The Wausome Weekend | Your Wausau event guide
Joyann Parker, a 70s Stevens Point band reunion, Bill Bronsted, Wisconsin Conquerors soccer and more for the week of March 20-27, 2025
Welcome to a brand new feature of The Wausonian: The Wausome Weekend event guide. To split up the Weekly Wausonian, which is increasingly getting too long for email, we decided to pull out the entertainment tab and beef it up a little. Let us know what you think, comments are open for this one!
Joyann Parker Duo
Saturday, March 22: There’s something about Joyann Parker that has continued to intrigue me. Maybe it’s that she has a song called Sconnie Girl (in the video she wears a Packers jersey). Parker has a nice deep voice over a modern country sound. “I was raised to speak my mind, work real hard and still be real kind, ain’t nothing better than a fine Wisconsin girl,” she sings/ For the duo, she’ll be joined at Malarkey’s Pub by Mark Lamoine, who plays one mean resonator. 8 pm. See the event page for more.
A Portage County All-Star Reunion Concert
Saturday, March 22: I try to stick to Wausau area events for the most part in the Wausome Weekend Guide, but this one just looked too cool not to include. This reunion show at the Springville Sports Barn in Plover will feature local reunions of 70s Stevens Point bands Circus and Daddy Whiskers, along with performances from Generic Blues and Boogie, Safety Last String Band, Tom Pease, Can’t Lie Low Trio, Stevens Point Barbershoppers and Music Express. Circus was a band formed in 1969 in Stevens Point originally as Sound Street and recorded a psychedelic blues album in 1973. And Daddy Whiskers is a country rock band that formed in Stevens Point in 1973 and to this day gets together to perform. The tickets are a little steep - $55 for non-historical society members - but it’s a full day of music starting at 4 pm and going until after 10 pm. See the event page for more.
Wisconsin Conquerors vs Des Moines
Fri-Sat., March 21-22: If you’ve woken up early on a Saturday morning to watch British soccer, I probably don’t need to tell you to go to a game of the Wisconsin Conquerors. You probably already own the scarf that soccer fans typically wear to support their teams. But for the rest? You may very well enjoy this new team here in town. The Wisconsin Conquerors are an arena soccer league and the first in the Wausau area. They bring some of the top high school and college talent and the team has a coach from Portugal and players from overseas as well. These are the last two home games of the season at the Greenheck-Turner Community Center. 7 pm. Check out the event page for ticket info.
TJ Morrow
Saturday, March 22: There are a few kinds of country these days, from outlaw country that harkens back to the Johnny Cash days to top 40 style country like you might hear on the radio while driving your pickup truck. Wisconsin-based TJ Morrow is in the latter category, and his song Dive Bar has appeared on the radio on WEDZ recently. It’s very much in the modern vein that has pop and rock elements mixed in with that twang country music fans love. Come check him out at The Garage, which has become one of Wausau’s music hotspots. 7 pm. Check out the event page for more.
Billy Bronsted and Augie Dougherty
Friday, March 21: Bill Bronsted is a country musician who Wausonians have seen grow right in their own backyard. Those who witnessed his appearances high atop Rib Mountain for the Concert in the Clouds series have seen how he’s developed as a musician. (Particularly incredible to see Bronsted joined by Miles Jordan - they jammed hard.) For this show, at the Sawmill Brewing Company in Merrill, Bronsted will perform in a duo with banjo player Augie Dougherty, and it promises to be an epic night mixed with Sawmill’s tremendous beers. 6 pm. See the event page for more.
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