Monday, April 22, 2013

04/22 GABE MEYERS, BOTTLEROCK FOUNDER, TODD BOTTORFF, TURNER PUBLISHING

GABE MEYERS - BOTTLEROCK FOUNDER

As BottleRock Napa Valley delivers the best in music and comedy through an incredible who’s who lineup, its food, wine and beer offerings will also strike a chord with attendees. Iconic Napa Valley chefs and restaurateurs such as Cindy Pawlcyn, Masaharu Morimoto, Todd Humphries, and Ken Frank will share the culinary stage with superstar vintners like Silver Oak, Miner Family, Rombauer, and St. Supery, along with artisan beers and micro-brews. Offering a culinary festival experience second to none, BottleRock has tapped the Cindy Pawlcyn Napa Valley team including managing partner Sean Knight to manage the culinary effort and establish BottleRock as having the ultimate food and wine experience.

Situated on four stages spread over 26 acres on the grounds at the Napa Valley Expo in the City of Napa, more than three dozen chefs and restaurateurs will join more than 50 wineries and artisan brewers during the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley May 9 - 12. Food purveyors including Mustards Grill, Oenotri, ZuZu, Grace’s Table, The Girl & the Fig, Azzurro Pizzeria and Enoteca, Tra Vigne, Fish Story, Farmstead, The Model Bakery, C Casa, Barbers Q, and Gott’s Roadside, will be paired with some of the finest wines in the world, such as Grgich Hills, Beaulieu Vineyard, Hahn Family Wines, Ceja Vineyards, Flora Springs, Freemark Abbey, Sterling Vineyards, Acacia, and Regusci Winery. Coupled with beers and craft brews such as Bud Light, Sierra Nevada, Gordon Biersch, Hangar 24, Speakeasy, Goose Island and Napa Smith, BottleRock Napa Valley provides the very best to quench attendees’ thirsts and whet appetites.

“We can’t throw a music festival in the Napa Valley without providing great food, wine and brews,” stated festival founder Bob Vogt of WillPower Entertainment. “Napa Valley is known far and wide for extraordinary wine with a dining reputation to match, and BottleRock Napa Valley will absolutely reflect that culinary scene. It’s another feature that we feel will define BottleRock as a one of the most engaging music festivals anywhere.”

"We are thrilled to be involved with what is destined to be Napa Valley's preeminent event combining world-class musical talent with delicious Napa food and wine," says culinary partner Cindy Pawlcyn.  "BottleRock is such a natural extension of the valley's hospitality and talent, the surprise here is that it hasn't been done before."

In addition to the carefully curated cuisine, BottleRock Napa Valley features an incredible lineup of more than 80 artists, bands and performers, including; Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Zac Brown Band, Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, Jane’s Addiction, The Shins, The Avett Brothers, Train, The Flaming Lips, The Black Crowes, Macklemore  & Ryan Lewis, Cake, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, Primus, Alabama Shakes, Jackson Browne, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, along with America’s hottest comics such as Jim Gaffigan, Demetri Martin, Aasif Mandvi, Anthony Jeselnik, Tig Notaro, Jim Breuer, Greg Behrendt, Wyatt Cenac, Rob Delaney, Kristen Schaal, Bill Burr, J Chris Newberg, andNatasha Leggero. The complete festival lineup can be found at www.bottlerocknapavalley.com.

Festival passes are on sale now and begin at $139 for a single day pass, $329 for a 3-day pass, $399 for a 4-day pass, and $599 for 4-day VIP passes. Passes are on sale at www.bottlerocknapavalley.com.

More information can be found at http://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BottleRock Napa Valley, or follow on Twitter at https://t/, #bottlerocknapavalley.


Todd Bottorff - Turner Publishing

Todd Bottorff has served as President and Publisher of Turner Publishing since 2002. Mr. Bottorff earned degrees in liberal arts from the University of Virginia and a masters of business administration from Harvard University. Prior to Turner Publishing, Mr. Bottorff worked as a business consultant at McKinsey & Company and served as a senior member of the management team for a venture-funded technology startup and a publicly listed dot-com turnaround.

Mr. Bottorff's civic responsibilities include serving as a board member of Npt, Nashville's public television station(http://www.wnpt.net/), as a Board Member of Humanities Tennessee (tn-humanities.org) including the subcommittee that oversees the Southern Festival of Books (www.tn-humanities.org/festival/index.php), and on the Alumni Board of Montgomery Bell Academy (http://www.montgomerybell.edu/).

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