The Oxbow Hotel

Vinyl Nights: The Village Queens
2019-11-14 20:30 - 23:00, 2019-11-21 20:30 - 23:00 (America/Chicago)
In addition to enjoying craft cocktails and regional beers/wines, order from our popular late-night menu featuring the Scandinavian Koldtbord, where you create your own sharable feast of premium meats, cheeses, pickled vegetables, proteins, sauces, crackers and more. Enjoy a selection of vinyls that will be spun throughout the night.

Late Night Jazz: Jeremy Boettcher Trio
2019-11-15 20:30 - 23:30, 2019-11-16 20:30 - 23:30
Jeremy Boettcher has performed music throughout the world. He has toured extensively in S. Carey, traveling throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. Recently, Jeremy finished a residency for Jazz at Lincoln Center in Doha, Qatar. He will be joined by good friend and incredible talent, Josh Gallagher, on the piano.

FREE! Monthly Yoga in the Gallery
2019-11-17 09:00 - 10:00
FREE to attend! Join us Saturday, December 14th, as we gather for Yoga in The Gallery! Local Yogi Jelina Howard will lead the group in a class that welcomes all skill levels. Mats are provided or bring your own! Pre-registration is not required, but space is limited, so show up a few minutes early to ensure a spot. Stick around after the class and enjoy brunch from The Lakely’s farm-fresh offerings, while sipping a mimosa or a bloody mary!

Weekend Brunch: Jeremy Boettcher + Josh Gallagher
2019-11-17 10:00 - 13:00

Lakely Loves... Uncle Gilly's Maple Syrup
2019-11-20 18:00 - 21:00
We’ve waited all year to tap into this special dinner and now it’s here! This month’s Lakely Loves will feature delicious maple syrup produced by Gil Vernon — yes, you read that right, our very own Justin Vernon’s father.
Uncle Gilly’s Maple Syrup is crafted by hand using a process similar to spirt distillation, which creates a syrup that is sweet, smoky and very hard to come by.
Join us for this one of a kind six-course dinner where our culinary team will create maple-based delights, sure to warm up your senses!
Price per person is $65, not including tax or drinks.
Bar opens at 5pm with dinner beginning promptly at 6pm. Save your seat for this incredibly special dinner by calling 715-839-0601 and ask for The Lakely.

Weekend Brunch: Brady Didion
2019-11-23 10:00 - 13:00
Join us for our farm-focused weekend brunch (served 7am-1pm) with lively instrumental tunes from Didion 10am-1pm. From the kitchen we offer an array of midwestern and other brunch classics including omelettes, quiche, wild rice porridge, Belgian waffles, sandwiches, and more. From the bar pick from a variety of classic and original morning drinks including mimosas, bloody marys, and others, as well as non-alcoholic concoctions and fantastic Kickapoo coffee. From the stage, Brady Didion will play acoustic instrumentals starting at 10am.

Weekend Brunch: Nick Seeger
2019-11-24 10:00 - 13:00, 2019-12-22 10:00 - 13:00
Join us for our farm-focused weekend brunch (served 7am-1pm) with lively instrumental tunes from Seeger 10am-1pm. From the kitchen we offer an array of midwestern and other brunch classics including omelettes, quiche, wild rice porridge, Belgian waffles, sandwiches, and more. From the bar pick from a variety of classic and original morning drinks including mimosas, bloody marys, and others, as well as non-alcoholic concoctions and fantastic Kickapoo coffee. From the stage, Nick Seeger will play acoustic instrumentals starting at 10am.

Vinyl Nights: Big Tall Jake
2019-11-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-12-19 20:30 - 23:00

