May 2014 Jersey Shore Festivals


Want to go to a mini-Wine & Food Festival this evening? There’s one happening in Avalon, NJ. Tickets are $40 in advance (tickets available for purchase at Fred’s Avalon Liquor Store), and $45 at the door, and you’ll get to sample over 200 wines, fancy vodkas, scotch and bourbon, and all of the town’s best food.

Avalon Wine & Spirits Festival [Official]

 


The Exit 0 International Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ is going down between May 30-June 1, 2014. For three days, Cape May, NJ will host over 100 of the best international touring musicians in the world. People will be able to walk from venue to venue, enjoying everything from jazz, to soul, to blues, to R&B.

This year, there’s something new: Jazz at the Estatea celebration of 25 Years of the Cape May Music Festival. An outdoor, rain or shine stage on the grounds of the historic Emlen Physick Estate will have world class performances from noon until six. In addition to the music, a lineup of Cape May & South Jersey food vendors, as well as stands from local breweries and vineyards, will take over Estate’s grounds. So why not make your way down there, and enjoy some jazz, food, drinks, and maybe even make your way to what some might consider one of the the best sunsets in the world.

Tickets are what you want to make of the event, so visit the ticketing page for more information.

Exit 0 Jazz Fest – [Official]


 

It’s that time of year:

Most of Philadelphia will be making their weekend shore trips, if not already, then definitely by the end of the month. Heck, a lot of Philadelphia has probably already moved there until August. And yes, they might be missing some of the cool events happening up here, but who says the Jersey Shore doesn’t have some of their own fun festivals to take part in? For example, Sea Isle City’s Craft Beer & Rock Festival.

On Saturday, May 31st, from 3:00-7:00 PM, a huge stage will go live with local rocker, LeCOMPT, and shore-goers will drink some of the best beer this coast and country has to offer. Tickets start at $40 a person for General Admission, $60 for VIP tickets (private lounge, extra hour of beer sampling), and $15 if you’re the designated driver. Purchase your tickets here. The festival takes place on 63rd & Landis Avenue in Sea Isle City, and the line-up of breweries is something you’d find in a beer-nerd’s heaven:

  • Victory
  • Stoudts
  • Ommegang/Duvel
  • East Coast
  • Prism
  • Tuckahoe
  • Kona
  • Starr Hill
  • Goose Island
  • Blue Point
  • Unibroue
  • Firestone
  • Allagash
  • Cape May Brewing Co.
  • Flying Fish
  • Fegley’s Brew Works
  • Flying Dog
  • Old Dominion
  • Founders
  • Lancaster
  • Neshaminy Creek
  • Smuttynose
  • Yards
  • Weyerbacher
  • Troegs
  • Stone
  • River Horse
  • Oskar Blues
  • Dogfish
  • Angry Orchard
  • Curious Traveller
  • Heavy Seas
  • Twin Lakes
  • Brooklyn
  • Shiner
  • Great Lakes
  • Port City
  • Magic Hat #9
  • Pyramid
  • Bluemoon
  • Yuengling
  • Third Shift
  • Henry Weinhard
  • Redd’s
  • Palm
  • Manayunk
  • Ace Cider
  • Jack’s Cidar

Sea Isle Craft Beer & Rock Fest – [Official]


“A Gathering of Craft Beer & Spice Enthusiasts” is a label right up my alley, and I’m sure that goes the same for many of you. On Saturday, May 31st, from 11:00 AM-7:00 pm (last pour is at 6:30 pm), the Hop Sauce Festival will take place on the ball field in Beach Haven, between 9th Street and Taylor Avenue, in LBI, NJ. It’s a whole festival designed around the concept that nothing goes better with something spicy than an ice cold beer—and of course, the food and beer will be local. General Admission tickets are $10, and General Admission + Craft Beer tickets are $35. You can buy the tickets here.

Food

EL SWELL
THE BLACK WHALE BAR & FISH HOUSE
THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG
THE DUTCHMAN’S BRAUHAUS
COUNTRY KETTLE CHOWDA

BUCKALEW’S RESTAURANT ~ TAVERN
SHORE FIRE GRILLE
THE ARLINGTON
THE SCHWEE TEA CO.

Beer

SHORE POINT DISTRIBUTING CO.
FLYING FISH
EVIL GENIUS
GREAT LAKES BREWING CO.
HEAVY SEAS
MAGIC HAT
OTTER CREEK
BROOKLYN BREWERY
CAPTAIN LAWRENCE BREWING COMPANY
SHIP BOTTOM BREWERY
RINN DUIN BREWING
PINELANDS BREWING CO.

Hot Sauce

BORN TO HULA
RED HAWK PREMIUM PEPPERS
JAK JECKEL PEPPER SAUCE
LOVE OF JOJO
HEARTBREAKING DAWNS
WHITEHOUSE STATION SAUCE COMPANY
HANKSAUCE
HIGH RIVER SAUCES
DECEPTION SALSA
VOODOO CHILI SAUCES & SALSA
CUE CULTURE
RIPPIN’ RED

Music

FOR THE FOXES
THE LAWSUITS
STARLIGHT GIRLS
THE BRIGANTINES
JARED HART (OF THE SCANDALS)
SONNI SHINE (OF THE UNDERWATER SOUNDS)
VENSAIRE

 Hop Sauce Fest [Official]