Stonefield Cellars Winery

Located in Stokesdale, NC

live music

Friday Flavors Concert – Damascus Ridge (Bluegrass)

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Friday Flavors Concert – Damascus Ridge (Bluegrass)

Last Minute Band Change: Amanda Cooke is unable to perform due to illness.

This concert will be held INSIDE. 

Our replacement band is Damascus Ridge, a central North Carolina Bluegrass Band comprised of Guitarist/Vocalist Frank King, Greg Taylor on Bass, Joe Pessolano on Mandolin and Dobro, with John Dudley on Banjo and Guitar.   This band plays regionally and has had a chart topping single, played at Dollywood, and will delight you with their talent in an up close and personal Barrel Room performance.

Note: Advanced ticket purchase is always recommended because: 1) It helps our food vendor anticipate food amounts and 2) If the concert is held indoors, seating is limited (we’d hate to turn you away at the door). All tickets purchased in advanced are held at Will Call under the name of the purchaser. If you have any additional questions regarding ticket sales please call 336-644-9908.

COST: $10 per person.

EVENT TIMELINE:   Concert is from 7:00-9:00 pm. Gate/Door opens at 6:30 p.m. (advised for food and beverage purchase).

INSIDE OR OUT?: The concert will be held INSIDE, in our air-conditioned Barrel Room due to evening storms in the forecast. 

SEATING: Family style table seating will be provided in our barrel room with our VIP and advanced ticket purchasers seated first.

DRINKS:   Wine, Fresh Sangria, Beer, and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.

FOOD: El Taco Vaquero will be our food truck for the evening.

No Pets, No Outside Alcohol or Food, Smoking Prohibited(all forms). Please place Trash and Recyclable items in the appropriate cans. Concert tickets are non-refundable but are transferable.

CALL THE WINERY TO PURCHASE TICKETS IN ADVANCE!  336-644-9908

Songwriter Sunday Concert – Barrel Room – Four Fabulous Songwriters!

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Songwriter Sunday Concert – 6/23/19 –  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! Jim Ritchie will be your host and sound engineer for 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 

Crystal Bright

Award winning singer/songwriter, ethnomusicologist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, Crystal Bright, has played over 1000 shows from Canada to San Diego, Florida to Seattle since 2010. Bright performed with the North Carolina Symphony in 2011 on an arrangement of her song “Toy Hammer,” and has performed at various festivals around the country (SXSW, Savannah Stopover, FloydFest, DragonCon, Midpoint Music Fest, The Steampunk World’s Fair, Shakori Hills, and many others.) She took Runner Up for On the Rise at Floydfest 2013 for a return set in 2014, and was named Best Singer in 2012, Best Songwriter in 2014, and Best Musician in the Triad in 2015 by Greensboro’s Yes Weekly.

 

Bright has an eclectic, haunting but yet whimsical, carnivalesque world folk sound, dubbed “kaleidophrenic cabaret.” She plays accordion, musical saw, concertina, piano, Taiko drum, adungu (Ugandan harp), and various others, leaving people captivated with her operatic & soulful vocals and virtuoso command of her exotic instruments.  
Her most recent album was recorded with Mitch Easter at the Fidelitorium. It was released in November, 2017. The previous albums (a visual collaboration with DividingMe Photography, “The Absolute Elsewhere” (Jan. 2015) as well as “Muses and Bones” (2012)) received press and glowing reviews in the US & Europe, as well as radio airplay in the US, UK, & Canada, including NPR and BBC appearances.

 

Glenn Jones

Songs from the heart, delivered with passion.  Glenn is a Chapel Hill, NC-based singer, songwriter, electric bassist, and guitarist.  His distinctive belting, soulful voice is his trademark, but his songcraft, with hook-laden choruses and out-of-the box subject matter, along with great storytelling, is what is building his following.  Two US tours in the last three years have whetted Glenn’s appetite for touring.

Currently working on CD three with acclaimed producer/engineer Jerry Brown (working title “Ready for the Good Times”), the new material promises to have a more stripped-down, back-to-the-basics, true-to-live sound than prior offerings. A September 2019 release is planned.

Glenn’s motto –  “Music is life”, and he’s playing every note to the fullest.

 

Kristy Jackson

BMI award winning singer/songwriter, Kristy Jackson, has had singles with artists on Giant, MCA, Curb and Universal Records.  As an artist herself, she had the #1 most requested song on the largest radio stations in New York and other major markets after 9/11, “Little Did She Know (She’d Kissed A Hero)” and raised over $30,000 for 9/11 charities. Her songs have also been featured in films by Disney, Universal and Endemol Productions. Her song, “Take It Back” originally recorded by Reba McEntire was recently performed by contest Aliyah Moulden in the 2017 Season 12 of NBC’s The Voice.

