live music

Songwriter Sunday Concert – 3-5 pm –   $10.00 Cover charge (tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance – call 336-644-9908).

Come enjoy some wine & live music by the best of our local songwriting talent! Kris Ferris hosts this performance melange, with FOUR singer/songwriters performing his or her songs in the round. They will also take you behind the scenes and learn what inspires their compositions, the stories behind the songs and the process of song writing through each songwriter’s eyes and experience. It is an interactive event and audience participation is encouraged (but please be respectful and don’t converse with your neighbor while the artists are speaking or singing).

Also note:  If this is your first time visiting and you would like to do a tasting before the event, we suggest you come at least 30-45 minutes before to allow for a relaxed tasting experience.  Tastings are conducted in our Tasting Room.  You will be served there and when the door opens for the Songwriter Performance, you will then be seated in the Barrel Room.  Tasting Fee is $10.00 for 7 wines and a signature wine glass.

Songwriters Featured:    

Becca Rae

Becca Rae is a singer-songwriter based out of Southern Pines, North Carolina. She is the creator and host of the historic Sunrise Theater’s “Singer-Songwriters in the Round” showcase, a bi-annual event that spotlights North Carolina songwriters. She was also voted “Best of the Pines” in the category “Best Local Musician- Solo” two years in a row- 2017 and 2018, by The Pilot Newspaper. Becca Rae performs her original music on stages all across the state, and has been featured on WHUP’s original music radio program, “Pass the Hat”. Her music has also been featured on national television, on DirecTV’s “The Right Place with Kevin Sport”. Her most notable live performances include opening for country music legends Loretta Lynn and Montgomery Gentry, and headlining “First Friday” in Southern Pines. Becca Rae has released three independent original albums: “Strength” in 2008, “Somewhere in Georgia” in 2011, and “Live at The Sunrise” in 2018. Fiercely determined, Becca Rae continues to write, record, and perform in relentless pursuit of becoming a hit songwriter.

Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall is the Bigdumbhick, a 6’7″ 330lb behemoth with a keen wit and a hilarious, often self-depreciating, sense of humor. His songs have been known to provoke tears – sometimes from laughter, other times due to their ability to strip away all the curtains that we all hide behind. http://www.bigdumbhick.com

Rebecca Newton

Rebecca Newton is a 40-year veteran of the NC music scene. She has been commissioned to write music for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” written music for nationally produced plays, recorded with many national recording artists and was the co-founder of the 30-year NC based band “Rebecca & the Hi-Tones.” She’s a co-founding member of the Americana band “the bennys.”  The bennys include award-winning songwriters Barry Gray and Wes Collins, and accomplished Triangle musicians FJ Ventre, Mike Babyak and Mike Rosado. Rebecca has been in the studio for the past year working on her new record, which includes some of NC’s finest musicians such as Andrew Marlin, Josh Oliver, Rob Ladd, Don Dixon, Rod Abernethy, and Jonathan Byrd, to name a few.

Rebecca is also the CEO & President of performing arts and film venue, The Carolina Theatre of Durham.

Tony Low

Tony Low

Singer/songwriter Tony Low is a transplanted New Yorker who has lived in Greensboro,

NC since 2003. His songs capture a timeless spirit and energy, a sonic cocktail of Neil

Young, The (early) Who and Big Star. Tony is currently working on his seventh CD,

entitled “To New York” which features songs about new frontiers, the toxicity of today’s

political climate to eventual hope and salvation.