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FlannelFest preview with Erik Kjelland Energy Services, Inc. · Ask The Experts

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  Firsten wuib A Madison in the morning, and we have flannel Fest coming up
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  very soon Saturday, November eleventh at the Barrymore Theater. And joining us this
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  morning with flannel Fest as well as to Keep Wisconsin Warm Cool Fund is Eric
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  Challenger. Eric, how you doing this year? I'm doing fantastic. Thank
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  you for having me. I'm always excited and happy to talk with you because
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  it's a fantastic event that you guys put on a few each year to really
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  help out those in need here in Wisconsin. We're going to talk about that
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  in just a moment, but first let's talk about flannel Fests specifically. You've
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  got an amazing lineup of bands this year. It's going to be a fantastic
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  event. Let's talk about kind of getting everybody together and what that experience is
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  going to be like at the Barrymore. Sure. Yeah, this is our
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  ten year anniversary, which is crazy to think we've been doing it that long.
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  But Beth Killy and I local musicians singer songwriter, we started this festival
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  we call flannel Fest, and we just really wanted to find a way to
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  showcase local, regional, sometimes national music and also celebrate helping out our Wisconsin
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  neighbors in need by finding this charity to partner up with to Keep Wisconsin Warm
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  Cool Fund, And it's been an amazing ride so far. It's pretty amazing.
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  You mentioned Beth Killy, your band, The Mascot Theory also going to
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  be performing. Who are some of the other artists that we'll see on the
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  eleven well this year, we're very excited. We've got the Jayhawks, a
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  staple from the alt country scene, and they certainly have been around Madison quite
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  a bit too, I believe they I think they're still based out of Minnesota,
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  maybe Minneapolis, so they're basically regional national talent that we're very excited to
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  have on the bill. And then we've got, like you said, the
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  Mascot Theory in my band, Beth Killy band. And then we've got an
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  amazing artist. Her name is Alison Mahall and she's going to be opening the
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  entire show, so it's going to be a really fun night. What kind
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  of music I guess I'm not all the other names that I'm familiar with Alison,
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  I'm not what type of music is does she do? And how did
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  how did you guys find her? I actually played, so we did a
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  think the mascot theory. We did a duo show up in Appleton, myself
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  and my guitar player. I'm trying to think if it was. I think
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  it was last winter and Alison just happened to be on the bill with us
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  and she played as a duo. She had accompany us who's playing guitar and
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  keys, and it was just really fantastic kind of singer songwriter pop, just
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  a modern, very very talented singer, great arrangements, great songs, and
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  we were just really looking for the perfect opener for the event, and we
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  typically try to find someone that's kind of a duo or a trio, kind
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  of a smaller group to really kick off the event before the big bands kick
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  in. So she was on our radar after playing that show, and I'm
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  very excited to have her. Should be a perfect lineup, a great night.
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  More details as well as tickets available online flannel Fest dot com. That's
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  flannel Fest dot com. Get more information there and again buy tickets online.
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  Going to be taking place Saturday, November eleventh at the Barrymore Theater. And
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  let's talk Eric about the Keep Wisconsin Warm Cool Fund. Correct me if I'm
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  you said, you're celebrating ten years. We're talking about ninety thousand dollars raised
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  to help folks here in Wisconsin. Let's talk about that Keep Wisconsin Warm Cool
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  fund, who that benefits, and why this is such an important important thing
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  to be involved with. Sure. Yeah. Originally, when Beth and I
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  started this festival, flanel Fest, we decided we wanted to work with a
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  charity that was local, something Wisconsin based, just that we knew that any
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  of the money that we were raising was going to go right to Wisconsin Ights,
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  and we obviously loved there's a lot of organizations out there that are really
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  cool and help a lot of people, and maybe a little bit more nationally
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  focused, and we just really wanted someone that was a little more homegrown so
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  that we could literally talk to that they actually would show up to our events,
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  set up a table, be a presence there. Anybody attending can go
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  and talk to them, get some information, and they're just amazing people with
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  great stories and they really want to help out. So when we first started
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  working with them, that was pretty obvious that it was a perfect fit.
