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🎹 Luke Thering Piano // Fri, Feb 27 // 5:30PM–8:30PM // Sweet Beats Jazz & Dessert Lounge // Event Link ➡️
Luke Thering performs easy-swing standards, gentle ballads, and original jazz tunes in a solo piano setting.
🍿 Family Movie Night showing Zootopia 2 // Fri, Feb 27 // 5:30PM–7:30PM // St. John's Lutheran School All-Purpose Room // Event Link ➡️
Enjoy a family movie night featuring "Zootopia 2" with complimentary popcorn and lemonade. Doors open at 5:30 PM.
🎵 A Celebration of Community - Story and Song // Sat, Feb 28 // 2:00PM // Pump House Regional Arts Center // Event Link ➡️
Join Tom Thibodeau and Larry Long for "Story and Song," a live podcast episode where they will celebrate community and goodness through music and stories.
❄️ Winter in the Woods // Sat, Feb 28 // 10:00AM–11:00AM // La Crosse Public Library, Main Library // Event Link ➡️
Explore winter animal homes, stretch-out in a bear den, and play in an indoor winter wonderland. Best for ages 0-5.
🎵 Children's Concert with DUO // Sat, Feb 28 // 10:00AM–12:00PM // Children's Museum of La Crosse // Event Link ➡️
A children's concert presented by the Children's Museum of La Crosse, featuring a duo performance.
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Northwoods International School participates in world's largest shared reading experience // News 8 Now »
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Friday, February 27
5:00 PM // Grounded Patio Cafe // Aaron Lee Kaplan // FREE
5:30 PM // Sweet Beats Jazz & Dessert Lounge // Luke Thering Piano // FREE
6:00 PM // Elsies Bar & Grill // Ann Christoffer // FREE
6:00 PM // Trempealeau Hotel, Restaurant and Saloon // Carriage House & Kelley Smith // $6
6:00 PM // Whiskey River Bar and Grill // Andy Hughes // FREE
6:30 PM // Lacrosse Moose Lodge // Time travelers // FREE
6:30 PM // Time Travelers - 5pc horn band // Dinner-Dance Music // FREE
7:00 PM // The St. Bernard Room // Hits You Know by Hayden // FREE
7:00 PM // Onalaska American Legion Post 336 // Warning! LB & The Hi Volts! // FREE
7:30 PM // Leo & Leona's Roadhouse and Tavern // Tock & Tone // $15
7:30 PM // Bluffs Ballroom, UWL Student Union // 38th Annual Big Band Cabaret & Dance Party // $20
7:30 PM // Viterbo University Fine Arts Center // Strawberry Fields // $16
7:30 PM // Features Sports Bar & Grill West Salem // A Tribute to Queen by The Crown Jewels // $25
8:00 PM // South Lanes Pizza & Wings // South Lanes After Hours - Sunshine & Shay // FREE
8:00 PM // Alpine Inn // Spunky Bumpkins // FREE
8:00 PM // No Name Bar // Cassie Brady Trio w/ Errc Grrk Collab & Logan Metz // $7
8:00 PM // Robins Nest // Audio Tatonka plays Robin's Nest // FREE
9:00 PM // Popcorn Tavern // Glow Stick Dance Party w/ DJ Chauncey & DJ SammyJo // FREE
Saturday, February 28
1:00 PM // Trempealeau Hotel, Restaurant and Saloon // Hans Mayer & Hot Sauce // $7
2:00 PM // Elmaro Vineyard // Music by River Run // FREE
4:00 PM // Adams St Pub // JOHN FUCHS! // FREE
6:00 PM // MG's On Fifth // Vaudeville Blues and Old-Time Americana with Jack Norton // FREE
6:30 PM // La Crosse Center // Black History Month Tribute Performance - Milwaukee R&B LIVE at the La Crosse Center // FREE
7:00 PM // Winona Arts Center // Weary Ramblers // $24
7:00 PM // Westby Area Performing Arts Center // Cash in Hand // $20
7:00 PM // Hei N Löw Bar & Patio // Severio Mancieri // FREE
7:00 PM // the Root Note // Punk & Coffee II w/ ZAMMEK, Chapped Lips & Minor Theft // $10
7:30 PM // Leo & Leona's Roadhouse & Tavern // High Mileage // $21
7:30 PM // Weber Center for the Performing Arts // Steely Dane, The ultimate Steely Dan Tribute // $36
8:00 PM // Historic Temple Theatre // Adam Greuel & the Space Burritos // $20
8:00 PM // Popcorn Tavern // THE SONIC BEATS // $10
8:00 PM // Robins Nest // Static Echo at Robin's Nest // FREE
8:00 PM // Dewey's Side Street Saloon // THE one MAN solo BAND LIVE // FREE
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