WCAB's Waupaca Local Live February Kickoff to the new

Thursday Night Music Club!

Featuring

Little Baba

Thursday, February 15 at 6pm

Live in the Studio and Live on Facebook!

then....

7:30pm at the Grand National Lounge

Start at the Studio, then cruise over to the

Grand National Lounge!

Little Baba is the inaugural band of the Thursday Night Music Club, featuring 3 best friends who have been making music together for over 20 years. Part of the popular bigger band, Baba Ghanooj. Little Baba, focuses on playing incredible original music, along with a few obscure covers form their favorite artists. Little Baba is all about tight vocal harmonies and cool arrangements. John, Marci and Fran will capture your hearts!

Come to the Studio to be part of the radio experience with Little Baba, then go to the Grand National Lounge to enjoy a cocktail and another full set of Little Baba!

Waupaca Local Live February Show

View previous programs from the past 5 years here! Great musicians, interesting dialogue and great music!

Waupaca Local Live Archives

Waupaca Local Live is collaborative venture between the WCAB, Waupaca's 96.3 FM radio and WAUP 99.1 fm radio.

We seek to bring local and regional musical excellence to the airwaves! Waupaca Local Live is now available on the "Chain to Main" Podcast. It's available on Apple, Google, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and all major podcast platforms.

We have lots of exciting shows planned for 2024 but if you know of a musician who has original music that you think would be great on our show, Contact us!

Waupaca High School Play

These Shining Lives: The Story of the Radium Girls

February 8-10 7pm

Feb 11 2pm

Waupaca High School PAC

Join us for a captivating journey into the poignant tale of 1920s women facing the challenges of a watch factory and the radiant, but perilous, radium paint. An unforgettable experience awaits!

Go HERE for an article on the play... (sorry if you hit paywall, consider subscribing to the Waupaca County Post,, ourt local paper that supports so many orgs and groups...it's cheap!)

Tickets available Jan. 29...call Cindy at

WHS at 715-258-4131 or request by sending an email

Souper Waupaca Day Soup Walk

Saturday, Feb 17

11am-2pm

You are invited to a Souper Waupaca Day - Soup Walk. Details are still in the works but here are a few details. You will taste up to 10 different home-made soups at 10 different stops in shops and restaurants in the Waupaca Area. Take you time and do a little shopping along the way. Vote for your favorite soup and get into a drawing for prizes.

Tickets will be available soon, $20 each, after Feb 9th $30 and only 100 tickets will be sold. GO HERE for tickets or stop in to the Chmaber office on Main St.

For more info GO HERE!

Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce

Winchester Academy

Winchester Academy’s mission is to enrich the community by providing free, intellectually stimulating, informative, and engaging programs.

Programs are free, held on Monday evenings, and unless otherwise noted, take place at 6:30pm at the Waupaca Public Library.

      Maple Sugaring in Wisconsin

Feb 5 at 6:30pm

Local producer Brent Nelson has been making maple syrup at his Waupaca family farm for over 10 years. His program will cover a brief history of maple sugaring in Wisconsin starting from the beginning when the American Indians first collected sap. There will be an overview of the different maple tree species used to make syrup and the geographical uniqueness to where maple syrup is made.  Next, there will be a walk-through of the maple sugaring process from tapping the maple trees for sap collection to bottling of the final product. Lastly, there will be a brief overview of other foodstuffs made from maple syrup. Come and enjoy a sample!

    Foraging for Food and Fun 

Feb 12 at 6:30pm

Kira Morrissey, a MN native living in WI since 2002, grew up with parents who were lovers of all things outdoors, instilling in her a sense of awe and wonder in plants and wild animals. Kira has become enamored with how the plants in our backyards are often the ones with the most health and healing benefits. She has taken online courses, voraciously read backyard plant medicine books, source-checked articles and websites, and has taken journeys down a plethora of legit and not-so-legit rabbit holes down the herbology route. Kira uses what she learns to turn a walk in the woods into a foraging adventure. Kira discusses easily identified common weeds plentiful in most backyards that can become part of your diet. She’ll address some fun things to do with kids on nature walks to instill a love and respect for plants. She is hoping that the program will ignite a new interest in the tradition of foraging for food and for fun.

       The State of Our Water: Scarcity, Degradation, and Opportunities for a Better Future

Feb 19 at 6:30pm

Kate Barelman is Director of Sustainability Research and Outreach for N-Drip, an innovator in micro-irrigation. Her program will discuss the current state of our water resources in the US, including a discussion of how water challenges impact our nation’s supply chains, including food and fiber, and an evaluation of case studies from some of our nation’s most iconic watersheds.

Good News Waupaca

The program is live from 9am to 10am on the first and third Wednesday of the month in the Waupaca Community Media studios (lower level of Waupaca City Hall). You can listen to the program LIVE on fm96.3 and 99-1 WAUP and the Good News Waupaca Facebook page. Later rebroadcasts of the program will occur on Win-TV Spectrum Cable Channel 991 (7pm on the date of broadcast), an encore airing on fm96.3 at 7am Thursday morning following our live broadcast and will be available for later viewing on our Facebook page.

To schedule your organization to ve on the show, go HERE!

GOOD NEWS WAUPACA

WAUP 99.1 has debuted a show called “CURIOUSER”. It’s an interview program hosted by Chuck Reynolds, Mark Gerlach and Bob Tevis. 

It brings local people with unique personalities or unusual lifestyles into the studio where they ask the questions you’d ask if you had the chance.

