Correction!

It has been brought to our attention that Sunday's BIG GIG at The Smiling Moose will kick off at 3 pm, NOT at 2 pm as erroneously stated in the previous post.

Sorry about that.
Yours truly,
Mr. Perfect

...But No Wiser

When a friend calls, and asks if you can help out, and you can, then you say, Yes.

So it goes that the BirdDogBlues band will make their way from parts south and west to The Smiling Moose Tavern (in Newton, WI; see map) for an afternoon performance on Sunday, August 31. We hope for a lovely summer's-end kind of day, but even if it rains hounds and felines, the band will be banging out its brand of Blues from 2 to 5(ish) pm.

In other news:

The McMuscial Calendar

Friday, September 5
The Sparks Band plays that same old 60s schtick at Chief's Tavern in Madison (right across from Buck's Pizza). 7 to 10.

Thursday, September 18
Faux Fawn plays the historic McFarland House Cafe (in McFarland, duh!). Fun folkers Paul Otteson and company serve up a set of inspired acoustic originals in a bucolic backyard setting. 6 to 8.

Friday, March 13 (2026)
The BirdDogBlues band plays the 26th Annual Blues Cafe in Rothschild (just south of Wausau), part of a huge showcase of Blues talent from near and far, held in the spacious Rothschild Pavilion (1104 Park St.) Sponsored by the Great Northern Blues Society.
6:30 to 8 pm.

Check back for stuff that's bound to happen sometime and somewhere in between September and March.

Who's Old?

These days, in which so many of us are largely living online, a post more than a week old should be barely beneath notice. (What? You have nothing new to say? No whining opining? No admonitions to add?)
Well... the intent behind this tiny corner of the vast electronically powered hive mind has been to provide alerts and reports related to activities and events apropos things McMusical.

To that end I can currently report that the Calendar below has only subtracted those events that have occurred since posting last and added nothing new. Yet, by way of celebrating the birthday of Rick Becker, singer and drummer and fellow native of the Fox River valley, I hereby plop in a link to a past performance from Big Wes Turner's Trio, lo these eight years ago. 

We three were just off an extended hiatus and signed on for an unpaid set as part the summer solstice Make Music Madison thing. We needed to test our musical memory more than we lusted after remuneration. (It never happened again.) Skip around this hour of tunes, if you like. Some of them come off pretty well. Thanks again to Terry Talbot, and Happy Birthday Rick!

Big Wes Turner's Trio

The McMusical Calendar

Sunday, August 10
The Sparks Band plays the big hits and fun obscurities from the 60s at The Dirty Dog Taphaus (101 6th Ave., New Glarus). 2 to 5 pm

Sunday, August 31
CANCELED (due to unforseen circumstances)
The BirdDogBlues at Toffler's

Monday, September 1
CANCELED (due to unforseen circumstances)
The BirdDogBlues at Club LaMark

Friday, September 5
The Sparks Band plays the same 60s schtick at Chief's Tavern in Madison (right across from Buck's Pizza). 7 to 10pm

Thursday, September 18
Faux Fawn plays the historic McFarland House Cafe (in McFarland, duh!). Fun folkers Paul Otteson and company serve up a set of inspired acoustic originals in a bucolic backyard setting. 6 to 8pm

Next Year

Friday, March 13 (2026)
The BirdDogBlues band plays the 26th Annual Blues Cafe in Rothschild (just south of Wausau), part of a huge showcase of Blues talent from near and far, held in the spacious Rothschild Pavilion (1104 Park St.) Sponsored by the Great Northern Blues Society.
6:30 to 8 pm.