Black Husky Brewing, 909 E. Locust St., in Riverwest is hosting its first talent show fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 3 until 7 p.m. If you've got what it takes, they're still accepting acts.
"This year we’re doing Milwaukee’s Got Talent show to support Savage Support which provides non-medical support to individuals going through breast cancer treatment," says co-owner Tim Eichinger.
"Things like shopping, house cleaning, the daily stuff that gets really difficult when you’re going through treatment."
Junior's Barbeque will be onhand with food, and, of course, there will be beer.
But don't expect this to be like your typical talent show, Eichinger says.
"Because it's Black Husky, this will be the worst talent show in that just because you have talent doesn’t mean you’ll win and there is no prize for the winner," he cautions.
"Spectators vote for the various acts and we use Chicago Style Voting: vote early and vote often. So you buy tickets for $1 each and vote for the act you want to support regardless of their talent or lack thereof."
As an example, Eichinger is teaming up with Tyler Senz from Lakefront to do a duet, other brewery folks will be telling dad jokes, there will be a belly dancing act, musicians and more.
If you want to contribute to this melange (mayhem?), email a two-minute demo to Tim at tim@blackhuskybrewing.com.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
