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Blacksburg Brew Do 2023
Venue: Historic Smithfield, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Blacksburg Partnership, Music Road Company, Seph Custer
Date: Saturday, September 16, 2023
Time: 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous, Speaking Engagements
Cost:
Regular Tasting Tickets: • Advance Tickets: $35.00 • Day of Tickets: $40.00

VIP Tickets: • Tasting Tickets: $70.00 (No day of tickets) • Non-Tasting Tickets: $25.00 (No day of tickets)

Non-Tasting Tickets: $10.00 in Advance and the Day Of Children 12 & Under: Free

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Description:
Blacksburg Partnership presents the 14th Annual Blacksburg Brew Do on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at Historic Smithfield.

Festival Schedule:
• 12:00 PM: Gates Open to VIP Ticket Holders
• 12:00-2:30 PM: Music Road Co. Performs
• 1:00 PM: Gates Open for General Admission
• 3:00-5:00 PM: Seph Custer performs
• 4:45 PM: Tastings End
• 5:00 PM: Festival Closes

Blacksburg Brew Do welcomes back the best in craft brewers from the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond, offering an outstanding selection of ales, lagers, pilsners, stouts, ciders and more with over 30 breweries represented. Delicious food and terrific music complement a great day of beer tasting!

Music Road Co. will open the music at the festival from 12:00-2:30 PM and will be followed by Seph Custer from 3:00-5:00 PM.

Music Road Company is a Floyd, VA based band that plays a great music featuring elements of rock, funk, reggae and fun for your dancing and listening pleasure designed to groove and move you. Featuring members of both Spoon Fight and the Color J.

Coming from such diverse places as South Africa, Ecuador, Key West, Maryland and Virginia, the band brings many cultural influences together to produce music without boundaries. Moving fluidly from funk to reggae, rock to afrobeat, their sound bounces from blues and soul to island dance and back again, bound together by one common ideal: Music should feel good and spread positive vibes. They get on stage to lift themselves up to a higher frequency and they won’t stop until they bring the entire audience with them

Music Road Company is a cooperative of common creative companions conspiring to command your cognitive locomotion. This crew digs through a wide and deep catalog of tunes and musical traditions to get you groovin’ and your hip bones movin'!

Links:

• http://www.musicroadco.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/musicroadco
• https://www.instagram.com/musicroadco/

Seph Custer is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Boones Mill, Virginia, offering a fresh look at American and handmade tunes. With many years of experience arranging music for groups in Southwest Virginia, as well as backing up groups and artists on stage, he's combined his talents to offer a diverse variety of acoustic songs, full-band jams, and intriguing covers.

For his first seven years in music, his career revolved around playing lead guitar, banjo, slide and mandolin for numerous rock, Americana, blues, punk, alternative, and traditional bands. He's fined tuned his sound over the course of two studio albums and over 600 live shows, combining his diverse music taste with his skill set from several instruments; all delivered with only vocals and a modified guitar.

Seph has been featured in The Floyd Country Store’s annual tribute concerts, covering Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Carole King, and Paul Simon. In 2015, Seph's music was so well received at Callaway Brewing Company, they named a small batch German Wheat Ale "Sepheweissen." Seph Custer & The Papa Tom Band were included in Floydfest’s 2017 “Artists on the Rise” competition. In 2018, he became a member of Brackish Water Jamboree playing mandolin, joined them on tour, and performed alongside them in the “Rockn’ to Lockn” competition. He’s also appeared in Virginia Brew Hub Magazine, Appalachian Jamwich Magazine, The Roanoke Times, Blue Ridge Rocks, City Magazine, Roanoke’s Down By Downtown festival, The Nor-folk Festival, Pink Moon Festival, Blacksburg's Rock the Blocks and Steppin' Out Festivals, and WDVX's Blue Plate Special.

As well as being a performer and composer, Seph teaches acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, bass, violin, slide guitar, lap steel, dobro, and music theory at Downtown Music in Rocky Mount, The Handmade Music School at The Floyd Country Store, and Fret Mill in Downtown Roanoke.

Links:

• http://www.sephcustermusic.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/sephcustermusic
• https://twitter.com/sephcuster
• https://www.reverbnation.com/sephcuster
• https://www.youtube.com/user/sephcsuter/videos
• https://www.instagram.com/sephcuster/

There are three level of tickets available including regular tasting, VIP and non-tasting tickets. VIP tickets are limited and will only be available in advance.

VIP tasting tickets allows ticket holders early access to the festival beginning at 12:00 PM along with access to the VIP Tent which will include additional exclusive beer and wine tastings not available to regular tasting ticket holders, and light snacks along with 20 beer tasting tickets and tasting glass. VIP non-tasting tickets are also available this year.

Regular tasting tickets includes 15 beer tasting tickets and tasting glass. Non-tasting tickets include full access to the festival without the beer tasting. Children 12 and under are free.

Tickets will be available for purchase online at: https://www.freshtix.com/events/14th-annual-blacksburg-brew-do-2023.

Tastings end at 4:45 PM.

Chairs and blankets are welcome.

Parking onsite is not available however, free parking is available at adjacent Virginia Tech parking lots, specifically the Duckpond Lot. Continuous complimentary shuttles will run for the duration of the festival. Carpooling, walking, and public transportation is also encouraged.

Bring your ID as everyone will be ID'ed. No exceptions.

Well behaved pets are allowed on a leash. Picking up after your pet is mandatory. You will be asked to complete a pet waiver upon entry.

The event is rain or shine.

Proceeds from this event benefit The Blacksburg Partnership, a non-profit organization working to enhance the quality of life in Blacksburg.

For more information, visit https://www.blacksburgbrewdo.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/blacksburgbrewdo/ or https://www.instagram.com/blacksburgbrewdo/.