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WAUSAU – Kelly Ballard and Leslie Patterson looked all around executive Wisconsin to find a building blocks of their new live song hall — including in Ballard’s possess backyard, where a lumber for tables came from an aged china maple tree.
The owners of Whitewater Music Hall, who are also sisters, are planning a soothing opening within a week during a former Masonic Lodge in downtown Wausau, after receiving a wine license.
There will be a grand opening on Jun 22, when a song gymnasium has a initial vast uncover planned. The High 48’s and The Steam Machine, dual bluegrass bands from Minneapolis, will play that ticketed event. Tickets are available for purchase online.
The song gymnasium also has shows lined adult for Jul 5, Jul 11, Jul 17 and Aug. 8. You can perspective event details on Facebook.
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At 130 First St. between downtown and a Wisconsin River, Whitewater Music Hall will offer live song and visible works from internal artists, as good as a coffee emporium and microbrewery.
Ballard’s husband, Brad, will decoction about 3 new beers to start. While that won’t be prepared for a soothing opening, a family hopes to have a possess drink prepared for a Jun 22 grand opening.
The bar’s 24 taps will offer Wisconsin and Midwest informal brews and a nitro cold decoction coffee. There will be no list use so drinks contingency be systematic during a bar.
The coffee bar will offer coffee and espresso drinks from Ruby Coffee Roasters, a spit formed in Nelsonville that recently non-stop a cafeteria in downtown Stevens Point. Whitewater will be one of a initial venues for late dusk coffee and to offer Ruby Coffee Roasters in a Wausau area.
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Coffee will be served all day and evening, as good as pastries from Green Apron Bakery (based in Athens) and a cheese image option.
Cha Cha Tea from Madison and simple wine options will be accessible for those looking for something other than drink and coffee. However, Whitewater will not offer craft cocktails.
Although all bands personification ticketed shows will perform in a apart song gymnasium room, a sisters would like to horde a occasional pop-up uncover in a coffee emporium area. Those shows could be anything from musicians personification on brief notice to communication performances to anything else a village competence want, they said.
Paintings from mixed internal artists are showcased on a wall nearby a entryway from River Drive and in a loll area by a cloak check, when we enter from First Street. They wish to have one internal artist start work shortly on an indoor mural. Margaret Pagoria, Jackie Imhoff and Mary Robinson will all have visible design on arrangement for a soothing open.
Ballard and Patterson are also operative with RISE UP Central Wisconsin, a community-based picture humanities organization, to finish a vast extraneous picture on a building’s north-facing wall over Washington Street, that could start subsequent summer.
Food trucks competence make a permanent home during Whitewater Music Hall, as a owners won’t offer full menus themselves. Customers can also move in outward food.
The sisters, creatively from Austin, Texas, looked to Wisconsin makers to assistance build nearly all aspects of a song gymnasium and coffee bar.
One internal artist from Merrill, Jon Malm, combined a counterpart with timber detailing on arrangement behind a bar, and a pottery artist also from Merrill, Ann Jaroski, done a coffee mugs.
The south-facing wall of a coffee and bar area overlooks Rib Mountain and River Drive with windows to a floor, where couches and chairs yield seating for a view. Stacked in place like a coffee list are suitcases left behind from when a building was Wausau’s Masonic Lodge. The suitcases have aged lettering on them that code them in executive Wisconsin, showcasing Wausau and Antigo.
Adding tone and light to a space was critical to Ballard and Patterson as they renovated a aged Masonic Lodge. That’s because Ballard embellished one whole wall in colorful stripes of orange, gold, pink and other tone variations. The roof is embellished blue with musty star light fixtures, to make it demeanour like a sky in a evening, they said.
Ballard and Patterson would eventually like to open a drink garden area outside, potentially by a late summer or early fall.
Both sisters determine that there’s still flourishing intensity for a song gymnasium as a internal humanities heart for a community — they wish it to be everybody’s space, not only their possess project.
“It’s so most bigger than we ever suspicion it would be,” Patterson said.
Whitewater Music Hall will be open on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. until midnight and weekdays from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. It will be sealed on Mondays.
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