Friendsgiving Celebration at The Lakely
2019-11-27 16:00 - 23:00
On Thanksgiving Eve, we’re celebrating good food, good drinks and good friends!
Bring all of your besties down and enjoy The Lakely’s HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS ALL NIGHT, including $1 off taps, $2 off wine, $3 select cans/bottles and $3.50 rail cocktails!
Pair that with GIVEAWAYS for a stay at The Oxbow Hotel and dinner for two at December’s Lakely Loves, and live music from local funk band, Uncommon Denominator, and you’ve got yourself a sure-fire night to remember.
Receive one entry for the giveaways with EVERY DRINK PURCHASE! Drawing will take place at 10pm. Must be present to win.
Bar opens at 4pm, dinner service begins at 5pm and music kicks off at 8pm! Wear those dancin’ shoes! NO COVER!
Cheers!
UNCOMMON DENOMINATOR BIO:
Uncommon Denominator is an Eau-Claire based cover band that plays nothing but the classics. From today’s hits to funky tunes of the past, they bring together an entertaining musical experience. Our foundation is simple: we are a group of friends that united over a passion for playing music that is fun. And we love sharing that with our audiences. We originated as a “bar band,” but we have branched out to all types of venues, including weddings, private events, and many more.
We are a professional party band, made up of a full rhythm section (keyboards, guitar, bass, drums), a 3-piece horn section (saxophone, trumpet, trombone), and two vocalists. Our song book is comprehensive, with hits spanning five decades, featuring music by artists such as Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, The Blues Brothers, Beyonce, Adele, Chicago, Santana, Steely Dan, Tower of Power, Carole King, The B-52s, David Bowie, Ke$ha, Bill Withers, KC & The Sunshine Band, and many, many more.
Our band members have performed across the country, and they are incredibly experienced and well-versed in many styles of music, such as jazz, classical, rock, pop, funk, and country. Many of our members have toured with the esteemed and storied organization Kids from Wisconsin. Our members have also played with the Chippewa Valley Jazz Orchestra, as well as the eight-time Downbeat Award-winning UWEC Jazz Ensemble I. In these groups, our members have played alongside world famous musicians such as Doc Severinsen, Wayne Bergeron (Maynard Ferguson band; studio trumpet player for the soundtrack for Incredibles), Michael Davis (trombonist for James Taylor, Michael Jackson, Jay Z, etc.), and Sylvia McNair (Grammy Award winning opera singer).

Late Night Jazz: Ted Olsen and Joe Strachan
2019-11-29 20:30 - 23:30
Ted Olsen is a bassist and composer from Minneapolis, MN. In 2017 he released his début album, Joyfire, on Shifting Paradigm records. His groups have been featured at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, The Artists’ Quarter, the Black Dog Café and Icehouse. He won the 2012 Eric Stokes Song Contest held by the American Composers’ Forum and in 2015 was a finalist in the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers’ competition. Joe Strachan is an established pianist in the Twin Cities area. Joe performs with the Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Charanga Tropical, the Pete Whitman X-tet, the Jake Baldwin Quartet, and many other groups. Also a composer and arranger, his compositions has been featured with Big Cats!, Adam Meckler Orchestra, and outstanding jazz quartet Courageous Endeavors.

Weekend Brunch: Mari Carlson and Robert Wojnowski
2019-11-30 10:00 - 13:00
Join us for our farm-focused weekend brunch (served 7am-1pm) with lively instrumental tunes from Mari Carlson and Robert Wojnowski 10am-1pm. From the kitchen we offer an array of midwestern and other brunch classics including omelettes, quiche, wild rice porridge, Belgian waffles, sandwiches, and more. From the bar pick from a variety of classic and original morning drinks including mimosas, bloody marys, and others, as well as non-alcoholic concoctions and fantastic Kickapoo coffee.

Late Night Jazz: Wired for Sound Trio
2019-11-30 20:30 - 23:30
The Wired for Sound Trio features Twin Cities musicians Josh Johnson on saxophone, Levi Schwartzberg on vibraphone, and Charlie Lincoln on bass.

