CHARLIE BERENS Takes Manitowoc Minute on Live Tour P.12
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TO THE POUR 50+ WI WINERIES TO WET YOUR WHISTLE Get Out & Do What You Like to do MARCH 2018 PLUS! Charlie THE LITTLE RIVER BAND DEVELOPS DEEPER FAN RELATIONSHIPS BerensSuccessful in a Manitowoc Minute and then some SUPPER CLUBS Clancey’s Stone Lion – An Irish Experience UPCOMING EVENTS: Fox Cities | Green Bay Marshfield | Oshkosh Stevens Point | Waupaca Wausau | Wisconsin Rapids Get Out & Do What You Like to Do MARCH 2018 CHARLIE BERENS TAKES MANITOWOC MINUTE ON LIVE TOUR p.12 DEPARTMENTS P. 4 P. 10 P. 22 EDITOR’S NOTE p. 2 LITTLE RIVER BAND WE BANJO 3 WINE 70s - 80s fan Irish meets Scottish in Details to sip SUPPER CLUB - favorites come to “Earth & Sky” Spring Tour your way through CLANCEY’S p.16 Ashwaubenon and 50+ Wisconsin wineries Milwaukee EVents CALENDAR p.40 EDITOR’S NOTE Make the most of MarchFamily 2018, Fun Vol. Edit 2, Issueion 3 your March PUBLISHERS NORMA JEAN FOCHS PATRICK BOYLE Welcome to March friends. It is in this cities slated for early June concerts on EDITORIAL month that we shed the dreary mantle their current tour. Editor of winter and start to look forward If your musical tastes lean Celtic MERRY DUDLEY to later sunsets, warmer days and the or bluegrass (or as the band describes [email protected] arrival of spring. Our tastes turn to their repertoire, Celtgrass) you will CONtributors classic spring delights such as Lenten want to catch We Banjo 3 at one of DAVID Brierley Friday Fish Fries and St. Patrick’s their concerts in Stevens Point. Look Peter LINDBLAD Day celebrations with Corned Beef for full information in their story right MIKE JacQuart & Cabbage and green beer (or maybe after the Little River Band feature. ART Irish Whiskey) and Easter right Next up Pete Lindblad is back with GRAPHIC DESIGNERS around the corner. another fantastic personal interview. KELLY ANDERSON It is a time of renewal when dead This one with Internet Phenom NICOLE MACMARTIN grass and mud give way to thoughts Charlie Berens of Manitowoc ADVERTISING of leaves budding on the trees and Minute fame. NORMA JEAN FOCHS grass greening up. It is not too far of a Supper club guy - David Brierley [email protected] stretch down that road to imagine the brings us a slight (St. Patrick’s Day PATRICK BOYLE [email protected] spring yard and garden work segueing themed) detour from the classic right into summer mowing and for supper club with his story on ADMINISTRATIVE many a busy summer sports season Clancey’s Stone Lion Irish Pub and CONTACT SPECIALIST for the kids or grandkids, all of which Restaurant of Custer, WI. AYUDRE FOCHS will eat into your free time. Finally, for our themed Out & About Wisconsin is published monthly by Foxx Interactive Just another reason it is important compilation story we explore Services. All rights reserved. No duplication of any editorial or photography is allowed without written permission from Foxx to use the time while you have it, interesting features of more than Interactive Services. Copyright 2018. before the summer heats up, and 50 Wisconsin wineries. The story Printable PDF version of this issue available at: get out and enjoy what you like to provides all the pertinent details to https://outandaboutwisconsin.com/digital-magazine/ do. Perhaps go to a concert, see a plan your own Wisconsin wine tour. comedian, attend a program or Expo, Once again, our calendar has more try a new restaurant or maybe plan a than 100 listings of things going on in For those of you who are part winery road trip. Actually, “all of the March for all tastes. We include live of a group that is planning an above” is a valid, even wise, choice. links for easy-access to all the details. upcoming event, we want We have some fantastic May the Luck of the Irish be with you to hear from you. Make sure to send information information in this issue to help you (whether you are Irish or not)! O&A about that event to editor@ plan your March adventures. outandaboutwisconsin.com, and we’ll Contributor Pete Lindblad get it listed on our calendar. Not sure what to include? Check out this month’s skillfully shares the stories he heard calendar, where we explain exactly first hand in his conversation with what kind of information we need. Just Wayne Nelson lead singer and Norma Jean Fochs remember, if your event is in April, Norma JEAN FOCHS we need to know about it in the bassist for The Little River Band. PUBLISHER beginning of March. Ashwaubenon and Milwaukee are two [email protected] 2 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com and present: Sunday, February 12, 2017 Williams and Ree - The Indian and the White Guy 3PM