Monthly Archives: November 2013

Christmas Concert and Dinner 2013

Our annual Christmas Concert & Dinner will be held at Turner Hall, 3001 S Stoughton Road in Madison, on Sunday December 15, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. After the concert, there will be a visit from Sankt Nikolaus followed by dinner at approximately 5:00 p.m.

Tickets are $23/adult & children 13 or older. Children under 13 eat free when with an adult also eating dinner. Cash bar. Tickets for the concert only are $8/adult. For the full details, please click on the link below:

Christmas Concert & Dinner Information

Please make your reservations by December 10th. Email xmas@madisonmaennerchor.org or call Alan at (608) 335-0770.

Lutefisk dinner 2013

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Last Saturday a couple of us attended a lutefisk dinner at Christ Lutheran Church in DeForest. For those who are unfamiliar with lutefisk, it is air-dried cod preserved with lye. It’s a traditional food in the Scandinavian countries, and in the Midwest lutefisk dinners are common in the fall, typically sponsored by a Lutheran church with a Norwegian heritage.

The lutefisk dinner at Christ Lutheran was quite good:

: This lutefisk dinner was held at Christ Lutheran Church in DeForest

: We didn’t have reservations so we had to wait about 50 minutes before being seated

: Clockwise from the top: mashed potatoes and gravy, rutabaga, meatballs, lutefisk with melted butter, cranberry sauce and coleslaw

: I didn’t get a picture of the lefse (which was quite good) but here’s dessert: pie. I choose the cherry pie which was very good.

If you are wondering why a post about a Norwegian lutefisk dinner is on the web site of a German mens choir, just consider it an exploration of the stinky foods of other cultures. Or perhaps it’s because the web master had two great-grandparents who were born in Norway. Skål!

Oktoberfest at Turner Hall

The choir took part in the Oktoberfest activities at Madison’s Turner Hall on Saturday October 26, 2013. The keg was tapped at 1:00 by the Burgermeister Dick Blatter. Music was provided by Jerry Stueber and The Music Vendors – we sang at around 4:00 during the break between the bands.

Other highlights include Ralph Clasen’s cooking demonstration and the supervised open gym for the younger guests. Check out the pictures below:

: Burgermeister Blatter opens the festivities at 1:00

: The volleyball folks showed up for their free beer and left

: Plenty of good food was available

: Jerry Stueber provided the music for the first half of the afternoon

: One of the highlights was a cooking class with Ralph Clasen

: preparing Wiener Schnitzel

: Clockwise from the top: creamed carrots, savoy cabbage, Wiener Schnitzel and roesti potatoes. It was delicious!

: The Madison Maennerchor sang a few songs around 4:00

: We were too lazy to get up, so we sang from our seats

: Two young guests taking a break from the gym

: Actually they had to be bribed with cookies and cupcakes to leave the gym for these pictures

: Prosit!

: The Music Vendors provided the entertainment later in the afternoon and evening