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Maggie Miles recorded her first song by chance at the Purcellville Music & Arts Festival. Now the singer/songwriter is looking to build her career in Nashville.

ART SCENE Joan Garcia discusses her shapely, self-taught style.

TUNES Round Hill’s Maggie Miles started with a YouTube channel, but her recording career is taking a big leap.

THE INTERVIEW After a roller-coaster journey of life’s highs and low, Chris Timbers is building on a firm foundation back at home.

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WINE It’s not just about the wine list at 868 Estate’s monthly women’s dinners.

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BREWS Notaviva Vineyards is joining Loudoun’s booming farm brewery movement.

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FLAVORS Second-generation Leesburg chef Vi Nguyen is adding an Asian flare to Leesburg’s cuisine scene.

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HAPPENINGS Two new music festivals launch this month.

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BENEFIT PLANS SEPT. 21 ORIGINAL MUSIC FESTIVAL DOWNTOWN Eighteen musicians and bands will be performing original music for BENEFIT’s third annual music festival. The newly named Crossroads Music Festival will be held at six different venues in downtown Leesburg from 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21.

BENEFIT, established in 2017, is a coalition of musicians and community leaders with a mission to use the unifying power of music to raise funds and awareness for nonprofit organizations that serve children in need. This is the third year of BENEFIT’s annual music festival, but it will be first time it is being hosted in downtown Leesburg.

“Loudoun County has so many remarkable musical artists,” Ara Bagdasarian, BENEFIT co-founder and guitarist for Frayed Knots, said.

“The musicians participating are generously donating their performances to help us raise funds for local children’s services charities.

We hope to provide attendees with a unique evening of live music that is also helping their community.”

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Emma Rowley Don Chapman with Eric Selby Gary Smallwood Juliana MacDowell QOK Ella Levri Last Among Equals Alaska & Aurora The Stringsmiths Julie Says No Dave Mininberg KAGE Nothing Defined Big Bad Juju Frayed Knots Ryan Benton and Gary Stiglicz of The Voodoo Blues • Myrna Marcarian Music lovers who attend the Crossroads Music Festival will be able to choose from six venues to customize their own evening of music. Music styles include rock, pop, alternative, Americana, acoustic, electronic, blues and funk. Bands will perform a 60-minute showcase set at their designated venue.

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Tickets are available online and also may be purchased at the registration table downtown on Sept. 21. Tickets purchased online in advance will be $15 and those bought on-site will be $25. Tickets are not required for entry at any venue participating in Crossroads Music Festival. However, proceeds from each ticket sale benefits nonprofit organizations that serve children in need in Loudoun County.

Ticket, artist and venue information can be found at the Crossroads Music Festival website CrossroadsMusicFest.org. Businesses seeking to sponsor the event may also find sponsorship information on the site.

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Spence and his family band in the early 1970s.

During the winter the only stages available to performers were in a bars and taverns. One day Spence ran into a member of the Lucketts Civic Association on a Leesburg street and his band was invited to play at the recently closed, under-used school building. That chance meeting led to what is known today as the longest continual scheduled bluegrass concert series in the world. The series is a partnership between the volunteer nonprofit Lucketts Bluegrass Foundation and the school, now a county government-run community center.

NEW LUCKETTS BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL SET FOR SEPT. 14 Since 1974, Lucketts has been a destination for bluegrass music fans who gather in the auditioriam of the villages’ National Historic Landmark school building each week to hear some of the industry’s top performers. Over the years, local, regional, and national bands from Ralph Stanley to Doyle Lawson to the Seldom Scene to The Country Gentlemen to Nothin’ Fancy have played on the Lucketts stage This month, the stage is moving outside.

The Grascals

The inaugural Lucketts Bluegrass Festival on Sept. 14 will feature four bands as part of a day-long celebration of the historical art form.

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Tickets for the festival range from $30 to $75.

For tickets, T-shirts and other details, go to: festival.luckettsbluegrass.org.

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From the Soup: The Works of Joan Garcia

BY JIM SISLEY

Joan Garcia paints figures.

People, dogs, cats, birds, adults, children and, almost always, she has, or did have, a personal relationship with them. The figures are abstracted with a Matisse level of likeability which is, in part, attributable to their similar loose draftsmanship.

Joan’s paintings and drawings are original without qualification.

“I’m self-taught and my paintings don’t have a lot of depth in terms of perspective and painting realistically. I paint a more flattened image because I am drawn to folk art and things that are less academically traditional.

My style is very shapely but flattened and It always comes out as a children’s book illustration. I have tried painting very realistically but it’s frustrating and when I paint in ‘my style’ it’s very joyful.”

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Paola by Joan Garcia

She admits that the originality of her imagery is quite often because her process begins by “applying lots of paint,” a kind of multi-colored soup.

She then lightly pushes it around by hand, credit cards and other tools to create a base on which to build. Joan looks at the soup and finds unintentional imagery. She says it surprises her when “sometimes, a painting is already in there.” Like finding the likeness of your favorite childhood puppy in the chaos of clouds while lying on the beach, one must be free of the daily burden to “see” in this way. She is comfortable in conversation with the materials

Joan Garcia has a rare interpretive ability that allows her to recognize her next painted image(s) before the soup dries. “I prefer to find the image in the paint; Its more enjoyable and always a surprise. She considers herself to be an abstract painter.

