Goa Tourism : Grape Escapade Goa
The department of Tourism, Government of Goa and Goa Tourism Development Corporation organizes every year an event called “Grape Escapade”. Its Goa’s premier wine, food and lifestyle festival .
The event is mostly organized for 4 days. 27 April till 30 April was this year’s dates. The venue for the same was at D B Bandodkar ground, Campal, Panaji. Like every year, this year too, the festival delivered unique experiences combined with live music and entertainment, food and beverage stalls under one roof.
The festival presents very good food from across the globe along with Goan music, dance and various other entertainment programs.
The main highlights of the festival are mostly the fashion show, traditional grape stomping, an exclusive wine tasting session and the selection of ‘The Grape Escapade Queen′.
The Goa Tourism take alot of effort to make this event successful and also enjoyable to all types of age groups, honeymoon couples, etc. Like for example there are also free games for the tiny tots, ice cream stalls and variety of food.
Below mentioned in the schedule which is mostly same every year with slight changes every year :
The schedule this Year was as below
| Grape Escapade 2107 – Festival Schedule | |
| Day I | |
| 6.15 – 6.45pm | Inauguration at the hands of the Chief Guest |
| 6.45 – 7.45pm | Trio Performance by “Black” |
| 7.15 – 8.15pm | Dance Performance by “Goa Culture Guild” |
| 8.30pm onwards | Live Band “Rhythm and Blues” |
| Day II | Friday, 28th April |
| 6.30 – 7.30pm | Duet Performance by “Johnny and Bushka” |
| 7.30 – 8.10pm | Acrobats by “Kanan Brothers” |
| 8.35pm onwards | Live Band “Crimson Tide” |
| Day III | Saturday, 29th April |
| 6.35 – 7.30pm | Duet Performance by “Sylvia and Peterson” |
| 7.35 – 9.00pm | Dance Performance by “Dance-O-Philia” |
| Fashion Show by “Karishma Mehta” | |
| 9.00pm onwards | Grape Stomping & Live Band “Ventures” |
| Day IV | Sunday, 30th April |
| 5.00 – 6.00pm | Tasting Session by Sommelier John D’souza |
| 6.35 – 7.15pm | Performance by “Jukebox Trio” |
| 8.00 – 9.00pm | Bollywood Dance Performance by “Impressions” |
| Grape Escapade Queen Contest | |
| 9.00pm- onwards | Live Band “Raagas 2 Riches” |
We at BestGoaDeals.com had a blast and will continue to do so in future as well 🙂
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