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TO THE WINTER 20 WISCONSIN WAYS TO ENJOY WINTER Get Out & Do What You Like to do JANUARY 2019 PLUS! THE KENTUCKY Randy HEADHUNTERS RAMBLE TO JOHNSON CREEK’S GOBBLER THEATRE BachmanSharing the stories of the songs WAUTOMA’S SILVERCRYST Century-old supper club on Silver Lake still delights UPCOMING EVENTS: Fox Cities | Green Bay Marshfield | Oshkosh Stevens Point | Waupaca Wausau | Wisconsin Rapids Marketing is essential for every business. But let’s face it, some days are a struggle to keep up with everything you are currently doing. Beyond that, in the digital age it can be downright confusing and intimidating to sort through your options. How can you keep up with the chaotic pace of doing business in an increasingly digital world? Let us help... Specializing in Contracted Digital Marketing Services Websites | eMail Marketing | Social Media | Google Business | Reputation Management www.foxxinteractiveservices.com Contact: (715) 412-1284 | [email protected] Get Out & Do What You Like to Do JANUARY 2019 p.12 RANDY BACHMAN READY TO TELL THE STORY OF THE SONG ACROSS WISCONSIN IN JANUARY P. 4 P. 18 P. 23 DEPARTMENTS KENTUCKY TO THE THE SILVERCRYST HEADHUNTERS WINTER SUPPER CLUB PUBLISHER’S NOTE p. 2 Southern-rock with surprising Twenty wintery Wisconsin Wautoma’s lakeside supper club- stylistic diversity comes to WI ideas for January fun a favorite for well over a century EVENTS CALENDAR p. 28 PUBLISHER’S NOTE JanuaryFamily 2019, Fu Vol.n Edit 3, Issueion 1 PUBLISHERS NORMA JEAN FOCHS PATRICK BOYLE CONTRIBUTORS DAVID BRIERLEY PETER LINDBLAD SUSAN LokEN ART GRAPHIC DESIGNERS KELLY ANDERSON HAPPY 2019! NICOLE MACMARTIN ADVERTISING Embrace something new NORMA JEAN FOCHS [email protected] It is time to look forward to a new year Richard Young, a founding and current PATRICK BOYLE with all of its potential and possibility. member of the ever-surprising musically [email protected] I hope one of your resolutions is to get diverse southern-rock combo The TINA ELLINGSON out and enjoy our unique Wisconsin Kentucky Headhunters. [email protected] opportunities with friends and family. Supper Club Guy- David Brierely ADMINISTRATIVE Even better if you are determined to try takes us past the giant steer and through CONTACT SPECIALIST something new you have always wanted the doors of Wautoma’s historical AUDREY FOCHS to do. No time like the present. lakeside supper club - The Silvercryst. Out & About Wisconsin is published monthly by Foxx Interactive In the fulfillment of potential and Contributor Susan Loken offers Services. All rights reserved. No duplication of any editorial or photography is allowed without written permission from Foxx possibility, I hope you endeavor to make ideas for 20 wintery Wisconsin activities Interactive Services. Copyright 2019. new friends while you are out there doing to make January fly by and provides what you like to do. Making memories something for every taste. Printable PDF version of this issue available at: is always better when the experience is Our events calendar includes nearly https://outandaboutwisconsin.com/digital-magazine/ shared. There may be few things more 100 listings of things to do in Wisconsin gratifying or entertaining than to recount this month with live links so details are memories of shared times and activities. just a click away. For those of you who are part It is, after all, what the unofficial New So, read the issue, make your plans, of a group that is planning an upcoming event, we want Year’s Eve theme - Auld Lang Syne then turn off your device and get out to hear from you. celebrates. So get out and make some and do what you like to do (and share Make sure to send information great memories to share when old friends the fun) to kick off 2019. O&A about that event to editor@ outandaboutwisconsin.com, and we’ll meet again in years to come. get it listed on our calendar. Not sure In this issue… what to include? Check out this month’s Contributor Peter Lindblad shares calendar, where we explain exactly what kind of information we need. Just his conversation with iconic rocker Norma Jean Fochs remember, if your event is in February Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and we need to know about it in the NORma JEAN FOCHS beginning of January. Bachman Turner Overdrive fame. 