1st Annual CATS Cigar Festival Sponsored by Drew Estates Cigars, Padron Cigars, AKA Cigars and Famous Smokes
February 1, 2013
1st Annual CATS Cigar Festival Sponsored by Drew Estates Cigars, Padron Cigars, AKA Cigars and Famous Smokes, Special Guests; Cigar Rights of America and Op: Cigars For Warriors, Hosted by JoSabis & the Op:Cigars For Warriors, Drew Estate sponsored After Hours Bash in, San Antonio, Texas.
Tickets can be Purchased at the front Gate the day of the Event at JoSabi’s, but Cost is 75$, unless you have Active Duty Military Id or Retired Military ID, sorry DD-214s dont count, it is 65$. IF it has NOT sold out.
On May 24: at the Staybridge Suites for all Festival Attendees STAYING at there Hotel, there will be a welcoming Party, with FREE Cigars, Wine, Beer and Food.
On May 25: at 2pm the C.A.T.S. Festival begans. Come see our Cigar Celeberties:
Jonathon Drew of Drew Estates, First time in 13 years he has been to Texas!!
Jorge Padron of Padron Cigars, extremely rare sighting of Padron’s Principle Owner!!
Juan Martinez Cuenca of Joya De Nicaragua
Willie Herrera of Drew Estates joined Drew Estates in 2011. Came on board to add a Cuban influence to the company. He will be their to sign autographs and roll his Famous new cigar Herrera Esteli!!!
I.P.C.P.R. and Cigar Press are additional 2 Special Guests along with CRA and Op: CFW
If you attend the CATS Festival and Op:CFW After Hours bash (at same location and
day, 2 hour break) you will recieve 20+ Cigars, a DE Cutter and a DE Hat!
Famous Smokes Principle!!!
For $60 you will be provided with a TON of FREE Cigars (from DE, Padron, AKA, Famous Smokes, a DE Cutter, a DE Hat, Sick AKA Swag and FREE Dinner. Alchohol will be there for purchase ONLY.
There will be three major events all in one weekend. The C.A.T.S. Welcoming Party hosted by Storm Boen, the Drew Estate Ambassadors and Staybridge Suites, the C.A.T.S. Festival, and the Op:CFW After Hours Bash.
The Festival starts at 2pm thru 7pm, a short break for resting up for the Op:CFW After Hours Bash starts at 9pm thrue 2am. All through out the Festival there will be raffle drawings of some INCREDIBLE Prizes given away. At the Bash their will be a very SPECIAL Raffle that tickets can be purchased to raise monies for Op:CFW. There will be NO Cigars sold this year. This year is 100% about giving back to our Cigar Family!!!!! If you have the desire to spend money, there will be alchohol and a bunch of other very exciting specility booths that fellow CATS Members will be hosting. There will be live music at both the Festival and the Bash.
What is C.A.T.S.? CATS is a FB Group standing for Cigar Aficionados Trades and Sales. First of its kind, at the beginning went against ALL the cigars social media unsponken rules and continues to evolve and break all the rules!!! It is a unique place where the cigar smoker is ALWAYS First. Pure Comraderie, learning, understanding, trades, sales, contests, raffles, and insane amount of Bombs! Want to check it out click here and click request:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/279242672129307/
What is Op:CFW? Op: Cigars For Warriors is a program that was started May 1st that sends cigars and cigar related items to our Warriors in the US Military. This is our way to say in a small way THANK YOU for all you do for us. A way to let our men and women of the armed forces know that we still remember that they are out there in harms way and living usually in poverty level situations, all to defend our RIGHTS!! Since May 1st 2012 thru the end of Jan 2013 we will have almost sent 35k Premium cigars. We have over 40 Donation centers throughout the U.S. From Cigar Shops to other companies who are not even cigar related but fill passionate about our mission. Op:CFW is the only known legally Non Profit organization, with 501c3 filed. We have a full 10seat Board of Directors, Full By-laws, additonal 22 Members of Board, and 24 Event Cordinators. If you would like to learn more goto.
http://www.cigarsforwarriors.net/ or you can goto the VERY active FB Forums and see current info:https://www.facebook.com/groups/cigarsforwarriors/
Retailors who would like to know how they can participate, please Contact Storm @ Stormboen@aol.com. The sponsorhip slots are filling up VERY fast.
Things are changing daily for improvement. So check back regulary for updates. This will always be the minimum of what to expect!!!!
“Until May 14, if you go to http://catsfestival.eventbrite.com/ you can purchase the
early bird special $60. ”
Must be 18+ to attend, NO EXCEPTIONS.
Cigar for Warriors, hats off to you guys.
Great event, will be there!
Wow, that’s some line up.