Charles Murray is the WINNER of the first West Side Club Fish Fry Coupon

  Charles Murray, right, was our first lucky winner of a West Side Club fish dinner for two!  Congrats Charles!   The gift certificate was presented by RJ Heim, sax, at the West Side Club during the Highlights show Friday, Feb 12th.  A drawing will be held at every West Side Club gig.  Be sure to join the Highlights at our upcoming West Side Club show, Friday, March 5th!

Hey everyone!  Yes, beginning today, February 12th, 2010 we have created the new Highlights Happenings! – an email newsletter to let you know where we are playing and what we are up to!  So….sign up for the list.  Oh, and you will get several different notices about being on the list as we get this all set up.  Eventually you will get to a greeting from me.  I promise not to be a pest….just don’t want you to forget us!  Thank you for letting us be your band….and your friends!    Marcy

RJ Heim adds some sax and singing to the Highlights - See him tonite!

From time to time you’ll see a new face with the Highlights….it is RJ Heim, Ken and Marcy’s son who loves to sing and play the sax!  Join us at the West Side Club on February 12th to hear, In the Still of the Night and more!  Thanks to each and everyone of you for letting us share our musical family with you!

Thanks to the Sunday Dance Party Committee for some great new fun at our awesome Sunday Dance Party!  See the SundayDanceParty.com website!   Sorry to say…the photos didn’t turn out.  We’ll just have to try again!

Rich Larson - Drummer Extraordinarier AND Web designer!

A new year…a new decade…a new HIGHLIGHTS website!  Next time you see  Highlights drummer, Rich Larson, please let him know you’ve visited this new site!  Did you know Rich was such a multi-talented guy? Tell you what…his most major talent is getting Big Chicken Marcy moving on all this crazy technology!  We hope you like the site – and thank you for coming here to get the news on your Highlights.   Please give Rich a Big Thanks next time you see him…for the great beat and the great site!  Let Rich know of ideas you have for our site, too!

Tom Waselchuk, guitarist for the Highlights, recently produced a music video of a wonderful holiday song composed in 1956 by Dan Schuffman, who happens to be Tom’s father-in-law. The song is called Christmas Is Love and Dan wrote it when he was working as a director and writer at ABC TV in Chicago. The song was never marketed back then, but when Tom heard the song a few years ago, he knew it was something special. Christmas Is Love has a terrific melody and lyrics that paint an idyllic scene of Currier & Ives imagery. The song is the equal, in our opinion, of Mel Torme’s The Christmas Song.  Plus, Tom and Rich Larson, the Highlights drummer, both play on the video!  Click here to watch at YouTube or just enjoy it below performed by Maggie Pothoff of Harmonious Wail.

We hope you like it and we invite and encourage you to share it with other holiday music-loving friends.

The Highlights played the UW football Badger Blast at the Fieldhouse again this year and the Mustard folks helped us get down…

Happy Halloween 2009 from the Highlights at the Sunday Dance!  

What kind of car does a ghost drive?  A Booick!  Ok…so no more jokes, but who is that masked man?  Yes, it’s Highlights’ bass player, Ken Heim as Zorro celebrating Halloween at the Sunday Dance Party.  And then there is the scary grim reaper carrying the death sickle –really it is Highlights guitar player.singer Tom Waselchuk!  Dr. Thumper, Rich Larson, drummer, is preparing for surgery….who will be the next victim…I mean, patient?  And “rounding’ out the gang….your happy M & M Marcy. 

Marcy revs up the Kohl Center in a guest soloist appearance with the UW Band!

Marcy and kids featured in CTM’s “A Christmas Carol”

Ten friends of the Highlights attended CTM’s “A Christmas Carol” featuring Highlights lead singer, Marcy Heim and boys, RJ and David.   Continue Reading »Marcy and kids in “A Christmas Carol”