The naturally apparent shapes in the soup are not the shapes that she would have thought to draw or paint. They are, instead, within a range of similarity that allows her to recognize “it” yet altered enough to be visually interesting.

It’s not contrived and not completely accidental either.

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MAGGIE MILES:

The ‘Theater Kid’ is Nashville-Bound

BY MARTIN BONICA

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aggie Miles, a singer-songwriter hailing from Round Hill, has had a prolific year. In March she recorded her debut selftitled EP. In June, she played to a packed Tally Ho Theatre alongside The Duskwhales and Kid Brother. In July, she shot a music video in Purcellville for an as-of-yet unreleased project, and in August she released the standalone single “When You Want To,” a collaborative single with Butler (the moniker of singer-songwriter Nathan Bittner.)

With big plans for the near future, it seems that her whirlwind of activity will not be abating any time soon.

Her latest solo release, an EP titled “Maggie Miles,” is comprised of three dynamic tracks produced by Austin Bello. Its sound is sleek, R&B-inspired pop, anchored by her soulful mezzo-soprano voice. In concert, she has a commanding stage presence, alternating between keyboard and electric guitar.

Her lyrics, which grapple with doubt and uncertainty, add another layer to the music.

that are open to interpretation,” Miles said.

“I would consider myself a spiritual person, and a lot of my music reflects those instances and experiences that I have, being a spiritual person, but I never want to be pigeonholed as just making music for people who agree with that standpoint, or agree with that belief.”

Instead, she makes sure to leave room for the listener to project different things onto the subject matter of her songs. “I write it semiintentionally from a standpoint that you could look at it as a relationship with a significant other, or as a friendship, but it’s definitely metaphorical.”

Miles has lived in western Loudoun County since 2005, and first started professionally releasing music in 2018. She describes herself as having been “a theatre kid” through most of high school years, although her perception of music performance was heavily influenced by her father, who played in a Celtic rock band when she was young.

She kept up a YouTube channel (initially covers), and eventually began writing songs.

“I prefer to have my songs be something

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“I went in and was just like ‘OK, the song goes like this’ and they pressed record.” ”Every angsty teenager goes through some crap when you’re sixteen or seventeen years old, and I wrote my first song start to finish,” she recalls. “I think that was when I realized that music really helps me. It helps me get through things and understand myself.”

Her first opportunity to record original material came by chance. A little over a year ago, as she remembers, she attended the Purcellville Music & Arts Festival. “I was walking around with some friends, and the M80 Recording Studio tent was there. They were having a raffle.” She put her name in, having written only two songs, and having never performed in public. She won the raffle.

The results were her first two releases, the singles “Contradiction” and “Pinned.” The tracks are stripped-back and pensive, a stark contrast to her current sound. “I went in and had no clue what I was doing. I went in and was just like ‘OK, the song goes like this’ and they pressed record. We didn’t play to a click,” she reflects.

“The tempo is all over the place.” She stands by her early work. “I wouldn’t change it, because that’s where I started.”

In June of 2018, she played at Jammin’ Java. A video of the show on YouTube brought her to the attention of producer Andrew Bello, who worked with her to create her self-titled EP. The release is energetic and richly produced, despite having been recorded in a less formal environment than her early singles. “I recorded 10

‘Pinned and Contradiction’ in this huge studio, and I was so overwhelmed and didn’t know what I was doing,” she said. “The EP was recorded in his basement on a laptop, and it’s a way more quality production.”

She cites Bello as a critical factor in her sound.

“He’s really taken my true vision as an artist, and the sound I want to portray, and put it on steroids and allowed me to explore that.”

The EP is dynamic, ranging from the rockoriented “Split,” the funky “Belief,” and the piano ballad “There Comes A Time.”

She often has a fully-realized vision for where she wants a song to go as she composes. “’For Belief,’ I knew I wanted it to have lots of layers.

When I first wrote it, I wrote it on piano, and it was just staccato cords. Then I thought about it and imagined having brass and very funky bassline,” Miles said, going on to describe how she and Bello sifted through hundreds of samples on a vintage keyboard to find the right sound for the brass stings on the song.

By contrast, she explains, “’For There Comes a Time,’ I knew I wanted it super-simple.”

The dynamism of her music translates into her live sound, where Miles and her band prefer to play loud. “Performing is one of my favorite things to do as an artist, and I always feel so connected with the energy in the room. It’s the

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best thing ever.”

Although she started out on YouTube, her main platform for interacting with her listener base is Instagram (although she does post updates Twitter and Facebook). She has a younger listener base, so she makes sure to account for that when she plays shows. “I played in DC twice now, and both times I had to call the venue and specifically ask for permission, because I’m not 21. My demographic and people who come to my shows are typically my age, maybe a little bit older, but usually they’re 18-20.” Happily, Miles said, “They’re usually flexible.”

Her latest major project has been a music video shot at Bush Tabernacle Skating Rink in Purcellville, in collaboration with Ian Reid, of Distant Moon Media Group. Before the shoot, she put out a call to her Instagram followers, many of whom attended the shoot. The video, intended for a forthcoming single, should be released later this year.