Vinyl Nights: Drew Kaiser
2019-12-05 20:30 - 23:00

Late Night Jazz: Chad Mccullough + Bram Weijters Duo
2019-12-06 20:30 - 23:30, 2019-12-07 20:30 - 23:30
Humanity will always be fascinated with the passage of time- that which can never be possessed… only viewed in retrospect. During history people also developed highly complex clockworks to be able to measure time. Belgian pianist and composer Bram Weijters has drawn inspiration from this to compose the music for Pendulum.
Pendulum is a 25-movement suite, based on a common musical cell that evolves through 24 pieces, progressing with a structured order through all twelve key-centers twice, with a final reprise at the end, just as a clock circles twice a day through twelve hours, before the next day.
Inspired by the musical genius of Bach and his ordering of musical works like the Well Tempered Klavier and the Goldberg Variations, Pendulumorganizes the musical moods and atmospheres Weijters and McCullough have developed over time into one overarching form, where they can combine composition and their own musical voice as improvisers.
Just as the highly structured music of J.S Bach, just as a highly complex clockwork can still have a poetic strength, Pendulum aims to provide the listener with different moods, subtle variations and atmospheres moving through shifting tonalities where the complexity of the music below the surface – the cogwheels and entrapments of the clockwork- melts away.
For ten years, Chad McCullough and Bram Weijters have collaborated around the world, with a musical bond that transcends geographic restraints. After three albums with the quartet (featuring John Bishop and Piet Verbist) the two leaders also started playing as a duo, resulting in their album Feather a year and a half ago and now their newest album Pendulum.
On both albums as a duo, Weijters uses an arsenal of keyboards like Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer electric piano’s and Moog synths besides the acoustic grand piano. McCullough blends in with a very soft -almost flute-like trumpet sound, sometimes embellished with some electronic effects.
Besides their collaboration both Weijters and McCullough, based respectively in Antwerp and Chicago also have their own projects. Bram was recently also on tour with Bram Weijters’ Crazy Men with their new interpretation of early Belgian jazz fusion (with which they’ll release an album beginning of 2019), he has been playing with his own Bram Weijters Quartet and you could also here him on recent releases from Piet Verbist Quartet, Mazzle and Jelle Van Giel Group, …
Chad is a very busy musician in the Chicago jazz scene performing with ensembles with Matt Ulery, Roger Ingram, Dana Hall, Ryan Shultz, Luke Malewicz, James Davis,… He also has performed with Maria Schneider, Miguel Zenon, Stafford James, Chad Lefkowicz-Brown, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, and many more.
Pendulum is released in Europe by Belgian label Monks and Thieves, and by Shifting Paradigm Records in the USA.

Weekend Brunch: Jeremy Boettcher and Josh Gallagher
2019-12-07 10:00 - 13:00

Monday Jazz Jam with UW-Eau Claire Jazz Studies
2019-12-09 20:00 - 22:00, 2019-12-16 20:00 - 22:00
The Jazz Studies students of UWEC take over the Lakely stage for a community jazz jam session! Bring your horn and come sit in! Students get 10% off food and drink when they show their student ID

Late Night Jazz: Catya Trio
2019-12-13 20:30 - 23:30
Catya’s Trio features singer-songwriter Catya on guitar, Sue Orfield on tenor saxophone, and Randy Sinz, on bass & vocals. They have been entertaining enthusiastic audiences since 2005. Their musical interactions are compelling–a chemical reaction; a delicious concoction. Whether it’s uptown or low down; red-hot or cool; silky smooth or edgy, their original music and interpretations of cover material transports the listener. At The Lakely, they will play original and traditional Jazz, Swing, and Blues.

Weekend Brunch: Shane Leonard
2019-12-14 10:00 - 13:00, 2019-12-15 10:00 - 13:00
Join us for our farm-focused weekend brunch (served 7am-1pm) with lively instrumental tunes from Leonard 10am-1pm. From the kitchen we offer an array of midwestern and other brunch classics including omelettes, quiche, wild rice porridge, Belgian waffles, sandwiches, and more. From the bar pick from a variety of classic and original morning drinks including mimosas, bloody marys, and others, as well as non-alcoholic concoctions and fantastic Kickapoo coffee. From the stage, Shane Leonard will play acoustic instrumentals starting at 10am.

Late Night Jazz: Sue Orfield
2019-12-14 20:30 - 23:30
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.

Lakely Loves... Modicum Brewing Co.
2019-12-18 18:00 - 21:00
*NEW* Get tickets for Lakely Loves online!
Join us on Wednesday, December 18 for Lakely Loves… Modicum Brewing! The Lakely will be preparing a six-course dinner with special beer pairings from Modicum for each course.
Founded in 2017, Modicum is a local favorite featuring a tiny brewery and taproom that specializes in brewing unfiltered lagers and Belgian-inspired ales.
Price per person is $75, including 6 beer pairings. Price does not include tax or other drinks.
Bar opens at 5pm with dinner beginning promptly at 6pm.
Save your seat for this incredibly special dinner by getting tickets HERE
Limited seats available, don’t wait to get yours! We’re excited to give you the option of where you’d like to sit! Be sure to select Bar, Dining Room, or High-top tickets according to your preference!
Reservations for this dinner are not accepted via phone. All orders must be completed online. Tickets are non-refundable.

