Event: Bottle Signing/Tasting w/ Geoff Tate
Date: Saturday, January 28th
Time: 12:00 – 2:00pm
Location: Hi Time Wine Cellars
Address: 250 Ogle St. Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Website: hitimewine.net

Date: Monday, January 31st
Time: 6:30 – 7:15pm
Location: Grass Valley Center for the Arts

Date: Tuesday, February 1st
Time: 4:00 – 6:00pm
Location: Leon Bistro, Chico
Website: leonbistro.com

Event: Wine Tasting & Bottle Signing
Date: Thursday, February 2nd
Time: 3:00 – 5:00pm
Locatation: 1313 Main
Address: 1313 Main Steet, Napa Valley, CA
There will be 2009 Three Rivers Insania Red and White featured to taste, as well as to purchase for bottle signing.
Website: 1313main.com

By Kevin O’Donnell with Marisa Laudadio

You will get an tour itinerary with your name in it. This will be the same itinerary the band will be using.

A laminate allowing you meet and greet access at every show you attend

Our travel God will assist you to get rooms at our rate at all the tour hotels so you can stay with the band and travel at the same times making us an Insane travel group!

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James Durbin sure knows how to kick off a new year.

The rocker and American Idol alum wed longtime love Heidi Lowe on New Year’s Eve, Durbin’s rep confirms. The couple made it official in front of 85 guests – including their 2-year-old son, Hunter, who served as ring bearer – in a chapel at the edge of a redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

“We are so in love and happy that we got to share our special day with our closest family and friends,” the couple tells PEOPLE exclusively.

“This wedding was the perfect way to kick off the New Year. We are looking forward to living happily ever after.”

Guests included Durbin’s fellow Idol Season 10 alums Haley Reinhart, Stefano Langone and Casey Abrams.

Lowe and Durbin, 22, who released his debut album Memories of a Beautiful Disaster in November, plan to ring in the New Year with a reception at a local community hall that they describe as a “little bit country, little bit rock ‘n roll.”

One of the highlights of the night? Geoff Tate, the frontman for progressive metal band Queensrÿche, surprised the couple with a performance of his band’s 1984 classic “Take Hold of the Flame” – one of Durbin and Lowe’s favorite tunes.

After touring extensively in 2011 with his band, Queensryche, lead singer Geoff Tate has announced that he will be doing a handful of acoustic solo dates billed as “Geoff Tate and Friends” beginning on Friday, January 27 at The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, California.

What can fans expect on the brief run of dates?

According to Tate, he’ll be “playing acoustic renditions of songs from my solo album as well as some of my favorite Queensryche songs.” And that certainly gives him a lot to choose from…

Not one to remain idle, Tate is anxious to hit the road again next year despite an incredibly busy 2011 that found the band performing over 75 dates along their 30th Anniversary tour primarily in support of their 12th studio album, Dedicated to Chaos (Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud), that was released in the summer.

Towards the end of the tour, Geoff and the band pulled out “all the stops” by performing Rage for Order in its entirety for the first time ever (New York City on Halloween) and Operation: Mindcrime from beginning to end on this year’s ShipRocked Cruise (with In This Moment’s Maria Brink handling vocal chores as “Sister Mary”) for the first time in three years. Both shows were a pure treat for fans!

“Mindcrime” (1988) is universally respected as a classic concept release about rock, revenge and redemption and, ultimately, regarded as one of the most important and essential hard rock records in the genre’s expansive canon. 1990′s follow-up, Empire, yielded a number one single, the Grammy-nominated ballad “Silent Lucidity,” which Queensryche performed at the 1992 Grammy Awards accompanied by a supporting orchestra.

In 2006, the band released Operation: Mindcrime II, a scorching sequel to their original. The band then hit the road performing both albums Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Mindcrime II back-to-back in their entirety in an incredible theatrical presentation throughout the year. The final performance was recorded at The Moore Theatre in Seattle that October and the Mindcrime at the Moore double CD/DVD release debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Music DVD Chart and eventually reached gold status.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years and more than 20 million albums sold worldwide later…

For 2012, Queensryche has plenty up its sleeve…

Geoff’s acoustic performances are just the beginning of what promises to be another exciting year.