Doors 4PM Show Sunday, March 19, 2017 Pam Tillis 3PM Doors 4PM Show HUCKSunday, April 23, 2017 C The Gibson Brothers 3PM Doors M4PMEAD Show BOBBY AND HIS GRASSY KNOLL BOYS BARE SPONSORED SUNDAY, APRIL 29 | 4 PM BY SUNDAY, MARCH 18 | 4 PM SPONSORED BY Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School Auditorium Tickets available at Hanke’s Sentry Foods in Wittenberg Community and online at www.rubbersoulproductions.com partner Now Serving Dinner Fri. & Sat. 5-9pm LIVE MUSIC LENTEN SPECIAL March 16th SEAFOOD TRIO - $15 Orlow & Tilapia, Haddock and Clinton Miller Jumbo Shrimp with Spring Mix 7 pm Dinner Salad, Fresh Cheddar $5 Cover Biscuit, Cranberry Cabbage Slaw, Sautéed Broccoli Parmesan and Garlic Smashed Potatoes Open Mic - 7pm 1st Friday of Every Month Variety of Specials Daily Open: Sun. thru Thurs. 8am-2pm March 2nd Fri. & Sat. 8am-10pm CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE: 102 South Main www.TheLandmarkAmherst.com Amherst, WI 54406 for Our Full Menus and Beer & Wine Lists 715-824-2200 The Little River Band LITTLE RIVER BAND performs onstage. The band includes bassist Wayne Nelson, keyboardist Chris Marion, guitarists Colin Whinnery and Rich Herring, and The Little drummer Ryan Ricks. River Band ‘Reminiscing’ with Wayne Nelson and the Little River Band BY PETER LINDBLAD out there on a Friday night and people just a full-on party,” said Nelson, the going crazy,” said Nelson, the band’s band’s leader these days and longest Whoever got stuck doing the laundry lead singer and bassist. “And one standing member. “It’s a lot more the day after probably had a slightly night, it was just pouring rain and fun to be able to connect with people different take on the festivities. nobody would leave, so it turned into personally rather than be anonymous For Wayne Nelson and the Little a mud fest. We’ve had a lot of great up on a big stage where you can barely River Band, the soft-rock legends who times in Wisconsin.” see any faces or anything. It’s all good. practically lived on the charts in the More are sure to come for the Little It’s all about the music.” late 1970s and early ‘80s with such River Band, whose upcoming tour will Interacting with fans on a hits as “Reminiscing” and “Lonesome include stops in Ashwaubenon on June personal level is something Nelson Loser,” it will always be remembered 1, at the Ashwaubenon Performing strongly encourages. To that end, as a wild and magical night in Arts Center, and in Milwaukee on June they started a brand-new fan club at Wisconsin, even if some of the details 2, at the Pabst Theater. To Nelson, it http://littleriverbandfanclub.com/ – such as where and when it took doesn’t matter where they play. Bigger index.html. place – remain fuzzy. venues have their advantages, but more Currently comprising Australian “There’s a little bar up on a river humble concert spaces have a charm guitarist/lead vocalist Greg Hind, – the name escapes me but it’s right all their own. Dove Award winning producer on the river – and we played it three “Those kinds of places are fun, Chris Marion on keyboards, lead or four times with people jam packed with people right in your face and it’s guitarist Rich Herring, guitarist Colin 4 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com LITTLE RIVER BAND Whinnery and singing drummer “There are times when you surrounding her life when her parents Ryan Ricks, this version of the Little just think it’s out of hand were playing it. And she was a fan, River Band – which also includes and she was there to hear that and feel guitarist Stephen Housden, who because of all these people those memories. Those are the things continues to write and participate in and whatever, but the real, you can’t know if you stay in your the group – makes it a point to form personal part of this can bubble … we’re triggering people’s strong bonds with its followers. emotions and it’s very important.” “There are times when you just either get overlooked or Maybe that’s why the Little River think it’s out of hand because of all just quite frankly shunned, Band won the Musical Artist of the Year these people and whatever, but the if you will, because it award in Las Vegas last fall for its stirring real, personal part of this can either requires an effort.” live show. Not that the Little River Band get overlooked or just quite frankly needed any more validation. –Nelson shunned, if you will, because it Their worldwide album, CD and requires an effort,” said Nelson. “It download sales have exceeded 30 requires an extra effort after the show, and we met her afterwards and she million and they once set a record and there have been times when we said, ‘You don’t understand.