Salute! The North Carolina Wine Celebration - May 10, 2008   

 The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership is hosting again the Salute! The North Carolina Wine Celebration, to be held in downtown Winston-Salem, on Saturday, May 10, 2008.  The 2007 event was selected as one of the “Top 20 Events In The Southeast” by the Southeast Tourism Society, and this year’s festival was selected as a “Featured Event For 2008” by Southern Living Magazine.

Salute! will be held from 12 noon until 6 p.m. on Fourth Street, in the heart of downtown. Winemakers will be on hand with samples and of their harvest—and bottles available for purchase—for more than 6,000 attendees.  This year, a host of wineries throughout the state will be offering wine for tasting and purchase.

In addition to the main festival on May 10^th, festival organizers announced that Winemaker Dinners will be held on Friday, May 9^th, at several fine restaurants throughout the city.  These reservation-only dinners will be creative collaborations between chefs and the vintners to produce unique food and wine pairings for their guests. 

Live entertainment will feature an early set by beach music favorite, Doubletake, and a later, a performance by Carnivalito, with their popular high-energy Latin sound.  Festival organizers also announced the Salute After Party!, beginning at 6:00 p.m. following the festival.  The free After Party will be jumping with a rare Winston-Salem appearance by the popular The Sleeping Booty Band, and a cash bar with a wide selection of beers and wines.  Smitty’s Notes and Foothills Brewing are sponsors for this eve. For more info go to http://www.salutencwine.com

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Winston-Salem, NC
Can we sum up our city on one page? Well, no. Yet, we're an ambitious lot, so here goes. (All this, and much more, are explored on this web site. Use the navigation bar on the left to get around the site.)

Arts. The "City of the Arts." Nation's first arts council. North Carolina School of the Arts. First nationally in per capita contributions to the arts. National Black Theatre Festival. Piedmont Opera Theater. Winston-Salem Symphony. Stevens Center for Performing Arts. Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts.

Attractions. Old Salem. Tanglewood Park. Historic Bethabara Park. SciWorks. Körner's Folly. Westbend Vinyards. Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery.

Museums. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA). Reynolda House, Museum of American Art. Children's Museum of Winston-Salem. Diggs Gallery. Delta Arts Center. The Children's Museum at Old Salem. The Toy Museum at Old Salem. Museum of Anthropology.

History. Rich Moravian ancestry. Strong African-American heritage.

Technology. Biotechnology. Medicine. Medical Research. Piedmont Triad Research Park. WinstonNet. Idealliance. Two technology-focused venture capital funds.

Education. Wake Forest University. Winston-Salem State University. Salem Academy and College. North Carolina School of the Arts. Piedmont Baptist College. Forsyth Technical Community College.

Entertainment. Alive After Five. Fourth Street Jazz & Blues. Summer on Trade. Fiddle & Bow Society. Ziggy's. Fabian's. The Garage.

Career opportunities. Fifth among big cities, says National Business Employment Weekly.

Low cost of living. Lowest in North Carolina, says the American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association.

High quality of life. Top 20 in the nation, says Business Development Outlook Magazine.

Proximity. Less than 90 minutes from Raleigh and Charlotte. Halfway between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Two hours from the mountains. Four hours from the ocean. 15 minutes from one end of town to the other.

All this...in a city of just over 185,000 people. Winston-Salem: big-city opportunities and a small-town feel.

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