For more information, please view the official Queensryche website at www.queensryche.com.

Happy Holidays.

Jan-26 Thu San Diego, CA        Anthology
Jan-27 Fri Agoura Hills         Canyon
Jan-29 Sun San Juan Cap         Coach House
Jan-31 Tue Grass Valley, CA     Center for the Arts
Feb-01 Wed Chico, CA            El Rey
Feb-02 Thu Napa, CA             Uptown
Feb-04 Sat Snqoualmie, WA       Finapalooza

Photo by: Valerie Nerres

Enjoy a multi-course wine-paired meal fine-tuned to perfection by Executive Chef Antonio Campolio featuring the Geoff Tate Insania Wines, made in collaboration with Holly Turner of Three Rivers Winery.

Geoff and friends will perform live during the course of the evening.

October 25, 2011 (from 6pm until finished)

Julio’s Liquors is planning an “Insania Event” with Geoff Tate of Queensryche in association with Ernie Bach, Jr.’s charity “Music Drives Us”. Geoff Tate now makes two wines called “Insania Red” and “Insania White”.  Geoff was in the store last month for a tasting/signing and at which we sold well over 200 bottles.  He will be back to the store on October 25 (from 6pm until finished) for a second tasting/signing, but this time we will also add a short acoustic set by Queensryche at the end of his appearance.  We will need to limit the number of attendees to the acoustic set to about 150, so this is how we plan on doing that.  Julio’s will pre-sell (on-line only) 100 gift sets of Insania Red and White @ $71.98 (with $6 per set going to “Music Drives Us”).  Then, the day of the signing/tasting we will sell 50 more Insania sets @ $77.98 (with $12 from each of these sets going to “Music Drives Us”).

The Logistics

Julio’s will pre-sell (on-line only) 100 gift sets of Insania Red and White @ $71.98. Each of these people will electronically receive a numbered voucher for a pass for one to the acoustic set, the signed wines and a signed poster which they will pick-up at Geoff Tate’s table.

For 50 people who do not pre-buy their Insania set, there is still a chance to get into the set. 50 people in line at Julio’s Liquors on October 25th who have not pre-purchased may buy an Insania set for $77.98. They will have the wines signed and boxed then proceed to the register, pay for the boxed Inania set and receive a signed poster and the pass to the acoustic set. We will only have 150 boxes on the table next to Geoff so that we will know when all of the passes are gone. Others in line may purchase wine and have it signed at the regular bottle price.

Geoff will be at:
7435 Melrose Ave.
Hollywood, CA
Store: 323.651.4766
Stop by before the show. This is less then 3 miles from the House of Blues where he will play with Queensryche later that evening.

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Lead singer Geoff Tate and his Washington Wine Insania
On October 2 join us at the K&L Wine Merchants San Francisco Store from 2-4 for a special tasting and bottle signing with Geoff Tate. A fantastic chance to try the red and white Washington wines made by this legendary Heavy Metal singer.

638 4th Street
San Francisco, CA, 94107
(415) 896-1734
www.klwines.com

Julio’s Liquors and Geoff Tate of Queensryche in association with Ernie Bach, Jr.’s charity “Music Drives Us” are hosting a Geoff Tate Insania acoustical event. Geoff Tate will be a Julio’s on October 25 for a tasting/signing, and will also add a short acoustical set at the end of his appearance. Julio’s will be pre-selling gift sets of Insania Red and White online with portions of the proceeds going to “Music Drives Us”. Purchase of these gift sets will gain you access to the special private acoustic performance after the bottle signing and tasting. But act now since space is limited.

Get your signed bottles of Insania, attend a private party/ performance with Geoff Tate & members of Queensryche and help out a great charity all at the same time.

Julio’s Liquors
140 Turnpike Rd., Rt, 9E
Westborough, MA 01581
www.JuliosLiquors.com

Lead singer Geoff Tate and his Washington Wine Insania

On October 2 join us at the K&L Wine Merchants San Francisco Store from 2-4 for a special tasting and bottle signing with Geoff Tate. A fantastic chance to try the red and white Washington wines made by this legendary Heavy Metal singer.

638 4th Street
San Francisco, CA, 94107
(415) 896-1734
www.klwines.com