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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 FEBRUARY 2019 ROSEANNE CASH PUTTING OUT PERSONAL SONGS OF A WOMAN AT A CERTAIN STAGE OF HER LIFE p.18 P. 4 P. 10 P. 24 P. 28 DEPARTMENTS SWITCHFOOT DORF HAUS ROMANCING MIKE AND THE Hitting the road again SUPPER CLUB THE BEAN MOONPIES PUBLISHER’S NOTE p. 2 after a healthful hiatus Bringing Germany as Roasters creating Building their close as Sauk City, WI connections through WI fan base with a EVENTS CALENDAR p. 34 the love of coffee live approach PUBLISHER’S NOTE BUNDLE UP Family Fun Edition BUTTERCUP February 2019, Vol. 3, Issue 2 PUBLISHERS In case you were NORMA JEAN FOCHS wondering, PATRICK BOYLE CONTRIBUTORS winter has arrived DAVID BRIERLEY PETER LINDBLAD in Wisconsin SUSAN LokEN ART GRAPHIC DESIGNERS KELLY ANDERSON NICOLE MACMARTIN Whether your tastes run toward Finally he give us a glimpse fireplaces and hot chocolate or ice into the aspirations of a bona fide, ADVERTISING NORMA JEAN FOCHS shanties, ski hills and snowmobiles, boot-scootin’ honky-tonk outfit [email protected] winter has arrived in Wisconsin. Take from Austin,Texas - Mike and PATRICK BOYLE the opportunity to make the most of The Moonpies [email protected] the season in your favorite winter way. Supper Club Guy- David Brierely TINA ELLINGSON A great thing about Wisconsinites provides a taste of Germany (or [email protected] is how many ways businesses and several actually) not too far from ADMINISTRATIVE organizations offer to seize the day and Madison at Dorf Haus Supper Club CONTACT SPECIALIST savor some fun no matter the season. near Sauk City. AUDREY FOCHS There are concerts, classes, shows and Contributor Susan Loken appeals Out & About Wisconsin is published monthly by Foxx Interactive festivals offered (both indoor and to those whose first-love is coffee with Services. All rights reserved. No duplication of any editorial or photography is allowed without written permission from Foxx outdoor) that move us to get out and a listing of Wisconsin coffee roasters. Interactive Services. Copyright 2019. do the things we like to do undaunted Our events calendar includes more by the weather. This is Wisconsin after than 100 listings of things to do in Printable PDF version of this issue available at: https://outandaboutwisconsin.com/digital-magazine/ all if we let Mother Nature bully us life Wisconsin this month with live links would be pretty boring. so details are just a click away. In this issue… So, read the issue, make your For those of you who are part Contributor Peter Lindblad plans, then turn off your device of a group that is planning an provides personal interviews with a (bundle up as needed) and get out upcoming event, we want variety of musicians. and do what you like to do in wintry to hear from you. Make sure to send information O&A First up is his conversation Wisconsin. about that event to editor@ with guitarist Drew Shirley of the outandaboutwisconsin.com, and we’ll Grammy-winning alternative-rock get it listed on our calendar. Not sure what to include? Check out this month’s outfit - Switchfoot. calendar, where we explain exactly Next is the cover story, an what kind of information we need. Just Norma Jean Fochs remember, if your event is in March interview with Grammy-winning we need to know about it in the NORma JEAN FOCHS singer songwriter and so much more PUBLISHER beginning of February. - Rosanne Cash. [email protected] 2 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com ThunderFest 2019 is a Winter Festival in AND on Green Lake, Wisconsin! Mark your calendars for Saturday, Feb. 23rd and bring your family and friends for a guaranteed fun day of delicious food, drink and fun outdoor activities for all ages! See what’s planned so far! 477-B Lake St, Green Lake, WI 54941 (920) 294-0443 www.thunderboss.com FRIDAY FREE FEBRUARY 8, 2019 and Take your Sweetheart to a Open 7:00PM-11:00PM to the PAR 4 RESORT Valentine’s Day Public. Tickets $20 All proceeds go to local charities Available at: Dance! Office Outfitters Chamber of Commerce Premier Community Bank First National