When do a half and a half make a whole that’s all the better?
Its that way at Paddy Ryan’s Pub in the heart of the town of Hudson, where they are again showing themselves as the Irish heart of the area by hosting a half-year St. Patrick’s Day celebration all day on Saturday, with the emphasis being their succulent meats and scrumcious sauces, that are well flavored with spirits as a special that include Jameson Whiskey and Irish beers, either together with or separate from the entree. And there again is the Irish-themed music that you would expect from a band playing at a Paddy Ryan’s special event that is exactly six months after the traditional St. Paddy’s Day. And they can handle, also, your big-size Irish family — even if your large gathering is not from everybody’s Irish tradition.
And on the next day its King Football, which can be demonstrated at a mainstay of this type of celebration at the Smilin’ Moose, which is complete with lots of TV screens and giveaways. You can here the loud cheering for things like a Packer touchdown, which promise to be frequent, all the way kittykorner across the intersection at the main street downtown, which was heard last weekend as Green Bay built their lead against the Vikings. And also audible, to use a football term, is the DJ shouting out who was going to win the green and gold beads that go with that scoring. With all that said, we might add that be it Packers or Vikings, Bruce Burnience is playing afterward on the patio, at 3:45 p.m.
Blind Dog plays the Willow River Saloon in Burkhardt on Saturday evening. Although we may be flying blind on this one, HudsonWiNightlife believes that the band has occasionally looked for a drummer, which would make us think that like in Spinal Tap, there has been spontaneous combustion going on.
Lastly, in a show that’s been talked about there for weeks, Uncle Chunk is back at it again on Friday in the downtown at Ziggy’s in Hudson — after being at the Ziggy’s in Stillwater the weekend before. And they look even edgier in their current bio photo.