Changes in venues, July 30, 2011

Sad news first
I am sorry to report the loss of a number of karaoke places .At the top on the list is Long Wong's.That long-standing traditional Saturday night karaoke spot has closed it's doors. Thanks Slick Nick, for all your great hosting there!

Another bar closure: Showtime in Allentown closed their doors. Allentown is also losing Wednesday night karaoke at O'Reilly's. Also up that way, Saint Lawrence C-Way in St Lawrence has also decided to pass on the karaoke for a while. O'Reilly's and St. Lawrence C-Way will hopefully get back to karaoke this fall.

Marcus Pennie was running karaoke at Remington's in Theinsville. They have decided not to run karaoke any more.

Big Mike ran karaoke for many years at the Circle B in Cedarburg, and has decided to hang up his mic. But the good news is that Laurie, with Bust-a-Tune, will be picking that up.

The Riverhorse  in West Bend is moving their karaoke night from Saturday to every other Sunday. The alternate nights, Bust-a-Tune will run karaoke at Bankshot in Hartford.

Another change (well... correction of my mistake) Big Pauly's has karaoke with Dragonfly on Friday nights, and not on Saturday. Oh and another mistake: Straight Shots runs karaoke only on the first Saturday of each month.

Some places that have added karaoke
Monday: 6 Points Pub in West Allis, starting at 9:00
Tuesday (starting August 9): Latest Edition in Jackson, 8 PM
Friday:  Gary J's 16th Street Pub in Milwaukee) with Juan (9:30)
Saturday: Lenny's in West Allis, 10 PM

I want to thank all the folks who have emailed me. You are the folks that help keep the Milwaukee karaoke listings up to date.

Serenity Karaoke

I have been hearing some good stuff lately about the karaoke shows from Serenity Now Karaoke. Kiki and Rosario do a karaoke show every Friday night at Critic's Corner Pub in Port Washington. You can also find them there every other Thursday night (next show on August 4, 2011).

Here is what Rosario had to say about last week's shows: 

Good morning dear friends!

For those of you who were not at our shows last week, what a week we had!  A special surprise Karaoke Forum guest attended our show, coming all the way from Dyer, IN.  Thanks to Johnny "Reverb" for making the night special and singing Dominick the Donkey with Rosario.

Added some more new songs this week, so come in and check them out. Meet up with your friends and make it a karaoke party. Have a few cocktails, sing a few songs, and have a night of fun, fun, fun (as usual). Can't wait to see who shows up. It's always a surprise to Kiki and I.

I am sorry I missed the duet on Dominick the Donkey! I am sure that it would have become one of my favorite songs that I never heard of before. Rosario would also like for me to mention that Kiki's birthday is Friday, August 12th. Stop in for cake and ice cream. If you stop in, tell 'em the Revelator sent you.

 

Critic's Corner Pub is at 350 East 7 Hills Rd in Port Washington. This is the lounge of the Country Inn.

Here is the Serentiy Now Facebook page.

 

And, in case you are looking for karaoke elsewhere in town or on a different night, check out Milwaukee's most complete karaoke listings.

Goodbye Whiskey River

I have a note from my good buddy Sven...

To the Karaoke Crowd,

First off, I want to thank all of you for your continued patronage to Whiskey River Saloon for karaoke on Mondays.  Because of you guys, we have one of the best groups of karaoke singers in the city.  You guys made Bootleggers and Whiskey River the place to sing.  That is why this is hard for me to announce to you all.  Whiskey River is closing down effective immediately and with it, our karaoke Mondays.  This wasn’t because of you guys.  If anything, it was because of you that Whiskey River was open as long as it was.  I remember being told on multiple occasions that Mondays was one of their best nights of the week for the bar.  Personally, it was the best day of my week.

Hosting karaoke at Whiskey River and Bootleggers was one of the major highlights of my life and it saddens me to see it end like this.  I’m going to missing handing over the stage to you guys every Monday for great songs, great laughs, and unforgettable memories.  I will be looking for a new weekly gig to call home but this karaoke night was special and I will miss it dearly.  I will keep you all up to date on when a new karaoke night is found and again, thank you so much.  You guys are the best karaoke crowd anyone could ever hope for.

Love and Music,
Anthony ‘Sven’ Chojnacki
Sven's Karaoke

Karaoke map of the southeastern WI area

I recently got an email from a fellow that has extended the Google map of karaoke well beyond just the greater Milwaukee area. He shows places as far flung as Portage, Mt Horeb, and Rockford. Hats off to Paul, cuz I know this is a lot of work!!

Paul's Google map of karaoke