Pour Your HeART Out – Benefit for Youth Arts Education
with Fabulous Food, Wine and Live Entertainment
Pour Your HeART Out will return this August with Grammy® Award-winning Pacific Mambo Orchestra. All proceeds benefit the Rhythmix Performance, Art & Learning “PAL” program, serving over 100,000 youth since 2012.
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VOLUNTEER! From setup to check-in, help support the arts.
2024 POUR YOUR HeART OUT
Food by: Asena, Café Jolie, C’era Una Volta, Crispian Bakery, Donut Petit, Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden, Semifreddi’s, Southie, Shanvi Indian Kitchen & Grocery, Tahina Fresh Mediterranean, The Preacher’s Daughter, Trabocco Kitchen & Cocktails.
Entertainment: Pacific Mambo Orchestra
2023 POUR YOUR HeART OUT
Food by: Alameda Natural Grocery, Asena, Café Jolie, C’era Una Volta, Donut Petit, Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden, The Preacher’s Daughter, Semifreddi’s, Shanvi Indian Kitchen & Grocery, Sidestreet Pho, Tahina Fresh Mediterranean, Trabocco Kitchen & Cocktails, The Vegetarian Gourmet and Wescafe
Entertainment: CHELLE’s Juke Joint
2022 POUR YOUR HeART OUT
Food by: Alameda Natural Grocery, Asena, Café Jolie, C’era Una Volta, Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden, Planted Foods, Semifreddi’s, Trabocco, Craft-Chocolate, Crispian Bakery and Donut Petit
Entertainment: SambaDá
2021 POUR YOUR HeART OUT
Food by: C’era Una Volta, Calafia Taqueria, Craft-Chocolate, Donut Petit, East End, Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden, Planted Foods, Preacher’s Daughter, Semifreddi’s, Side Street Pho, Tahina, Trabocco Kitchen & Cocktails, Wescafe
Entertainment: Terrie Odabi
2020 Rhythmix MashUP – Virtual Benefits for Youth Arts
Entertainment: Marga Gomez, Jet Black Pearl, Tracy Blackman, Terrie Odabi, Shauna Rosenblum, Kim Teevan aka Ethel Merman and “Yoko”
2019 POUR YOUR HeART OUT
Featured Breweries & Distilleries: 21st Amendment Brewery, Cleophus Quealy Beer Company, Drake’s Brewing Company, Faction Brewing, Griffo Distillery, Hidden Star Orchards
Featured Restaurants: Café Jolie, C’era Una Volta, Craft-Chocolate, Crispian Bakery, Julie’s Coffee and Tea, Moussaka Mediterranean Kitchen, Planted Foods, Semifreddi’s, Sidestreet Pho, Trabocco Kitchen and Cocktails
Entertainment: Mary Lou’s Apartment, Maze Daiko, Christelle Durandy Duet, Salsa-Lab, EBB & Flow East Bay Belly Dancers
Wine Panel: Stevie Stacionis (moderator), with featured panelists Julie Johnson, Cary Quintana, Dr. Chris Wachira and Laurel Schenck
2018 POUR YOUR HeART OUT – Benefit for the Arts
Distilleries: Absinthia’s Bottled Spirits, Hangar 1
Breweries: Alameda Island Brewing Company, Alameda Point Craft Soda, 21st Amendment Brewery, Cleophus Quealy, Faction Brewing
Culinary Delights: Café Jolie, C’era Una Volta, Crispian Bakery, Greens & Grains, Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden, Osmanthus, Patatas, Semifreddi’s, Trabocco
Featured Panelists: Deborah Parker Wong (DWSET), Jessica Clare (Cleophus Quealy), Alison Crowe (Picket Fence Winery/Plata Wine), J. Absinthia Vermut (Absinthia)
Performances by: Rhonda Benin with the Lillian Armstrong Tribute Band, Maze Daiko, Salsa Lab dancers, Taller Bombalele, Tiare Tahiti
2017 Rhythmix10 | 10 Year Anniversary Gala
Distilleries: Hangar 1 Vodka, Spirit Works Distillery
Breweries: 21st Amendment Brewery, Drake’s Brewing Co
Culinary Delights: Café Jolie, C’era Una Volta, Crispian Bakery, Greens & Grains, Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden, Patatas, Semifreddi’s, Trabocco, Sidestreet Pho
Featured Panelists: Deborah Parker Wong (DWSET), Dalia Ceja (Ceja Vineyards), Caley Shoemaker (Hangar 1), Devonne Buckingham (Drake’s Brewing Company)
Performances by: KTO Project, Maze Daiko, Taller Bombalele, EBB and Flow East Bay Belly Dancers, Salsa-Lab
2016 Wine, Women & Song – Music, Art and Wine Festival
Culinary Delights: Calavera, Cole Coffee, Greens & Grains, Crispian Bakery, Ozumo, Patatas, Trabocco, Tucker’s Ice Cream
Featured Panelists: Deborah Parker Wong (DWSET), Violet Grgich (Grgich Hills Estate), Victoria Wilson (Matrix Winery), Misty Roudebush Cain (St Supery Estate Vineyards & Winery)
Performances by: Wild Mango, Tracy Blackman & Jimmy Dillon, Diana Rowan, Maze Daiko Ensemble
2015 Wine, Women and Song
Participating eateries: C’era Una Volta, Chicha Peruvian Bistro, Cole Coffee, Ozumo Japanese Cuisine, Patatas Spanish Tortilla, Trabocco Kitchen & Cocktails, Truffle Gateau, and Tucker’s Ice Cream.
Performances by: Maze Daiko, hang player Laura Inserra, winemaker Barbara Brown with R&B Cellars Quartet BK4, blues guitarist and vocalist Pat Wilder, Grammy nominated jazz vocalist Rhonda Benin, blues/roots saxophonist Nancy Wright, and blues vocalist, twotime Memphis International Blues Challenge semifinalist Terrie Odabi and swing guitarist and vocalist Carmen Getit with Steve Lucky
Panel: Virginie Boone, Moderator (Wine Enthusiast contributing editor), Shauna Rosenblum, Julie Hagler Lumgair, Sharon Cohn, Lee Hodo and Suzanne Phifer Pavitt
2014 Wine, Women and Song – From Broadway to the Blues
Wineries: Irish Monkey Cellars, Megawines from Pasta Pelican, R&B Cellars, Rock Wall Wine Company
Performances by: Terrie Odabi, Tracy Blackman, Jet Black Pearl, Velina Brown, Kathy Moehring, Rachel Rolleri, Unity Nguyen, Rhythmix Ensemble, EBB and Flow Belly Dance, Bean Counters, WWS Houseband
Visual Artists: The visual artists showcase included Ginny Parsons, painter, Deborah Sullivan, sculptor and Mariah Carle, photographer.
