Beer Pairing Dinner Menu and Details Announced
The new Brewers Showcase at the 2022 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival will kick off in spectacular fashion on Thursday, September 15 at 6 pm with a decadent beer pairing dinner at Black Iron Kitchen + Bar at Madeline Hotel & Residences, an Auberge Resort.
This exciting culinary evening will feature a delicious five-course meal prepared by Madeline’s Executive Chef Bill Greenwood, thoughtfully paired with craft beers from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Telluride Brewing Company, Ska Brewing Company, Wild Provisions and Great Divide Brewing Company. The event will also feature live music from Shane Hall and a gallery of fine paintings from festival poster artist Rob Gonzo.
Attendees will be welcomed with festival exclusive beer Sierra Nevada Billy Goat Blonde Ale and Shane Hall’s musical talents. Each of the five locally sourced dinner courses and their respective beer pairings will be introduced by brewers and personalities from each brewery partner, giving guests unique insight into the epicurean world of flavor profiles and combinations. Hosted in an intimate setting, diners will have the opportunity to meet and interact with Chef Bill Greenwood, Shane Hall, Rob Gonzo and each of the brewers.
Tickets are $165 and include five courses and six craft beers. Don’t miss out, attendees are limited to 40 people.
Bill Greenwood
Bill Greenwood joined Madeline as Executive Chef in 2020, bringing extensive culinary experience to Mountain Village. Chef Greenwood’s profound interest in sustainability, foraging, and innovative restaurant supply techniques bring a new perspective and fresh approach to the destination. Inspired by the best of what’s in season from local Western Slope farms, Executive Chef Greenwood serves fresh, spirited takes on the hearty, rustic food you crave after a long day in nature.
Greenwood’s experience at some of Colorado’s top kitchens and as a corporate executive chef in Texas and California allow him to oversee all food and beverage operations for the property, including its signature modern mountain restaurant Black Iron Kitchen + Bar, aprés lounge and local hotspot Timber Room, named one of America’s Best Outdoor Bars by Travel + Leisure in 2021, the newly minted Alpine Swim Club, in-room dining, catering and creative pop-up culinary activations for guests.
Shane Hall
Shane Hall’s epiphany came to him in the shower, when, at age 12 singing Boyz II Men, he knew he wanted to make a life as a musician. While his sound is nothing like the boy band of yore — think more, as Shane says, a melding of Jimi Hendrix, Alice in Chains, and Johnny Cash — his vision has become reality. The San Diego-based blues-soul man works very hard, performing 250-300 shows a year, honing a sound he describes as “ a pretty soulful sound.” He writes from experiences and real places with an intensity that is at once arresting and compelling. His songs reflect day-to-day struggles, money concerns and balancing his art with making a livable income — pages that can be torn from our own books. He was recently nominated for a San Diego Music Award for Best Singer-songwriter, and you’ll soon see why.
Rob Gonzo
Rob Gonzo, (aka. Robert Wolverton, Jr) is an Outsider Artist living in Memphis, Tennessee. Over the past 20 years, he has supported himself working odd jobs that included chinking log cabins and restoring buildings on the Natchez Trace Parkway, restoring historic buildings in downtown Memphis, beer truck deliveries to Juke Joints and country stores in the Mississippi delta, digging ginseng and yellow root in Mt. Pleasant, picking, restaurants, and some film acting.
Having been drawn to art at the age of 6, Rob continued to follow that rising passion, studying famous painters on his own while experimenting with various materials and techniques in a makeshift studio. He tried art school, but dropped out after a couple of weeks.
His art career followed the path of typical Outsider Artists where he was giving his paintings away to interested fans, or selling them for $50 or less. Also typical was Rob’s zeal for creating art. He was turning out hundreds and hundreds of paintings.
That path changed when Rob’s style began to take on a more evolved look around 2016. A broader, more seasoned group of art collectors began paying attention to his art using two strong reference points...Jean-Michel Basquait and Pablo Picasso. Rob was suddenly shipping art to New York, London and Los Angeles appealing to, among others, young film producers and directors who recognized the uniqueness and greater value in his paintings.
His odd jobs have dropped to the wayside as he is now dedicating full time to his art, focusing more on quality and details rather than on quantity.
Rob’s art is considered to be a mix of styles including: contemporary, abstract, folk art, neo-expressionism, street art and graffiti. He uses material such as fabrics, cardboard, and other found objects to build up texture, dimension and create stories. During his picking days, he gathered a lot of ephemera dating back to the early 1900s that he also uses as small touches of collage.
He has graduated from his early folk art days where he would paint on almost anything that would stay still long enough. Now Rob prefers canvas, but still paints both large and small images on board. He likes to use bright vivid colors, sometimes straight from the tube.
Rob has recently connected with one of his hometown heroes, nationally acclaimed artist George Hunt. The two have recently completed a couple of “Shared Spaces” paintings together. Hunt, like Rob, has been heavily influenced by Picasso and Basquiat and he shares Rob’s regular use of interesting and unique collage materials.
Some of Rob's inspiration also comes from old-school folk artists like Howard Finster and George Widener, but a major inspiration in his work comes from pre-war and post-war blues music and blues musicians. You will see this in many of his works...following George Hunt’s trailblazing paintings of blues greats like Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson.
Tickets
Tickets are $165 and include five courses and six craft beers. Don’t miss out, attendees are limited to 40 people.