District 46 San Antonio presents
3rd Annual Texas Music & Food Extravaganza
• Special Concert by Grammy Award Winner Raul Malo
• Showcase of extra-virgin Olive Oils. Balsamic Vinegars & Wines
• Meet the Growers from Texas & Mexico and Taste their products
• Premier Screening of El Camino, the Texas | Mexico Olive Trail film
Sat. August 6, 2011 | 7:00pm
Josephine Theater | 339 W. Josephine | San Antonio , Texas
Tickets $35 | All proceeds benefit March of Dimes
Event contact: Bill Millet 972.365.3303 billmillet@yahoo.com
Tickets contact: Maria Cordoneda 210.485.4444 mariacordoneda@yahoo.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. San Antonio, Texas June 27, 2011. Farmers Insurance District 46, San Antonio and the Texas Olive Oil Council celebrate the 3rd Annual Texas Music & Food Extravaganza, showcasing the burgeoning olive oil industry in this region and the Texas and Mexico growers who recently harvested a bumper crop of the freshest, extra virgin Olive Oil on the planet. Benefiting the March of Dimes organization, the Extravaganza will feature commercial and artisan Growers with Tastings of their Olive Oils, along with the finest Balsamic Vinegars and Wines from Texas, Mexico and regions of the Mediterranean.
The event will also feature the Premier Screening of “El Camino, the Texas | Mexico Olive Trail” film coming to PBS stations August 2011, followed by concert with Grammy Award winner Raul Malo, who appears in the El Camino film cooking his “Raul Malo Breakfast Bagel” with extra-virgin olive oil. Some of Raul’s new Latin-Soul music in Spanish is featured during the Film soundtrack. www.texasmexicoolivetrail.com www.raulmalo.com
Other attractions at the Extravaganza include a display of dozens of historic Model T cars from the Texas Transportation Museum and Re-enactors recreating the early 1900s farm era in South Texas. This was a time when olive trees were first brought to that area by Texas icon Asher Richardson, who planted them at his Bel-Asher mansion in Asherton in 1914. Those trees survive to this day and were the inspiration for Texas olive guru Jim Henry to plant 40,000 trees at Asher’s original Eagles Nest Farms, now called the Texas Olive Ranch, the premier producer of extra-virgin olive oil in Texas. The El Camino film documents how for the first time, olive oil was produced from those historic Bel-Asher trees in 2010. The Bel-Asher and Texas Olive Ranch oils both won awards at the Texas vs. The World Olive Oil Competition in Austin March 2011, along with Texas growers Jewett Farms from Moulton and Val Verde Orchard from Del Rio. The 2nd oldest olive trees in Texas are of the Mission variety, the type brought by Spanish priests to the new world in the 1700s. They were planted in 1942 and are located in Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast, a great place for growing olives.
The Extravaganza will also feature artisan growers from Rancho La Espiga in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, along with big, up and coming commercial producer Rancho De La Cruz, located in a pristine and lush valley in the beautiful state of Coahuila, Mexico. Good things are happening in Mexico.
Texas & Mexico Olive Growers
• Jim Henry & Dr. Karen Lee ( Texas Olive Ranch – Carrizzo Springs)
• Jack Dougherty (Bella Vista Ranch, Wimberley)
• David & Beverley Anderson ( Anderson ‘s Olive Farm – Dilley)
• Sandy Winokur ( Sandy Oaks – Elmendorf)
• Jerry Farrell (Farrell’s Olive Ranch – Artesia Wells)
• Don Jesus Ramon (Rancho De La Cruz, Coahuila, Mexico)
• Dunham & Jill Jewett (Jewett Farm – Moulton)
• Forrest & Candace Anderson (Bel-Asher Farms, Asherton)
• Claudio y Lorena Ramon (Rancho La Espiga – Ciudad Acuña, Mexico)
• Tommy, Linda & Michael Qualia (Val Verde Orchard – Del Rio)
• Dick & Susan Hansen (Olive Country Estates – La Pryor)
• Josh Swafford & Curtis Mickan ( Central Texas Olive Ranch, Walburg)
• Paul Conly (Conly Olive Farm, Asherton)
• Randy Guzman & Debora Marzec (Tejeda Middle School, San Antonio )
About March of Dimes
March of Dimes is a US based health charity, whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. It was founded in 1938 as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to defeat the epidemic disease poliomyelitis (commonly known as polio). www.marchofdimes.com
About Farmers Insurance Group
Farmers Group, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services, an insurance-based financial services provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in North America and Europe as well as in Asia Pacific, Latin America and other markets. Farmers® is the nation’s third-largest Personal Lines Property & Casualty insurance group. With a District Office in San Antonio, Farmers provides Homeowners, Auto, Business, Life insurance and Financial Services.
www.farmersinsurance.com
About Texas Olive Oil Council
Texas Olive Oil Council is a non-profit organization whose goal is to successfully cultivate olives in Texas. The experts said that it couldn’t be done, but members of the Texas Olive Oil Council are proving them wrong. Their mission is to gather and disseminate the most current and pertinent information for growing olives and making olive oil in Texas. We also develop and promote standards for the production and labeling of Texas olive oil and to protect, inform, and engender the trust and loyalty of the consumer. www.texasoliveoilcouncil.org
About Texas Transportation Museum
Texas Transportation Museum is an all volunteer organization that collects, preserves and displays historically significant transportation equipment and related items. We operate a working passenger railroad, several model train layouts and many road vehicles. We provide an educational and entertaining experience which interprets how developments in transportation technology shaped and continue to impact daily life. www.txtransportationmuseum.org
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