These works-in-progress all tie into her biggest career move yet. On Aug. 19, she announced that she had signed a deal with a management and publishing company in Nashville, and is presently moving to Music City to focus on music full-time. “I’m very, very excited,” she said.

“As soon as we get down there, we’ll figure out the release plan and what that’s going to look like.”

Despite the change of locale, Northern Virginia is still a big part of her future plans. “I’ll be back regularly to play,” she said. In the long term, “I really want to tour, and play on a really regular basis, and just continue to make connections at those shows.”

Beyond future tour dates, she looks forward to releasing an album.

Maggie Miles’ self-ti tled EP can be found on Spoti fy, Apple Music, and SoundCloud. Her collaborati on with Butler can be found on Spoti fy as well. She shares news and music as @maggerzmiles on Instagram, Facebook and Twitt er.

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Guitarist turned lead singer Chris Timbers previously played guitar for jam band Less Traveled but is now the frontman of his own music group.

Chris Timbers Comes Home

BY JAN MERCKER

For singer/songwriter Chris Timbers, the past two decades have been a roller coaster: a brush with fame, a downward spiral, rock bottom, a rebound and redemption.

The Loudoun-native is back home and gigging like mad after a tumultuous time that has included some musical highs—and the lows of a stint in prison. But thanks to family and friends, he’s rebuilding his personal and musical life.

“I’d been preparing [to return to music] the whole time,” Timbers said. “I was able to play guitar and write music and that helped me tremendously” For the past three years, Timbers has become a familiar face on the Northern Virginia music scene, with regular gigs in Loudoun and beyond and the release of a recent album, “Keep Moving.”

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Twenty years ago, Timbers was on a musical high, touring the East Coast with the rising star jam band Less Traveled. As he rebuilds his life, Timbers is working toward touring with his own band in his new role as frontman.

Timbers, now 47, grew up near Middleburg and graduated from Loudoun Valley High School in 1990. He started singing as a kid at the tiny Willisville Chapel United Methodist Church in Upperville. Timbers started guitar lessons in elementary school and continued playing in western Loudoun’s public schools before heading off to Fairmont State University in West Virginia.

With music on his mind, Timbers left college after two years and returned to Loudoun in the early ’90s. He reconnected with his high school classmate Jake Phillips, and the old friends created Less Traveled. The project snowballed

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as the young musicians snagged two talented collaborators: world-class Baltimore-based bassist Gary Grainger and drummer Bruce Guttridge, both of whom had toured nationally.

The band toured regionally and recorded an album before breaking up in 2003.

Timbers had fallen in love with New York City while touring with Less Traveled and moved to Brooklyn after the breakup with the hope of igniting a solo career. He worked as a session guitarist in the city and became a regular on the Brooklyn music scene. But life as a musician in NYC became tougher and Timbers returned to Loudoun with the intention of writing music.

Back in Virginia, Timbers struggled with substance abuse and the loss of his beloved older brother to cancer at age 40. Timbers became involved with the Northern Virginia Outlaws motorcycle gang in Prince William County. He was arrested as part of a sweep by federal agents and convicted on conspiracy charges related to the gang’s racketeering activities in 2010. He served six years in federal prisons in Ohio and West Virginia.

While prison wasn’t a cakewalk, Timbers said, it led to a return to his creative life, giving him time for writing and reflection and a chance to put struggles into words and music.

“I was going down a bad path,” he said. “Prison saved me.”

On his release from prison in 2016, Timbers returned to his parents’ home in Loudoun with a renewed focus on making music.

“I literally went home,” Timbers said. “I owe a lot to my family—my parents and my good friends who stuck by me. You realize how few there are.”

With a new outlet for his inspiration, Timbers jumped into creating original material for his 2016 album “Keep Moving.”

“I said I was going to record an album the first year I got home and I did,” he said. “I raised the money and I made it happen.”

Timbers now lives in Ashburn and routinely plays multiple gigs every week across the DMV while working a day job in construction. With

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Chris Timber’s keyboardist Colin James lights up the keys at Ashburn’s Social House Kitchen & Tap on a Thursday night.

a signature style that he calls alternative soul, Timbers blends the R&B sounds he grew up with, from Sam Cooke to Al Green, with’90s influences like Phish, Dave Matthews and Big Head Todd & the Monsters that brought so much to the Less Traveled sound. And Timbers, always recognized as a guitarist, has embraced his new role as lead singer and frontman.

“That was scary for me. When I got home, I’d never done a solo gig in my life. I’d never led a band before,” he said. “[My voice] has kind of come into its own … I can hear it even more in the last year or so. It’s getting stronger and stronger.”

Timbers’ local shows range from low-key acoustic covers with a duo or trio to a highenergy evening with his full band playing originals. His upcoming show at Monk’s BBQ in Purcellville July 27 promises the warmth of a local crowd and a chance to mix it up with his band.

Timbers recently signed with Charlottesvillebased Rockfish Music and is working on material for a new recording. He also plans to start touring again with his new band by next summer.

