Arts & Entertainment

The Week's Best in Local Arts

Covering all things wine-related in anticipation of the festival season, Patch was everywhere you wanted to be reporting arts events this week.

Oenophilia, or a love of wine, was the theme of the creative scene as Marylanders prepared for the festival season, Dionysus style. So indulge your inner sommelier with the following Week in Regional Arts, which includes pictures from the Arbutus Arts Festival and homemade handiwork available at the Bloomin’ Artsfest.


Curious about the Arbutus Arts Festival? Reporter Kiel McLaughlin fills us in with the need-to-know info about the event, including fair fare, weather conditions and entertainment provided for the whole family. Don’t forget to check out , all on Arbutus Patch.

Main Street was busy as visitors enjoyed local art and tasted the many beer and wine samples at the second annual Sykesville Fine Art & Wine Festival. Pictures of the festival, which included live music and demonstrations by local artists, can be found on Eldersburg Patch.

If you weren’t around for the vino celebration elsewhere, now is your chance to to enjoy more than 40 wineries that will be on hand at Symphony Woods at the Merriweather Post Pavilion for the 19th annual Wine in the Woods event. Drink up helpful hints of the how (and why) to enjoy Wine in the Woods with a post from area wine expert Matt Kircher with his blog entry , thanks to Columbia Patch.


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