The Oxbow Hotel

LIVE MUSIC: Paul Silbergleit Trio
2025-06-06 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-05 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
Veteran Milwaukee-area jazz guitarist Paul Silbergleit returns to the Lakely, in the company of top-flight Twin Cities drummer Pete James Johnson and our own Jeremy Boettcher on bass! Tasty, swingin’, and sophisticated, the trio brings a host of original tunes and arrangements in addition to a fresh improvisatory style.

LIVE MUSIC: Evan Walton
2025-06-07 19:00 - 22:00
Evan Walton, a singer-songwriter, originally hailing from Minneapolis, and a recent graduate of the illustrious Berklee College of Music, brings a rich blend of skills to the stage. With roots as a multi-instrumentalist and a performance history that spans the nation, Evan’s musical prowess finds himself as a notable figure in the Eau Claire based group Once More, Autumn, adding a layer of indie charm to his vibrant musical persona.

LIVE MUSIC: Jim Phillips
2025-06-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-07-08 18:00 - 20:00
Jim Phillips is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter with a Lakely line-up of Americana, acoustic rock, and originals.

Open Mic Night
2025-06-11 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-06-18 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-06-25 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-02 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-09 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-16 19:00 - 22:00
Join us each week on Wednesday for Open Mic Night hosted by Philville Records!
With a plethora of entertainment and experiences, from singer/songwriters and instrumentals to poetry and spoken word — anything goes, and you never know what (or who!) you might see or hear! Both established and emerging artists in the Chippewa Valley are encouraged to perform!
🎙️ PERFORMING AT OPEN MIC?
All performers get BOGO beers (21+) and no-proof drinks!
🎙️ EVENT DETAILS:
Artists will perform on The Lakely Stage
Showtime is at 7:00 pm
Everyone is welcome, and the show is free to attend (but please come thirsty!)
🎙️ PERFORMER DETAILS:
Artists will perform on The Lakely Stage
Sign-ups begin at 6:30 pm
(must be present to sign up – no phone calls, no friend sign up, etc.)
Sign-up is first come, first served
Each musician gets two songs
Each performer doing a spoken piece (visual arts, magic, poetry, etc.) gets five minutes.
PLEASE NOTE: The Lakely reserves the right to stop someone’s performance if they make racist, sexist, transphobic, or homophobic comments. Profanity is not welcome. The Lakely is a venue based on inclusivity for all, and we expect all performers to respect that.
Showtime is at 7:00 pm
Whether this is your first live performance or you’ve been around the block a few times, we welcome you to share your gift!

DRAG BINGO with Khloe Wold
2025-06-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-06-26 19:00 - 21:00
Get ready for an evening of fun at Drag Bingo! From the first call to the final round, it’s all about great drinks, tasty food, and lively games. Bring your friends, grab a seat, and get ready to have fun! Every guest gets two free bingo cards, and our drinks and full menu will keep the good vibes going all night. It all starts at 7 PM, and everyone is welcome. No reservations needed—just come as you are and enjoy a night of games and great times!

LIVE MUSIC: The Double Stops
2025-06-13 19:00 - 22:00
Based in Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley, The Double Stops perform a relaxing blend of guitar-centric pop, classic rock, 90s alternative, and vocal jazz. The duo consists of Emily Watkins (guitar/vocals) and Dustin DeGolier (guitar/vocals), both freelance musicians and educators in western WI. Individually, they frequently perform with various ensembles, exploring jazz, rock, country, funk, blues, and original music. Emily and Dustin both serve on the faculty at the Shell Lake Arts Center summer camps.

LIVE MUSIC: The Dames
2025-06-14 19:00 - 22:00
Formed in 2009, Dames exists where modern folk, rock, and country intersect. Through rich harmonies and a blend of electric & acoustic guitars, saxophone, and more, Dames brings their original songs and occasional covers to life with energy and drive that engages the audience. In trio form, Dames is comprised of local musicians, Dan Boetcher, Evan Middlesworth, and James Ignacio.