“My vision is this time next year to be out on the road again,” Timbers said. “I’m happy with where I am now, but I still have a long way to go,”

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868 Estate Vineyards takes wine pairing dinners to another level with monthly women’s wine events.

Women Learn Their Way Around a Wine List at 868 Estate’s Monthly Event

BY THERESE HOWE

Seven years ago, as 868 Estate Vineyards was just establishing itself as one of the newest stops on the Loudoun County Wine Trail, they threw a contest among employees to come up with ideas for events. The Vine: The Women’s Wine Event at 868 was one of the winning entries, and the monthly program has been going strong since its inception.

“What we try to do with this women’s wine dinner is to make women confident in ordering something other than chardonnay from a wine list,” winery co-owner Nancy Deliso said. She leads the program, coming up with topics ranging from geographic regions to varietals to general education, such as why wine bottles are shaped the way they are.

wines—wines that are from grapes grown on the slopes of volcanos. In Italy that would be the Mount Etna region. So, I have all these women there and I said, ‘OK smell the wine and tell me what you smell.’ Somebody said, ‘Oh … it smells like wet rocks!’ (And then I ask), does anybody smell smoke? Those associations are there because these wines are grown next to volcanoes, and the soil is full of volcanic ash and pumice and things like that. And the light bulbs just go off for these women, and they say, ‘Oh, this is so cool.’”

While learning about wines is one of the draws for the dinners, it’s not the primary one, she said. “They like for me to talk very little,” she said with a laugh, adding that meeting other interesting women in a communal, convivial setting is what draws most of the attendees.

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7 Cardamon Family Vineyards 12226 Harpers Ferry Rd., Hillsboro cardamonfamilyvineyards.com 8 Carroll Vineyards 29 South King St., Leesburg leesburg-vintner.com/vineyards 9 Casanel Vineyards 17952 Canby Rd., Leesburg casanelvineyards.com 10 Chrysalis Vineyards 39025 John Mosby Highway, Aldie chrysaliswine.com 11 Corcoran Vineyards & Cider 14635 Corkys Farm Lane, Waterford corcoranvineyards.com 12 Creek’s Edge Winery 41255 Annas Lane, Lovettsville creeksedgewinery.com

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13 Crushed Cellars 37938 Charles Town Pike, Purcellville crushedcellars.com 14` Doukenie Winery 14727 Mountain Rd., Hillsboro doukeniewinery.com 14 Dry Mill Vineyards & Winery 18195 Dry Mill Rd., Leesburg drymillwine.com 16 Fabbioli Cellars 15669 Limestone School Rd., Leesburg fabbioliwines.com 17 Fleetwood Farm Winery 23075 Evergreen Mills Rd., Leesburg fleetwoodfarmwinery.com 18 Greenhill Winery & Vineyards 23595 Winery Lane, Middleburg greenhillvineyards.com

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19 Hidden Brook Winery 43301 Spinks Ferry Rd., Leesburg hiddenbrookwinery.com 20 Hiddencroft Vineyards 12202 Axline Rd., Lovettsville hiddencroftvineyards.com 21 Hillsborough Vineyards 36716 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro hillsboroughwine.com 22 Hunters Run Wine Barn 40325 Charles Town Pike, Hamilton huntersrunwinebarn.com 23 Lost Creek Winery 43285 Spinks Ferry Rd., Leesburg lostcreekwinery.com 24 Maggie Malick Wine Caves 12138 Harpers Ferry Rd., Hillsboro maggiemalickwinecaves.com 25 Notaviva Craft Fermentations 13274 Sagle Rd., Hillsboro notavivavineyards.com

26 Otium Cellars 18050 Tranquility Rd., Purcellville otiumcellars.com 27 Quattro Goomba’s Winery 22860 James Monroe Hwy, Aldie goombawine.com 28 Stone Tower Winery 19925 Hogback Mountain Rd., L’burg stonetowerwinery.com 29 Stonehouse Meadery 36580 Shoemaker School Rd., Purcellville stonehousemeadery.com 30 Sunset Hills Vineyard 38295 Fremont Overlook Ln, Purcellville sunsethillsvineyard.com 31 Tarara Winery 13648 Tarara Lane, Leesburg tarara.com 32 Terra Nebulo 39792 Old Waterford Rd., Waterford terranebulo.com

33 Two Twisted Posts Winery 12944 Harpers Ferry Rd., Hillsboro twotwistedposts.com 34 Village Winery 40405 Browns Lane, Waterford villagewineryandvineyards.com 35 Willowcroft Farm Vineyards 38906 Mount Gilead Rd., Leesburg willowcroftwine.com 36 The Wine Reserve at Waterford 38516 Charles Town Pike, Waterford waterfordwinereserve.com 37 Walsh Family Wine 16031 Hillsboro Rd., Purcellville northgatevineyard.com 38 Winery 32 15066 Limestone School Rd., Leesburg winery32.com 39 Zephaniah Farm Vineyard 19381 Dunlop Mill Rd., Leesburg zephwine.com