Coming up in February they’ll be talking with the owners of “Little Fat Gretchen’s”, “Odin & Freja’s”, drumming legend Tony Wagner and contractor Marcel Van Camp.

“CURIOUSER” airs Saturday mornings at 8 a.m. with repeats every Monday at 6 p.m. on WAUP 99.1. 

Check ‘em out on Facebook. 

Join us in the woods by candlelight!

Saturday, February 24

5-8 pm

Hartman's Creek State Park

Embrace winter with family fun.

Join us for a family-friendly evening, hiking and snowshoeing on groomed park trails lit by candlelight. Choose from several trails lit by over 500 luminaries. After your hike, stop by the warming fires for hot chocolate and a game of Hammerschlagen. Bring dinner and cook over our hot grills. Leashed pet allowed.

A limited number of snowshoe are available for rent.

Donations appreciated. All proceeds benefit the park.

A park vehicle admission pass is required. (Order online or at the gate.)

Hosted with generous support from the Town of Farmington, Waupaca Area Convention and Visitor Bureau and Adventure Outfitters.

More Info HERE

Join us for our

LEGENDS AND HEROES Concert

February 17, 2024 | 7:30 PM

Sentry Theater, Stevens Point

Performing:

Legends, op. 59, Nos. 1, 9 and 4 by Antonin Dvorak,

"Adoration" by Florence Price (arr. Fine), and

Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" and "Overture to Coriolan" by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Tickets available at CWSO.ORG or GO HERE https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=cwso or by calling (715)-345-7726 between 10-4pm Mon-Thurs.

GO HERE for more info on CWSO

GO Here for concert event and directions to Sentry Theater

February is an opportunity to celebrate Black History. There are so many incredible resources to learn more about the rich incredible story of this diverse people. the 2024 theme of

Black History Month is "African

Americans and the Arts."

Learn more about the History of Black History Month HERE.

A listing of "16 Black Artists to Know" can be found HERE.

And one of our favorite orgs, Playing for Change, has a music playlist that celebrates Black History Month. Turn it up loud, and celebrate love and diversity!

Jazz Coterie Jazz February

Swing your Valentine! A big band. A little dinner. And a whole lotta fun!

The Wisconsin Jazz Orchestra feat.

Janet Planet

Feb 14 at the Howard in Oshkosh

Feb 15 at the Stevens Point Country Club

This sixteen-piece orchestra possesses a powerhouse line-up of members comprised of artist-musicians whose combined pedigrees gives the band the ability to play a broad range of repertoire. The band performs music from Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis as well as contemporary masters like Maria Schneider, John Clayton and Bill Holman with equal measures of authority, sensitivity, and creative spark.

Featuring:

Janet Planet

Marc Jimos | Myles Boothroyd | José Encarnacion | Tom Washatka | Katie DelGiacco | Brent Turney | John Daniel | Dave Cooper| Paul Dietrich | Tim Albright | Patrick Lawrence | Bill Dennee | Dave Sawall | Mathew Buchman | Dave Story | Ryan Korb.

Jazz Coterie

The 2024 Iola Winter Carnival

Iola Winter Carnival

Feb 2-4

UPDATE!! The Ski Hill Events for Winter Carnival have sadly been canceled.

But.....

With that being said there are many of the events still in action for the weekend! Check out this updated Schedule of Events for this weekend's Winter Carnival!!

For instance: Kids Ice Fishing Tourney is still on!

"As of yesterday most holes they measured showed 12 inches in the part of iola lake in the village limits. We have put together a lot of door prize packages."

Also, the Chili cookoff, Rosemalling class , Vintage Jazz at the Little Wolf Gallery, and the Winter Carnival Dance are ALL STILL ON!!!!

Iola Winter Carnival FB page

for details!

WISHOPE Waupaca

Project WISHOPE at 200 S. Main Street in Waupaca is hosting

Poetry, Music and Art

Saturday Feb. 3

7pm

As of this writing there were only a few tickets left! Get them at the WISHOPE office on Main St.

Good Times Comedy Show featuring

Robert Bruce Brackenridge

Friday February16 at 8pm

Chain O Lakes Bar and Grill

Hosted by Waupaca's own Ben Warren, these shows are gaining in popularity so come early, grab dinner and get your seat for some good times!!!

A few select Live Music/Comedy shows in Waupaca and around the area....

Due to Cabin Fever, we thought we would list a few live music events that we heard about...there may be more but at the time of publish, these are what we could find on social media, word of mouth and websites...support live music!!!

The Wheelhouse Wednesday with Wags series in February features the Wheelhouse Allstar Blues Band! February 21 at 7:30, featuring Tony Wagner, Jimmy Voegelli form the Jimmmies, Alex Wilson, Tony Menzer and Jimmy Schwartz. It's gonna be hot in there.

Whiskey Junction Food and Drink (formerly Cour4tside Bar and Grill) is hosting a couple comedy events.

Feb. 1 at 7pm a master class and workshop and showcase with comedian Bob Zany... go here for more info...

Feb. 3 the Bob Zany Comedy Show: dinner and a show! GO HERE for details!

Little Wolf Gallery in Iola: Saturday, Feb. 3, 4-6 Jazz show with the Omernik family during the Iola Winter Carnival!

GO HERE for info5-7 pm:

Odin and Freja's Place, Scandinavia: Thursdays are open mic nights in Scandinavia! Also check out their February lineup of excellent shows and more, go here for the listing! There is alot going on at Odin and Freja's Place!