Adult Game Zone
Unleash your competitive side with a little good old-fashioned fun at the Adult Game Zone, a new addition to The 2017 South Jersey Wine and Food Festival! Sweetwater Marina and Riverdeck will be lending us their life-sized yard games including Corn Hole, Yardzee, Wine Pong, Connect 4, Jenga, Lawn Chess and Checkers, Dominoes, Foosball and Ping Pong!
Get your teams ready, because the competition is going to be fierce!
Chardonnay Go Board Game Demonstrations
Comedian and “One Funny Mother”, Dena Blizzard Blizzard, is taking her Chardonnay Go sensation from the virtual world to the real world and is now bringing it to The 2017 South Jersey Wine and Food Festival! You are invited to play “Chardonnay Go, The New Board Game For Wine Lovers, Moms and Other Shameless People,” where players participate in hilarious challenges in a vineyard while trying to get to the elusive tasting room! Come play and laugh along with Dena Blizzard who promises belly laughs to moms, dads and adults of all shapes and sizes. Don't miss "One Funny Mother" and all of her board game shenanigans! Location and times TBD
Shooting Stars Horse & Barrel Vaulting Demonstrations
Shooting Stars Vaulting Team is a group of talented athletes who perform the art of dance and gymnastics on the back of a moving horse. Not many people can say that they have seen, or even heard of, the sport of Equestrian Vaulting, but the Shooting Stars Vaulters are dedicated to perfecting their techniques and educating the public about their unique and awe-inspiring sport. Based at Patina Farms in Mays Landing, NJ and one of only 2 teams in the state. The team travels all over the east coast to competitions and demonstrations.Their coach, Dana Wramage, who began vaulting over 18 years ago and competed up to the silver level, now enjoys teaching vaulters of all ages. Equestrian Vaulting, not only forms a strong, harmonious relationship between a vaulter and their horse, but also builds strength, balance, coordination, and team comradery in vaulters.
Shooting Stars will be doing Horse & Barrel Vaulting demonstrations at 1pm & 2pm both 9/23 and 9/24. Location: Grass performance area right next to the Round House.
Pop-up Music
9/23
12:00pm-2:15pm Geri Mingori & Mike Ian
2:45pm-5:00pm Billy Walton Acoustic
12:00pm-4:00pm Dick Martin Trio
11:30pm-2:00pm Danny Eyer
2:30pm-5:00pm Susan Salmon
9/24
12:00pm-2:15pm Beth Tinnan
2:45pm-5:00pm Ernie T. & Patty Blee
12:00pm-4:00pm Dick Martin Trio
12:00pm-2:30pm Mary Winkel - Violinst
2:30pm-5:00pm Joe DiVita Steel Drums
Chef Demonstrations
Chef Kelly McClay, Dean of Culinary Arts from ACCC, will be hosting a Chef Demonstration in the Pavillion at approximately 1:15 both Saturday 9/23 and Sunday 9/24! Chef McClay will be walking attendees through the steps to making a delicious Apple Cheddar Soup with Parmesan Cracker. Just in time for the chilly Fall weather!
Wine Glass Painting
Amanda's Wine Design will feature wine glass painting sessions that will be available all day at a special rate of just $10 for attendees! Visit their booth near the Volleyball Court and get creative!
A Toast to Arlene Blosch
On Sunday, September 24, a special ceremony will be held to honor one of the founders of The 2017 South Jersey Wine and Food Festival, Arlene Blosch, who passed away peacefully Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at the age of 72. The ceremony will take place at 3:00pm at the Lake, where family and friends will release purple flower petals into the lake in remembrance of Arlene and her hard work.
Arlene H Blosch of Mays Landing passed away peacefully Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at the age of 72. Arlene was best known for always being on the go. If she wasn’t traveling to a far away land she was helping plan community events such as the Hometown Celebration or Wine Festival. She was known in the community as the “lady in purple.” She was a member of the Mays Landing Merchants Association, Woods Landing Social Committee as well as countless nonprofit and community organizations. She found joy in making others happy.
Fred Kneble, President of the Merchants Association, credits Arlene as being “the driving force” behind the weekend-long celebration of top-notch cuisine and wines grown right here in the Garden State. Kneble said the group was extremely fortunate to have Blosch, who passed away from Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Cancer, as their champion.
We ask you to raise a glass to Arlene to honor her legacy as you enjoy this year’s festival!
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