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  We really believed in their mission, which reached out to households, folks that
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  really needed assistance in the harsh winter months or the really really hot, hot
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  summer months. So they help out folks like the elderly, our veterans,
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  families with small children. It's just a lot of different people that really just
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  need a hand up, and this organization to keep Wisconsin Warm cool, I
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  Fun really does that. Like you said, we've we've been fortunate enough to
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  raise over ninety thousand dollars over the last ten years, and I think we're
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  going to hit over one hundred this year pretty confidently. So we're very,
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  very excited to be able to help our fellow Wisconsin and who really could use
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  the safety net. Talking this morning with Eric Chalony, of course he is
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  with flannel Fest online Flannelfest dot com. That's Flannelfest dot com. And Eric,
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  you mentioned our veterans, and I know one of the groups you guys
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  partner with is Heat and Housing for Heroes. Let's talk about that organization and
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  just a little bit about I think sometimes people forget that there are those,
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  you know, these people that have that have sacrificed so much that that there
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  is still need from those individuals, and they're often also hard time. I
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  think you've you've mentioned this in the past, oftentimes harder to reach just because
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  of things like pride and other things. That's exactly it. And yeah,
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  veterans especially, it's it's there's a deep pride that goes into serving our country
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  and helping us out, keeping us safe and then coming back and we just
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  don't want them to be forgotten. And if they're not able to because like
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  you said of the pride situation, not able to reach out, we want
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  to make sure that we have an effort to make sure we reach them where
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  they are. And the Heat and Housing for Heroes campaign is part of the
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  Key Wisconsin Warm Cool Fund. It's an effort to make sure that I need
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  a dollars raised on behalf of the Heat and Housing for Heroes campaign goes directly
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  to reaching out to those veterans and making sure that we are not forgetting any
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  of them, that they're all getting the help they need, and that we
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  can show them that respect as well. I think that's a big thing that
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  is that's it's a great thing that you guys are doing with Flannel Fest and
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  a great opportunity for folks, and that's that I think kind of the kind
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  of the big big takeaway here is it's such a it's it's such a great,
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  great organization, such a great opportunity. But also it's not just open
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  open up your wallet and and and make a donation, which is the way
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  folks want to do that. That is awesome, that's really good to do,
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  but there's also the show and there's something fun to do around this as
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  well. A fantastic you mentioned the lineup for flannel Fest. Great music,
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  great chance to get together and again ultimately raise those funds. But I do
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  want to talk about folks. I know a lot of people listening, and
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  of course we get later in the fiscal year, people start looking at that
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  stuff and saying, you know what, I want to make a donation.
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  Obviously, buying tickets is one way to go to the show and enjoy.
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  It's one way, but there's always opportunities for folks who say, maybe I
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  want to give a little bit more, maybe a recurring donation. You guys
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  have opportunities as well for that, don't you. Yes, absolutely, you
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  can go to KWWF dot org and that's the key Wisconsin Warm website KWWF dot
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  org and then on right on that website and main page. There is a
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  donate button and you can go on there and click on that to make an
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  instant donation, and like you said, a monthly recurring one if you like.
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  And that's all super appreciated. Obviously, we are heading into these these
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  winter months and that's gonna be a huge need for a lot of people once
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  once those temperatures start dropping, and again it's gonna be huge. It is
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  and it's it's and people can learn more you mentioned. Of course, the
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  website of course links to it from Flannelfest dot com as well. That's Flannelfest
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  dot com. Tickets on sale now, buy your tickets again. It's gonna
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  be taking place Saturday, November eleventh, doors open and showtime is at six
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  doors opened obviously a little before that gets a chance to kind of getting get
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  mingled, get settled, taking some great music again. That's Saturday, November
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  eleventh. Details online flannel Fest dot com. That's Flannelfest dot com. Eric,
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  it's always great chatting with you. You enjoy this beautiful day. Thank
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  you you too, Sean, appreciate it. More of Madison in the Morning
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  is next right here on thirteen ten. Wu I b A