WMSE 91.7FM Rockabilly Chili Contest
| Published: 03/03/2010 |
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The WMSE Rockabilly Chili Contest will take place at MSOE's Kern Center, 1245 N. Broadway, on Sunday, March 7, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The eighth annual fundraiser for the non-commercial, community-funded WMSE will be WMSE's largest yet. Forty-eight restaurants, taverns and cafés offering 57 varieties of chili (42 meat, 15 vegetarian), will be competing for People's Choice awards in four categories: Best Meat Chili, Best Vegetarian Chili, Best Heat, and Best Table Presentation & Display. Last year's contest drew more than 2,200 people.
This event is again being co-presented this year by the Milwaukee Ale House and sponsored by AV Club Milwaukee, Clark Graphics and Milwaukee School of Engineering, with in-kind donations made by Kangaroo Pita Chips. WMSE DJ's Jonny Z from the Chicken Shack and Dietrich of Saturday Morning Car Tunes will provide music throughout the event.
Admission is $6 at the door, and tickets for individual two-ounce bowls of chili are just $1. Street parking around the Kern Center is free on Sundays, and additional free parking is available in the MSOE parking lot at Broadway and Highland. Bring four or more non-perishable food items for Milwaukee's Hunger Task Force and two free chili samples.
The WMSE Rockabilly Chili Contest is the original culinary fundraising event for the almost 29-year old radio station, and through seven years of the contest, attendance has grown from 200 to over 2,200 attendees, making it the largest chili competition in Milwaukee. WMSE is 100% community-supported thanks to individual donations from listeners and the generosity of area businesses that sponsor programming. All proceeds from this event benefit the station.