Live Music this weekend

FRIDAY

Rockin' blues with the Clovis Mann man...

Dan Walkner

7pm

Hot off his sit-in with Derek Pritzl a couple weeks ago, Dan is back to kick off Stumpjack 2009 (he's numero uno this year!)

SATURDAY

Making her Stumpjack debut...

Jana Holland

7pm

Jana and her husband, Craig, have performed their folk/punk music all around this country and Australia.
Come help welcome them to Two Rivers.

Saturday night rockin' blues

Looking for something fun to do this Saturday evening? Well, we just booked Derek Pritzl to perform at Stumpjack Saturday night at 7:00!

Derek is back in town for the holiday and generously offered to bring his always excellent rockin' blues sound to Stumpjack this weekend. And if that weren't enough to get you pumped up, Derek's special guests will be none other than Mr. Dan Walkner (Clovis Mann) and guitarist Scott Cowling of Died love and Casual Steve.

Sounds like a great way to spend a snowy Saturday evening.

Derek Pritzl
with special guest Dan Walkner
Saturday Dec 27
7:00pm
Stumpjack Coffee

It's Alive!

Finally, the vid of Dan and Derek downloaded. It's on our YouTube account as well as right here. The other video below is of Kerry Michaels playing his song "Just a Dream" from last night's gig. That's on our YouTube account as well. Have a couple more vids to place on there yet...Dan Walkner, another of Kerry, and maybe a couple short silly ones from some chitchat in the shop. YouTube is great but I do wish that the videos would display sharper than they do...they always appear to get a little blurry in the transfer from camera or laptop to YouTube.

Derek Pritzl and Dan Walkner...on tune they wrote together

Kerry Michaels..."Just a Dream"...he nailed it.

Hey, an actual update!

Derek & Dan

Here's some Flickr sets from the last couple of weekends: Adam Morantez 10/3; Bill Martell 10/4; Dan Walkner with Derek Pritzl 10/10; Kelly Underwood 10/11.

Adam Morantez & Bill Martell - weekend of Oct 3&4.

Dan Walkner with Derek Pritzl & Kelly Underwood - weekend of Oct 10&11.

The Usual Suspects

I'm having a bit of trouble loading video onto YouTube. Will give it another try later (getting weary of it not loading already!). Have a great vid of Dan & Derek performing together, and a fun one of Kelly (I think she's flipping me the bird). Dan and Derek were freaking awesome together, and Kelly was a blast the next night, making up a bunch of off-the-cuff silly songs directed at people in the audience (including my daughter, Jesse, which was very fun).

Product placement, baby!

D&D = BLOW THE ROOF OFF!

Just got the word from Dan Walkner that Derek Pritzl will be his special guest this Friday night. Picture this...Friday night in the coolest small space on the lakeshore, enjoying a great Belgian beer or glass of good chardonnay, munching a little tapas, and listening to two guys who live and breathe hard-edged blues rock (it's practically a midwest supergroup...).

Friday at 8pm: Dan Walkner with Derek Pritzl

Saturday night @ 8pm: Kelly Underwood closes the weekend with her gorgeous self. Back from Nashville to weave her lovely songs and voice into the evening.

images, refrigeration, new hours

Dan Walkner (image by Nate Walkner)

Here's the Flickr set for Dan Walkner's most excellent performance last night. I love the kind of blues rock that Dan plays. He's a heckuva good guitar player and has his Dad's (Bill) gift for good humor and banter with the audience. Bill sat in for a few tunes with him later in the evening and that was fun to see. It was a real fine evening. Dan's band, Clovis Mann, is playing Sunday afternoon (4pm) at the Waverly Inn and I wish we were going to be in town so we could see them, but we have to take our daughter Cheyenne to camp right in the afternoon. Click here for Dan's myspace site.

Dan and Bill

The rest of the day was fairly trying though. First thing in the morning the beer and soda cooler broke down (again!) and so we unloaded everything, rearranged the kitchen fridge and then loaded everything into that. Then later in the day the kitchen fridge went on the fritz and so we unloaded that and rearranged the wine coolers and brought a small counter fridge up and reloaded everything again. The humidity yesterday was heavy and we were soaked and drained by the end of the night (mighty hard to get out of bed this morning).

Fortunately, Marty from Refrigeration Repair in Manitowoc was willing to come in around 8:30 last night (during Dan's performance no less) and sorted things out with the kitchen fridge. The guys at Refrigeration Repair have been simply fabulous with us. They come in as quickly as they can, assess the situation and do what needs to be done in a timely manner...they're efficient, concerned and fair priced and we use them every time we have refrigeration issues (which has been a number of times this past year). They get our business and our recommendation.

Marty from Refrigeration Repair saving the day

Starting next week Wednesday (July 23rd) we're going to change our hours of operation a bit. People have been "suggesting" (whining really) that we open on Mondays and Tuesdays, so we're going to give it a try and see how it goes. And, since we'll be adding a couple extra days we will then be closing earlier than we do now during the week...weekend hours will stay the same.

So, beginning Wednesday, July 23rd, the Stumpjack hours will be:
Monday-Thursday: 7am-4pm
Friday-Saturday: 7am-9pm
Sunday: 8:30am-1pm

Nate

Here's Nate's Flickr set of Dan (I co-opted a few for our set).
Here's another cool set of night shots from Nate of a few places around Two Rivers (Nate is the man...these have such a great ambiance and feel).

The Walkner trinity is now complete

Friday (July 18) night at 8:00pm, Dan Walkner of Madison's Clovis Mann will be performing his first solo gig here at the Stump (that is, his first Stump gig, not his first solo gig ever...he's an old dog at this). Dan is the son of Stumpjack regular songster Bill Walkner and brother of photographer artist Nate Walkner, who had an exhibition here a few months ago. Dan kicks it out and this is going to be a butt-kicking show...soulful rock. Come on down for a brew (either hops- or coffee-infused). You can hear Dan's stuff on his myspace site: http://www.myspace.com/danwalkner.