 

 

 

 

 

Ranford Almond

Ranford Almond is a Greensboro singer/songwriter who combines his introspective lyrics with acoustic blues and cross-picking to create a unique, soulful sound. Ranford is known as an old-soul whose solo performance is a truly intimate experience

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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:    

Paula Dellenback

Paula Dellenback is an award winning singer-songwriter born in the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia.  Her style of storytelling through song, brings visuals of the region’s history, love, trials and life. Her second original song, “Jar Gap”, won WPAQ’s Ralph Epperson Award for Excellence.  The Paula Dellenback & Fox River band was soon formed and her musical adventures began. Paula has appeared in numerous festivals and venues including Song of the Mountains, IBMA After Hours Showcase, Reeves Theater, Heartwood, Blackmon Amphitheater, and many more.

 

Jim Ritchey

Jim Ritchey grew up in Texas and learned his craft as a songwriter and performer in the famous music scenes of Dallas and Austin.  In 1976 Rusty Wier recorded his song “Coast of Colorado” and launched Jim’s career as a professional songwriter.  In the years that have followed, his songs have been recorded and performed by numerous artists, including Kenny Rogers (The Gambler album), BeJae Fleming, Mickey Jones, Kelley Hunt, and Ann Rabson, and played on radio stations around the world. Currently, Jim resides in Greensboro, North Carolina and continues to write carefully crafted songs and teach songwriting and guitar at weekend workshops.

 

Diane Rodelli

Diane started playing guitar at 12, after consuming Joni Mitchell’s first two albums and being smitten with her songs and open tunings.  At 17, she got exposed to Delta and Chicago Blues styles from friends in Brooklyn, and started singing with The Unknown Maracas’ Blue Bland – a seven piece ensemble that included standup bass, acoustic piano, and blues harmonica for a few years, until university and graduate school took over her life.  She took a long hiatus from music making while raising a family and working, but came back to it in her late 30’s with a vengeance, learning more country blues styles.   For the last 20 years she has been playing – hosting the Open Mic sessions at Hillsborough’s Blue Bayou in the early 00’s, and then co-creating Pagan Hellcats, with Dave Rutter in 2006, a band that prides itself in playing almost exclusively original material in the Triangle and Triad area.

 

Dave Rutter

Dave grew up the youngest in a musical family in Chicago– his father played the American songbook every evening for hours, and two brothers also played- one jump blues and the other classical.  He started playing harmonica as a child, having been left a chromatic harp from his grandfather, and embraced Rock n’ Roll as a departure from the music he grew up hearing.  He started playing guitar in his 20’s and within a decade created The Attitudes, a new-wave/alternative band in the late 80’s and 90’s that enjoyed some notoriety in the Triangle.  He has been writing and performing his own songs for the last 35 years.  He has been lead singer/songwriter/rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the Pagan Hellcats since 2006.  The Hellcats play regularly in venues across the Triangle.

Barrel Room Concert – Sam Pacetti – Guitarist, Singer-Songwriter

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Stonefield Cellars Barrel Room Concert 6/1/19 – Sam Pacetti – Guitarist/Singer-Songwriter

 

We are pleased to bring back one of our favorite guitar masters and singer-songwriters – Sam Pacetti.  It has been too long since he has graced our barrel room stage!

Sam Pacetti is one who brings it all together. A fingerstyle guitar wizard. A deft songwriter, capable of haunting depth and wry humor in the space of one song. A impassioned and ecstatic vocalist, as well as a mesmerizing live performer, seamlessly melding head-spinning guitar pyrotechnics and raw emotion into one breathtaking package.

Pacetti represents a culmination of the best of the American and British traditions. His 1997 Waterbug debut, Solitary Travel, garnered critical raves. “This guy is very good, indeed,” deadpanned the highly respected (and highly critical) UK magazine Folk Roots. And Dirty Linen, the influential US roots publication, opined, “Although the woods are full of young guitar virtuosos, few have developed the style, technique and artistic wisdom of Sam Pacetti. Solitary travel heralds the arrival of one of the most talented instrumentalists and composers to appear in acoustic music in a month of Sunday’s.”

Sam Pacetti grew up in North Florida, hardly known as a hotbed of either the folk tradition or musical innovation. Influenced by Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and most profoundly by Gamble Rogers,  Sam carries on the important element of the folk process, the passing of music and oral tradition from teacher to student.

