Birch Creek Ambassadors Tour Door County

Birch Creek Music Performance Center is proud to present their advanced student jazz combo, “The Ambassadors,” in a series of performances throughout Door County.

Performing side by side with Birch Creek’s nationally-acclaimed faculty, the student musicians develop technical and improvisational skills that far surpass those developed through ordinary classroom instruction. It is sometimes hard to believe that the performers are only between 15 and 18 years of age.

Membership in The Ambassadors is attained by audition upon arrival at Birch Creek, and members represent the school’s most elite students. The Ambassadors maintain an intense rehearsal and performance schedule for the two weeks they are at Birch Creek, sometimes rehearsing for 3 hours in the morning followed by an afternoon and an evening performance.

Their repertoire consists of jazz standards, and the group is generally comprised of a saxophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, drums and guitar.

Upcoming opportunities to catch The Ambassadors perform include: Friday, August 8 from 2 – 3:30 pm at the Settlement Shops in Fish Creek; Saturday, August 9 from 2 – 3:30 pm as part of “Jazz in Jacksonport,” a series of concerts at Lakeside Park; and Wednesday, August 13 from 7:30 – 9 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County (UUFDC) in Ephraim (tickets for this performance are $5 for adults).

For more information contact Birch Creek at 920.868.3763 or visit http://www.birchcreek.org.