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22 Old Ox Brewery 44652 Guilford Dr., Ste 114, Ashburn oldoxbrewery.com 23 Old Ox Brewery Middleburg 14 S Madison St, Middleburg, VA 24 Phase 2 Brewing 19382 Diamond Lake Dr, Lansdowne Phase2Brewing.com 25 Quattro Goomba’s Brewery 22860 James Monroe Hwy, Aldie goombabrewery.com 26 Rocket Frog Brewing Company 22560 Glenn Dr. #103, Sterling rocketfrogbeer.com 27 Solace Brewing Company 42615 Trade West Dr., Sterling solacebrewing.com 28 Sweetwater Tavern 45980 Waterview Plaza, Sterling greatamericanrestaurants.com 29 The Craft of Brewing 21140 Ashburn Crossing Dr., Ashburn thecraftob.com/ 30 Twinpanzee Brewing Co. 101 Executive Dr., Sterling twinpanzee.com 31 Vanish Farmwoods Brewery 42245 Black Hops Lane, Lucketts vanishbeer.com 32 Wheatland Springs Farm 38454 John Wolford Rd., Waterford 19

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After more than a decade of serving award-winning wines, Notaviva Vineyards is rebranding and expanding its craft beverage offerings to include beer.

Notaviva Expands to Include Farm Brewery

BY THERESE HOWE

Notaviva Vineyards has joined the growing number of Loudoun craft beverage makers to expand their offerings and serve beer alongside their award-winning wines.

Visitors to the Hillsboro agritourism operation will find the business has been rebranded as Notaviva Craft Fermentations with fresh beer that will incorporate hops grown on the farm.

Last month, co-owner and brewer Stephen Mackey opened the taps on two beers, the “Frölich” Kölsch and the “Ole Steeleye” Nut Brown Ale and then added a session IPA and a wineberry wheat made with fruit harvested on the farm, followed by an oatmeal stout and imperial cream ale. After a soft launch, they kicked off special events and extended hours beginning Labor Day weekend. In celebration of their 11th anniversary, the Mackeys will host a “Notaviva Goes To Eleven” event this fall.

“I began homebrewing over 25 years ago while on the road touring as an audio engineer,” Mackey said. “I had been making beer a long

time before I ever made wine. We got into the winery business because at the time when Notaviva was launched [in 2008] it was the best option for an agritourism experience.”

Mackey and his wife, Shannon, operated the winery as a family business while raising three sons in the 4,500-square-foot tasting room that also served as their home. The Mackeys took some time off from Notaviva in 2016 to explore winery and brewery opportunities in Colorado.

However, when the Virginia ABC revised the interpretation of rules regarding the serving of wine and beer in a joint hospitality space, they eagerly returned to the family farm in Virginia to transform Notaviva.

“When we made the decision to add beer to our current wine offering, we knew we couldn’t call it Notaviva Vineyards anymore. We had to be able to pivot the business and recreate the brand experience so people would know we’re doing something different,” Mackey said. He’s looking forward to leveraging his 10 years of experience making wine and applying some of those techniques to beer making.

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TWILIGHT POLO at Great Meadow

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Photo by Tony Gibson.

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“I’ll be looking at things like spontaneous fermentation; instead of inoculating products with cultured yeast, we’ll be experimenting with a coolship, where you set your wort outside overnight and just let natural yeast fall on it.

We’ve done that with our wines before. In fact, our first international gold medal Viognier was a spontaneous fermentation with Notaviva yeast.

We’ll also age some of our beers in used wine barrels to add complexity.”

He’ll be experimenting with different styles and will include seasonal offerings, like a pumpkin ale in the fall, a winter brau and summer shandys. “Personally, I’m a stout drinker; the heavier the better. My signature beers will be stouts and porters—again, complemented by produce grown here on the farm,” he said.

And just as Notaviva pairs wine products with music, they’re doing the same with their beers— for instance, providing German Schlager music to enhance the light, fun experience guests get while drinking a Kolsch. They envision expanding the music experience as well by supporting artists who play their own original music to the rotation of performers in the tasting room.

“I think as Loudoun County continues growing its cultural ecosystem, and having original music be a key part of that, we need to give more of these artists places to play. Given our location

on Loudoun’s western edge, we’re going to look to the Shenandoah Valley, we’re going to look to the panhandle of West Virginia, we’re going to look for authentic roots, Americana and country music styles of these local singersongwriters and help them build their name.”

Broadening the Notaviva experience will be a new “pub grub” menu once they receive commercial kitchen certification. Offerings will include pretzels, paninis, flatbread pizzas—“the kinds of things you enjoy on a Friday night with a couple of beers.”

While they anticipate scaling up the brewery in 2020, for now it remains a nanobrewery operation alongside their current winery and vineyard operation, with a quarter-acre hopyard and a 2-barrel pilot system housed in a 360-square-foot building just 2 feet from the tasting room. Like the property’s original building, whose construction was featured on HGTV’s “Dream House” in 2008, the brewery was built as a labor of love. They proudly tell everyone who asks about the brewery that their three boys all helped build the structure.

“That’s something they will carry with them forever – that they got to build the family business with their hands, swing a hammer and see it come to life,” Mackey said. “As much time as we spend building our business, I think raising a family and being a married couple in the middle of this whirlwind is really just the most amazing experience of our lives.”