Tradition and innovation neatly balance in Sam Pacetti’s music, the whole infused by a relentless intelligence intent on musical and philosophical synthesis. Martin Simpson, Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell and Merle Travis are touchstones to Pacetti, and while there are strong elements of the American primitive school of guitar wizardry throughout his work, there is a powerful raw emotionality evident as well – an earthy sensuality more reminiscent of a Greg Brown or a red-dirt blues master than of a musical academian.

Word has started to spread about Sam Pacetti. And as with anything truly innovative, it starts at the grassroots. You won’t see Pacetti written up in People or Us. You won’t hear his music on Top-40 radio. No, word is spreading about Sam Pacetti the way true innovation always does – through the grassroots. Through non-commercial radio and “specialty show” play. From tapes and CDs passed from friend to friend. At folk festivals and listening rooms. And, in the tradition stemming from the days of rent-raising parties in the Mississippi delta – and now carried on by music aficionados unable to find music that interest them within the mainstream.

One of the great things about the Stonefield Cellars Barrel Room is the intimate setting it provides so that you can hear Sam’s guitar mastery and storytelling lyrics upfront and personal!!!!

Door opens at 7:00 pm, concert starts at 7:30 pm.

COST: Advance tickets are $16, $14 for Wine Club Members, $18 at door. See below for advance ticket option! (Wine Club Member discount limited to 4 per household.)

DRINKS: Wine, Beer, and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.

FOOD: As there is no food vendor for this concert we recommend eating beforehand. Outside food is allowed in small quantities (think snacks, small plates, or tapas), but please be considerate of other guests- don’t bring smelly or pungent food items. We will also be selling snacks such as cheese, crackers, peanuts, and a wide assortment of locally-made chocolate for dessert during the evening!

EVENT POLICIES: No Pets, No Outside Alcohol, No Smoking (anywhere on our property, including our parking lot!).

*Barrel Room Concert Etiquette Reminder: This concert will be held in our intimate barrel room and is intended to be a listening experience. The audience is expected to be respectful of the artist’s performance and their listening neighbors, so loud talking and cell phone use is discouraged.

Concert tickets are non-refundable.

Friday Flavors Concert – Sigean (Celtic) – 7/12/19

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Friday Flavors Concert – Sigean (Celtic)

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The band has made the call and this concert will be held Outside so there will be plenty of room and we will be selling tickets at our entrance gate. We will also have a few tents set up on the lawn for general admission seating (first come first seat) and our VIP tables will all have umbrellas.

Sigean (pronounced “She gun”, translation: silly little people) Band Members Tom Swadley – Guitar, Frank Wing – Fiddle, Tenor Banjo and Vocals, John Rushing – Upright Bass and Vocals, Marcianne O’Day – Fiddle and Vocals, Reagan DeBusk – Flute and Whistles, Buz Lee – Bodhran  come from the Tri-Cities Region of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia.

This full spectrum band will have you toe-tapping and maybe even doing an Irish jig with their traditional Irish and Americana spin.  Our July tradition of bringing you Irish music to the Friday Flavors series will not disappoint. Call all your TRAD loving friends out for this one.  Gonna be a party!

Note: Advanced ticket purchase is always recommended because  1) It helps our food vendor anticipate food amounts and 2) If the concert is held indoors, seating is limited – we’d hate to turn you away at the door. All tickets purchased in advanced are held at Will Call under the name of the purchaser.   Online Ticket Purchase is Available until 4pm the Day of Concert – as this concert is outside at-the-gate ticket sales will be available! If you have any additional questions regarding ticket sales please call 336-644-9908.

COST: $10 per person.

EVENT TIMELINE:   Concert is from 7-9 pm. Gate/Door opens at 6:30 p.m. (advised for food and beverage purchase).

INSIDE OR OUT?: This concert will be held OUTSIDE in fair weather in our lovely garden. If there is chance of rain or extreme heat, the concert will be held INSIDE, in our air-conditioned Barrel Room. We make the call early afternoon the day of the concert and will likely update the website to reflect our decision.

SEATING: If the concert is OUTSIDE, we offer 4-person VIP Bistro Seating on the Front Row or Upper Patio for $45 (includes admission for four); and a glass top 6-person VIP party table to the side of the band for $65 (includes admission for six). For General Admission ($10/person) you should bring a lawn chair for our terraced lawn area, or we have first-come-first-seat picnic tables in the upper garden. If the concert is INSIDE, family style table seating will be provided in our barrel room with our VIP and advanced ticket purchasers seated first. 

DRINKS:   Wine, Fresh Sangria, Beer, and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.

FOOD: Porterhouse Burger Truck will be our food truck for the evening.

EVENT POLICIES:  No Pets, No Outside Alcohol or Food, Smoking Prohibited (all forms). Please place Trash and Recyclable items in the appropriate cans.  Concert tickets are non-refundable but are transferable.

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