Gallery Show: Quetico with Elsa Jensen
2019-12-20 20:00 - 22:00
Join us in The Gallery of The Oxbow Hotel for an intimate musical experience featuring Quetico with an opening performance by Elsa Jensen.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show begins at 8:00 p.m. Guests are welcome to get dinner and drinks in The Lakely restaurant and bar before, during and/or after the show. Tickets are $10 in advance online or $12 at the door.
GET TICKETS HERE
QUETICO:
“Quetico is rooted, by admission of its genre tags, in r&b, hip hop, and jazz but there’s moments like the soaring “Jeanne”, the emotive expanse of “Father Lenny” or cascading “The Dark Waters” that seem deeply invocative of Westerlund’s folk foundations. Man Alone essentially seeks to marry these folk and electronic dalliances with hip hop and jazz inspired rhythms and the result is something not entirely classifiable through genre alone. The fact that Westerlund felt the need to speak through so many different instruments in his compositions is pretty indicative of the complexity of influence, inspiration, and aspiration. Purely an instrumental project, piano serves as Westerlund’s primary vehicle for establishing melodic ideas with synths more as means for exploration of timbres.” – Dante Allington (All Around Sound)
“Westerlund has been a Triangle mainstay for nearly a decade, playing in groups such as Bowerbirds, Mipso, Phil Cook, Canine Heart Sounds, Lost in the Trees, and numerous others. As enjoyable as all those bands have been for him, he says, ‘I just finally realized that I needed to make something on my own to feel satisfied musically in all corners. I hit a point where I wasn’t feeling that this or that song was fitting this group or that group. Or, if they were, they were changing too much, and I wasn’t as excited about them.’ Westerlund plays practically everything on Man Alone’s nine instrumental tracks, which allowed him to take his music wherever he wanted without compromises. Consequently, questions of solitude are central to his conception of the band, which is named after Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, a place he closely associates with being alone.” – Dan Ruccia (INDYweek)
ELSA JENSEN:
Elsa’s sound has been shaped largely behind closed doors, in a familiar safe space without external distraction. The picking of a guitar blending with an overarching melody creates a space to release an idea, thought, or feeling and allows the player and audience to sit in that space together, even if only for a few minutes. It can be that simple if you allow.
Growing up in Eau Claire, playing music started with guitar lessons voluntarily provided by Mr. Ellingson at Park School before his 5th grade class commenced. He was a teacher in the highest regard, introducing the idea that music can be an important tool for learning, self expression, and communicating to community. From there, musical influences started pouring in. Melody and harmony was digested by the songs of the Indigo Girls, Patty Griffin, and Shawn Colvin. Guitar style was further fine tuned by immersing herself in the catalog of Ani Difranco’s albums of the ‘90s and admiring the delicacy in the sounds exuding from Jose Gonzalez’s nylon string.
Elsa performed at the inaugural Eaux Claires festival with Phil Cook and the Guitarheels. Shorty after, she formed a band of her own under the name rivulare and recorded her first record at April Base in Fall Creek, WI. More recently, she contributed to Bon Iver’s latest album i,i and will participate in the 37d03d residency in Eau Claire in November.
Creating her own sound and developing that into song was too intimidating in those early years. For whatever reason, the insular form of expression was good enough. Now, after experiencing motherhood, love, and loss, it seems the time is right to let go and release. After all, reassurance through sound is that simple.

Late Night Jazz: Sue Orfield Trio
2019-12-21 20:30 - 23:30

Ugly Sweater Night at The Lakely! Featuring Holiday Vinyl with Mabis
2019-12-23 16:00 - 2019-12-24 00:00
It’s Christmas Eve, Eve! Put on your favorite ugly sweater, come down to The Lakely and eat and drink in style! We’ll have props for you to take selfies all evening and happy hour specials from 10pm-12am! Get your holiday groove on with Mabis as he spins classics on vinyl from the stage, 8-11pm.
