Celebrate craft barrel-aged beverages at The Little Woody Festival in downtown Bend. Enjoy wood barrel-aged beer, cider and whiskey, along with live music, local food and small-batch rye whiskey and bourbon tastings. Dress like a gnome for free drink tokens!
Tickets start at $20
Join us for an unforgettable evening at the distillery. We’re hosting an Eaves Blind Pop-Up event with founder Marianne Eaves. This is a rare opportunity for tasting, discussion, and an inside look at her mobile lab. Meet Marianne and hear her perspective on America’s spirit, bourbon.
Eaves Blind created a custom nine barrel blend, cask strength expression of our Oregon Spirit Bourbon in the project’s inaugural year in 2021. Bottles will be for sale with the opportunity for signing.
Bring the Dad in your life to the distillery on Father’s Day for a free whiskey pour plus a complimentary Oregon Spirit Distillers glencairn tasting glass. We’ll have a full cocktail menu inside and the bottle shop will be open to buy Dad his favorite bottle.
Guest food by Inferno
Craft vendors: Drunken Marmot and Nomad Leather
Live music by Jeshua Marshall from 2:00-4:00PM
All ages welcome when accompanied by an adult. Our patio is dog-friendly. One pour per Dad and must be 21+.
Tal Wilkenfeld headlines the 7th Annual Newberry Event Charity Music Festival!
Central Oregon’s 7th Annual Newberry Event Music and Arts Festival to Defeat MS is a three-day outdoor summer multi-genre music festival well-known as a good time for a good cause. July 26, 27, 28, 2019. Main acts Friday are Portland’s Indubious reggae, opening for Pigs on the Wing Pink Floyd tribute band in the beautiful outdoor intimate venue. For over a decade, Indubious brothers Evton and Skip Burton, have shared their instrumental skills, powerful harmonies, and electrifying performances, “raising the positive vibrations of our planet, to help others express the true loving nature within us all.” Pigs on the Wing’s intense live performances are an expansive audio-visual experience.
Saturday night headlines Tal Wilkenfeld, a 32 year old Australian born bass and guitar phenom who has performed alongside artists including Jeff Beck, Prince, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock and Mick Jagger. Hosted on rural residential acreage, DiamondStone Guest Lodge is 25 miles south of Bend, between Sunriver and La Pine. With over 20 bands on 2 rotating stages, the lawns, shady aspens & pines of So. Deschutes County create a beautiful outdoor concert setting.
Enjoy awesome music and dancing in the grass 10am-10pm. Tent camping is free and RV sites available. Kids under age 13 are free. With many vendors – great food (breakfast too), Sunriver Brewing Co. beers, Kombucha, ciders and distillery vendors, you’ll find everything you need for the day or weekend. You’ll also enjoy dancers, homemade arts & crafts, and a silent auction plus raffles of incredible fine art and merchandise. See good reviews on Facebook and Google. Don’t miss it!
The festival just received the state’s “Hidden Gem Festival Award” at the annual meeting of the Oregon Festivals and Events Association.The 501c3 charity benefits the Oregon National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Other performers: Dead Horses – Milwaukee, WI, Dodgy Mountain Men – Missoula, MT, Pat Simmons Jr.- Maui, HI , Indubious – Portland, Lounge on Fire – Boise, ID, Petty Thievery, a Tom Petty & Heartbreakers Tribute Band, Pigs On The Wing tribute to Pink Floyd – Portland, OR, The Rad Trads – Brooklyn, N.Y., Pete Kartsounes – La Pine! Eric Leadbetter – Bend, Idle Poets – Scappoose, Sol Seed – Eugene, J Brothers – Jacksonville, Mission Blues – Bend, Natty Red – Bend, Newberry Family Band, Broken Down Guitars – La Pine, The Tortilla Chips – Bend, Vokab Kompany – San Diego, and local belly dancers, the South County Hipsters.
Oregon Spirit Distillers was awarded two “double gold” medals for its Ottis Weber Wheat Whiskey and J. Becher American Rye Whiskey at the San Franciso World Spirits Competition, which drew distilleries from around the world. The Bend-based distillery makes all its spirits on-site at its First Street location and prides itself on using Oregon-grown ingredients. oregonspiritdistillers.com
Finalists from Central Oregon held their own at the World Beer Cup in Philadelphia, where more than 1,000 breweries competed for honors in ninety-six categories. Three local breweries were awarded gold: Bend Brewing Company (bendbrewingco.com) took the top spot in the German-style sour ales category for its Volkssekt Berliner Weisse; Sunriver Brewing Co. (sunriverbrewingcompany.com) was awarded the top spot for its Fuzztail beer; and 10 Barrel (10barrel.com) took gold in the Other Strong Beer Category for its Brilliant brew.
At the other end of the beverage spectrum, Redmond’s Eberhard’s Dairy took first place in the buttermilk and “fluid milk” categories at the 2016 Oregon Dairy Industries Convention, held in Salem. The company was also named as a national-level finalist in the categories for cultured products, ice cream and plant assessment at the dairy industry’s member-owned Quality Checkd Dairies, Inc. QCS Leadership Conference in Indianapolis. It took home honorable mentions for its ice cream and sour cream.