Drag Me to Brunch: PRIDE Edition
2025-06-15 09:00 - 14:00
Get Loud, Get Proud — Drag Me to Brunch: PRIDE Edition is Here! 🌈
This time, we’re bringing EXTRA sparkle! Join us for a high-energy drag brunch celebrating day three of Eau Claire’s Pride weekend with Khloe Wold, Sheyonce, Diablo, Amber Hudson, Barbara Suprema, Taylor Ashton, and special guest Desiree Beaumont! Expect fierce looks, iconic performances, and a whole lot of love.
Doors at 9am, show starts at 10am GET TIX
Tickets are just $25 and we’ll have an event-exclusive brunch menu and cocktails available for purchase.
PLUS, we’re donating $5 for every ticket sold to the Chippewa Valley LGBTQ-Plus Center to support their mission of providing services and educational programs that promote well-being and unity within and among the area’s LGBTQ+ communities.
Whether you’re celebrating Pride, brunch, or just being your fabulous self—you belong here. Snag your spot now—these queens wait for no one!

LIVE MUSIC: Davey J
2025-06-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-07-15 18:00 - 20:00
Davey J has shared his soulful sound throughout the Chippewa Valley for 25 years and takes the listeners through time with his set list of rock, blues, and folk music.

TH!NK & DR!NK Trivia Night
2025-06-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-07-03 19:00 - 21:00
Trivia + Cocktails = Your Thursday Plans
Expect clever questions, great drinks, and a fun, low-pressure vibe—perfect for trivia veterans and casual players alike.
Play on your phone, compete on the big screen, and win prizes just for being the smartest (or luckiest) team (or person) in the room.
Join us select Thursday nights at The Lakely. Doors at 5. Game starts at 7. FREE to play!

LIVE MUSIC: Gilmore Family Band
2025-06-20 19:00 - 22:00
A romance depicted through the Art of Music
In 2000, Shannon and Jason Gilmore embarked on their musical journey, sharing the stage with The Old Dog Band in Colorado Springs. Their friendship was forged through Shannon’s vocals and Jason’s mastery of the guitar and mandolin. Despite Shannon relocating to California in 2005, their connection endured, while Jason continued to explore his musical path, contributing to various bands in the Colorado Springs area. By 2016, Shannon returned, engaging in the local music scene and taking ownership of a significant music venue. More than a decade later, Shannon and Jason rekindled their musical partnership, spanning multiple genres and evolving their friendship into something deeper. This evolution led to the birth of The Gilmore Family Band in 2019. After a brief stint in Boulder, CO, the Gilmore’s ventured north to Wisconsin’s driftless plains in October of 2023, embracing a new musical chapter and unveiling their debut album, MESS THAT WE MADE. Marking another exciting turn in their ongoing adventures.

LIVE MUSIC: Between Howls
2025-06-21 19:00 - 22:00
Between Howls are dynamic vocalist/violinist Ren Cooper Howl & guitarist/singer-songwriter Nick Muska Howl. The two perform a blend of folk, rock and blues featuring a distinctive take on the catalogs of artists past & present alongside their own original material.

LIVE MUSIC: Jane O'Neill with Special Opening by Van Isaacson
2025-06-24 18:00 - 22:00
Jane O’Neill cultivated her love for songwriting in the landscapes of the Midwest, enveloped in the records that reverberated throughout her family home: John Denver, Norah Jones, and Bonnie Raitt to name a few. Growing up, Sundays were dedicated to music instruction for the whole family, a tradition that transformed ordinary dinners during the week into soulful music sessions. Being one of twelve children in her home, Jane had a small symphony to practice with, which nowadays has translated seamlessly to her ability as frontwoman of her band. Eventually she’d leave behind the shores of Lake Michigan, which is an inspiration in much of her work, for the charm of the Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast, finding a home in the queer community in D.C. which is where she’s built her career in Americana. Her music resonates with a subtle longing for home though, reflecting her sentimental spirit and the musical influences she grew up with. Described as “quietly confident Americana”, Jane writes songs that tell universal tales of love, self-discovery, and resilience, all nestled within a voice that upon first listen, you’d swear belongs on the record shelf next to the greats. Her second EP, self-titled, released on March 22, 2024, and she is currently in the studio working on new tracks.

LIVE MUSIC: Sue Orfield
2025-06-27 19:00 - 22:00
Sue Orfield has been playing the saxophone for close to 40 years, with the last 10 or so right here in the Chippewa Valley. Her playing is informed by blues, joy, bluegrass, sadness, jazz, crazy, rock, and everything else she’s ever heard.