Courtesy of Notaviva Craft Fermentations

Notaviva’s 4,500-square-foot tasting room has been attracting visitors to the base of the Blue Ridge west of Hillsboro since 2008.

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Watercress with Papaya Sesame Dressing, and a Sweet Potato, Kale, Oyster Mushroom Galette with White Cheddar Hazelnut Sauce and French Beans. The following themes will round out the rest of the year:

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four different wines and basically being in fellowship with other women.”

The four wines comprise one from the 868 Estate Vineyards portfolio of wines, with the rest coming from other vineyards from around the world. Ladies enjoy the wines paired with a themed four-course dinner at the winery’s onsite restaurant, Grandale Vintner’s Table. For August’s South African Wine Safari, for example, Chef Author Clark served his version of bobotie (a national dish) and Cape Town Lamb Chops over Roasted parsnips and Green Beans with Lamb “Gravy” as two of the courses.

In September, “A Vegetarian Vine” another two courses will feature Assorted Vegetable Skewers over Chickpea Couscous and

• October: A Sea of Wine • November: Malbec Mania • December: Off the Beaten Path While Deliso leads the monthly talks, they occasionally have speakers and one-off events such as fundraisers. Coming this January, a special wine dinner will feature life coach Elena Sonnino, who will present “A Sparkling New You for 2020.”

The Vine: The Women’s Wine Event at 868 generally takes place 7-9 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month, with the excepti on of November and December.

Cost is $55 per person; you can reserve seats at 868estatevineyards.com.

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Kovi Kitchen co-owner and chef Vi Nguyen presents freshly-made poke and Korean barbeque pulled pork bowls in his newly opened Leesburg restaurant.

Spotlight on Chefs: Kovi Kitchen’s Vi Nguyen

BY JAN MERCKER

For Vi Nguyen, chef and co-owner of Kovi Kitchen, opening a second location in Leesburg is a dream come true—and a homecoming.

Nguyen was a baby when his family fled Vietnam in the 1970s. The Nguyens settled in Leesburg, and his mother Xuan Nguyen opened a series of restaurants in Northern Virginia, including Leesburg’s beloved Xuan Saigon. Xuan has since sold her restaurant and retired but can still be found in the kitchen at Kovi, helping the fourth of her five children in his new venture.

Fifteen years ago, Vi Nguyen left a successful career in finance to attend culinary school at l’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, MD, getting his feet wet in the DMV’s fine dining scene under noted chef Fabio Trabocchi before entering the exploding fast casual sector.

Nguyen helped get the regional TaKorean chain off the ground before combining his Vietnamese roots with his love of other Asian cuisines to create the Kovi concept with business partner Dean Boeving.

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Nguyen sat down with Loudoun Now to talk about his family, his love of food and why fast casual is the wave of the future.

Get Out Loudoun: You grew up in Leesburg, and you’ve done a lot between then and now.

How does it feel to be coming back to your hometown and opening a restaurant?

Vi Nguyen: It’s amazing. The love that we’re receiving from people that I haven’t seen in 20 years, five years, three years, high school friends—they’re flabbergasted that I’m coming back but also that we’re offering something so new and different to Leesburg. That’s the feedback that we’re taking and running with. We want to serve masses. ... My passion is people.

What we want to do is bring people together, but also it’s about the food: How can we create something that’s sustainable and good and serve it with a smile that makes people want to come back?

GOL: Tell me more about the concept and the evolution.

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VN: I started this game plan about six years ago when I was with another outfit. I helped TaKorean go from food truck to brick and mortar, and I realized that was my calling. ... I was opening restaurants for other people, and I said “why don’t I take a dive and do it myself?” ... I met my business partner Dean a long time ago. I told him about my concept and he was like, “Let’s do it together.” ... We bought a food truck and three months later signed a lease for a restaurant [in Arlington] because the food truck was so successful. Six months later, we signed a [letter of intent] and started build-out here [in Leesburg]. We’ve only been operational a year. June 30 was our anniversary for our [first] restaurant.

GOL: Where did the Asian street food concept come from? Where do you get your inspiration?

VN: I’m a huge taco fan. I’ve always been a taco fan. I started following some other chefs who were going from fine dining to mobile units and fast casual, and I knew that it was the time now.

After working with TaKorean and learning more about Korean style food, I was like “how can I feed the masses in a fast-casual restaurant?” ... That’s my box and that’s where I think my growth potential is. ... My passion is to be able to hire a team, train them and have them be able to execute a product that we can serve at a high level. ... With our family being Vietnamese, my mom owning multiple restaurants and being in that box, I wanted to create something different.

Why does it have to be Vietnamese fast casual or Korean fast casual or Hawaiian fast casual?

Why can’t I just say Kovi Asian Street Food Kitchen where I can serve Filipino chicken satay or octopus tacos? Street food is street food wherever you go, and that’s where my passion is.

GOL: You grew up in a restaurant family. Tell me about that.

VN: When my family came here—we fled from Vietnam and came to Leesburg, Virginia—my mom’s dream was to open a restaurant in Leesburg. At 7 and 8 years old when school was out, myself and my younger brother would leave Leesburg at 4:30 in the morning to go to Arlington to serve breakfast by 6. I was making coffee and eggs when I was 7 years old at a little cafe in Roslyn underneath an office building. ...