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Book Your Private PACKER & BADGER Closed Super Bowl Sunday (February 3rd) GAME DAY SPECIALS Parties with Us! $12 Bucket of 5 Dometic Beers The Bridge Bar www.simpsonswaupaca.com UPCOMING EVENTS: & Restaurant OPEN DAILY Jan. 5th – Genesee Depot 101 W Main St. Fremont, Bar- 3 PM | Dining Room 4 PM Jan. 12th – Grayling Pingel Wisconsin 54940 Jan. 19th – Noise Complaint Open at 11 Daily (920) 446–3300 Visit our Facebook page Find us on Facebook! bridgebarfremont.com KHH These days, The Kentucky Headhunters’ lineup features Doug Phelps, Greg Martin, Fred Young and Richard Young. BY PETER LINDBLAD While Young’s well-established outfit Black Stone Cherry, was sick of aversion to airplanes kept the rip- answering questions about it. After decades of touring with The roaring, countrified blues and “Over the years, they would Kentucky Headhunters, Richard Southern-rock combo grounded, fans be confronted by press people – Young is finally learning to fly, or overseas begged for the Headhunters newspapers and radio – and they’d rather, he’s simply becoming more to pay them a visit. His son John always go, ‘So, when is your dad’s comfortable with air travel. Fred Young’s band, the hard-rock band, the Headhunters, coming over? 4 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com KHH We’ve known them for years and they architecture of Scandinavia, the never come over here,’” said Richard. Headhunters had no idea they were “And they’d always say, ‘Probably soon about to embark on another never because daddy won’t fly.’” adventure, thanks again to Black As Black Stone Cherry’s 02.22.19 Stone Cherry. This time, it yielded popularity in Europe soared, with Gobbler Theatre a new Headhunters’ concert album, sold-out arena shows all over the Johnson Creek the high-spirited Live at the Ramblin’ United Kingdom in recent years, Man Fair, due out this month on there were more and more queries Alligator Records. It documents their about the Headhunters. first-ever performance in the U.K. “It became a little bit of an in the afternoon and I don’t need “So, we’re getting ready to fly embarrassing issue for them, so to tell you, everybody was already home [from Sweden] and my son about two and a half years ago, they there to see Queen and there were, calls me and says, ‘Hey dad, we got cornered me down on our farm in of course, a couple of bands after us. you all booked in England now,’” Kentucky and said, ‘Look, buddy, And I didn’t realize that we had that said Richard. “And I’m like, ‘Wait, we’re tired of [it]. We’re going to start sort of a following to be on the main we haven’t even gotten home from looking for dates for you, and we’re stage for one thing, and to be able to Sweden yet,’ but they were playing going to send you over there,’” said do something like that, it went over a big festival over there called ‘The Richard. “That’s the situation where, great and we had a great time.” Ramblin’ Man Festival,’ which is you say yes to something, and you Everywhere the Kentucky one of the two biggest rock festivals really mean no. I was like, ‘Oh sure, Headhunters go, they seem to have they had over in England and [there go ahead,’ just to get out of the hot a good time. On Friday, Feb. 22, the were] thousands and thousands of water or the frying pan. They called Grammy-winning group is slated to people, and they were headlining … a week later and said, ‘Okay daddy, play The Gobbler Theatre in Johnson they got us on this show, and I said, we’ve got you all going to Sweden.’” Creek with Confederate Railroad. ‘Wait a minute, if we have to go to The Kentucky Headhunters Famed for its rotating bar and pink England, and I’ve always wanted were booked to play the Sweden and blue chairs, the intimate, turkey- to go, [let’s] just don’t go over there Rock Festival, one of the biggest shaped establishment, which closed and play one show like we musical events in Europe, or at least as a restaurant in 1992 and Scandinavia. The headliner that re-opened as a music night was Queen. Richard Young venue around late and the Headhunters were bowled 2015 and early 2016, over by the reception they received. has state-of-the-art “I said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. I sound and lighting, as never said anything about going well as stadium seating. to Sweden. I said I would go to the A much smaller gig U.K,’” said Richard, with a laugh.