Ice, Wine, Beer & Blues

Featuring a Friday night beer and wine tasting in downtown Marshall, live ice sculpting, and a Saturday night concert by blues virtuoso Laith Al-Saadi, IWBB is a can’t-miss winter event!

Friday evening join your friends in downtown Marshall to sample delicious beer and wine at 11 different business locations. Enjoy appetizers, mingle with friends, and watch live “sci-fi” themed ice sculpting. Each tasting ticket entitles you to eleven samples, one at each location. You can purchase your tickets right here online, then on the night of the event, park downtown and proceed to either Living MI, Handle & Hinge, or EastEnd Gallery to receive your wristband and begin your night. ID’s will be checked. Please bring your printed-at-home ticket with you.

This year’s locations include:
Handle & Hinge
Living Mi
Solitude & Co
Serendipity and the Brew
Professional Academy of Cosmetology
Vixens Ink and Beauty
The Mole Hole
Bayberry House Interiors
The Hub @ 128
Eastend Studio & Gallery
Highpoint Community Bank

Collectible goblets will be available to purchase the night of the event at EastEnd, Handle & Hinge, or Living MI. If you purchase a goblet online, you can also pick it up at any of those three locations the night of the event, or you can purchase a goblet in person beginning Wednesday the 31st at our goblet presale locations, Eastend Studio and Pawfitters / Trailblazers.
We need volunteers! Take a shift pouring drinks and serving food and get a tasting wristband FREE.

Saturday concert features Laith Al-Saadi.
In 2016, Laith Al-Saadi won America’s hearts and a spot in the Season 10 finale of NBC’s “The Voice.” Now he’s poised to bring his authentic blend of blues, soul and classic rock to audiences around the nation and the world.

Laith Al-Saadi has always had the perfect combination of Midwestern hustle and incredible musical chops – honed at the University of Michigan school of music in his hometown of Ann Arbor, and on stages across the country working with legends like Taj Mahal, Luther Allison, Buddy Guy, Son Seals, Gregg Allman, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, Paul Rodgers and recently opened for Bob Seger on his farewell tour in January, 2019.

“Laith is one of the most diverse talents we have,” said Maroon 5 frontman and ‘The Voice’ coach Adam Levine. “Incredible guitar player, incredible singer.”

Entertainment Weekly called Laith Al-Saadi “a power performer who is so legitimate and memorable.”

Audiences have agreed, propelling Al-Saadi’s most recent CD release, “REAL” to the top of the blues chart for five weeks and the top 20 album chart for two weeks. Laith also had four singles in the top ten iTunes singles charts, and his albums “In The Round” and “Long Time Coming” spent time at the top of the rock and album charts. Al-Saadi also received a Detroit Music Award in 2018 for Best New Recording for his Digital EP “A 75th Birthday Tribute to Jimi Hendrix.

Guitar World Magazine has called Laith Al-Saadi a cross between “Danny Gatton and Buddy Guy at their best,” and in 2006 Guitar Center crowned him one of the top four blues guitarists in the United States.