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help. I actually enrolled in culinary school at the age of 30 and left a successful career [in the mortgage industry] and dove into that...

I wanted to do something different, so we created the Kovi concept. My entire family has had their hands in it doing something. And I think that’s why we want to keep a family feel so kids can come with their parents. l love it when parents come in and say, “My kids are so picky, but they love your tacos, they love your kimchi fries, they love your quesadillas.” It’s all the little things that make it so rewarding for us.

GOL: Do you feel like you owe a lot to your mom?

VN: She’s my hero. I owe everything to her.

She’s changed my life in so many different ways.

Our relationship is the best it’s ever been. She came in and did dishes for eight hours for me the other day—at 70 years old. We call our kimchi Mama’s Kimchi. She’s helping us out at the restaurant because she misses it.

I always appreciated what she was doing to get us ahead—her working three jobs, 18 hours a day for 20 years. I also saw how difficult it is to maintain a restaurant without having a high school degree or college degree. I saw the effort that she was putting in. That’s why I wanted to go to culinary school. Working hard is great but working smart is a lot better. That’s why the credentials for me were very important to learn everything I could.

GOL: What did you get out of your time in fine dining?

VN: I got out of fine dining how to run a successful kitchen with a team that you build. I got the evolution of understanding really, truly from opening to closing a restaurant, building it out and working with investors and different personalities. The best thing that I got out of fine dining was the fact that you’re cooking at such a high level and the pressure is so intense, but I also know that I didn’t want to be limited to that to the point where I was just another chef trying to make a name for himself. It’s never been about that. It’s always been about the growth of Kovi.

Kovi Kitchen is located at 1015 Edwards Ferry Road NE in Leesburg’s Battlefield Center. For more information, go to kovikitchen.com.

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Presented by: The Lucketts Bluegrass Foundation and the Lucketts Community Board

Toby by Joan Garcia

Mrs. Garcia gently coaches the wet paint toward an emotionally complex image. Her paintings have a sophisticated simplicity that is stripped down to eliminate artifice and include only those elements necessary to communicate the emotional message. “When I put too much on the canvas, I find that the piece is overly busy and I repaint to simplify.” She paints without music or sensual competition because she wants to focus on her communication with the materials and the painted surface.

Her influences include Eric Carle and she enjoys his collaged tissue papers. She uses tissue to create texture in her work. After her first visit to the Carle Museum, she came home and “painted a million pieces of tissue paper” to use as substrate for her paintings. The colorful papers make her under-paintings come alive with texture and a vibrance that excites and multiplies her creativity. It’s like a feedback loop that contributes to the visual harmony of her art. It is a convenient fact that Joan’s creations are best seen in person because you can see Joan Garcia’s work as the featured artist during the Chill Pop exhibition on display September 6-27 at Tryst Gallery in Leesburg.

Jim Sisley is the owner of the Tryst Gallery, located at 312 E. Market St. Suite F in downtown Leesburg. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and First Friday 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. each month.

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2019 10 am – 6 PM Rain or shine

Tickets: $30 in advance or $35 at the gate

Food Trucks on Site. 50/50 Raffle.

And Kids Events!

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9.01 BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES, AND WILDFLOWERS AT THE BLUE RIDGE CENTER Sunday, Sept. 1, 9 a.m.-noon Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, Neersville loudounwildlife.org Join leaders from Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy at the beautiful Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship in northwestern Loudoun County for a funfilled outing discussing the abundant and diverse wildlife that exists at the center. Walk through fields full of late summer wildflowers and the extensive woods that border Butterfly Alley discussing the insects, birds, and wildflowers that thrive in this rich area. Meet at the parking lot at the end of Sawmill Road.

THE BOB BAND Dylan Tribute Show Friday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m., B Chord Brewing Company, Round Hill bchordbrewing.com The Bob Band is a group of veteran musicians dedicated to capturing the vibe, spirit and arrangement of Bob Dylan’s original recordings.

A faithful musical journey through the amazing Dylan catalogue—50 years of folk, rock, country, blues, even gospel. Even for the newbies, an evening of Dylan music is a memorable experience, like nothing else.

9.06 CINDERELLA’S TOM KEIFER

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Friday, Sept. 6, 7 p.m. (doors) Tally Ho Theater, Leesburg tallyhotheater.com Best known as the singer-songwriter/front man of the Philadelphia-based blues/rock band Cinderella, Keifer is enjoying continued success and touring in support of his solo debut, The Way Life Goes. Though he possesses all the fire and brimstone of rock’s greatest front men, you would be hard pressed to find the versatility and dimension that Keifer brings to a stage.

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MORVEN PARK SUMMER HUNTER SHOW SERIES Saturday, Sept. 7, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Morven Park International Equestrian Center, Leesburg morvenpark.org/hunter

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It’s “hunter” season at Morven Park, which is hosting six shows this summer at its International Equestrian Center. Hunter shows ask horse and rider to navigate a course set with a series of natural fences meant to imitate the hunt field. Spectators are welcome and admission is free.

TALES AND ALES

Tales and Ales is a curated storytelling show that invites regular people to tell true, extraordinary stories. Event’s proceeds benefit the Smashing Walnuts Foundation for childhood cancer research.

