Dashboards and Saddlebags the Destination Magazine™ Issue 049 April 2015 | Page 22

Take A Budbreak!

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njoying a fabulous spring day in the Yadkin Valley, celebrating top area NC
wineries and craft beer producers, eat-ing wonderful food and listening
to great music while benefitting the local, regional and international
charities of the Mount Airy Rotary Club, what could be better than that?
The date to remember is Saturday, May 2. Head to Mount Airy’s down-town
main street that will be closed ex-clusively for the 6th Annual Budbreak Wine
and Craft Beer Festival participants and guests from noon to 6:00pm. The vintage structures of downtown make for a perfect backdrop to host an intimate,
friendly arena for wine and craft beer tasting with a side of great music under
a tented stage by Mediocre Bad Guys with Jerry Chapman, singer/songwriter.
The band is from the Mount Airy/Triad music scene, specializing in rock and
acoustic venues.
Just a few of the wineries who will be
pouring at Budbreak: Childress, Old
North State, Herrera, Round Peak, and
Elkin Creek.
The inaugural Fiddle Crawl was such
a hit, Lizzie Morrison, Coordinator
of Downtown events, announced the
2nd annual event in conjunction with
Bud-break. The larger-than-life, threedimen-sional fiberglass fiddles will be
painted, decorated and embellished by
talented new and some returning area
artists. The fiddles will be revealed at
The Earle The-atre the evening of May
1 accompanied with bluegrass and
old time music. They will remain on
display during the Bud-break Wine
and Craft Beer Festival on May 2 and
until October when the 2015 fiddles
will be auctioned to benefit downtown economic development.

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Budbreak is noon to 6:00pm. Saturday,
May 2 in Downtown Mount Airy.
Admission with tasting privileges $20/gate; $15/
advance; $5/general admission with no tasting.
Buy at the gate, online and Lowes Foods state
wide or Budbreakfestival.com

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