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Door County summers are made for live music! Check out a show in a bar, a sunset concert in the park in almost any village, a professional performance venue, or a concert in a rustic barn. Door County’s live music scene features every genre, local favorites and nationally touring artists.

  • Johnny Cash Birthday Fun, Wine Fest & More Weekend Plans

    The final weekend of February 2016 will go out with a bang! Celebrate what would be Johnny Cash’s 84th birthday, help support the Bruemmer Park Zoo, or relax while listening to the beautiful mashup of poets and musicians at DCA’s Words on Fire. Friday, February 26 Johnny Cash Birthday Bash Algoma’s Farm Market Kitchen will […]

  • Poets and Musicians Pair Up for “Words on Fire”

    On Feb. 27 at 7 pm, Door County musicians and poets will present “Words on Fire” in the Door Community Auditorium (DCA) Fireside Lobby. Musicians will pair with poets to create a lively coffeehouse atmosphere and a powerful evening of entertainment. This will be the third annual “Words on Fire” concert, after last year’s event […]

  • Sons of the Never Wrong Take the Stage at Door County Fire Company

    Sons of the Never Wrong will take the stage at Door County Fire Company on March 11 as part of Ministry Door County Medical Center’s “Celebrate Community” winter concert series. The performance begins at 7 pm. Sons of the Never Wrong is a turbo-charged alt-folk trio from Chicago that delivers witty, whimsical songs. Bruce Roper, […]

  • Small Forest to Play Door County Brewing Company Feb. 20

    Small Forest returns to play at Door County Brewing on February 20 at 7 pm. Come by, grab a beer and listen to the musical styling of Small Forest live in Door County Brewing Company’s tap room. “Small Forest is dedicated to creating their own sound with voices raised, drums-a-beating, bass lines grooving, and timeless […]

  • Birds of Chicago

    Birds of Chicago Releases Second Studio Album

    Just minutes before Birds of Chicago cofounder JT Nero answered his phone for our interview, he found out that National Public Radio had picked up the band’s brand new album Real Midnight for its Feb. 10 First Listen series. It was nine days before the album’s official release date and just one more example of […]

  • Bedrock Bluegrass Band Plays Saturdays at Brew

    Bedrock Bluegrass Band will play traditional and original bluegrass music at Brew Coffeehouse in Ellison Bay. They’ll play Saturdays from 10 am to noon. All tips will go to charity. For more information email [email protected].

  • Jazz, Printmaking, World Languages & More Weekend Plans

    Jazz, printmaking and world languages highlight the upcoming weekend on the Door Peninsula. Check out our top picks for the weekend ahead! Friday, February 19 Janet Planet Jazz Janet Planet, hailed as the “voice of the New Jazz Culture,” will take the stage at Door County Fire Company at 7 pm on Friday night as […]

  • Lee Birchfield to Perform in “Elvis Live!” and “Not Just Elvis”

    Musician and performer Lee Birchfield will perform in Sturgeon Bay for a pair of performances, “Elvis Live!” on Feb. 12 and “Not Just Elvis” on Feb. 13. Birchfield has been honing a split personality since the age of 15 as a young Elvis tribute artist. For the next 20 years, he toured as Elvis and […]

  • Pink Houses

    Rock Out with the Pink Houses

    Though best known as the only John Mellencamp tribute band to have played the musician’s hometown of Seymour, Indiana (twice), Pink Houses will bring its other specialty – classic rock hits from the 1970s to today – to Stone Harbor Resort during Fire & Ice Festival weekend. Under the leadership of vocalist/guitarist Tom Reitz, this […]

  • Deathfolk to Perform in DCA’s Fireside Lobby

    On Feb. 20 at 7 pm, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present a coffeehouse concert in the Fireside Lobby by Deathfolk, the popular Door County duo made up of Jess Holland and Nick Hoover. Brought together by their love of dark folk songs, Holland and Hoover began playing as a duo in 2010. Early in […]

  • Janet Planet in Next “Celebrate Community” Concert

    On Feb. 19 at 7 pm, national touring artist Janet Planet will take the stage at the Door County Fire Company in Sturgeon Bay as part of Ministry Door County Medical Center’s (MDCMC) “Celebrate Community” Winter Concert Series. Jazziz magazine hailed her as a “Voice of the New Jazz Culture…amazingly powerful with seemingly limitless expression.” […]

  • Fire & Ice, Short Film Fest & More Weekend Plans

    Sturgeon Bay will take its turn hosting a winter festival this weekend as they celebrate their annual Fire & Ice Festival. Staying up north this weekend? Between Newport State Park’s winter programs and the Door County Short Film Fest, you’re sure to find something that suits your fancy during Valentine’s Day weekend. Friday, February 12 […]

  • Ali Paris: Qanun Musician Makes Tour Stop in Sturgeon Bay

    Life was not easy for a boy growing up in Ramallah, engulfed by the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Young Ali Amr, rather than playing outside with other children, was often confined to his home with no recourse for occupying himself other than practicing his qanun, the sounds of battle providing a percussive background to the music […]

  • Love On Holiday Performances Set for Feb. 12 & 13

    Musicians will soon gather in Sturgeon Bay for Love On Holiday: Songs of Love and Love Gone Away. Songwriters will arrive on Feb. 7 and will stay at the Holiday Music Motel for seven nights. The songwriting event begins with the nightly “spin the bottle” for grouping songwriting partners. Writers will write and record their […]

  • The Happy Schnapps Combo

    Raise Your Glass with the Happy Schnapps Combo

    For nearly three decades, Fish Creek’s Winter Festival has become the Door County event most known for a hodgepodge of random, hokey events and competitions – an oversized kickball tournament, minnow racing, a bike toss, and a Stumpf Fiddle Contest among them. So it’s only appropriate that the fun and games are accompanied by as […]

  • Dan Navarro to Play Lost Moth Gallery

    Lost Moth Gallery presents Dan Navarro in concert on Feb. 6 at 7 pm. For more than 30 years, Navarro has written, sung, played and acted his way through a rich and varied career. Navarro started his career as a songwriter, often working with Eric Lowen, for artists as diverse as Pat Benatar, The Bangles, […]

  • Door County Beer Festival Tickets Now On Sale

    The Door County Beer Festival returns to Baileys Harbor Saturday, June 18 with more than 150 craft beers, live music, and local chefs.

  • Buy Burning Cow Tickets in February and Save $20

    Burning Cow Music Festival will return to Door County July 21 – 23. The festival will include three days of southern rock, blues, alt-country and jam bands and will climax Saturday night with the burning of another immense wooden cow. If you buy tickets from Feb. 1 – 13, you can save $20 plus free […]

  • Lost Moth Announces 2016 Concert Schedule

    Lost Moth Gallery of Egg Harbor has been hosting intimate concerts in the upper gallery for a couple of years. It is a wonderful setting with art on the walls and a cozy atmosphere with seating for 25. The evening begins when doors open at 6 pm for visiting and conversation, wine and treats. Shows […]

  • Weird and Wacky Album Cover Art

    As a longtime record collector, I have to admit that sometimes I buy records for the album art rather than for the music inside. I like oddball album art. Occasionally, weird album art and good music can be found in the same package, but that’s just a happy circumstance. Liz Anderson, Husband Hunting This well-known […]