AN EVENING WITH GERSHWIN Saturday, Sept. 7, 6-9 p.m.

Private Estate, Middleburg middleburgconcerts.com 100 guests will enjoy a mesmerizing musical evening of George Gershwin piano classics and other favorites performed by internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist Thomas Pandolfi during gala benefit concert for the Middleburg Concert Foundation. Pandolfi has won critical acclaim for his passionate artistry, breathtaking showmanship, enthralling interpretations and brilliant pianistic technique.

JUSTIN TRAWICK AND THE COMMON GOOD Friday, Sept. 13, 8 p.m.

B Chord Brewing Company, Round Hill bchordbrewing.com

9.14 BIRDING BANSHEE Saturday, Sept. 14, 8-11 a.m.

Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve, Leesburg loudounwildlife.org

Saturday, Sept. 7, 7-9 p.m.

Old Ox Brewery, Ashburn novatalesandales.com

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DC-based songwriter Justin Trawick returns to the western Loudoun music hall with a band that plays fast and loose with the “Americana” genre, performing heartfelt ballads followed by raucous bluegrass melodies and even moments of hip hop verses.

Whether you’re a beginning birder or an expert, you’ll be dazzled by the many bird species you’ll find at the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve south of Leesburg. Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Friends of Banshee Reeks for the monthly bird walk.

RHINO’FEST 2019 Saturday, Sept. 14, noon–6 p.m.

Lost Rhino Retreat, Brambleton rhinofest.com The festival will feature the release of the gold-medal-winning RhinoFest Märzen Lager and other seasonal beers, but also includes live music, kids and family activities and Germanstyle food. Admission is free.

LIVE WIRE: AC/DC TRIBUTE Saturday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m. (doors) Tally Ho Theater, Leesburg tallyhotheater.com The ultimate AC/DC experience returns to the Tally Ho Theatre in Leesburg with lead signer Francis Crouse providing an unmatched emulation of Brian Johnson.

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Saturday, Sept. 21 & Sunday, Sept. 22, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. bluemontfair.org Bring your family and friends to the 50th annual fair and take a day to wander through the 200-year-old village nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains. Browse our artisan crafts and enjoy local wine, beer, and music, all while experiencing the history and traditions of the area. Admission is $7, with kids 9 and under free.

DULLES DAY FESTIVAL AND PLANE PULL Saturday, Sept. 14, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Dulles Airport planepull.com

9.27 THE BUMPIN’ UGLIES

Since 1992, this annual event has raised more than $2 million to support the Special Olympics. Watch teams of 25-people race to pull an 82-ton FedEx Airbus A320 or United Boeing 757 airplane, but also enjoy a large display of vintage and modern aircraft and classic cars and hot rods and run a 5K or 10K course on the runway.

LEESBURG CLASSIC CAR SHOW CRUISES INTO DOWNTOWN

Catch My Buzz Tour featuring Tropidelic Friday, Sept. 27, 7 p.m. (doors) Tally Ho Theater, Leesburg Bumpin Uglies are rooted in East Coast ska, punk, and reggae, making their mark up and down the eastern seaboard. In the past ten years, Bumpin Uglies have worked to carve out their path by relentlessly touring, and releasing one album after another, the latest EP, Buzz, released in March

Saturday, Sept 14, noon-4 p.m. lcps.org/carshow Leesburg Car Show returns to downtown Leesburg for its 32nd edition, bringing scores of classic cars and hot rods together to benefit the students and staff at the Academies of Loudoun. Go to the website for registration and details.

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SAM GROW WITH DELTA SPUR

Friday, Sept. 27 & Saturday, Sept. 28 lovettsvilleoktoberfest.com

Tarara Summer Concert Series Saturday, Sept. 21, 6-9:30 p.m.

Tarara Winery, Lucketts A Delta Spur show is an energetic performance of fresh, modern country music; mixing the fun and excitement of a party band with country songs you want to hear.

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Originally known as the “German Settlement,” the Town of Lovettsville’s Oktoberfest celebrates the town’s heritage. Enjoy food, drink, music, games, crafts, restaurants, stores, and vendors throughout the town, during one of Loudoun’s largest annual community events.

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9.28 THE REFLEX Tarara Summer Concert Series Saturday, Sept. 28, 6–9:30 p.m.

Tarara Winery, Lucketts The popular Tarara Summer Concert Series wraps up just as it started with ‘80s music troubadours The Reflex getting the crowd up and dancing.

YACHT ROCK NIGHT WITH BOAT HOUSE ROW Saturday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m.

Tally Ho Theater, Leesburg Boat House Row brings the best of the Southern California soft rock scene to the Leesburg stage.

LEESBURG AIRSHOW Saturday, Sept. 28, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Leesburg Executive Airport leesburgairshow.com The annual Leesburg Airshow provides a wonderful opportunity to see a snapshot of the general aviation world. The static display area, located on the airport’s aircraft parking ramp, will feature many unique, experimental and antique aircraft. The skies above Leesburg will come alive with skydiving and aerobatic performances. Suggested donation of $3 per person or $5 per family.

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