Great Taste Magazine

Posch
18912 MacArthur Blvd.,
California-92612

poschrestaurant.com

CuisineType : American, Bar & Grill

PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN ELEGANT EVENING WITH THE ARTISTFROM 6PM TO 8PM THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23RD.RECEPTION, COCKTAILS AND ORDURE’S WILL BE SERVED TILL 8PM

Live Music, Small Plates, Chilled Prosecco

Featuring Broadway’s Adam Michaelson

Every Friday and Saturday evening, enjoy performances at 8:30 & 10:30 p.m. in the Great Room.  Mix, Move and Mingle while sipping specialty chilled martinis and small plate menu as our featured live performers play contemporary favorites! Celebrate “La Dolce Vita” with “La Dolce Ora” late night value specials from 8 – 10:30 p.m.

McKenna’s on the Bay
190 N. Marina Dr.,
CA-90803
562.342.9411
www.mckennasonthebay.com/entertainment/

CuisineType : American

Alamitos Bay Landing is proud to present the first annual Benefit Summer Concert Series! The concerts will be every Sunday evening in August, held in the parking lot of the Alamitos Bay Landing Shopping Center. The first concert of the Summer, August 7th- will benefit the Team Spirit Breast and Ovarian Cancer 10K Walk and Women’s Cancer Programs at Long Beach Memorial Hospital with headliner Super Diamond- a Neil Diamond tribute band.Tickets & Dinner Packages Available for $30-$100PURCHASE TICKETS NOW!:www.mckennasontheba​y.com For More Information about the LB Memorial Hospital & Team Spirit:www.teamspiritonlin​e.org

Encore / Happy Sushi’s
2640 Cushing Road,
California-92016
www.SanDiegoUkeFestival.com

CuisineType : Asian

UKERS JAKE SHIMABUKURO AND JAMES HILL HIT THE SAME PARTY!The San Diego Ukulele Festival Comes to Town Finally!

On July 14th through July 16th, 2011, the inaugural San Diego Ukulele Festival is coming to town at Ingram Plaza, Liberty Station in the newly renovated NTC McMillan shopping center of Point Loma area in San Diego! Xceptional Music Productions and the Amigo Bros. Event Management are proud to bring this event to this fantastic new venue; a venue that many San Diegans do not even know about yet, and should!

Featuring both infamous ukulele aficionados Jake Shimabukuro and James Hill at the same Festival is quite a feat in itself! Jake, from Maui, will be opening the Festival on Thursday, and James, from Canada, will be closing the Festival Saturday night. These two men have been known to do some amazing and magical things with this small musical instrument underdog; making their ukuleles literally sing as their fingers fly! It’s a sight to be seen and heard, and well worth the concert cost! Fantastic front row VIP table dinner concert seats will be available.

It is said of Jake…“It’s rare for a young musician to earn comparisons to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis”…“Yes, the ukulele, in the hands of Shimabukuro, the traditional Hawaiian instrument of four strings and two octaves is stretched and molded into a complex and bold new musical force.” The San Francisco Gate recently posted: “The sounds the boyish 33-year old wrings from his ukulele…are unlike anything else in the history of the instrument.”

The rest of the Festival in between Thursday and Saturday nights will have tons of free Polynesian themed fun and entertainment for the public! Including ukulele biggies like Hawaii’s Derick Sebastian, Los Angeles’s Ukulele Bartt, and San Diego locals Fred Thompson and Sarah Maisel. There will be other well-known performers from all over as well, a beer and wine garden right in the middle of the fun, Polynesian hula and fire dancer shows, tropical art, food and merchandise to partake in! You will feel like you are on the Islands, without having spent the airfare!

Sponsors are stepping up to join in on the tropical fun like Ohana Ukulele, Kanile’a Ukulele, Kimo Ukulele, Komoa Ukulele, Kala Brand Music Company, Aquila Corde Armoniche Strings, Ballast Point, Constellation Wine, Svedka Vodka, Oggi’s Liberty Station, Encore Catering, Tarantino’s Meats, with more coming! The San Diego Ukulele Festival is looking for a qualified charity to give their Beverage Garden proceeds to. The Polynesian drums are stirring excitement and rumblings about this event; that looks to bring in 1000s from all over the USA, to San Diego for this 3-day Festival.For all information and tickets, go to the website – www.SanDiegoUkeFestival.com .If you’d like more information, please call Fred Thompson at 619-296-4435 or email at Ukulelefred@cox.net .

March 19 – April 25 at The CAMP
2937 Bristol St.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

www.homegrownartshow.blogspot.com

• A special reception will be held on Saturday, April 17^th, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Bayside Restaurant in Newport Beach, Calif., for contemporary artist Janet Bothne.
• Guests have the opportunity to not only view Bothne’s paintings, but also to meet the artist and discuss the magnificent art with her.
• Complementary wine and hors d’oeuvres will also be provided to guests during the art reception.
• Bothne will be exhibiting her artwork at Bayside Restaurant from April 17^th, 2010 to July 2010.

Bayside

900 Bayside Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660-7460
(949) 721-1222

April Artist: Jann Gentry

So Cal Artist Series
April 8, 7-9 p.m.
FREE
Tesoro Winery
28475 Old Town Front Street at 6th in Old Town Temecula (951) 308-0000
www.TesoroWinery.com

Although the event is FREE, an RSVP is helpful for planning purposes. Guests are encouraged to let the winery know they are coming by signing up at http://tesorowineryjanngentry.eventbrite.com/

World renowned artist Daniella Foletto, made famous by her “Prehistoric Cave Collection,” will be exhibiting part of her notorious collection at Bayside Restaurant in Newport Beach, Calif., from November 2009 to March 2010.