rossa Winery, DiMatteo Vineyards, Four Sisters Winery, Heritage Vineyards, Hopewell Valley Vineyards, Monroeville Winery, Old York Cellars,Plagido’s Winery, Sharrott Winery,Tomasello Winery,Unionville Vineyard, Valenzano Winery, Villari Vineyards and Wagonhouse Winery.

A percentage of all ticket sales will benefit the work of the Standardbred Retirement Foundation the official charity of the Wine & Music Experience. The Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization created to care for, rehabilitate, and secure lifetime adoption of non-competitive racehorses to ensure their proper care with follow-up, and combine the needs of youth at risk with these horses in therapeutic equine programs to benefit both. The Foundation will have an information booth at the event where festival goers can learn more of the organization’s mission and works.

For ticket information, click here.