The City Winery with New York City , Chicago, Napa , Nashville , Atlanta

Published: Oct. 9, 2015, 9 p.m.

b'Shlomo lives and breathes for music and works hard to bring interesting, diverse and exceptional talent to City Winery\'s stage. A member of the core team that founded City Winery in 2008, Shlomo is a well-recognized figure in and around the venue. When he isn\'t perfecting his Shlo-Mullet hair, rambling in Hebrew or blasting his latest music discovery in the office, he is busy making concerts happen - often 5 days or more per week! Shlomo also books external productions and benefit concerts with Michael Dorf Presents, including the famed NYC venues Carnegie Hall, Central Park SummerStage, The Apollo and much more. When he is not in music mode, he plays for the Israeli Baseball team as the starting pitcher.City Winery is the brainchild of Michael Dorf, founder of the iconic Knitting Factory, one of New York\\u2019s longest running music venues, wanted to create a space in Manhattan where he could combine his shared passions for wine and music.\\xa0How was the idea conceived?\\xa0After making his first barrel of wine in California with his brother Josh and wine maker David Tate, formerly of Ridge Winery and now at Barnett Vineyards, Michael caught the bug: "For a long time I\'d been enjoying wine as a fan-drinking it, taking classes, attending wine dinners-but it was not until I actually started participating in the process of working with the grape, turning it into wine, putting it into a bottle, and watching it develop over time, that I really started to understand wine. And when I would give my friends a bottle of wine with my name on it, most would respond by saying: \'I wanna do that too!\' It was this experience that led Michael to conceptualize and start working on the City Winery business plan in 2006.'