There are those bands you can see once and say, “Ok, great! I can check that one off the bucket list.” And then, there are those bands you can see every Wednesday night at the Sayner Pub in Sayner, Wisconsin with the same excitement and amped-up attitude with each return. The Marvins are one of the latter. Having performed every Wednesday night at the small, hole-in-the-wall Sayner Pub in northern Wisconsin for the past twenty summers, The Marvins have their act down to a fine, albeit somewhat ridiculous, art. Marvin, the band’s namesake and seventy-five-years-of-age drummer and singer provides fun, goofy covers of everything from classic rock to 1990s pop hits. The Marvins' summer audience is a reliable mainstay at the Sayner Pub, consisting of local fisherman, townspeople, and girls and guys camp counselors (one of whom used to be Locavaux Crew member, Katie Scribner!). Marvin’s laid-back, care-free attitude with regard to singing and general merry-making provides for the perfect dance-floor music; his covers have even become the soundtrack to such dance-floor traditions as “surfing” (the boys take off their shirts, get down on all fours, and provide a human platform on which girls can “surf” during Marvin’s cover of “Wipe Out”) and Clearwater Camp’s cheer during Marvin’s take on “Sweet Home Alabama.” So if you somehow find yourself in the Northwoods after a long day out skiing on one of the many beautiful lakes in the area, look no further than the Marvin’s at the Sayner Pub—don’t say we didn’t warn you about Marvin’s rather “colorful” character (the man sells thongs with his band’s name on it for crying out loud). Get ready for some, as Marvin likes to put it, “family fun the old fashioned way.”
The Marvins at Sayner Pub
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