Bank th Farmers State Bank February 15 or from any Rotarian 8pm – 10pm Family Friendly and dancing encouraged! donated by Par 4 Resort and many more prizes Cash Bar available in-room Bistro open 11am - 10pm Pizza Buffet 7:00PM WINTER HOURS: MON-THURS 11AM-9PM • FRI-SAT 11AM-10PM • SUN 10AM-6PM DAILY CHEF SPECIALS • JUKEBOX • DARTS & POOL TABLE 201 FOXFIRE DR, WAUPACA WI • (715) 942-2424 • WWW.PAR4RESORT.COM SWITCHFOOT Switchfoot Speaking the language of love BY PETER LINDBLAD releasing the album Where the said guitarist Drew Shirley. “I think Light Shines Through and touring our families are the ones that bear Spinning in a fast blur for years, the extensively to support it, was just that burden and take the payment for merry-go-round stopped in 2017 for what Switchfoot needed. that cost a lot of times.” the Grammy-winning alternative-rock “Touring in a rock band for 15 With assurances that everything outfit Switchfoot. They had to jump off. years comes at a cost and you have to is fine with his family, Shirley Taking a year-long hiatus, after pay that cost at some point (laughs),” explained that he and the rest of 4 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com SWITCHFOOT the band wanted a break to be with the joy of what we’re doing back – loved ones for a while. resurrecting just the ‘why’ do we “Just the connection at home, we do this,” said Shirley. “You have to needed to see our families, wives and find your motivation again, and we kids,” said Shirley. “And basically, 03.10.19 started playing around with ideas we were feeling like we’d done one and playing around in the studio, tour after another for 15 years, and The Sylvee and one thing led to another and we our families needed us home and we just took our time and recorded a needed to be home, too.” Madison new album.” Rested up, Switchfoot is speaking Conveniently located, the studio its Native Tongue, an eclectic is about 20 minutes from all of their ray of light in these dark times. houses. They started work on Native Once pigeonholed as a Christian- way it was in the beginning.” Tongue in a haphazard fashion. The rock band, before a major-label Switchfoot is currently creative freedom it allowed re- breakthrough in 2003 with The experiencing another kind of energized them. Beautiful Letdown and landing longing these days, as Shirley and “We all just started coming in at songs on the “A Walk to Remember” company are itching to get back random times and all of a sudden, movie soundtrack widened their out on the road. On March 10, songs started coming together,” said audience considerably, Switchfoot Switchfoot will land in Madison and Shirley. “And there was no pressure, has something optimistic to say perform at the city’s newest music because we knew we had the whole with its new LP, which hit the venue, The Sylvee. year off. So, it was a really special streets Jan. 18. Their core faith is “We took this whole last year time for us to really rediscover still intact. off the road and didn’t travel at all,” loving each other, loving the process “We don’t try to force things on said Shirley. “So, we had to recharge and it came at a cost. It came at a people, but as an artist you better our batteries and be at home with real struggle, and there was a lot of be saying something,” said Shirley. family. It was really a great year pain and suffering involved, but I “There’s a famous quote from Dolly [with] a lot that was different for us. think that’s where you get great art.” Parton: ‘If you ain’t crying, then why And now we’re ready to hit the road Veterans in the studio, are you singing?’ If it’s not moving again and we’ve got new music and Switchfoot have learned how to deal you, then just forget it. It’s not going we’re really excited about it.” with the pressure of deadlines and to move somebody else.” During the time off, the expectations. Love is the law on Native Tongue members of Switchfoot – featuring “I mean, the songs come … and the record’s title track. brothers Jon (vocals and guitar) some quickly and some take a “[It] kind of speaks to our and Tim Foreman (bass and longer time,” said Shirley.