Wine and music aficionados will gather in the Texas Hill Country over Labor Day Weekend for the 2010 Kerrville Wine & Music Festival. The annual event, pairing Texas wine tastings with performances by two-dozen singer-songwriters, takes place Sept. 3-5 at the Quiet Valley Ranch, nine miles south of Kerrville on TX Hwy 16.

Five artists/acts will perform in concert each evening beginning at 7 p.m. They include Acoustic Eidolon, Baskery (from Stockholm, Sweden), Berkley Hart, Marshall Ford Swing Band, John Fullbright, Seth Glier, The Killdares, Tom Kimmel, Matt King, Snarky Puppy, SONiA, The Trishas, Uncle Lucius, Kevin Welch and Corinne West with Kelly Joe Phelps. Craft vendors, food and wine booths will be open an hour before each evening concert.

The festival kicks-off on Friday afternoon when Texas-based singer-songwriter Raina Rose hosts the Ballad Tree. Seth Glier and SONiA host on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, respectively. Rose, Anthony da Costa and John Elliott – who have been touring together recently – perform a two-hour concert on Sunday afternoon, while a Saturday afternoon New Folk In-The-Round will feature Andrew Delaney, Wyatt Easterling, Kate Klim, Chet O’Keefe and Kim Richardson.

Two-hour wine seminars, for which tickets must be purchased in advance, are slated for late in the afternoon on both Saturday and Sunday. A yoga session and a 10-mile Hill Country bike ride are scheduled for Saturday morning, while a folk song service is set for Sunday morning.

On Aug. 31, from 8-9 p.m. central time, www.radiofreetexas.org will broadcast a performance by Uncle Lucius live from the Tin Roof Steakhouse in Boerne, TX to promote the Wine & Music Festival. Dalis Allen, producer of the Kerrville Music Festivals and president of the Southwest Regional Folk Alliance (SWRFA), hosts the show.

For more information on the festival and to order tickets, log-on to www.kerrville-music.com.