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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 NOVEMBER 2018 p.22 THE NELSONS MAtthEW AND GUNNAR SHARE THEIR FAMILY CHRISTMAS WITH WIscoNSIN P. 4 P. 18 P. 28 P. 30 DEPARTMENTS BLUES TRAVELER CHARLIE BERENS Q GALLERY HOLIDAY FARE To mix up old and Manitowoc Minute Holiday Show opens 10 feasting favorite PUBLISHER’S NOTE p. 2 new in Milwaukee and beyond on in Stevens Point Wisconsin foods SUPPER CLUB p. 12 new tour Tornado Club Steak House Of Madison EVENTS CALENDAR p. 34 PUBLISHER’S NOTE NOVEMBER – A TIME FOR Family Fun Edition THANKS AND TOGETHERNESS November 2018, Vol. 2, Issue 11 PUBLISHERS We are just weeks away from a new dates. He shares his conversations with NORMA JEAN FOCHS year. With busy schedules including Matthew Nelson of sibling pop-rock PATRICK BOYLE the upcoming holidays, concerts, duo Nelson (who is also the son of CONTRIBUTORS celebrations and gatherings, those Ricky Nelson and grandson of Ozzie DAVID BRIERLEY PETER LINDBLAD weeks are sure to fly by in a blink. & Harriet Nelson) and bassist Tad TODD WHITESEL It is worthwhile to take a moment Kinchla (brother of original guitarist when you are together with your family Chan Kinchla) of Blues Traveler. ART GRAPHIC DESIGNERS and friends enjoying the festivities to Supper Club Guy- David Brierely KELLY ANDERSON look at those who surround you and takes us to a Madison classic famous NICOLE MACMARTIN share your life. Even more worthwhile to for steaks, now known as The Tornado ADVERTISING truly offer thanks for their presence, for Club Steak House. NORMA JEAN FOCHS memories shared and for opportunities Charlie Berens is embarking on [email protected] for memories yet to be made. another tour and Peter Lindblad PATRICK BOYLE We are fortunate to have so many catches up with him to ask a few [email protected] wonderful things to do right here questions on everyone’s mind. TINA ELLINGSON in Wisconsin. We are even more We have all of the details about Q [email protected] fortunate when we have someone with Gallery’s “A Gift of Art” holiday show ADMINISTRATIVE which to share the fun. That is another in Stevens Point. CONTACT SPECIALIST great thing about Wisconsinites; we Contributor Todd Whitesel AUDREY FOCHS are a friendly bunch. Therefore, if you provides his top ten list of Wisconsin Out & About Wisconsin is published monthly by Foxx Interactive are at an event without someone you foods that are a “must have” for any Services. All rights reserved. No duplication of any editorial or know for company, there is no reason holiday table. photography is allowed without written permission from Foxx Interactive Services. Copyright 2018. not to reach out, extend a greeting As always, our Events Calendar and have a chat with a fellow attendee. includes over 100 listings of things to Printable PDF version of this issue available at: If you are at the same event, in the do in Wisconsin this month with live https://outandaboutwisconsin.com/digital-magazine/ same place, there should be at least links so details are just a click away. one thing in common about which So, read the issue, make your you can converse. You never know, plans, then turn off your device and For those of you who are part it could turn into a shared memory get out and do what you like to do in of a group that is planning an for the future of a new friendship. Wisconsin this November with family upcoming event, we want Couldn’t we all use more friendships and friends (and maybe try to make to hear from you. Make sure to send information and common ground? some new ones). O&A about that event to editor@ In this issue, we have plenty of outandaboutwisconsin.com, and we’ll activities and opportunities for said get it listed on our calendar. Not sure what to include? Check out this month’s togetherness. calendar, where we explain exactly Contributor Peter Lindblad brings Norma Jean Fochs what kind of information we need. Just us two interviews with musical artists remember, if your event is in December NORma JEAN FOCHS we need to know about it in the before their upcoming Wisconsin tour PUBLISHER beginning of November. [email protected] 2 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com BLUES TRAVELER Blues Traveler has a new album out called Hurry Up and Hang Around. Band members include John Popper, Chan Kinchla, Brenden Hill, Tad Kinchla and Ben Wilson. Blues Traveler STIll RUNNING AROUND BY PETER LINDBLAD hill, and so we kind of pulled the album Hurry Up and Hang Around, trigger, and we spent two weeks just as they were in the early days. Needing a place to lie low, with throwing together our ideas and That spirit rubbed off on Tad, who uncertainty regarding their having writing sessions,” said bassist joined after the 1999 death of bassist management swirling about, Blues Tad Kinchla, the brother of original and friend Bobby Sheehan. Traveler rented a house in Nashville guitarist Chan Kinchla. “We got together, we hashed to get back to work. They felt like a garage band again out our songs and orchestrated “It was this great spot up on a during the making of their new them in kind of an old-school 4 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com BLUES TRAVELER arrangement, as far as kind of the infectious “Hook,” also off four, really well, and so we picked up writing songs and kind of hashing which was actually released in 1994, regionally and up and down the East them out by playing them over but didn’t break through until a year Coast a little bit.” and over,” said Tad, who lives in later. Meanwhile, Blues Traveler was Nashville. “It was definitely fun.” As a sibling of one of the riding high, making an appearance That energy is palpable in the members, Tad got to witness Blues at Woodstock ’94, opening up for beloved jam band’s latest material, a Traveler’s meteoric rise, which the Rolling Stones, playing the 1995 kicked-up version of their usual stew coincided with the equally surprising premiere of “Saturday Night Live” of psychedelia, blues, folk, soul and success of their friend Chris Barron and getting their songs on a variety rock with a Southern accent. and the Spin Doctors. of TV shows and movie soundtracks “The last couple of albums “The fact that it happened to – “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls,” we’ve been doing some kinds of Chris and the Spin Doctors and “Things to Do in Denver When collaborations [with] some other Blues Traveler … you know, they’re You’re Dead,” “Speed” and “The songwriters and this and that, but friends from high school,” said Tad. Truth About Cats and Dogs,” to this was just all our own material “Two bands from high school and in name but a few. that we threw out there,” said Tad. a two-year period, that you have the They released a double concert Known for Top 40 hit singles two of them being overplayed on the album called “Live from the Fall” such as “Hook,” “Run-Around” radio nationally is pretty interesting. in 1996, before putting out the and “But Anyway” and their classic In the context of bands making it, it’s platinum-selling LP Straight on Till mid-90s studio album four, as well a pretty rare thing.” Morning the following year. It didn’t as being the driving force behind the Blues Traveler formed in generate the kind of success four did, H.O.R.D.E. touring music festival, Princeton, New Jersey, with but the song “Carolina Blues” hit No. Blues Traveler will play Nov. 1 at the harmonica player, singer and 4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. Expect guitarist John Popper and drummer chart. to hear a mix of old and new stuff at Brendan Hill starting out as The Then came a series of the show. Establishment and becoming Blues misfortunes. Popper had to undergo “We’ve been peppering in some Band. Chan Kinchla, a promising emergency heart surgery to take of the new songs live, but overall, football player, was added as a care of an artery blockage, and in when we go out, we kind of cover all guitarist. A knee injury derailed his 1999, Sheehan was found dead of an the bases as far as the breadth of the athletic dreams. Then Popper met accidental drug overdose in his New band’s material,” said Tad. “So, we’ll Sheehan and the core of the band Orleans home. have some of the newer songs off the was set, having morphed into Blues Tad was close with Sheehan.