LIVE MUSIC: The Josh Gallagher Group
2025-06-28 19:00 - 22:00
Josh Gallagher attended the Berklee College of Music on a full ride scholarship and played in the Brubeck Institute Jazz Sextet. After living in New York City, he returned to Eau Claire. Catch this masterful and swinging pianist in action leading his group.

LIVE MUSIC: Aaron Schye
2025-07-01 18:00 - 20:00
Aaron Schye is a multi-instrumental, folk-rock musician from Eau Claire, WI known for his eclectic sets, high-energy performances, and charismatic stage presence. From soothing acoustic sweetness to screaming metal solos he is unafraid to challenge the status quo with his “be yourself” attitude towards musicianship. Aaron began his pursuit writing unique acoustic arrangements of classic songs from across the musical spectrum. In time he began composing his own music drawing inspiration from bands like Death Cab for Cutie, Tenacious D, and Iron Maiden. Strongly influenced by his time spent in the mountains of Montana, his music features elements of storytelling, adventure, comedy, tragedy, hope, and horror bridging the genres of folk, progressive rock, and symphonic metal.

LIVE MUSIC: Jordan Cox Quartet
2025-07-04 18:00 - 21:00
The Jordan Cox Quartet celebrates the Fourth of July with patriotic songs, songs from the Great American Songbook, and much more. Come join the celebration!

VINYL NIGHT: Matthew Sayles of Philville Records
2025-07-10 18:00 - 21:00
Vinyl night at the Lakely with Matthew R. Sayles of Philville Records! Come down and enjoy some rarities and other eccentricities from Sayles’s personal record collection where he’ll be digging into 45’s and LP’s. The evening will be broken up into three sets of music — hour one will be early string band & rare country music, hour two will feature a variety of international music, and the third hour will feature some of Sayles’s favorite LP’s and singles from Motown and R&B legends with some random rock & roll included.
Matthew R. Sayles is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founder of Philville Records, an independent label he formed in 2000 in Marquette, Michigan. Sayles also hosts the weekly open Mic night at the Lakely every Wednesday (except when he’s on tour), and has guest hosted as a DJ on The Old Dingy Jukebox (Ventura, CA), a podcast that features deep cuts and obscure records from the deep wellspring of down home American Roots Music.
Sayles has toured nationally and internationally, and has had the honor of performing with country, bluegrass, and western swing legends like Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Asleep at the Wheel, Larry Sparks, Doyle Lawson, the Duhks, Uncle Earl, Hot Club of Cowtown, members of Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Review” and a long list of other highly talented regional and national roots music performers.
Philville Records was located in Ventura, CA from 2009-2019, and is now based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Sayles continues to write, record, and produce, as well as perform with his latest project the Driftless Revelers, Wyatt Thomson, Kenny Hotopp, the Ventura based Ventucky String Band, and his California alt. country project the Detroit Sportsmen’s Congress. He also performs solo and does session work with Eau Claire, Duluth, Marquette, Los Angeles, Ventura, Portland and Santa Barbara alt. country and roots music projects.

LIVE MUSIC: Nice 'N' Easy
2025-07-11 19:00 - 22:00
Having gigged together in the Chippewa Valley since 1990—most notably in the variety and lounge band “TSR”, Steve Wells and Rob Mondlock continue to enjoy performing great music and entertaining audiences whenever possible.
Comprised of Rob on percussion and trumpet, Steve on piano/bass, with both singing, “Nice and Easy” provides listeners with a wide array of memorable selections. Ranging from Frank/Dean/Tony to Ricky Nelson to Chicago to Beatles to Duke Ellington, we’re sure you’ll find something to bring back memories, make you smile, and perhaps even sing along with!

Closed for a Private Event
2025-07-12 11:00 - 23:00
The Oxbow Hotel and The Lakely are hosting a wedding today, and therefore will be closed. We thank you for your support and understanding, and look forward to seeing you in the near future!
If you have any questions at all, please feel free to reach out to us by phone or email:
(715) 839-0601 or Hello@TheOxbowHotel.com
If you are interested in hosting your own wedding or event at The Oxbow, please email Events@TheOxbowHotel.com
