May 6, 2014 – If you have a yen for an affordable chance to sample food from some of our region’s best restaurants and wine from our finest vintners while listening to some of our most talented musicians, you’ll want to snap up tickets for a special event taking place in Carmel Valley on May 24!
“Community, Flavor and Harmony” will bring together the food of La Bicyclette’s James Anderson, La Balena’s Brad Briske, Mundaka’s Brandon Miller, Basil Seasonal Dining’s Soerke Peters, CLM’s Ben Spungin, Jeffrey Thompson of Jeffrey’s Grill and Catering, Jerome Viel of Will’s Fargo, Ted and Cindy Walter from Passionsfish and Carmel Valley Ranch’s Tim Wood—all on the patio and in the theater of Hidden Valley Music Seminars.
Tickets are just $45 in advance ($50 at the door) and include, in addition to the above food, music from the award-winning duo Pete and Anne Sibley and wine from Scheid Vineyards, Parsonage Family Winery, Joullian Vineyards, Joyce Vineyards, Heller Estate Organic Vineyards, Chock Rock Vineyard, Caymus Vineyards and Bernardus Winery. Monterey Bay Brewing Co.’s Mad Otter Ale will also be on tap.
Tickets are available online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-flavor-and-harmony-tickets-11348358245. They also may be purchased over the phone by calling St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Carmel Valley at 831.624.6646, or in person at the church office, 28005 Robinson Canyon Rd. (next to Carmel Valley Ranch), Tu–F, 9am–2pm.
The event will help raise funds for St. Dunstan’s to build for the broader community a special tracker action pipe organ. The organ will provide a new musical venue for anything from early music to avant garde concerts that require an organ with power and finesse. For example, it will provide an additional venue for the Carmel Bach Festival, and for master classes held by Hidden Valley Music Seminars.
The event will run from 5:30 to 8:30pm on Saturday May 24—Memorial Day Weekend. Hidden Valley Music Seminars is located at 88 West Carmel Valley Rd. For tickets or more information, again, go to at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-flavor-and-harmony-tickets-11348358245. Tickets may also be bought by phone by calling St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Carmel Valley at 831.624.6646, or in person at the church office, 28005 Robinson Canyon Rd. (next to Carmel Valley Ranch), Tu–F, 9am–2pm.
Pete and Anne Sibley
About the author
SARAH WOOD—founding editor and publisher of Edible Monterey Bay—has had a life-long passion for food, cooking, people and our planet.
She planted her first organic garden and cared for her first chicken when she was in elementary school in a farming region of Upstate New York.
Wood spent the early part of her career based in Ottawa, Canada, working in international development and international education. After considering culinary school, she opted to pursue her loves for writing, learning about the world and helping make it a better place by obtaining a fellowship and an MA in Journalism from New York University.
While working for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, she wrote stories that helped farmers fend off development and won a state-wide public service award from the New Jersey Press Association for an investigative series of articles about a slumlord who had hoodwinked ratings agencies and investment banks into propping him up with some early commercial mortgage securitizations. The series led Wood to spend several years in financial journalism, most recently, as editor-in-chief of the leading magazine covering the U.S. hedge-fund industry.
Wood now lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she is a freelance writer and manages communications for Samaritan Ministry, an antipoverty and antiracist nonprofit that provides struggling Greater Washington residents with highly personalized and compassionate life counseling and coaching.
